Events

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Past Events

“The Changing Organizational Landscape of Energy and Climate Change International NGOs in China”
Rachael Shwom, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Climate and Society, Associate Director, Rutgers Energy Institute
Department of Human Ecology
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Caring for our Environment: Visualizing Civic Stewardship with the Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project (STEW-MAP)”
Michelle L. Johnson, Research Ecologist, NYC Urban Field Station Northern R
Department of Human Ecology
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Water Pricing and Inequality in New Jersey”
Daniel Van Abs, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Practice
Department of Human Ecology
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Matters of embeddedness: Are the values and practices of farmers related to their participation in local food systems?”
Ethan Schoolman, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, Rutgers University
Department of Geography
Time: 3:00:00 PM TO 4:00:00 PM
Location: Tillet 246, Livingston Campus, Rutgers University

“Equity and the Sustainable City: 'Just Green' or 'Just and Green'?”
Dr. Melanie McDermott
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Human Ecology and Senior Researcher, Sustainability Institute, The College of NJ
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Follow the Carbon”
Dr. Daniel Aldana Cohen, Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Room 101, Institute for Food, Nutrition & Health, 61 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

“Bending Toward Justice: Food Charity and Public Policy”
Dr. Janet Poppendieck, Professor Emerita
Department of Sociology, Hunter College, City University of New York
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Room 101, Institute for Food, Nutrition & Health, 61 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

“Climate Change and the Challenges to Democracy”
Dale Jamieson, Professor
Environmental Studies & Philosophy, New York University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Alampi Room, Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences, Cook Campus

“A Food Systems Approach to Improving Diets Globally”
Dr. Shauna Downs, Assistant Professor
Department of Health Systems and Policy, Rutgers University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Room 101, Institute for Food, Nutrition & Health, 61 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

“CANCELED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER WILL RESCHEDULE NEXT FALL...The Other 46% - Prospects for a New Treaty on Sustainable Use of High Seas Biodiversity”
Dr. Cymie Payne, Associate Professor
Department of Human Ecology Rutgers University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Beneficiaries of Forest Carbon: Precarious Inclusion in the Brazilian Amazon”
Dr. Maron Greenleaf, Postdoctoral Fellow
Earth Institute, Columbia University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Human Niche Construction and Cultural Resilience as Mutual: Evidence from Landscapes Enduring Chestnut Pest and Disease Outbreak across Turkey”
Jeffrey Wall, PhD Candidate
Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University
Time: 11:00:00 AM TO 12:00:00 PM
Location: Cook/Douglass Lecture Hall, Room 209 (3 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick )

“Immigration and Diversity in Higher Education: Students’ Journeys and Successes”
Peter Guarnaccia, Ph.D., Professor
Human Ecology Department
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Ocean Animals on the Move: Consequences for Ecological and Human Communities”
Malin L. Pinsky, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Sponsored by Human Ecology
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“WEBINAR: Parameters of public acceptance of nanotechnology”
Dr. William Hallman and Dr. Mary Nucci
Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition (IFSN) Seminar Series
Time: 3:00:00 PM TO 4:00:00 PM
Location: Waterfront Centre Building, Room 2311, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

“Alternative Careers for Science Majors”
Roundtable interactions with professionals
Sponsored by Office of the Campus Dean & Department of Human Ecology
Time: 6:00:00 PM TO 9:00:00 PM
Location: Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, Room 205, Cook Campus

“Settler Colonialism Through Reclamation: A Historical Geography of the Inland Columbia Basin”
Carrie Mott, Ph.D., Instructor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University
Sponsored by Human Ecology
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Cook Campus Center, George H. Cook Room, Cook Campus

“U.S. Public Opinion on Climate Change: Can It Mobilize a Policy Response?”
Patrick J. Egan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Politics, NYU
Co-sponsored by Human Ecology and Rutgers Climate Institute
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Assessing the Coupled Human-Environmental Impacts of Global Change on Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Jamaica ”
Kevon Rhiney, Ph.D.
Department of Geography, Rutgers University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus

“Author-Meets-Reader Panel and Reception for Pam McElwee's Forests are Gold: Trees, People and Environmental Rule in Vietnam ”
Pam McElwee, Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology
Co-sponsored with the Department of Geography
Time: 3:30:00 PM TO 6:00:00 PM
Location: Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, Room 101

“Developing A Green Infrastructure Equity Index to Promote Equity Planning”
Christina Rosan, MCP, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Geography and Urban Studies Department, Temple University
Time: 12:30:00 PM TO 2:00:00 PM
Location: Blake Hall, Room 131, Cook Campus