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Development Sociology Newsletter

No. 106, February 12th, 2008

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Content
Department Meetings and Seminars
Meetings:

Friday, February 15th 11:30-12:30, 401 Warren, President Skorton and Provost Martin visit combined AEM Faculty and DSOC Faculty Meeting

Seminars: This is still a work in progress. Please remember to keep Friday afternoons free for these seminars. Several will be held jointly with CRP and DSOC.

Thursday, February 21 - 2:55-4:10, 100 Caldwell Hall, DSOC 481 Special Guest Lecture - Dr. Bruce Hoffman (Author of Inside Terrorism)

Friday, February 29th - (Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium) 3:00pm JOHN AGNEW - THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY: TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION, GEOPOLITICS, AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT

Promotions, Awards and Honors
W. Chad Futrell
Publications
CaRDI Publications: Rural New York Minute and Research & Policy

Presentations and Recent Travels
Phil McMichael
Shelley Feldman
Workshops and Conferences
"Careers Outside of the Academy: Sociology and Social Science Options."
Food Security & Environmental Change
Job Opportunities
CALS Career Development Newsletter
USAID Careers
NASULGC Careers
Student Activities
Juniors - Mortar Board Nomination Submissions
Teach for America Final Deadline
Fellowships, Internships and Other Funding Opportunities
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies - Funding
Program for Partnerships in International Research and Education
Jeffrey Sean Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange with China
Ascension Health, Base of the Pyramid Protocol Fellow
Non-Dept. Seminars
PAM Job Candidate Seminar
The 4th Distinguished Lecture in Honor of Alice Hanson Cook
SRI Second Annual Speaker Series: Larry Jacobs
Cornell Center for the Environment
Research Administration Roundtables
The Second Annual Bronfenbrenner Lecture
Microfinance Lectures
ISS Contentious Knowledge
CSS Special Seminar
CPP Seminar
Institute for Comparative Modernities
Call for Papers, Abstracts and Panels
Vietnam Education Foundation
Miscellaneous News

Blood Drive
ConversaConmigo

Department Meetings and Seminars
To View the entire schedule of Department meetings and seminars, please click here. This schedule is frequently updated.

Meetings:
Friday, February 15th 11:30-12:30, 401 Warren, President Skorton and Provost Martin visit combined AEM Faculty and DSOC Meeting

Seminars: This is still a work in progress. Please remember to keep Friday afternoons free for these seminars. Several will be held jointly with CRP and DSOC.

Thursday, February 21st - 2:55-4:10, 100 Caldwell Hall, DSOC 481 Special Guest Lecture - Dr. Bruce Hoffman (Author of Inside Terrorism) - “The Cult of the Insurgent: Strategic and Tactical Repercussions.” Professor Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for thirty years. He is currently at the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC. He previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was Director of RAND’s Washington Office. Professor Hoffman was adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, in 2004 and from 2004-2005 was an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Multi-National Forces-Iraq Headquarters in Baghdad. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program, Human Rights Watch in New York; a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; a Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY; a Senior Fellow at the National Security Studies Center at Haifa University, Israel. Professor Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. He holds degrees in government, history, and international relations and received his doctorate from Oxford University. Co-sponsors: Peace Studies Program; Polson Institute for International Development; Einaudi Center; Science & Technology Studies; Development Sociology

Friday, February 29th - (Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium) 3:00pm JOHN AGNEW - THE NEW GLOBAL ECONOMY: TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION, GEOPOLITICS, AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT
JOHN AGNEW is Professor of Geography at UCLA. Originally from England, he taught for over twenty years in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He has been at UCLA since 1996. He is the author or coauthor, among other works, of the following: Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power (Temple UP, 2005), a "Choice" Outstanding Academic Title for 2005; Place and Politics in Modern Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2002); The Geography of the World Economy (Hodder, Fifth Edition, 2008); and The United States in the World Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1987); Berlusconi's Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics (Temple UP, 2008). His current research concerns globalization and sovereignty as prefigured in a recent article: "Sovereignty Regimes: Territoriality and State Authority in Contemporary World Politics," Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2005). ..

Promotions, Awards and Honors

Publications

CaRDI Publications: Rural New York Minute and Research & Policy Brief Series

Futrell, W. Chad. 2008. "Choking On Sand: Regional Cooperation to Mitigate Desertification in China" /China Environment Series /9: 57-62. Available online at: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1421&fuseaction=topics.publications&group_id=375132

Presentations and Recent Travels

Phil McMichael presented two keynote lectures during Canada's International Development Week. The first, at the Studies in National and International Development Program, Queens University, February 7th, was entitled 'The Development Climate: Convenient and Inconvenient Truths.' The second, entitled 'Revisiting the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century,' was presented at the Munk International Studies Center, University of Toronto, February 8th.

Shelley Feldman traveled to Washington DC, February 1st to meet with the Bangladesh Ambassador and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers as part of her new role as Acting President of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies.

Workshops and Conferences

"Careers Outside of the Academy: Sociology and Social Science Options." On behalf of New York University's Wasserman Center for Career Development and the Sociology Department, we would like to invite your graduate students to "Careers Outside of the Academy: Sociology and Social Science Options." This event will take place Friday, February 29, from 2-6pm at New York University (details available to those who register using the link below). The event will include a keynote address from Dr. Kenneth Prewitt of the Russell Sage Foundation, a panel discussion on career opportunities with a graduate degree in sociology/the social sciences, and a job-search presentation led by a professional recruiter. A networking reception with light refreshments will follow the program. Seating is limited and pre-registration is required. Please find the program announcement and link to registration on this webpage:( http://www.nyu.edu/careerdevelopment/students/sociological/email.htm ).

FOOD SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Linking Science, Development and Policy 2-4 April 2008 • University of Oxford, UK REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Book now at: www.foodsecurity.elsevier.com NOTE: Please book early to guarantee your place: Remaining delegate places and accommodation are limited. Join delegates from the international research and policy communities addressing food security, environmental change and food policy who are interested in jointly developing adaptation options to improve food security. REGISTER NOW This conference will present and discuss the latest conceptual and regional research on Global Environmental Change (GEC), food security and food systems, and decision support dialogues from the broad international community. It will bring together scientists, policy makers and representatives of development agencies to forge new partnerships and promote an integrated approach for food security and GEC research. Delegates from each area will gain an improved understanding of the interaction between food security and GEC and of the input the various bodies involved. In particular, attendance at this conference will enable you to: Find out about the latest international and regional research in themed oral sessions, workshops and poster sessions. Network with other researchers, policy makers and those responsible for implementing new adaptation initiatives. Share information and identify future collaborations. Gain an insight into areas for future research and the impact of existing policies and adaptation options. Discuss and evaluate how to increase decision support for policy makes and practitioners. Both residential and non-residential rates are available for delegates attending the conference. Early registration is advised for delegates wishing to secure their choice of accommodation. PARALLEL SESSIONS Coverage includes: Case studies of food system vulnerability to global environmental change in the context of multiple stressors Environmental change and the meanings of food Improving climate forecasting for food security research Responses of food system activists to climate change Developing adaptation options and building adaptive capacity for food systems Water and food security in the future Trade and market reform for food system adaptation Managing the embodied greenhouse gas emissions in food Managing cross-scale interactions of food systems and GEC Governance of food systems Regional scenarios of food systems and environmental change Biofuels and food security Resilience of food systems Tradeoffs between ecosystem services, food security and economic growth Promoting dialogues for linking knowledge and action on food systems and GEC European food systems in a changing world Food industry strategies for GEC adaptation and mitigation Institutional and policy challenges for agroecosystem management in relation to food security Analysis of the international environmental assessments and food security Decision support for food security Managing conflicts relating to food security and environmental change SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Commercial sponsorship is invited in support of this event to fund delegate attendance from the developing world. Interested companies should contact mi.mccarthy@elsevier.com for details. Food Security and Environmental Change is organized by GECAFS with administrative support from Elsevier, publisher of Environmental Science and Policy. International Programme Committee Diana Liverman, UK (Chair) • John Ingram, UK (Secretary) • Ahsan Ahmed, Bangladesh • Mike Brklacich, Canada • Scott Drimie, South Africa • Polly Ericksen, UK • Jim Jones, USA • Martin Rice, ESSP • Mark Rosegrant, USA • Adrian Trotman, Barbados • Keith Wiebe, FAO For further information visit: www.foodsecurity.elsevier.com or contact foodsecurity@elsevier.com

Job Opportunities
CALS Career Development Newsletter, "CALS Jobs, Internships, and Events", is now available on line at: http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/current/career/newsletter/

USAID Careers link (http://www.usaid.gov/careers/applicant.html)

NASULGC Careers - NASULGC is the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.

Student Activities

Juniors - Mortar Board Nomination Submissions - If you are currently a junior, you are eligible for membership in Der
Hexenkreis, Cornell's Chapter of Mortar Board National Senior Honor
Society. We hope that you will take the opportunity to apply. Der
Hexenkreis is one of Cornell's oldest societies, established in 1892, and was one of the founding chapter of Mortar Board National Honor Society. Selection in Der Hexenkreis is one of the highest honors bestowed on Cornell undergraduates. Members become part of a large network of current and past Cornell leaders connected by a shared commitment to the University.

New members are selected on the basis of achievement in scholarship, leadership and service, and serve as active members during their senior years. The organization includes more than 200 chapters nationwide and since Mortar Board's origin in 1918, has initiated more than 226,000 college seniors.

Mortar Board is a great opportunity to collaborate with dedicated and
involved seniors you may not have had the opportunity to meet. Together, our group serves as a force on campus to foster change throughout the Cornell and Ithaca community. We encourage you all to complete our application and apply for a unique opportunity that is sure to be a memorable part of your Cornell experience.

Details and application can be found at our website www.rso.cornell.edu/mortarboard. The application form is due by Friday, February 22nd in Willard Straight Hall Box 64.

Thank you for your time, and we look forward to hearing from you. If you have any further questions, please contact Membership Selection Chair Scott Zuckerman at slz9@cornell.edu or President Jason Beekman at jcb54@cornell.edu.

TEACH FOR AMERICA Final Deadline: February 15th Teach For America is a national corps of outstanding recent college graduates - of all academic majors and career interests - who commit two years to teach in an urban or rural public school in the nation's lowest-income communities and become lifelong leaders for expanding educational opportunity.

Fellowships, Internships and Other Funding Opportunities

Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies - Funding Opportunities for Faculty: Visit their website (www.einaudi.cornell.edu/funding/displaysearch.asp) to search all international research funding opportunities for faculty.

The Program in Partnerships for International Research and Education: Collaborative Research and Training in Social Context, Population Processes, and Environmental Change invites applications for one 2008 Early-Career Summer Fellowship sponsored by the National Science Foundation. This new research program is an interdisciplinary and collaborative comparison of two long-standing projects in population and environment, one in rural Nepal and the other in rural China. The position is for three calendar months and can start as early as May 1, 2008 and end no later than August 31, 2008. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in demography, sociology, anthropology, economics, ecology, geography or a related discipline by the starting date. Junior faculty are also encouraged to apply. A background in population and environment research is desirable but not required. The 2008 Early-Career Summer Fellowship will feature training in either natural science research methods for social scientists, or social science research methods for natural scientists. The Fellow will be engaged in independent research and will develop a specific research plan in their subject of interest for either Chitwan, Nepal or Wolong, China, by working with faculty from the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Arizona State University, San Diego State University, and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. This position offers exceptional opportunities for collaboration with faculty and staff from five major U.S. universities, as well as researchers and trainees from Nepal and China. Stipend is commensurate with experience, based on levels mandated by NSF. The traineeship will also include opportunities for travel to field sites in Nepal or China. Preference will be given to candidates who are citizens (or Permanent Residents) of the United States at the time of application. Screening of applications will begin March 1, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, 1-2 page statement of research interests and examples of written work in PDF format via E-mail to Jana Bruce (jlbruce@umich.edu). Also, please include the names and contact information for three references. For information on project field sites in Nepal and China, see http://www.csis.msu.edu/home.htm and http://perl.psc.isr.umich.edu/. An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Jeffrey Sean Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange with China
The Vice Provost for International Relations welcomes applications for the Spring 2008 competition of the Jeffrey Sean Lehman Fund for Scholarly Exchange with China. In honor of former President Lehman's commitment to fostering Cornell’s global linkages and to build partnerships with Chinese universities, the Jeffrey Sean Lehman Fund supports exchanges and/or research collaborations between Cornell faculty and graduate students and their counterparts at China's major research universities. Through a semi- annual grant competition, the fund will provide a small number of grants up to $15,000 each to initiate qualifying research projects, run conferences, host visitors from China, or support faculty travel to China to work with colleagues there. We are particularly interested in projects that 1) support or complement existing Cornell linkages to Chinese universities; 2) show a strong likelihood of continuing beyond the grant period; 3) rely in part on or lead to obtaining external grant funding; and 4) would not take place without seed funding provided by the Lehman Fund. Cornell faculty and graduate students from any discipline are welcome to apply.

Funded activities may include but need not be limited to:
- Travel costs for research or meetings
- Conferences
- Hosting visiting faculty from China at Cornell
- Data collection
- Publications (including translation)
- Videoconferencing
Proposal format
- Proposals should be no more than six pages, double-spaced (excluding the cover page and budget) and should include the following:
One-paragraph abstract, summarizing the project and its goals, suitable for publicity purposes
- Description of proposed activities, their significance, and the likelihood that they will foster an ongoing relationship with a partner university in China
- Plans for pursuing additional funding, if any
- Budget and detailed budget justification
- Concise biographical statement for each principal investigator or project participant
Selection process
- A committee of faculty chaired by the Vice Provost for International Relations will review all proposals and determine awards and funding amounts
Deadlines and Submission Process
- Applications should be sent electronically to David Wippman, Vice Provost for International Relations, c/o Bonnie Ferguson at bf18@cornell.edu.
- Important dates

Semester/Year	Application deadlines	Awards announced
Fall 2007	November 1, 2007	December 15, 2007
Spring 2008	March 14, 2008	May 5, 2008

Ascension Health, Base of the Pyramid Protocol Fellow

Ascension Health, in collaboration with Enterprise for a Sustainable World (ESW), Cornell University’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, and the University of Michigan is seeking a candidate with experience in participatory development and action research to participate for one year in an implementation of the Base of the Pyramid Protocol in a low-income, urban community in the United States. Interested candidates should send a statement of interest and resume to Patrick Donohue at patrick.donohue@e4sw.org.

Project Description - Ascension Health, the largest non-profit health care company in the US, is launching an initiative to innovate new business models of healthcare for low-income communities in the United States. The initiative will follow the Base of the Pyramid Protocol methodology, a unique business innovation process developed specifically for low-income (i.e, BoP) markets. By creatively marrying a company’s resources, technologies, and capabilities with those of a community, the BoP Protocol enables company and community partners to co-create and co-venture new BoP businesses embedded in the local cultural infrastructure. It also catalyzes and grows new markets that recognize and derive genuine value from new business’s products and services. The BoP Protocol has been implemented in Kenya by SC Johnson and in India by DuPont. Ascension Health’s initiative marks the first full-scale domestic application of this innovation process. For an overview of the BoP Protocol, please see Appendix 1. To implement the BoP Protocol, Ascension Health is partnering with Enterprise for a Sustainable World (ESW), Cornell University’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, and the University of Michigan. An Ascension Health team will operate under the guidance of BoP pioneers Stuart Hart, Patrick Donohue and Michael Gordon. We are seeking one candidate to become a key member of the Ascension Health BoP Protocol implementation team during Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the BoP Protocol.

Position Location & Duration: The project will be launched in an urban BoP community in the US within Ascension Health’s network of hospitals (TBD, although an urban community in Michigan is likely). The project is divided into four parts, with the candidate taking part in at least three: a part-time training and preparation period beginning in March of 2008, and two of three implementation phases beginning in June of 2008. The third and final implementation phase will likely begin one year later in June of 2009, but is still being scoped.

Training and Preparation phase: The candidates will be trained in BoP Protocol methodologies and perspectives by several of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of the BoP. The training is intended to provide an in-depth understanding of the BoP Protocol process and to provide the necessary skill sets and background knowledge to effectively implement this process. The course will cover theories and perspectives on BoP business development, participatory action learning and appraisal methodologies, and background information on healthcare systems in the United States

Non-Dept. Seminars

PAM Job Candidate Seminar -

The 4th Distinguished Lecture in Honor of Alice Hanson Cook - Dr. Martha Fineman Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law Emory University “State, Work, and Family: Constructing Equality” Lecture and Reception Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:30-6:30 pm 423 ILR Conference Center Dr. Fineman’s talk will focus on the symbiotic relationship between the workplace and the family, challenging the view that these major dimensions of life are complementary, but parallel universes. She argues that adjustments in and aspirations for one sphere of activity of necessity provoke the need for realignments and corresponding changes in the other. Moreover, far from being a neutral observer of the “free market,” the state has an active role to play in monitoring the relationship between work and family and promoting the conditions for realizing greater equality in both. The ILR School at Cornell has established this Distinguished Lecture Series in honor of one of its most loved and renowned professors, Alice Hanson Cook. The purpose is to bring to campus scholars who have made major contributions to research on women and work. Martha Fineman, an internationally recognized scholar of law and society, is the fourth recipient of this award. Her research spans family law, feminist jurisprudence, and the legal regulation of intimacy. She is the 1999 winner of the prestigious Harry Kalven Prize, awarded by the Law and Society Association. Her most recent publication is The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency.

SRI Second Annual Speaker Series: Larry Jacobs - The Survey Research Institute is sponsoring its second annual talk. Would you kindly distribute this notice to the faculty, researchers and students in your department. Speaker: Larry Jacobs, the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies, Director for the Study of Politics and Governance Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, and Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota Title of Talk: The Betrayal of Democracy: Presidential Misuse of Public Opinion Surveys Date/ Time: Tuesday, March 4 noon-1:30 pm (lunch provided) Place: Olin Library, Room 106 Talk Abstract: The public's trust of public opinion pollsters is low, almost as low as its assessment of lawyers. In fairness, the public's low regard for pollsters is likely driven in large part by misleading press coverage and poor understanding of sampling technique. But confidential and largely unexamined records from presidential archives do reveal disturbing patterns in the use of survey research. Presidents since John Kennedy have used private surveys and other forms of public opinion research to attempt to influence, rather than simply record, public attitudes. Professor Jacobs will show evidence of private presidential misuse of surveys drawn from historical and contemporary illustrations as well as quantitative analyses of presidential polling data. Survey Research Institute Second Annual Speaker Series.

Cornell Center for the Environment - Food for Thought: A Road to Sustainability, Peter E. Black, Professor of Water and Related Land Resource, Emeritus of SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY will speak on this topic on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 12:15pm in Room 245 Warren Hall. Environmental sustainability is critical for human populations and their needs for food, water, land and energy sources. Water plays an integral role in most other resources, including, of course, life. How do we approach the problem of asymmetrical distribution of water and other natural resources? This event is sponsored by the Cornell Center for the Environment. For further information, contact David Pimentel at dp18@cornell.edu.

Research Administration Roundtables - We wish to welcome you all back to Research Administration Round Tables. You are invited to our first session of 2008 to be held Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:30-2:30 PM in G10 Biotech Building. . This month's session will include:

Re-Introduction to OSP - Christine Ashdown, Sr. Grant & Contract Officer, Office of Sponsored Programs and Cathy Long, Associate Vice President for Research Administration, Office of the Vice Provost for Research
An Electronic Systems Update: Got Adobe Reader 8.1.1? The move from PureEdge to Adobe for Grants.gov - Tammy Custer, Electronic Systems Specialist and Grant & Contract Officer, Office of Sponsored Programs
The Future of the Form 10 - Christine Ashdown, Sr. Grant & Contract Officer, Office of Sponsored Programs

The Second Annual Bronfenbrenner Lecture will be delivered by: James Jackson Professor and Director, Institute for Social Research Director of the Program for Research on Black Americans and Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research Department of Psychology, University of Michigan http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=jamessj 4:00pm, Thursday, April 3, 2008. 166 MVR (Auditorium) Reception to immediately follow the lecture.

Microfinance Lectures

Thursday, February 14, 2008
“Kiva.org – Pioneering p2p Microfinance”
Jessica Jackley Flannery
Co-Founder and Director of Business Development, Kiva
3:00– 4:00pm, Ramin Parlor, Sage Hall

Friday, February 15, 2008
“Microfinance: a Platform for Social Change”
Alex Counts
President & CEO, Grameen Foundation, USA
10:30am – 12:00pm, B05 Sage Hall

Speaker Bios
Jessica Jackley Flannery is a co-founder of Kiva.org with her husband Matt, and the spirit behind the organization. Jessica first saw the power and beauty of microfinance while working in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. Jessica has worked in the Stanford Center for Social Innovation to launch the inaugural Global Philanthropy Forum, and at Amazon.com, Potentia Media, the International Foundation and World Vision. Jessica has spoken widely on microfinance and social entrepreneurship, and has seen microfinance at work in a variety of communities in more than 30 countries. Jessica holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Certificates in Global Management and Public Management, and a BA in Philosophy and Political Science from Bucknell University.

Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, a dynamic nonprofit, Washington D.C.-based organization that has grown to a global network of 46 microfinance partners in 25 countries. Counts became Grameen Foundation’s first Executive Director in 1997, after ten years of working in microfinance and poverty reduction, primarily in Bangladesh. A 1988 Cornell University graduate, with a degree in economics, Counts’ commitment to poverty eradication deepened as a 1988-9 Fulbright scholar in Bangladesh, where he witnessed dire poverty as well as the innovative solutions that had been developed and applied on a wide scale by the Grameen Bank and other members of the Grameen family of companies. He trained under and worked closely with Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder and managing director of the Grameen Bank, and the 2006 Nobel Laureate.

The ISS Contentious Knowledge Team presents: February 12, 2008 Social Science in Litigation Valerie Hans, Professor of Law, Cornell 12-1:30 p.m., ISS Conference room (146 Myron Taylor Hall) Lunch will be served. No RSVP is necessary. Valerie Hans conducts empirical studies of law and is one of the nation's leading authorities on the jury system. Trained as a social scientist, she has carried out extensive research and written widely about social science and the law. Her theoretical and policy interests in citizen participation in law have led her to focus on jury decision making. Her research and writing have encompassed a range of topics such as the juvenile death penalty, racial and gender discrimination, the litigation explosion, the adversary system, corporate responsibility, the insanity defense, court legitimacy, and media impact. Her books include Business on Trial: The Civil Jury and Corporate Responsibility (2000); The Jury System: Contemporary Scholarship (2006); and Judging the Jury (1986, coauthored with Neil Vidmar).

CSS Special Seminar - "Bioenergy and Greenhouse Gases: Research Highlights and Needs in Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences", Thursday, February 14, 2008, 12:20-2:00 pm, 135 Emerson Hall. Bioenergy and greenhouse gas emissions are hot topics in the popular press as well as scientific journals, and crop and soil scientists are key players in finding solutions to these concerns. This "potpourri" session will feature 12 researchers and program managers from Crop and Soil Sciences and other departments at Cornell University. Each will present a 5-minute "snapshot" of their work related to bioenergy and greenhouse gases. These will be followed by a panel discussion to discuss research and educational needs for bioenergy and greenhouse gases. Please note the extended time period (12:20 to 2:00). The titles and speakers are listed below.

Introduction & New York Land Resources for Bioenergy Feedstock Production (Peter Woodbury)
Overview of Northeast Sun Grant Bioenergy Activities (Corinne Rutzke)
Best Agricultural Strategies to Reduce Fossil Fuel Use and GHG Emissions (John Duxbury)
Grass Combustion Bioenergy Systems (Jerry Cherney)
Evaluation of Perennial Grasses for Biofuel Feedstock (Hilary Mayton)
Environmentally Friendly Bioenergy with Biochar (Johannes Lehmann)
Climate/soil Interactions on Coppiced Willow and Grass Biomass Productivity (Jeff Melkonian)
Maize as a Bioenergy Feedstock: Soil Quality and Nitrogen (Harold van Es)
Integrating Multidisciplinary Plant Bioenergy Research at Cornell (Joss Rose)
Conservation Agriculture: The Implications for GHG Emissions (Peter Hobbs)
Permanent Raised Beds: Adapting Rice-Based Cropping Systems to Climate Change (Julie Lauren)
CURBI: A Concept for Bioenergy at Cornell (Drew Lewis)
Panel discussion and questions (All presenters)

CORNELL POPULATION PROGRAM (CPP) Spring 2008 Seminar Series WHO GETS CHARGED? WORKPLACE CONTEXT AND SEX AND RACE DISCRIMINATION CHARGES Beth Hirsh Sociology Department, Cornell University In this talk, Hirsh will discuss the workplace conditions under which sex and race discrimination charges occur. Using a national sample of work establishments linked to discrimination-charge data obtained from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), she examines how characteristics of workplaces and their institutional environments affect variation in the incidence of workers' charges of sex and race discrimination and variation in the subset of claims that are verified by EEOC investigators. Findings indicate that workplace conditions, including size, composition, and minority management affect workers' charges, while institutional factors, such as affirmative action requirements, subsidiary status, and industrial sector affect variation in verified claims. Beth Hirsh is assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University. Her research examines gender and race inequality, organizational dynamics, and the relationship between law and organizations. Much of her research in this area focuses on employment discrimination and the consequences of federal anti-discrimination laws for labor market inequality. Friday, February 22, 2008 12:00-1:00pm G87 MVR Hall, Cornell University Campus

Institute for Comparative Modernities Presents: Norms of Self-Determination Lecture By David Scott Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University David Scott teaches at Columbia University where he is professor of anthropology. He is the author of a number of books, including Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment, he is the editor of the journal Small Axe. Tuesday, February 12 4:30 pm Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall Reception to follow in The History of Art Gallery Goldwin Smith Hall

Call for Papers, Abstracts and Panels

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Vietnam Education Foundation
U.S. FACULTY SCHOLAR GRANTS
Academic year 2008-09
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) is pleased to announce a CALL FOR PROPOSALS for its new VEF educational exchange program for U.S. Faculty Scholars. A brief summary follows with detailed information attached.

Eligibility and Models of Teaching - Applicants for U.S. Faculty Scholar grants must be U.S. citizens and at the level of Associate Professor, Professor, or Emeritus. The applicant submits a proposal to VEF to teach in English at a Vietnamese university either in Vietnam via face-to-face teaching or by interactive, real-time videoconferencing from the U.S. With VEF building the bi-lateral relationship between the U.S. and Vietnam through educational exchanges, the objectives of this program are to contribute to capacity building in science and technology in Vietnam, to help Vietnamese institutions address specific educational issues, and to build positive relationships between U.S. and Vietnamese higher education institutions and faculty members.

Dates and Types of Courses - The inaugural year of this project is the academic year 2008-09, beginning in the fall of 2008 and continuing through the summer of 2009. The fields specified for this teaching program are the sciences, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and technology. Courses proposed may be at the undergraduate or graduate level.

Financial Support - Proposals selected for funding will receive a grant of up to $70,000, provided by VEF to the U.S. Faculty Scholar. VEF will not provide any overhead either to U.S. or Vietnamese Institutions. As determined in advance by the applicant, the Vietnamese host university may provide direct and inkind financial support and set the teaching conditions. The U.S. home university may also provide direct or in-kind financial support.

Application procedure - Proposals for U.S. Faculty Scholar Grants may be submitted at any time from January 1, 2008, up to the deadline, using the VEF online Application for U.S. Faculty Scholar Grant available at: http://application.vef.gov/ufsp/

DEADLINE: March 3, 2008

Miscellaneous News

SAVE THE DAY - Blood Drive
The Cornell Men's Lacrosse Team and the Dream Factory of Central New York are pleased to work with the American Red Cross to co-sponsor their third annual blood drive to kick off the Save the Day campaign for the 2008 Season. Give a gift from your heart. We invite you to join us to make a blood donation to help Save the Day for a critically or chronically ill person.

Date:

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Location: G10 Biotechnology Building on Cornell's campus (*)
Time: 11:30 am - 5:30 pm
Walk-ins are welcome, but appointments are preferred.
For more information, or to schedule an appointment please contact Suzanne at 255-1269, or e-mail at centralnewyork@dreamfactoryinc.com
(* )Metered parking available in the parking garage and near the Biotechnology building

ConversaConmigo is offering a new online service for learning Spanish. The program provides students with a one-on-one Spanish class via computer. The Conversa instructor is based at Conversa’s headquarters in San Jose, Costa Rica and students can communicate with the instructor by computer from any location with a high quality internet connection. The audio quality is excellent. For further information about the program, go to www.conversa.net or send an email to info@conversaconmigo.com. ConversaConmigo was started 30 years ago by an Ithaca College graduate and former Peace Corps Volunteer. Conversa offers a full immersion Spanish Program in Costa Rica in addition to its new online service.