Social and Policy Sciences

Teaching the History and Science of Global Warming

Workshop for K-12 Science and Social Science Educators

February 20, 2010 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

This workshop for science and social science educators will include an authoritative and accessible review of the history and the science of global climate change and the probable impacts of climate change for U.S. communities. Discussions will include teaching pitfalls, the importance of taking on the challenge of teaching about global climate change and the practical approaches to presenting the subject in middle and high school classrooms.

 

 

Teaching the History and Science of Global Warming

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December 5, 2009 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

This workshop for science and social science educators will include an authoritative and accessible review of the history and the science of global climate change and the probable impacts of climate change for U.S. communities. Discussions will include teaching pitfalls, the importance of taking on the challenge of teaching about global climate change and the practical approaches to presenting the subject in middle and high school classrooms.

Mercatus Center

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http://www.mercatus.org/

Mission Statement

"[T]o promote sound interdisciplinary research and application in the humane sciences that integrates theory and practice to produce solutions that advance in a sustainable way a free, prosperous, and civil society."

 

Envisioning Catastrophic Climate Change

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Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/video.html?src=/hist/hist-v-2009-1/hist-v-2009-1&player=SDNC
Date: September 24, 2009
Speaker(s): Spencer R. Weart
Organization: Historian and former Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics
Keywords: Climate Change; Environment
Research Clusters: Social and Policy Sciences; Sustainable Development
Format: Flash
Running Time: 1 hour 18 minutes
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Global Biosecurity

A seminar series and course at the University of Illinois

The Center for Global Studies supports a seminar-based course designed to provide students with broad coverage of key areas of scientific, legal, social, ethical, and political aspects of biosecurity, emphasizing current problems and research in the areas of biodefense, emerging infectious diseases, synthetic biology, and other topics.

Learn more: http://acdis.illinois.edu/students/courses-current/global-biosecurity-seminar.html  

 

Global Biosecurity

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Funded by CGS: 
Not funded by CGS
Display on CGS website: 
Display on CGS website
Course Title: 
Global Biosecurity
Course Identifier
Course Department Abbreviation: 
MCB
Course Number: 
493
Course Description: 

Seminar-based course designed to provide advanced students with broad coverage of key areas of legal, ethical, scientific and political aspects of biosecurity, emphasizing current problems and research in the areas of biodefense, emerging infectious diseases, synthetic biology and other topics. In combination with related reading and writing assignments, the weekly special topics-based seminars will integrate knowledge of natural and man-made biological threats with the skills to develop and analyze public policies and strategies for enhancing global biosecurity. Prerequisite: MCB 150 or equivalent or consent of instructor.

Faculty: 
Brenda Anne Wilson
Course Catalog URL : 

http://courses.illinois.edu/cis/2009/fall/schedule/MCB/493.html?skinId=2...

Syllabus URL: 

http://acdis.illinois.edu/students/courses-current/global-biosecurity-se...

Iran under Ahmadinejad: Politics of Confrontation

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Web Address: http://flash.atlas.illinois.edu/Video.html?src=/cgs/cgs-v-2008-5/cgs-v-2008-5&player=SDNC
Date: September 10, 2008
Speaker(s): Ali Ansari
Organization: Professor of Iranian History and Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews, and Associate Fellow of the Middle East Programme, Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House)
Keywords: Middle East; International Relations; Islam; Prisms of Globalization Lecture
Research Clusters: International Security; Social and Policy Sciences
Format: Flash
Running Time: 1 hour 2 minutes

Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplanary Global

"Intersections of Race and Gender" volume has the submission deadline of February 28, 2010.

This volume will explore the multiple points where race and gender intersect across the globe, the range of consequences that meets those intersections, and the dynamics that occur at those intersections. The journal's focus on race and gender recognizes that there are numerous ways in which racialized and gendered identities intersect and that their intersection is often influenced by a variety of other cultural factors. Contact Leslie Shortlidgeat shortlidge.2@osu.edu

Deadline: 
February 28, 2010
URL: 

www.raceethnicity.org

Contact Address: 

For "Intersections of Race and Gender" contact Leslie Shortlidge at shortlidge.2@osu.edu

For submissions to "Reworking Race and Labor", race-editor@osu.edu

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