NIH Conference: Define Your Career in Behavioral & Social Sciences

DEFINE YOUR CAREER IN BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FUTURES IN BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES  REGISTER Define Your Career in Behavioral & Social Sciences Listen. Network. Connect.  Interested in training & fellowship possibilities? Looking for new career opportunities? Then, YOU ARE INVITED!     As part of our 20th Anniversary celebrations, the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) will hold the Define Your Career in Behavioral and Social Sciences event for people exploring training and careers in the behavioral and social sciences.  WHAT: Define Your Career in Behavioral and Social Sciences. Expert panels and networking on training and career pathways  WHEN: Wednesday, June 24, 2015; 9:30 am - 3:00 pm WHERE: NIH Campus, Bethesda MD Porter Neuroscience Conference Center, Building 35A, Room GE 620-640 (Atrium conference room across from coffee shop.) REGISTER http://obssr.od.nih.gov/obssr_20th_anniversary/ FREE and open to the public.  Advanced registration required.  Wednesday JUNE 24 9:30 am - 3:00 pm Porter Neuroscience Conference Center (building 35A)  REGISTER NOW FREE and Open to the Public. Registration required. ON THE AGENDA Career Outlook in the Behavioral and Social Sciences  Fay L. Cook, Ph.D. Assistant Director National Science Foundation Robert M. Kaplan, Ph.D.Chief Science Officer, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Panel I: Career Opportunities in Education and Research Bethany Brookshire, Ph.D., Science News & Scicurious Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University Tamara Halle, Ph.D., Child Trends George W. Howe, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, George Washington University Martha Zaslow, Ph.D., Society for Research in Child Development Panel II: Career Opportunities in Science Policy Eddie Gonzalez, M.S., American Association for the Advancement of Science Robert M. Hauser, Ph.D., National Research Council Mary Jo Hoeksema, MPA, Population Association of America Alan G. Kraut, Ph.D., Association for Psychological Science Panel III: Career Opportunities in Government John Haaga, Ph.D., National Institute on Aging, NIH Sunil Iyengar, B.A., National Endowment for the Arts Melissa Vaught, Ph.D., National Library of Medicine, NIH Sharon R. Williams, Ph.D., Science and Technology Policy Institute/IDA (Former NIH/AAAS Fellow) UPCOMING EVENTS   8th Matilda White Riley Award and Lecture in  Behavioral & Social Sciences Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm EDT  Awardees: Dr. Kevin Volpp, Ph.D., M.D., University of Pennsylvania Dr. Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D., M.Ed., Columbia University REGISTER: http://obssr.od.nih.gov/obssr_20th_anniversary/ OBSSR 20th Anniversary Research Symposium Thursday, June 25, 2015 Healthier Lives through Behavioral and Social Sciences Time: 7:30 am -5:00 pm Location: Natcher Conference Center, Building 45 REGISTER: http://obssr.od.nih.gov/obssr_20th_anniversary/ Healthier lives through behavioral and social sciences research STAY IN TOUCH           #OBSSRat20

Job Market Brown Bag Lunch with Elijah Edelman

"Cuba and Cuba-America" Panel Discussion at UMD, March 27, 2-4 pm

The Latin American Studies Center and U.S. Latina/o Studies Program

present:

Cuba and Cuba-America

panel presentation and discussion

Friday, March 27

2:00pm - 4:00pm

*The Art Gallery, 2202 Art-Sociology Building

University of Maryland

How do the current changes in policy and diplomatic relations impact Cubans in the U.S. and in Cuba? How is “home” defined, returned to, escaped from, protested against, and protected? Panelists will discuss what it means to be Cuban and Cubano in 2015.

Featuring -

Mavis Anderson, Latin America Working Group, Senior Associate

Netfa Freeman, Institute for Policy Studies, Coordinator and Activist

Rafael Lorente, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Associate Dean, UMD

Nancy Mirabal,  American Studies and U.S. Latina/o Studies, Associate Professor, UMD

Ricardo Ortíz, Department of English, Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Laurie Frederik, Latin American Studies and Performance Studies, Associate Professor, UMD

Call for Abstracts: Anthro+ Student Conference

The Practicing Anthropologist Student Association (PASA) presents the 6th Annual Student Conference AnthroPlus on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at the Stamp Student Union. 

Join a conversation on diversifying the field of anthropology. Explore innovative knowledge production and presentation as we attempt to expand the horizons of anthropological method, theory, study, and practice within and outside of academia. 

Submissions of paper and poster abstracts about original research, ideas and projects are now welcome. Submission is not restricted to students of anthropology -- all students doing relevant work in the social sciences and humanities are welcome to submit! 

Please submit abstracts by March 1, 2015 through the Anthro+ website. 

For any questions, comments, or concerns, please email the Anthro+ inquiry email (anthropologyconferenceumd@gmail.com) or submit an inquiry on the website.

Brown-Bag with Dr. Laure Brooks

The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) Ambassadors are hosting a brown-bag event on with CCJS professor Dr. Laure Brooks. If you're interested in learning about various aspects of policing, this is the event for you!

Criminology and Criminal Justice - Dr. Laure Brooks

Wednesday, November 5, 2014
(Refreshments will be served)

RSVP here!

Dr. Brooks is an instructor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the University of Maryland’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She currently teaches one course on undergraduate research methods for criminology students and one course on policing. Her research has focused on police discretion, police stress and violence against police. Dr. Brooks has written several publications and her most recent publishes include the latest edition of “Police Discretionary Behavior: A Study of Style” and “Police Recruitment and Selection.” 

Upcoming Panel Discussion: Immigration to Latin America

Anthropology and Migration Studies: The Policy Trajectory

There are few subjects that call out as strongly for interdisciplinary efforts as migration.  The complexity of human movements inevitably eludes efforts that fail to consider the full social and individual contexts of migration, that attempt to isolate particular migration events from long historical antecedents, or that neglect the reverberations of migration throughout the lives of migrants and their descendants. As one beginning point for exploring the intersection of anthropology and interdisciplinary migration studies, this talk focuses specifically on policy issues providing, first, a general discussion of the different ways that anthropologists approach migration policy and, second, considering as a case example the development of multicultural policy in South Korea in response to a surge in immigration.

Overall, the discussion suggests that the anthropological role may be less a unitary disciplinary contribution (whether of method, theory, policy, or practice) than an inherent flexibility in seeing the full human, social, cultural, and political dimensions of human mobility from multiple vantage points, analytic domains, and levels and types of governance. This intersection of anthropology, migration, and policy also suggests the hope of healing the anthropological schisms among academic, applied, and practitioner perspectives. 
 
 
David Haines’s most recent books are Safe Haven? A History of Refugees in America (2010) and Wind over Water: Migration in an East Asian Context(2012, co-edited with Keiko Yamanaka and Shinji Yamashita). He is a professor of anthropology at George Mason University, and will be at the university’s new campus in Korea for the remainder of 2014.

For background on the general issue of anthropology, migration, and policy see the special section on that topic in International Migration 51(2), 2013. Table of contents is at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/imig.2013.51.issue-2/issuetoc

Upcoming Talk: International Populations Network of Prince George's County

17th biannual meeting

Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.

Community Room B, 2nd Floor

Largo Student Center

Prince George’s Community College

Largo MD 20774

Joint Proclamation for International Education Week

& How Immigration is Changing Prince George’s County

•    Welcome

•    Introductions by Dr. Marlene Cohen, Coordinator, International Education Center, Prince George’s Community College

•    County Executive’s and County Council’s Joint Proclamation

     Recognition of International Education Week in Prince George’s County

•    Guest Speaker –The Honorable Donna F. Edwards

U. S. Representative of the fourth district of Maryland

How Immigration is Changing Prince George’s County

•    Dr. Judith Freidenberg

University of Maryland's Anthropology of the Immigrant Life

Course Research Program, Department of Anthropology

Immigrant Experience in Prince George’s County Exhibit

•    Introductions and sharing by all participants

         

•    Reception

RSVP to internationalcenter@pgcc.edu or 301-322-0750

Please share with your colleagues.

Join us for this special evening!