IDCE News

• IDSC Professor Ellen Foley Receives African Research Fulbright
  • Ellen Foley has received a 2009-2010 U.S. Fulbright Scholar African Regional Research Program award in support of her research on the cultural, economic, and health implications of changing trends in marriage, gender roles, and sexual norms in urban Senegal. She was one of only ten scholars in the United States to receive a fellowship through the African Regional Research Program.

• IDSC Professor Kiran Asher publishes book: Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development, and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands
  • In Black and Green, Kiran Asher provides a powerful framework for reconceptualizing the relationship between neoliberal development and social movements. Moving beyond the notion that development is a hegemonic, homogenizing force that victimizes local communities, Asher argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She bases her argument on ethnographic analysis of the black social movements that emerged from and interacted with political and economic changes in Colombia’s Pacific lowlands, or Chocó region, in the 1990s.
    
    
• Compton Mentor Award
  • Download the Compton Mentor Fellowship Overview and the Compton Mentor Application.

• IDCE at Idealist Fairs
  • Graduate School Fairs--Check out the Idealist Fairs IDCE will attend this year. We hope to see you there!

• GISDE alumnus and professor produce most-cited research article in prestigious GIS journal
  • Mang Lung Cheuk (GISDE/M.A. ’01) and GISDE professor Gil Pontius have announced their collaborative research paper was the most highly cited research article in the International Journal of Geographic Information Science during the last two years. Cheuk worked with Pontius on this research project as part of his final M.A. project. Titled A generalized cross-tabulation matrix to compare soft-classified maps at multiple resolutions, the publication derives a way to compute a cross-tabulation matrix for soft classified maps.

• GISDE Student Paper Places 3rd at AAG Conference
  • Prajna Regmi (GISDE/M.A. ’09) won third place for her research on the Indian Ocean Dipole - Relationship with El Nino - Southern Oscillation and Teleconnections in South Asia at the 2009 Association of American Geographers annual meeting in Las Vegas. She was part of the Remote Sensing Specialty Group List Serve and a winner of the Student Illustrated Paper award.

• Cynthia Enloe Receives Honorary Degree
  • The University of London's School of Oriental and Asian Studies awarded IDCE Reseach Professor Cynthia Enloe with an honorary degree in London 2009.

• New Concentration and Dual Degree Program Offerings
  • Students enrolled in the CDP program are now able to declare a new concentration in Enterprise Management based on a partnership with Clark University’s Graduate School of Management (GSOM). CDP students will take a selection of skill and elective courses at both IDCE and GSOM to earn the concentration as part of their graduate degree. Read more.
  • Beginning in Fall 2009, IDCE and GSOM are piloting an opportunity to earn two degrees to a small, but determined group of both CDP and ES&P students. Students in the dual degree program will earn two degrees at the end of three years of graduate school—either a M.A. in CDP or ES&P and a M.B.A. from GSOM.Read more about the CDP/GSOM partnership here. More about the ES&P dual degree can be found here.

• aids2031
  • aids2031 is a commission of UNAIDS. It is a consortium of partners who have come together to look at what we have learned about the AIDS response, as well as to consider the implications of the changing world around AIDS in order to chart options for the long term response.

• IDCE Welcomes new Three Visiting Professors Fall 2009
  • Barbara Goldoftas is joining the IDCE Department as a visiting assistant professor of ES&P. She has much experience in writing about the environment and public health and environmental studies. Marianne Sarkis joins the IDSC program as a visiting assistant professor with research experience and interest in medical anthropology, Egypt and Somalia, and gender and health. Ramón Borges-Mendéz comes as a visiting associate professor of CDP to share his research expertise in labor economics, economic development, political economy, Latino studies, and governance and institutional development.
    

• IDSC Alumni Bishnu Maya Pariyar in the Women News Network
  • Bishnu Maya Pariyar (IDSC/M.A. '07) discusses what its like to live as a Dalit woman in Nepal in the article "Can Nepal women ‘untouchables’ outlive tired caste systems?"posted online on the Women's News Network. While at IDCE, Pariyar studied Dalit Women and HIV and AIDS in Nepal.
    


• Mia Davis (IDSC/M.A. '03) Takes on BPA
  • Mia Davis, an IDSC alumna, was recently profiled in the Boston Globe for her work on prohibiting the use of BPA. Read the full article.

• GISDE Student Interning in the Congo
  • Joel Masselink (GISDE/M.A. ’09) traveled and interned with USAID's Central African Regional Program for the Environment in Kinshasa, DRCongo this past summer. This program works to conserve biodiversity and reduce deforestation in the Congo Basin, by working with funding partners and building location capacity. To learn more about the program, check out the website or visit Joel’s travel blog.

• IDCE News & Views 2009
  • IDCE's annual report News & Views 2009 is here! Get your copy today by emailing IDCE News. Please note that News & Views 2008 is now no longer in print but is still available online. Please send IDCE News an email to update your contact information to ensure that you will receive a copy of the next annual report in May 2010.
  
  
• Child Development Study
  • The University of Massachusetts Medical School, in collaboration with Clark University and faculty at IDCE, is participating in a study on children from before they are born until their 21st birthdays to better understand the influence of genes and environment on health. Tim Downs, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, and Rob Goble, will be responsible for two key aspects: sampling of the environments children inhabit and mapping of sources of stress using GIS. They will also provide expertise on community-based participatory research which will engage participants more actively to improve understanding of child health issues and participant retention through the 21-year period. Read more about the project in our 2008 issue of News & Views.

• National Urban Policy Initiatives Competition
  • During September 2008, IDCE, GSOM, Community Development Training Institute (CDTI), Freddie Mac, the United States Conference of Mayors, and the National Community Development Association brought the National Urban Policy Initiatives Competition to a successful conclusion. Winners were announced at the conference.

• AASHE
  • Clark University has officially joined as a member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Check us out in Sierra Magazine's Green Schools Section!
    

• Applied Aquatic Ecology
  • The Applied Aquatic Ecology class went to Eagle Lake in Holden to find and identify wetland plants that they had seen in the classroom the week before. View photos here.
    

• IDSC Undergraduate in the Spotlight for Social Change
  • Rachel Gerber (IDSC/B.A. ’11) has a long history of volunteerism. Among her many pursuits, she has assisted with voting rights for the homeless, food drives in her home community of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and Mississippi’s Habitat for Humanity. Her insistence on making the world a better place has earned her title as a “Making a Difference Scholar” for her four years at Clark.