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Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - Arts & Events
WSU Vancouver Center Presents Social and Environmental Justice Research Series
CONTACT:
- Sheri Byrd, Office of Marketing and Communications, 360/546-9602, byrds@vancouver.wsu.edu
- Desiree Hellegers, College of Liberal Arts, 360/546-9643, helleger@vancouver.wsu.edu
Vancouver, Wash - The Center for Social and Environmental Justice at Washington State University Vancouver presents a monthly series of faculty speakers giving informative short talks about their current research.
All presentations are 12 to 1:15 p.m. in the Multimedia Classroom building, Room 1.
The CSEJ fosters collaborations between WSU Vancouver faculty, students and community partners to reduce racism, poverty and discrimination at the local, national and global levels through interdisciplinary community-based research, interdisciplinary curricular innovations, conferences, workshops, public events and media projects.
For more information on the CSEJ, visit http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/programs/csejustice/. Photos of the speakers are available upon request. Contact Sheri Byrd, 360/546-9602, byrds@vancouver.wsu.edu.
- Jan. 18
- Brian N. Tissot, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, "Community-based Fishery Management in Hawaii"
- Mark Stephan, Department of Political Science, "The Toxics Release Inventory: Motivating Pollution Reductions"
- Candice Goucher, Department of History, "Inequality and the Environment in World History"
- Feb. 8
- Tom Tripp, Department of Management Operations, College of Business, "A Vigilante Model of Justice: Revenge, Reconciliation, Forgiveness, and Avoidance"
- J. P. Garofalo, Department of Psychology, "The Role of Background Stress in Health"
- Linda Mabry, Department of Teaching and Learning, "No Child Left Behind and the Attack on Public Education, K-12"
- March 8
- Pavithra Narayanan, Department of English, "Arms and the Deals We Make"
- Alair MacLean, Department of Sociology, "The Things They Carry: Combat Exposure and Veterans' Later Life Attainment"
- Amy Wharton, Department of Sociology, and Dr. Jerry Goodstein, Dept. of Management and Operations, "Corporate Values and Corporate Commitments to Employees"
- April 11
- Desiree Hellegers, Department of English, "Untitled: An Oral History of Unhoused Women"
- Elizabeth Soliday, Department of Psychology, "Promoting Well Being in Low Income Pregnant Women and Newborns"
- Sheela Choppala, College of Nursing, "The Evolution of Free Clinic Activists: Influence of Traits and Times"
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