UPS grad and P&G major T’wina Franklin running for UP School Board

From: Twina Franklin 

To: Patrick H O'Neil; David J Sousa 

Subject: UPS Alum, T'wina Franklin '06 MAT '07 Announces Run for University Place School Board 

Hi there! I am very excited about this opportunity and wanted to share this with the Logger community. :) 

I am also looking for fellow UPS P&G students interested in volunteering on the Friends of T'wina Franklin campaign trail. My email is twina@twinafranklin.com. For more information, please visit www.TwinaFranklin.com. 

Thanks!

P&G Grad Update- Moira Fagan

From: Moira Fagan
Date: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:05 AM
Subject: Saying Hello
To: poneil@pugetsound.edu

Hi Prof. O'Neil,

It's been quite a while since I've seen you, so I wanted to reach out with a quick life update and an opportunity to do a good deed.

For the past couple of months I've been living in Soissons, a town about an hour northeast of Paris, working as an English assistant in the local elementary schools.  It's been a lot of fun, and I've been documenting some of my travels and day-to-day life in this blog: https://faganinfrance.wordpress.com/.  And as you know, I'll be studying Global Governance, Politics, and Security at American University in the fall.

But before I go back to school, I'm planning on riding a bike from Providence, RI to Seattle, WA with a group called Bike and Build.  Bike and Build raises money and awareness for affordable housing around the country, which makes it a similar organization to Habitat for Humanity.  Each rider is asked to raise $4,500 before the trip starts in June, so I've been reaching out to everyone I've ever met to ask for their support.  If you're interested in contributing, check out my rider page: http://bikeandbuild.org/rider/7850.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!  Post-grad life is fun, but UPS was a wonderful experience, and the academics were incredible. I'm glad to have taken a bit of time off school, but I'm excited to start the the next stage of my education.

Hoping you are well,

Moira Fagan

European Summer School in Prague! Deadline May 15th

The European Summer School in Prague is an intensive 12 day learning programme focused on European integration. It is organized by one of the leading think-tanks in Prague, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, in co-operation with Prague College, the Charles University Faculty of Social Sciences and under the auspices of the European Commission Representation in the Czech Republic. This year’s European Summer School is titled “Challenges for Europe – regional integration in a fragmented world”. How does the EU operate in an increasingly polarised world? How does it react to its internal challenges? Find out in Prague, at the 13^th annual European Summer School!
Deadlines for Applications are May 15th, 2015.
For more information, Please Visit http://www.europeum.org/ess/

Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program Fellowship. Deadline June 13th

The Emerging Markets Development Advisers Program (EMDAP) is a fellowship and cooperative activity between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Institute of International Education (IIE). Through EMDAP, U.S. graduate students and recent graduates with non-profit, business, private sector, public policy, and international relations related backgrounds provide technical assistance and support to local organizations in USAID-assisted countries. EMDAP targeted assistance supports USAID's strategy of building local capacity through innovative and sustainable assistance by transferring knowledge to local organizations and individuals.

EMDAP is a demand driven program with placement based on requests from USAID field Missions, as well as other U.S. government entities, NGO's and development private sector actors.  Working with the sponsoring agency or organization, IIE has the flexibility to design placements to address specific needs in economic growth, education, health, youth & development, humanitarian assistance and other technical areas.

EMDAP Advisers, recruited from top graduate schools are selected based on their background & skills, leadership qualities, problem solving capabilities, and communication & analysis abilities. Through 12 month fellowship work assignments, Advisers produce tangible improvements and sustainable systems in existing as well as start-up organizations in various areas such as business planning, organizational operations, product marketing, financial systems & reporting, human resources and internet technology.

Learn more about this opportunity at http://www.iie.org/Programs/EMDAP/

Applications are due June 13th.

CFR Conference Call - Thursday 4/23

On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), I invite you to participate in the last session of the Winter/Spring 2015 CFR Academic Conference Call series on Thursday, April 23, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM in WY226. Sheila A. Smith, CFR's senior fellow for Japan studies, will discuss Japan's primary policy concerns as it navigates its relationship with an advancing China.

Dr. Smith is the author of "Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China," which was published by Columbia University Press in February 2015. She is also the author of the CFR report "Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance" (July 2014). Dr. Smith is a regular contributor to the CFR blog "Asia Unbound" and to major media outlets in the United States and Asia. She teaches as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Asian Studies Department, serves on the board of the "Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs," and is vice chair of the U.S. advisors to the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Exchange. Dr. Smith joined CFR from the East-West Center in 2007, where she directed a multinational research team in a cross-national study of the domestic politics of the U.S. military presence in Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines.

As background for the discussion, you may wish to review the following materials:

1) Sheila A. Smith, "Chapter 1: Contending with China," Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China, Columbia University Press, February 2015.

2) Sheila A. Smith, "Japan-China Relations: Three Things to Know," Video, CFR.org, November 18, 2014.

3) Sheila A. Smith, "Japan's New Politics and the U.S.-Japan Alliance," Report, Council on Foreign Relations Press, July 2014.

4) "Japan," Asia Unbound, Blog, Council on Foreign Relations.

Please RSVP to me at sweinberger@pugetsound.edu if you're interested in attending.

See you there...

Seth Weinberger

Associate Professor

Department of Politics & Government

University of Puget Sound

Photography and Revoluion in Nicaragua - Thursday 4/23

Yoram Bauman is coming to UPS! Tuesday, 4/21

 In honor of Earth Week, ASUPS and the Sustainability Advisory Committee joined forces to bring Yorman Bauman, the worlds first and only Stand-Up Economist, to talk about his Carbon Tax initiative in Washington State. Yorman taught graduate Environmental Economics at University of Washington in the past but now has shifted his time towards working on Carbon Washington, Innitiative I-732, which is a revenue-neutral carbon tax campaign. 

Don't miss his famous economic comedy skit and the opportunity to hear about a proposed carbon tax in Washington! 

Read up about him here: http://standupeconomist.com/

Read about Carbon Washington's I-732: http://carbonwa.org/ 

Thanks and I hope to see you all there! 

Sierra Cocoziello 

 

Student Presentation: Friday, April 17

Connect with P&G Alumni! Tuesday, April 14

Click here for Links to the Alumni LinkedIn Pages and Employers

Jobs for Graduating Seniors at U.S. PIRG

U.S. PIRG still has openings on next year's organizing teams. We're taking on some big challenges like the overuse of antibiotics on factory farms, big money in politics, standing up for consumers against big banks and Wall Street, and more.

We're looking for smart, talented candidates who agree that America has more problems than we should tolerate, but who also understand that there are plenty of solutions to these problems that we should be putting to use.

Could you help spread the word to any graduating seniors you know?

We're accepting applications on a rolling basis until all of our jobs are filled. Potential candidates can more and apply at jobs.uspirg.org.

PROBLEM SOLVERS WANTED!
Current openings with U.S. PIRG:

• OrganizingFellowship - PIRG Fellows are casting a spotlight on problems by doing everything from working on our nationwide grassroots public education campaign to holding media and visibility events and promoting new research online. You’ll be out in the real world — recruiting new groups to join a coalition, speaking at a church basement or town hall to win a new endorsement, organizing a news event or rally, meeting with an editorial board, or doing whatever else it takes to urge our public officials to do the right thing. This is a two-year program, expressly designed to prepare future leaders within PIRG. Location: DC, Boston

• DigitalCampaigners - You’ll work to craft and win campaigns to get big money out of politics, win consumers the right to know what’s in their food, and make college more affordable for students. This is an entry-level position for recent-college graduates ready to turn their online skills into political action. We’re looking for people who are eager and ready to learn new skills, want to work hard, and who won’t be satisfied until they win. Location: Denver

• CampusOrganizers - Students have been at the forefront of social change for decades. And the Student PIRGs have organized students across the country to get real results. When you become an Organizer with the Student PIRGs, you’ll recruit, train and organize students to tackle these problems head-on. You’ll teach them to run campaigns that make a difference in their community and our country, and help develop them into leaders who can continue to make an impact years after they graduate. Location: MA, NJ, CT, MD, WA, OR

 

Do you speak Spanish? Wondering what you should do after graduation?

I graduated from UPS last May and spent the past six months teaching English in Ecuador.  I volunteered through a small non-profit organization called Sustainable Roots, which provides free English classes to all children in Cosanga, Ecuador and encourages sustainability through community projects.  Cosanga is a town of 250 people located on the edge of the Amazon, tucked between hills in a stunningly green countryside.  My co-volunteer and I taught English to almost every grade level, constructing our own curriculum and planning all of our own classes.  In exchange, we received food, housing, and the experience of a lifetime.  Volunteering in Cosanga is an opportunity to challenge yourself, your perspectives, and your comfort zone, and to connect with a community on a deeper level.  Volunteering there for six months was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

Check out the website for Sustainable Roots at http://sustainable-roots.org/, find it on Facebook, or contact me at hfindling@hotmail.com.  I’d love to tell you more about it or answer any questions you may have!

Hannah Findling

University of Puget Sound, Class of 2014

hfindling@hotmail.com

Congratulations to Michellie Hess!

PG Major Michellie Hess, Europe has been selected for an internship in the European Parliament, shadowing a yet to be determined Member of Parliament in Brussels.  Congratulations Michellie!  We look forward to hearing about your experience.

CFR Conference Call on U.S. Counterterrorism Policy – Wednesday, April 8

On behalf of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), I invite you to participate in the next session of the Winter/Spring 2015 CFR Academic Conference Call series on Wednesday, April 8, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM in WY 226. Audrey Kurth Cronin, distinguished service professor and director of the international security program at George Mason University's School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, will discuss U.S. counterterrorism policy and the existing threat posed by the self-proclaimed Islamic State.

Dr. Cronin joined George Mason University as a tenured senior faculty member in September 2011. Prior to that, she was a faculty member and director of the core course on military strategy at the U.S. National War College from 2007 to 2011. She came to the war college from Oxford University, where she was director of studies for the Oxford/Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War from 2005 to 2007. She continues to be a non-residential senior research associate at Oxford. Before that, Dr. Cronin was a specialist in terrorism at the Congressional Research Service, where she was responsible for advising members of Congress in the aftermath of 9/11. She regularly consults with agencies in both the executive and legislative branches. Dr. Cronin is the author of "How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns."

As background for the discussion, you may wish to have review the following materials:

1) Audrey Kurth Cronin, "ISIS Is Not A Terrorist Group," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2015.

2) James R. Clapper Jr., "James Clapper on Global Intelligence Challenges," Video, CFR.org, March 2, 2015.

3) Richard N. Haass, "Managing the ISIS Crisis," Project Syndicate, February 23, 2015.

4) Stewart M. Patrick, "Transnational Terrorism:Three Things to Know," Video, CFR.org, February 18, 2015.

5) Janine Davidson, Defense in Depth, Blog, Council on Foreign Relations.

Please RSVP to Professor Seth Weinberger at sweinberger@pugetsound.edu if you would like to attend the call.

I hope to see you there!

Seth Weinberger

From Jackson State to Ferguson: Memory and Erasure in the History of Racial Violence

Tuesday, April 7 at 4:00pm

Archives & Special Collections, 2^nd floor of Collins Library

All are welcome

From Jackson State to Ferguson: Memory and Erasure in the History of Racial Violence

Professor Nancy Bristow, History, African American Studies

Asked in August, 2014, whether the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri “raises important issues about race that need to be discussed,” 80% of African Americans said “yes,” while 47% of white Americans believed “race is getting more attention than it deserves.”  These statistics make visible the divergent historical memories of two American communities and the powerful erasure silence around race makes possible.  Focusing on the police shootings that took place at Jackson State College forty-five years ago, Professor Nancy Bristow will situate the recent events in Ferguson and beyond in the nation’s long history of state violence against African Americans and will explore the white community’s persistent unwillingness to acknowledge and address its racial dynamics.  

More information on the Behind the Archives Door series available Here.

Thank you for supporting the University of Puget Sound Archives & Special Collections.

Guest Lecture: "Compressed Capitalism, Globalization, and the Fate of Indian Development, " by Anthony D'Costa

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

ASUPS is organizing a lecture titled "Compressed Capitalism, Globalization, and the Fate of Indian Development" by Professor Anthony P. D'Costa on Thursday April 2, 2015 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. in Trimble Forum.

Professor D'Costa is an esteemed colleague of mine who is originally from India, but who now teaches at the University of Melbourne in Australia. He is known for his work on economic development of India and the concept of "compressed capitalism". I am sure you will find his lecture thought-provoking, should you and your students decide to attend it.

I would be grateful if you can distribute the attached flyer (which contains an abstract of the talk and also Professor D'Costa's biographical sketch) to your colleagues, announce this lecture in your classes, perhaps offer an extra-credit opportunity to your students for attending this lecture and reporting on it, and thus help in the publicity efforts.

thank you for your kind attention,

Devparna Roy, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

University of Puget Sound

Jobs and Campus Visit from the Fund for the Public Interest! Tue 3/31 - Thu 4/2

Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 3:37 PM
To: David J Sousa
Subject: Summer Jobs with the Fund

 

Dear Professor Sousa,

I'm a Campaign Director with the Fund for the Public Interest. We’re a national, non-profit organization that builds the people power for America’s leading environmental and social change organizations, like Environment America and U.S. PIRG. 

We’re hiring in over 30 cities across the country to raise money and get thousands of people to take action. Students could be working to help stop global warming, fight fracking, get factory farms to stop overusing antibiotics or stand up for clean water, just to name a few. 

This is not the typical summer job, but it’s a great experience for students because they make a real difference, gain real-world experience and valuable skills, while making good money.   

I got involved with the Fund as an undergraduate student at Northeastern University and worked on a campaign to expand solar energy in Massachusetts. By the end of my summer, I was directing in our Boston office and had accepted a full-time position for when I graduated.

We'll be on campus on March 31^st – April 2^nd holding information sessions and interviews. I was hoping you could help spread the word to students in your class, I imagine some of them will be interested

Make a difference on issues that matter this summer with the Fund for the Public Interest!

What are you planning to do with your summer? Do you want to make a real difference, working to protect the environment or public health? Do you want to gain real-world experience and pick up valuable skills? Do you want to make good money? 

Apply for a job with the Fund this summer, and you could get all of that and more. We’re a national, non-profit organization that builds the people power for America’s leading environmental and social change organizations. 

We’re hiring in over 30 cities across the country this summer to raise money and get thousands of people to take action. You’ll make a real difference on important issues.  You may be working to help stop global warming, fight fracking, get factory farms to stop overusing antibiotics or standing up for clean water, just to name a few. 

You’ll gain real-world experience and learn valuable skills.  Making change happen isn’t easy, but history has shown time and again that when we build enough people power we can win. But to do that we need people who have the skills and leadership ability to get things done. And that’s what you’ll learn with the Fund.

We have a great training program. Training starts the first day, and it continues throughout your time on staff.

You will have the opportunity to learn how to lead a team, run news conferences, all while developing your public speaking skills, raising money and motivating people to get involved and take action.  Skills that will be valuable, no matter what kind of job you want in the future.

And, you’ll make good money.

Many people are faced with a tough choice for how to spend their summer. Do I earn money by waiting tables, painting houses or making lattes, or do I take that unpaid internship so I can get real-world experience, or work on something I care about. You don’t have to make that choice.

You can make $4,000-$6,000 this summer while doing something you actually believe in. All while gaining the skills and experience you need to help you succeed in the future.

This is not your typical summer job, but if you’re looking for a great experience where you can make a real difference, and work with some great people along the way, then apply for a summer job with The Fund.

We will be holding information sessions and interviews on campus from March 31^st – April 2^nd. To apply, please visit www.SummerJobsThatMatter.org or call 1-800-75-EARTH (753-2784).