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AAAS CASE Workshop Student Competition Early Heads Up

For the fourth year CSTPR plans to sponsor a campus-wide competition to select two students to attend (all expenses paid!) the AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) workshop in Washington, DC. More information here. Past competition winners have described the workshop as “well-organized, thought-provoking, and a lot of fun.”

To receive notification when the competition opens sometime this winter, please contact ami.nacu-schmidt@colorado.edu.

Red Cross Red Crescent Internship Program

Application Deadline: Thursday December 15, 2016
Submit your application to redcross@colorado.edu

CU Boulder has partnered with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre (RCRCCC) to place graduate students in locations in eastern and southern Africa each summer. This collaborative program targets improvements in environmental communication and adaptation decision-making as well as disaster prevention and preparedness in the humanitarian sector. It connects humanitarian practitioners from the – an affiliate of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies – with graduate student researchers at the University of Colorado who are interested in science-policy issues.

Through this program we strive to accomplish three key objectives:

1. To improve the capacity of humanitarian practitioners within International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies network at the interface of science, policy and practice.
2. To help meet needs and gaps as well as work as a research clearing house in environmental communication and adaptation decision-making in response to climate variability and change, as identified through Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre priorities and projects.
3. To benefit graduate students by complementing the classes and research that they undertake in their graduate program with real-world experience in climate applications and development work.

This internship program will place 1-2 PhD and/or Master’s degree students in an IFRC regional field office, a National Society branch office, or with a partner organization for a period of approximately 3 months. Interns will be provided $5,000 to offset expenses.

For more information see the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre website. Application information is listed here.

Contact information: Max Boykoff (boykoff@colorado.edu) or Arielle Tozier de la Poterie (arielle.tozierdelapoterie@colorado.edu)