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Lauren Gifford Receives First Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy |
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Rad Byerly, Jr., passed away last year after an impressive career that included more than twenty years as staff on and ultimately Director of the Science Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He also was Director of the Center for Space and Geosciences Policy at CU Boulder. Rad spent the last years of his career with the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) at CU Boulder, where he was known as a mentor, adviser and friend with a wicked sense of humor. CSTPR launched the Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy in recognition of Rad’s contributions to and impact on the CSTPR community. Thanks to several generous donations, CSTPR was able to offer a $1500 award to a graduate student this year. We are soliciting donations for future awards here.
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ITG 2017 Comedy & Climate Change Video Winners Announced |
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Inside the Greenhouse held a competition to harness the powers of climate comedy through compelling, resonant and meaningful videos. The winners are: |
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| First Place ‘The Summit’ (Australia) by Giovanni Fusetti and Tejopala Rawls  |
Runner Up ‘Alternate Science (Vol. 1)’ (USA) by Monty Hempel  |
| Third Place Runner Up ‘Dear Donald Trump’ (Austria) by Philip Moran and Elias James Manning-Moran  |
Honorable Mention ‘Climate Change Communicators Infomercial!’ (USA) by Travis Axe, E. Evans, E. Lev, C. Reeve, J. Wainscott  |
All contest entries can be viewed here. |
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CSTPR Students, Researchers and Alumni Moving on to New Positions |
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Several CSTPR graduate students who recently received their degrees, as well as two of our research scientists and one alumna, will be moving on to new faculty or research positions. We are glad that their time at CSTPR helped prepare them for the next stage of their careers and wish them the best!
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 Meaghan Daly (Ph.D. CU ENVS 2016) is now a Research Fellow with the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at the Sustainability Research Institute at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK. |
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 Katie Dickinson (Ph.D. Duke University 2008, current CSTPR Research Scientist) accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the Colorado School of Public Health’s Environmental and Occupational Health department. |
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 Elizabeth Koebele (Ph.D. CU ENVS 2017) will begin a new tenure-track faculty position on July 1 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nevada Reno. |
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 Lydia Lawhon (Ph.D. CU ENVS 2016) is an Instructor in the Masters of Environment Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. |
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 Lucy McAllister (Ph.D. CU ENVS 2017) recently accepted a position starting August 1 as a Core Visiting Assistant Professor/Core Renewal Fellow in Environmental Studies at Boston College. |
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 Elizabeth “Bets” McNie (Ph.D. CU ENVS 2008, most recently Western Water Assessment Evaluation Coordinator) has taken a tenure-track position at the California State University Maritime Academy in Vallejo, CA (her alma mater). |
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 Amy Quandt (Ph.D. CU ENVS 2017, 2013 Red Cross intern) accepted the position of Global Coordinator with the LandPKS (Land Potential Knowledge System) project, a collaboration between the University of Colorado and New Mexico State University. |
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 Jessica Rich (Ph.D. University of North Carolina 2016, current CSTPR Research Scientist) has accepted a tenure-track position starting September 1 as an Assistant Professor in the Communications and Environmental Studies departments at Merrimack College (Massachusetts). |
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Several CSTPR graduate students who recently received their degrees, as well as two of our research scientists and one alumna, will be moving on to new faculty or research positions. We are glad that their time at CSTPR helped prepare them for the next stage of their careers and wish them the best! |
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CSTPR Welcomes Professor Bienvenido León, FIRST Scholar |
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Bienvenido is associate professor of science journalism and television production at the University of Navarra (Spain). He has also worked as a documentary film director, scriptwriter and producer for over 30 years. He teaches regularly in other universities of Spain and other countries, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina and the University of Otago. His research has mainly focused on audio-visual science and environment communication. He is the founding director of the Research Group on Science Communication at this university, and currently the director of the international research project “Online video as a tool for communicating science”. He has published 21 books as author or editor and over 60 peer-reviewed papers or book chapters. Before joining the academic field, he worked as a TV journalist for a decade. He has founded and directed two environmental film festivals: Telenatura (2001-2013) and Urban TV (2002-2014). As part of his visit, Bienvenido will be giving a talk on August 3 in CSTPR on ‘How have nature and environmental documentaries changed since the internet arrived?’ at 3pm. More information is available here. |
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Following a selection process, Lauren Gifford was chosen to receive the first Byerly award. Lauren is a PhD candidate in Geography at CU Boulder. Her research explores the intersection of global climate change policy, conservation, markets and justice. Her dissertation asks how, and by whom, climate and conservation policies are enacted– with a focus on forest carbon offset development in Maine and Peru. She is an appointed member of the City of Boulder’s Human Relations Commission, is a long-time environmental justice advocate, and has been an active participant in the United Nations climate change negotiation process. She holds an MA in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College and a BA in Communications from American University.
Professor Bienvenido León joins CSTPR for this summer. He is visiting through the Faculty in Residence Summer Teaching program (FIRST) in the Office of Continuing Education at CU Boulder. This is a collaboration with ENVS and Inside the Greenhouse.
