Carolina MPA Student Digest:
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In this Issue:
- Upcoming Program Dates
- MPA Happenings
- Happy Hour Hub in Greenville, NC
- Alumni Reception in Chapel Hill, NC
- Faculty News
- UNC Graduate & Professional Student Federation Blood Drive
- Upcoming UNC & Beyond Announcements
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- Fall Registration Advising Appointments: ongoing
- Fall Immersion Course: Oct. 3-5 (details below)
- Fall Alumni Reception: October 4
- Greenville, NC Happy Hour Hub: October 30, 5:30-8 pm
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Upcoming MPA Happy Hour Hub
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The MPA Program will be traveling! Please join fellow students, staff, & alumni at the following FREE event!
Greenville, NC
October 30, 5:30-8 pm (Rescheduled from Hurricane Dorian!)
Pitt Street Brewing Company
630 S. Pitt St., Greenville, NC 27834
Registration Info will be sent out soon!
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In conjunction with the MPA program's annual student immersion course, the Carolina MPA Program and the Alumni Association will host a reception from 5:00-7:30 PM at the School of Government on
Friday, October 4, 2019
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Xu Catering will again cater this event, transforming the atrium and serving seasonal appetizers and finger desserts along with tasty beverages. We hope you can join us!
* The cost is $25 per person but so worth it!
* Students enrolled in the Fall Immersion/PUBA 744 do not need to pay or register!
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MPA Faculty Member Margaret Henderson has been announced as a finalist for the NASPAA
Sen. Voinovich Public Innovation Challenge Competition in Los Angeles, CA. She is one of four finalists who will present their proposals in October at the annual NASPAA Conference. Ms. Henderson received the nomination for her submission of "Exploring the Intersections between Local Government and Human Trafficking." Details of her research and recommendations to local governments can be found
here.
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MPA faculty member Dr. Maureen Berner has an upcoming publication,"The Importance of Precision: Differences in Characteristics Associated with Levels of Food Insecurity Among College Students," which will be featured in
Public Health Nutrition. The piece was co-written with Jessica Soldavini and MPA alum Julia DaSilva, '18.
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Upcoming UNC and Beyond Announcements:
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- UNC Institute of Politics Fellows Series
- Chapel Hill Police Crisis Unit Fall Reception & Networking Hour
- Alicia Olatuja Sings the Works of Icons & Legends
- Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance
- UNC Gender Violence Services
- Financial Education Workshop Series
- Thinking Beyond Normal: How to Live, Learn, & Thrive Outside the Lines with Jonathan Mooney
- Animal & Social Welfare Conference
- Color of Education 2019 Conference Keynote with Ta-Nehisi Coates
- DO or Die: Affect, Ritual, Resistance
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This program provides an invaluable chance for students to learn from some of the most notable political practitioners, academics, and journalists in an informal setting.
Political practitioners immerse themselves in the Carolina community, drawing on the University’s intellectual resources while interacting with students and leading a not-for-credit study group.
With questions about the Program or to schedule an office hours appointment with the Fellows, please contact
fellows@unciop.org
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Please join the Carolina Women's Center as we celebrate the accomplishments of the 2018-2019 Faculty Scholars. The Scholars will present on their research, followed by a discussion and question session.
- Dr. Jessica Baker and Dr. Melissa Munn-Chernoff, “Food Insecurity and Mental Health among College Students”
- Dr. Rebecca Kreitzer, “How Can We Recruit More Diverse Women to Political Office?: The Role and Activities of Women Candidate Groups in the US States”
- Dr. Sarah Treul Roberts, “Running as a Woman?: Candidate Presentation in the 2018 Midterms”
Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 2-4pm
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Stone Center
Light refreshments will be served!
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Alicia Olatuja is known for her jazzy, soulful voice, which earned her a featured solo at President Barack Obama's 2013 inauguration. On October 2, she'll use that soul to celebrate the works of the most respected women artists of our generation. This intimate concert at UNC's Hill Hall will feature music by songwriters including Violetta Para, Imogen Heap, Joni Mitchell, and many others. Want a sneak peek at the music? Listen to
Intuition: Songs From the Minds of Women
on Spotify.
Wednesday, Oct. 2 | 7:30 PM | $37
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Students, faculty, staff, and post-doctoral fellows can receive individual support to assist them through the process of disclosing and exploring the impact of experiences, accessing support and resources, talking through options and decisions, and reporting to the University or law enforcement.
To learn more about resources and information about gender-based discrimination, harassment, sexual violence, interpersonal violence and stalking at UNC, please visit
safe.unc.edu
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Also,
HAVEN
is back with trainings this semester! HAVEN is a collaborative program by the Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office, the Carolina Women’s Center, the Office of Dean of Students, and Student Wellness. It provides students, faculty, staff, and postdoctoral fellows with skills and tools to better support someone who has experienced sexual or interpersonal violence or stalking. The training emphasizes the importance of listening, responding compassionately, and connecting survivors to resources on campus and in the community. Participants will receive a placard that can be displayed on their office door, residence hall room door, laptop, or backpack. This visibility of trained community members helps send a message to the campus that our community cares!
Please see the training dates below and click on the link to register. Graduate students are welcome to attend either the staff and faculty or student workshops.
Fall Dates for Students:
Tuesday, October 22 6:00 pm – 9:00pm
Wednesday, November 13 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Animals and Social Welfare
November 1-2, 2019
Duke Law School
Room 4000
The conference will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, November 1, and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, November 2. The conference schedule, with session times and paper titles, will be posted
here
when available.
The focus of the conference is how animal well-being should be incorporated into the normative frameworks of welfare economics. The standard frameworks (namely cost-benefit analysis and social welfare functions) focus exclusively on the well-being (usually, the preferences) of human persons. However, it is increasingly recognized by philosophers, and in wider social discourse, that non-human animals (or at least a subset thereof) also have ethical standing.
Conference participants include leading researchers from philosophy and economics. A current participant list may be found
here
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Duke faculty, staff, and graduate or professional students are welcome to attend all or part of the conference, as are those with an academic affiliation elsewhere. Those interested in attending, or with administrative questions, should contact Isabel Fox at
isabel.fox@law.duke.edu
. For questions about the content of the conference, please contact Matthew Adler at
adler@law.duke.edu
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Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates will headline Color of Education 2019 as part of his official book tour for his forthcoming novel “The Water Dancer” slated for release on September 24. In addition to a reading from his novel and a Q&A session with the audience, Coates will be joined on stage for an in-conversation with Dr. William “Sandy” Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy at Duke University, about race in America.
Color of Education is a partnership of the Public School Forum of North Carolina, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and Duke Policy Bridge at the Sanford School of Public Policy. The inaugural event in October 2018 featured New York Times Magazine reporter and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Bookmark #ColorOfEducation on Twitter to follow this year’s event.
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Join
the Sonja Haynes Stone Center
on Thursday, September 19 at 7PM for the opening of
DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance
. This multimedia exhibition by award-winning artist Fahamu Pecou seeks to elevate and recontextualize Black life and death by reframing our view. Pecou integrates West African spiritual traditions with African cultural retentions in hip-hop and the philosophy of “Negritude” to explore Black existence. This event is free and open to the public.
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University Research Week is November 4-8
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Exciting news! The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Office of Undergraduate Research will be co-hosting this year’s
University Research Week,
Nov 4-8, 2019. We are preparing a full, exciting week celebrating Carolina’s research excellence and highlighting opportunities designed to increase student participation in research activity.
All schools, departments and units are encouraged to participate by hosting organization-specific events geared toward the goals of the celebration. If you are planning an event (or have one already scheduled that fits with the theme) let us know about it
here. We’ll include it in our promotions. We’d love to include as many events as possible to showcase the breadth and depth of research here at UNC. More events are being added daily to homepage, so check back often!
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