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Valentine’s Day is more than roses, gifts and chocolate candy. It is a season to show kindness and compassion.
This month, ASI is celebrating this season and our Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute. Now in its third year, the Institute focuses on emerging scholars pursuing research in the Human-Animal Studies (HAS) field. As you celebrate this season, won’t you consider giving a scholarship gift that will help our scholars.
Your gift can be in honor of human or nonhuman animal you love - or in honor of an HAS scholar who otherwise would not be unable to attend the Institute. Your investment today will help our scholars of tomorrow.
Your
scholarship gift
to the Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute program makes a difference!
Together we can create safer and more compassionate communities for all.
We look forward to your support now and throughout the year.
To donate today- click
here
Warmly,
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Ivy Collier
Executive Director
Animals & Society Institute
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On the Human-Animal Studies front, our program director, Margo DeMello, is going to be traveling a lot this year, participating in conferences, workshops, and events in Portland, Kentucky, Illinois (our third annual
ASI-UIUC Summer Institute
!), Germany (an exciting project which we will announce later!), Portugal, and Los Angeles.
Finally, the new issue of
Sloth
, our journal for undergraduates, will be out soon. Keep your eyes on our website for news about all this and more in the upcoming months!
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It’s not too late to apply to the The Animals & Society Institute and the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Third Annual Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute program for advanced graduate students and early career scholars pursuing research in Human-Animal Studies. The Institute is designed to support participants’ individual research in Human-Animal Studies as well as to promote interdisciplinary exchange. Application Deadline: February 28, 2019
To learn more about the Institute, click
here
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$50,000 Maddie's Fund® Grant to ASI Will Help Open Shelter Doors for Homeless People and Their Pets
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We are thrilled to announce receipt of a $50,000 grant from Maddie's Fund®, a national family foundation established by Dave and Cheryl Duffield to revolutionize the status and well-being of companion animals. ASI will partner with My Dog is My Home to evaluate and identify best practices in “co-sheltering” of people and their companion animals. The lack of animal-friendly policies and practices in many shelters means people experiencing homelessness are often asked to choose between their companion animals and a warm, safe place to stay. The evaluation will inform development of animal-friendly policies and practices in homeless shelters nationwide, reducing the likelihood that animals will be relinquished simply because their caregivers are experiencing a period of homelessness. We believe this project has the potential to fundamentally transform the way homeless services are provided to people and the animals they love.
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Made possible by a grant from Maddie’s Fund®, #ThanksToMaddie
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The PACT ACT
By Beatrice Friedlander, ASI Board Member
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There is no federal law banning animal cruelty, although it’s a felony in all 50 states. That may change. The “Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act” or
“PACT Act”
, was introduced in Congress in January, and makes the most egregious acts of animal abuse a crime throughout the country. Those convicted face up to seven years in prison.
The Act would ban “animal crushing” defined as “conduct in which one or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians is purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury” and applies to acts committed on federal lands (national parks, military bases, etc.) or to interstate acts. It would allow the FBI to investigate, and federal prosecutors to bring charges in these egregious cases.
The bill closes a loophole in the
Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010
, which makes it a crime to create or distribute a video depicting extreme animal cruelty but does not criminalize the underlying cruelty.
Animal advocates are hopeful that the bill will pass. It has strong bi-partisan support, with 146 original co-sponsors. Earlier versions of the Act passed the Senate
unanimously
in 2016 and 2017, but stalled in the House Judiciary Committee. The current Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, however, is among the bill’s co-sponsors so a hearing is expected.
About Bee:
Beatrice M. Friedlander is a founding and current member of the Animal Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan, and of Michigan Attorneys for Animals. She serves on the Legislative Committee of the Animal Law Section and was active in the successful effort to overturn a law allowing mourning dove hunting in Michigan.
Bee received J.D. and B.A. (Sociology) degrees from The Ohio State University, and a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Non Profit Sector Studies from Wayne State University. She is a member of the Michigan and New York State bars, and describes herself as a recovering attorney. Bee and her husband share their home with cats Mica, Blanco and Julia.
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Did you know you can shop on Amazon and support ASI?
Visit
smile.amazon.com
, choose Animals and Society as your charity, and shop. The AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases.
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