Welcome back WIMSE friends!

       Its hard to believe that the year has started already.  In fact,
its the second week and I am still trying to find my desk from the
summer -- says a lot about my organizational skill level at present.

Anyway, I am trying to get the year started and will be contacting
faculty and students alike with opportunities to be involved with new
programs throughout the year.

     Please contact any friends you think might be interested in WIMSE
and have them join the listserv as well as looking out for meeting
annoucements.

Thanks,
Jan Y-R

Coming right away is the following:

 (1)  We (WIMSE) have an opportunity to be involved in a service
project with SWE (society of women engineers) here on campus.  It
involves an outreach program to area middle school girls and girl
scouts.  SOme of our WIMSE women have helped in the past and the next
few years the program is expanding in a big way thanks to grant funding
of a proposal by Karen Schmahl in Manu. Engineering.

If anyone is interested, SWE would like to form a partnership with
WIMSE as well as the American Women in Computing to develop and run
these programs.  They are also trying to develop traveling stations
which could be taken into the schools and to other programs throughout
the year.

More information will be forthcoming in the next few weeks.  However,
if there is a core group of people interested, form a committee and have
the chair person contact me (Jan Yarrison-RIce, Faculty Advisor to WIMSE
-- 529 1862 or email as above).




(2)  An upcoming talk which is a good cross between women, politics,
and ecology.  Maybe we can go as a group and meet to discuss it
afterwards.

>The Women's Studies, Black World Studies, Latin American Studies and
>International Studies Programs
>present the
>Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture Series
>
>Dr. Dianne E. Rocheleau
>Professor of Geography
>Clark University
>
>Transnational Ecologies and Everyday Lives:
>A Feminist Political Ecology Perspective
>
>Dr. Dianne Rocheleau has lived and worked in the Dominican Republic
>(three years), Kenya (seven years) and Florida as well as Worcester,
>Massachusetts and has conducted academic and applied research on
>social and environmental dimensions of regional land use change in
>each of these places. Her most recent co-authored books are:
>Feminist Political Ecology: Global Perspectives and Local Experience
>and Gender, Environment, and Development in Kenya: Perspectives from
>the Grassroots.
>
>Thursday,  September 27, 2001*100 Art*7 PM
>
>
>
>Dianne Rocheleau, Ph.D., will deliver the Grayson Kirk Distinguished
>Lecture "Transnational Ecologies and Everyday Lives: A Feminist
>Political Ecology Perspective" at 7 PM Thursday September 27, 2001
>in 100 Art, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Dr. Rocheleau is
>Professor of Geography, Clark University.  Miami's Women's Studies,
>Black World Studies, Latin American Studies and International
>Studies Programs jointly present this lecture.
>
>Dr. Dianne Rocheleau was raised in diverse places as Connecticut,
>Appalachia and Florida. Her formal training includes Bachelor's
>degrees in Geography and Philosophy and a Master's degree in
>Geography from the University of South Florida in Tampa and the Ph.
>D. in Geography with a minor in Systems Ecology from the University
>of Florida, Gainesville. Prior to becoming a professor of geography
>at Clark University, she served as a Senior Scientist at the
>International Center for Research in Agroforestry and worked on the
>Ford Foundation Staff in Rural Poverty and Resources in Nairobi,
>Kenya.  She has lived and worked in the Dominican Republic (three
>years), Kenya (seven years) and Florida as well as Worcester,
>Massachusetts and has conducted academic and applied research on
>social and environmental dimensions of regional land use change in
>each of these places. She has received writing and research grants
>from Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, USAID, United Nations
>University, World Wildlife fund, the Swedish International
>Development Agency, and the USDA Forest Service. Her most recent
>co-authored books are:  Feminist Political Ecology: Global
>Perspectives and Local Experience and Gender, Environment, and
>Development in Kenya: Perspectives from the Grassroots.
>
>
>The Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture Series was endowed by the
>Tinker Foundation in honor of Dr. Grayson Kirk, Miami class of 1924.
>After graduating, Dr. Kirk went on to become one of the pioneers in
>developing international relations as a field of political science
>and served as president of Columbia University for many years.  This
>lecture series brings in public figures and recognized scholars to
>address international issues.
>
>
>
>Stanley Toops, Director
>International Studies Program
>Miami University
>Oxford Ohio   45056
>phone 513-529-5333
>fax 513-529-1890
>email [log in to unmask]