dr. yarrison rice

i have tried several times to get off of the wimse
list serve, can you please remove me.

sincerely
jana roughton
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-- JAN YARRISON-RICE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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]
>
>


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