Weekly Update (03/04/2024)
Upcoming ESPP Events
Please mark your calendar for the upcoming ESPP events. More details will follow.
- April 9, 2024: ESP 802 final presentation
- April 11, 2024: ESPP Annual End-of-Year Gathering
- April 16, 2024: ESP 802 final presentation
Scholarships, Fellowships, and Funding Opportunities
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2024 U.S. Forest Service Public Land Corps & USDA ARS Internship | Deadline: Mar 8, 2024
CAPAL’s Public Service Internship Program places undergraduate and graduate students within the public sector in the Washington, DC area and throughout the United States. Intern duties may include policy or scientific research, project coordination and management, business, law, communications, and more. Placements may be in rural or urban areas, such as Alaska, Delaware, and California. Applicants are asked to specify their placement preferences on the application, and those selected will be placed based on their interests and skills. These internships are open to ALL MAJORS. All interns are awarded a minimum $3000 stipend.
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Leadership Fellows Program 2024-2025 | Deadline: Mar 15, 2024
The Leadership Fellows Program aims to provide graduate and professional students leadership development opportunities through engaging with a diverse community of scholars. Each Fellow will develop and exercise leadership skills by creating a change-oriented project aimed at enhancing graduate student well-being.
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This will benefit students enrolled in any graduate program at MSU studying or doing research on water quality, especially as it relates to the Great Lakes and Lake Michigan in particular. Up to five awards will be issued each year provided suitable applicants can be identified. Recipients will be expected to attend an annual event for Fellows in the Fall semester.
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Future Academic Scholars in Teaching (FAST) Fellowship Program | Deadline, March 18, 2024
The primary goals of the FAST Fellowship Program are to provide opportunities for a diverse group of doctoral students to have mentored teaching experiences and gain familiarity with materials on teaching and assessment techniques.
The program is for doctoral students with interests in teaching, learning, and assessment in higher education who are enrolled in programs associated with the Colleges of Natural Science, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Engineering, Social Science, Nursing, Osteopathic Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine or whose college or department has an approved Certification in College Teaching Program.
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2024 Outstanding Mentoring Awards from the Graduate School | Deadline: April 15
Nominations for this year’s Graduate School Outstanding Mentoring Awards are now open. These awards recognize graduate programs, faculty, and doctoral students who exemplify mentoring best practices. Learn more about the various awards and how to nominate a person or program by following the link above.
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DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Awards | Deadline: May 1, 2024
The Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to conduct part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE national laboratory or facility in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist. The goal of the program is to prepare graduate students for scientific and technical careers critically important to the mission of DOE’s Office of Science.
Seminars, Workshops, and Other Events
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Climate change is the world’s biggest coordination problem, and countries need to work together to address it. The U.S. passed landmark climate legislation in 2022 with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). But the IRA, which emphasizes subsidies for clean energy production, sets the U.S. on a different path from many other countries, which are relying on carbon pricing. Dr. Catherine Wolfram, William F. Pounds Professor of Energy Economic, Professor of Applied Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management, will draw on her experience serving in the U.S Treasury at the beginning of the Biden Administration as well as her academic research to discuss several possible trajectories for U.S. policy and global climate cooperation. The seminar is hosted by the Department of Economics.
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The Society, Health, and Equity Research Group (SHER), Department of Sociology, invites you to the seminar 3:00 pm this Thursday, March 7, via Zoom by Dr. Manuel Vallee from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His talk is titled “Managing Uncomfortable Knowledge About Pesticides: New Zealand’s 2002-2004 Urban Pesticide Spraying Campaign” based on his latest book, Urban Aeriel Pesticide Spraying Campaigns: Government Disinformation, Industry Profits, and Public Harm. Use the zoom link https://msu.zoom.us/j/92441973041 with Passcode sher2324 for the seminar
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Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture: Maureen Cropper | 9:00 am, Mar 7, 2024 | Virtual
Dr. Cropper is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the board of directors at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has served as a lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department, chair of EPA’s Science Advisory Board Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, and chair of EPA’s Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis. In 2016-17 she co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Assessing Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon. Her lecture is entitled “Incorporating Air and Water Pollution into the National Income and Product Accounts”. A simple registration is needed to receive the Zoom link.
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PLB seminar series presents Alexandre Marand from University of Michigan who will discuss new efforts to chart chromatin accessibility variation within and across Zea mays at the level of individual cells as a source of phenotypic innovation. Join Zoom Meeting with meeting ID 931 2229 8084 and Passcode 800352.
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Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture: Kathleen Segerson | 9:00 am, Mar 14, 2024 | Virtual
Dr. Segerson is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on the incentive effects of alternative environmental and conservation policies, with applications to groundwater contamination, land use regulation, climate change, agricultural pollution, and protection of marine species. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, a fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and a fellow at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics in Stockholm. Her lecture is entitled “Designing effective environmental and conservation policies: The role of individual and collective incentives”. A simple registration is needed to receive the Zoom link.
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Rachel Carson Distinguished Lecture: Clarie L. Parkinson | 9:00 am, Mar 19, 2024 | Virtual
Dr. Parkinson is a leading climate scientist who has examined the Earth’s climate system through computer modeling and especially satellite remote sensing, with a particular emphasis on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. She has worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center since July 1978. Among her many prestigious honors and awards, Dr. Parkinson is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her lecture is entitled “From Environmental Progress to Climate Change Challenges”. A simple registration is needed to receive the Zoom link.
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How to decide between an academic and non-academic career | 12-12:30 pm, Every Wednesday in March
This series organized by Graduate Career Development at the Graduate School is uniquely designed for doctoral students, PhDs, and postdocs from all academic disciplines who are wondering:
- Is a faculty career path right for me?
- What other career options are available to PhDs in my discipline?
- How to identify career pathways that are right for me?
- What can I do with my PhD?
Click the event link above, log in to your account, and register to attend live or receive the replay.
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Michigan State University is proud to host the 12th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software June 23–27, 2024 in East Lansing on our beautiful campus. The conference will be held at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. Registration and abstract submission are open. Benefit from the Early Bird registration until April 5th! For more, visit https://conference.iemss.org.
Job and Training Opportunities
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The Gund Institute for Environment at University of Vermont is recruiting an exceptional postdoctoral researcher for the project titled “Starting with behavior’ to understand links between pro-environmental behavior, values, and identity.” We seek a creative, motivated postdoctoral fellow for a project that investigates interactions between pro-environmental behavior, identity, and values – with an approach that flips the standard research paradigm by ‘starting with behavior’. The study will explore, via a set of three experiments, whether taking action leads to changes in values and identity and begins a positive feedback loop. Specifically, we will measure whether participants who engage in easily identifiable pro-environmental behaviors exhibit subsequent changes in environmental identity, values, and engagement in other pro-environmental behaviors (i.e., behavioral “spillover”). Apply online at https://www.uvm.edu/gund/postdoctoral-fellowships