Events

Fall 2009 Calendar

Date

Details
Friday, Sept 11, 2009
4:00 pm
Crowe Room
Fletcher School
Medford campus		 Weekly Meeting #1
Program Orientation
Richard Vogel, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Rusty Russell, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Tim Griffin, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy

Friday, Sept 18, 2009
4:00 pm
Crowe Room
Fletcher School
Medford campus

Weekly Meeting #2
Featured Program: Engineers Without Borders
Douglas Matson, Mechanical Engineering
Jack Melcher, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning

Friday, Sept 25, 2009
4:00 pm
Crowe Room
Fletcher School
Medford campus

Weekly Meeting #3
Featured Programs: Fletcher, Engineering, Arts & Sciences
Mieke van der Wansem and Georgia Kayser, Fletcher School
Shafiq Islam, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Kent Portney, Political Science

Friday, Oct 2, 2009
4:00 pm
118 Jaharis
Friedman School
Boston Campus

 Weekly Meeting #4
Featured Programs: Nutrition, Public Health
Tim Griffin and Jalal Elhayek, Friedman School
Jeff Griffiths, School of Medicine
Dan Maxwell, Feinstein Center

Friday, Oct 9, 2009
4:00 pm
Crowe Room
Fletcher School
Medford campus

Weekly Meeting #5
Featured Programs: CUAHSI, UEP, SEI
Rick Hooper, CUAHSI
Scott Horsley, UEP
Kendall Webster and Jack Melcher, Arts & Sciences
Xuan Gao, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Eric Kemp-Benedict, SEI

Friday, Oct 16, 2009
4:00 pm
Crowe Room
Fletcher School
Medford campus

Weekly Meeting #6
Featured Programs: Engineering, Arts & Sciences
Rich Vogel and John Durant, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Nathan Rawding, Arts & Sciences

Friday, Oct 23, 2009
Tufts Institute of the Environment
Miller Hall, rear basement
Medford campus

 Enrollment Forms due for new WSSS students
Submit to TIE/WSSS Program Manager Antje Danielson

Oct 19 - Dec 3, 2009
Dates and locations TBD by sub-group

Sub-Group Meetings
Track P
Track R
Symposium Planning

Friday, Dec 4, 2009
4:00 pm
Crowe Room
Fletcher School
Medford campus

Weekly Meeting #7
Progress Reports
Track P
Track R
Symposium Planning

Weekly Meetings
To support the development of an interdisciplinary WSSS research community, all WSSS students are expected to attend regular weekly meetings during their first two years of their graduate work at Tufts. After that, participation is optional but strongly encouraged. The initial weekly meetings – focusing on community-building experiences – will be held in September and early October on the Tufts Medford Campus. Thereafter, weekly meetings often will be held in smaller groups, focusing on specific interests and topics, with plenary meetings interspersed. Locations will be on both the Medford and Boston campuses.

Topics for the weekly meetings will be chosen from among the following activities (in no particular order):

(1) orientation of new WSSS students,
(2) fostering and maintaining participation of returning WSSS students,
(3) involvement of WSSS participating faculty, and other water colleagues
(4) planning of annual WSSS symposium,
(5) presentation of seminars by WSSS students, faculty, other water colleagues,
(6) planning for the annual WSSS Practicum
(7) coordination and planning of individual interdisciplinary WSSS research projects
(8) provide skills in leadership, public speaking, teaching, development of research proposals, project management and budgeting, and the ethical conduct of research.

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