An old Vanderbilt friend has been teaching in India, he sent this plea regarding some charity work.
"Over Christmas break, Ryan spent three weeks in a small village in India- Kothasatram. Here, they have no clean water (they drink whatever water they can get out of coconut juice, own two articles of clothing that they wear every day, and are homeless. Partnered with the Association of Relief Volunteers (ARV) in India, Ryan is trying to rewrite these children’s fate by launching the “Child Feeding Center.”
Read more here
Ryan's email is rc_paugh[AT]yahoo.com
Showing posts with label Volunteer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Volunteer. Show all posts
Monday, February 12, 2007
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Lincoln Park Alderman Challenger
The Michele Smith for 43rd Alderman Campaign is recruiting interns for the upcoming February 27 City of Chicago Municipal election. Learn how campaigns work from the inside by working in any of our fundraising, field, research, and communications operations. To learn more, please visit www.michelesmith.org contact the campaign at 312-643-1511 or e-mail michele4alderman@gmail.com Interns can receive credit if offered by the university. Flexible hours.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Mayor Daley Visit
From Email:
The Mayor is coming to speak January 29th, 2007 (Monday) in the East Terrace near the Inner Circle in Student Center East (SCE) between 12-115. Doors to event will be open from 12-1215. This event is sponsored by the Student Trustee and USG.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Volunteer Opt
Please Volunteer at the Annual ISA meeting, I will give some extra credit for attendance of a panel:
As you know, ISA will be holding it's 48th Annual Convention in Chicago February 28th through March 3rd, 2007. Every year we have volunteers from local universities assist us. I am writing to ask if you would be willing to let your students know that
we are in need of volunteers.
In exchange for about 4 hours of work, volunteers will be able to attend the convention free of charge. The preliminary program can be viewed here: http://www.isanet.org/chicago2007/. Panel topics span the gamut, and respected scholars from 50+ countries will be presenting their cutting edge research. Volunteer times are flexible and volunteers usually assist us with handing out name-badges or unpacking programs.
They can contact me directly (via email or phone) and I will give them the details, at which time they can decide if they would like to volunteer.
Lyn Brabant
ema@email.arizona.edu
As you know, ISA will be holding it's 48th Annual Convention in Chicago February 28th through March 3rd, 2007. Every year we have volunteers from local universities assist us. I am writing to ask if you would be willing to let your students know that
we are in need of volunteers.
In exchange for about 4 hours of work, volunteers will be able to attend the convention free of charge. The preliminary program can be viewed here: http://www.isanet.org/chicago2007/. Panel topics span the gamut, and respected scholars from 50+ countries will be presenting their cutting edge research. Volunteer times are flexible and volunteers usually assist us with handing out name-badges or unpacking programs.
They can contact me directly (via email or phone) and I will give them the details, at which time they can decide if they would like to volunteer.
Lyn Brabant
ema@email.arizona.edu
Independent Study
I am still taking students for independent study. I am gathering a group to study the dynamics of immigration. Let me know if you are interested.
Project Summary
This project will collect data for a dyadic global immigration dataset that will cover all countries (nation-states) in the world from 1950 until 2005. The goal of this research is to account for and collect data regarding global immigration trends since 1950. Immigration is a “hot topic” throughout the world; the problem is that the issue has not been studied in a systematic way. No researcher has collected data as to the levels and trends of immigration for the entire world, instead all focus on individual countries and short time periods. It is hoped that with this new dataset researchers will be able to systematically answer questions regarding the causes and consequences of immigration patterns in the modern interstate era.
Dyadic inflows and outflows of peoples for every country in the world will be collected from the years 1950 to 2005. We will begin with 1950 since this represents the stabilization of the international system after World War II. Future research would extend the dataset back till 1815, but we must first focus on the modern era. The data will be extended as far into the present day as possible.
Collection of data is a very labor-intensive project. This is probably why there is currently no dataset in existence to cover this issue. Each person collecting data needs to check sources by hand to find inflow and outflow data for individual countries. This information is usually not located on the internet and must be obtained by archival research. Another particular problem is authorized versus unauthorized immigration. Unauthorized immigration includes refugee flows and illegal immigration. Authorized immigration includes work based and family based immigration, as well as accepted refugee inflows. Both unauthorized and authorized data will be collected, but I anticipate unauthorized immigration data will be the most incomplete variable in the study, therefore the focus will be on authorized immigration flows.
Each researcher assisting on the project will take five countries and code dyadically all interactions for their country in an excel file. Undergraduates are suitable for the project in that it does not require any advanced skills (besides possible language abilities). The main requirement is the ability to hunt for data in the archives. I am confident the data is out there, it just has to be found by researchers.
Project Summary
This project will collect data for a dyadic global immigration dataset that will cover all countries (nation-states) in the world from 1950 until 2005. The goal of this research is to account for and collect data regarding global immigration trends since 1950. Immigration is a “hot topic” throughout the world; the problem is that the issue has not been studied in a systematic way. No researcher has collected data as to the levels and trends of immigration for the entire world, instead all focus on individual countries and short time periods. It is hoped that with this new dataset researchers will be able to systematically answer questions regarding the causes and consequences of immigration patterns in the modern interstate era.
Dyadic inflows and outflows of peoples for every country in the world will be collected from the years 1950 to 2005. We will begin with 1950 since this represents the stabilization of the international system after World War II. Future research would extend the dataset back till 1815, but we must first focus on the modern era. The data will be extended as far into the present day as possible.
Collection of data is a very labor-intensive project. This is probably why there is currently no dataset in existence to cover this issue. Each person collecting data needs to check sources by hand to find inflow and outflow data for individual countries. This information is usually not located on the internet and must be obtained by archival research. Another particular problem is authorized versus unauthorized immigration. Unauthorized immigration includes refugee flows and illegal immigration. Authorized immigration includes work based and family based immigration, as well as accepted refugee inflows. Both unauthorized and authorized data will be collected, but I anticipate unauthorized immigration data will be the most incomplete variable in the study, therefore the focus will be on authorized immigration flows.
Each researcher assisting on the project will take five countries and code dyadically all interactions for their country in an excel file. Undergraduates are suitable for the project in that it does not require any advanced skills (besides possible language abilities). The main requirement is the ability to hunt for data in the archives. I am confident the data is out there, it just has to be found by researchers.
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