ICE Announcements 11.30.16
http://ice.uga.edu
1. UGA Sustainability Summit (12/6)
2. Interdisciplinary Course Opportunity
3. Opportunity: MLK Day Events
4. Opportunity: Critique and Creativity FLC (12/1)
5. Opportunity: a2ru Emerging Creatives Student Summit (deadline 12/9)
6. Opportunity: Integrative Research and Ideas Symposium (IRIS) (submit by 1/18/17)
7. Opportunity: ICE Project Grants
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1. UGA Sustainability Summit
Tuesday, December 6
Jackson Street Building
http://cicr.uga.edu/cicr-news/2016-sustainability-summit/
The first ever Sustainability Summit at UGA, a day-long event that combines the Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR) Sustainability Science Symposium with the Office of Sustainability's Semester in Review.
9 - 11 AM
Faculty and Graduate Student Workshops
Arts and Sustainability (full)
Mentoring Interdisciplinary Graduate Students
11 AM - 1 PM
Office of Sustainability Semester in Review
Semester in Review will provide an opportunity for engagement, collaboration, and a shared celebration of all the projects and initiatives that have taken place this semester to further sustainability. The celebration will include welcoming remarks, a half-hour presentation by Office of Sustainability Interns, an announcement of winners of the 2016 Sustainability Grant winners, poster presentations and table displays, and a light lunch.
1 - 4 PM
Sustainability Science Symposium: Meeting Georgia's Sustainability Challenges
"Navigating policy in a changing climate"
Laurie Fowler, Executive Director for Public Service and External Affairs and Director for Policy, River Basin Center, UGA Odum School of Ecology
"Whose Sustainable Future: Georgia's coastal geographies of race, class, and transformation"
Nik Heynen, Professor, Geography, UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Dean Hardy, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland College Park
"Sustainable Food Systems: Feeding the world without eating the world"
Liz Kramer, Public Service Associate and Director, Natural Resources Spatial Analysis Laboratory (NARSAL), Agricultural & Applied Economics, UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
"Expanding the role of the arts in Sustainability Science"
Mark Callahan, Artistic Director, Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art
"The messy business of urban stream restoration in Proctor Creek, Atlanta"
Kyle McKay, Assistant Professor and Researcher, UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, and Engineer, Research & Development Center, US Army Corp of Engineers
"Racing the rising tide on Tybee: Georgia's first sea level rise plan"
Jill Gambill, Coastal Community Resilience Specialist and Public Service Assistant, UGA Marine Extension Service
"Using forest products for bioenergy in Georgia"
Puneet Dwivedi, Assistant Professor, Sustainability Sciences, UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
"Regenerative agriculture using pasture-based livestock systems"
Dennis Hancock, Associate Professor and Forage Extension Specialist, Crop & Soil Sciences, UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
4 - 6 PM
Poster Session and Closing Reception
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2. Interdisciplinary Course Opportunity
ARST6915 Thematic Inquiry
MWF 10:10-12:05
Instructor: Michael Marshall
The theme of the course is Interdisciplinary Environmental Practicum, an interdisciplinary course including students from law, ecology, forestry, environmental design, and engineering as well as art. Students in the course will work collaboratively sharing discipline specific knowledge and practices to develop solutions for environmental problems identified by diverse stakeholders from all levels of government, conservation organizations and sometimes industry. The course will include a paddling trip on the Oconee River and an optional trip to the Georgia coast. Possible projects will include implementing a Nine-Element Watershed Management Plan for Trail Creek, protecting ecologically and culturally important land on St. Simons Island, developing wetland protection plans for ACC, Firefly Trail research/outreach and other river issues around the state. The class will meet on Wednesdays for cross-disciplinary lectures and workshops. Other days will be dedicated to collaborative and independent studio research.
Contact Michael Marshall ([log in to unmask]) if you have any questions about the course.
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3. MLK Day Events
Monday, January 16, 2017
http://aadmovement.org/athens-mlk-day-parade-and-urban-music-festival/
The Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement and United Group of Artists (UGA Live) will host the Inaugural Athens Urban Music Fest and MLK Day Parade downtown Athens. This event is designed to break racial barriers, stimulate culture and diversity, and celebrate justice and equality.
Performance groups, local organizations, businesses, non-political causes, volunteers, sponsors, and others are welcome to participate.
Following the MLK Day Parade, patrons will gather where the festivities will begin on Washington Street between Hull and Pulaski. There will be live performances, vendors, (Soul, Caribbean, Latin, Asian food), and family activities followed by the return of Athens In Harmony "The Second Go Round."
Martin Luther King Jr. stated, "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
Related event:
Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement Workshop Series: "Discrimination, Criminalization, and Poverty in the Deep South"
December 1 at 5:30 PM
Athens Regional Library System Central Library
2025 Baxter St.
Emily Rutledge Early is a staff attorney with the Economic Justice Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. She represents, and advocates on behalf of, people living in poverty in the Deep South to ensure they are not punished or exploited because of their economic status.
Linda Lloyd is the Executive Director of the Athens Economic Justice Coalition. She will update us on the Coalition's Living Wage Campaign. "Athens is a hotbed of impoverished workers who work full-time jobs and live below or near the poverty level. "
A Question and Answer Session and Open Forum will follow the presentation. The Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement Workshop Series is a monthly forum whose aim is to inform, unify our community, and break the cycle of discrimination.
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4. Opportunity: Critique and Creativity Faculty Learning Community
http://www.ctl.uga.edu/flc
Invitation to join a new Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Faculty Learning Community (FLC) focused on SoTL in design fields. This FLC will consider how creativity and critique are taught, assessed, and studied within design fields. Long-term goals include development of a tool that can be used in interdisciplinary SoTL studies. Members from different UGA colleges invited to join! Next meeting December 1st: Email [log in to unmask] for more information.
The Center for Teaching and Learning offers UGA faculty, post-doctoral scholars, and advanced graduate students the opportunity for cohort-based instructional development through its Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) program.
A Faculty Learning Community is a specifically structured community of practice that includes the key goals of building community, engaging in scholarly (evidenced-based) teaching, and the development of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Cox & Richlin, 2004). The CTL provides $500 to each FLC to support community activities. FLCs may have as few as five or as many as fifteen participants. Participants meet approximately once every three weeks during the academic year.
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5. 2017 a2ru Emerging Creatives Student Summit
WATER: New Directions Through Arts and Science
University of Florida, Gainesville
February 8-11, 2017
http://a2ru.org/events/2017-emerging-creatives-student-summit/
Open to all students of a2ru partners (UGA is an a2ru partner). Apply online now through Friday, December 9, 2016.
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) Emerging Creatives Student Summits bring together students who have an interest in the arts, crossing disciplinary boundaries, and developing collaborative projects. Each year, approximately 120 undergraduate and graduate students attend the summit from a2ru partner universities across the country, along with 20-30 administrators, faculty, and staff. These summits have a strong project-based component with activities such as panel discussions with special guests, keynote speakers, site visits or field trips, performances and exhibitions, networking opportunities, and "bootcamp" or skill-building experiences built in throughout.
This year's theme is WATER: New Directions Through Arts and Science. No community on this planet is without it's water-based challenges. Water-centric grand challenges are many, ranging from access and social justice issues in local and global contexts, to environmental degradation, to toxicological challenges, to saltwater incursion into freshwater, to sea level rise. Uniquely situated less than two hours from the Gulf Coast and from the Atlantic Ocean in an area known for its numerous freshwater springs, the University of Florida has great strength in local, regional, national, and international research and creative activity when it comes to these and other water-centric grand challenges.
This summit will feature panels and working group leadership from distinguished professor in the life sciences and the arts at the University of Florida, as well as leading artists and water scholars from around the country. Join us this coming February 8-11 to advance your own creative work or research through interdisciplinary collaboration with your peers at leading institutions across the U.S. Undergraduate and graduate students in any and all fields are welcome, particularly those that care about and have a deep interest in water. We especially encourage student research teams from biology, ecology, and related fields, as well as artists/designers, to apply.
There is no fee to attend this summit and a limited number of student travel grants are available.
Student Travel Grants
http://umichadmin.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9MpHiBDgWCcuqix
a2ru is pleased to announce our new Student Travel Grant Program, which is open to any undergraduate or graduate student of a partner institution, and would like to attend either the annual a2ru conference, the Emerging Creatives Student Summit, or any other a2ru event or workshop. a2ru Student Travel Grants of up to $250 will be awarded. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and only a limited number are available for each a2ru event. Awardees will be notified of grant decisions within two weeks of submission. Expedited grant reviews may be reviewed by request on a case-by-case basis. If you have questions about the grant, or the application process, please contact Deb Mexicotte, ArtsEngine Associate Director, at [log in to unmask]
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6. Integrative Research and Ideas Symposium (IRIS)
Monday, March 20, 2017
Tate Center
Call for submissions deadline January 18, 2017
http://graduatestudents.org/iris
The University of Georgia Graduate-Professional Student Association is pleased to announce the Integrative Research and Ideas Symposium (IRIS), a regional interdisciplinary research conference presented with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research in addition to private and corporate partners from throughout the country.
The goals of IRIS 2017 are to:
- Expose students and faculty to potential cross-disciplinary collaborators.
- Foster the development of integrative methods, skills and advancements.
- Expose students and faculty mentors to unique funding resources/opportunities.
- Give recognition to outstanding, innovative, impactful research.
- Provide a unique and highly interactive interdisciplinary environment in which to dialogue, learn, and form new connections - personal, professional, and intellectual.
IRIS accepts two types of submissions - (1) individual paper submissions and (2) session submissions. Graduate-level students, faculty, and professionals conducting work or research in STEM-related fields are highly encouraged to submit. Interdisciplinary research and ideas from all fields are welcomed.
Individual Paper Submissions: An individual paper submission is one paper/poster with one or more authors for presentation in a paper, poster, and/or roundtable session.
Session Submissions:A session submission is a fully planned workshop, panel, or symposium, and generally involves multiple presentations and/or participants. One individual ("organizer") submits on behalf of multiple individuals.
Submissions will be peer reviewed and assessed on the following criteria: (a) practical and/or theoretical significance in STEM disciplines; (b) innovation and originality; and (c) clarity of ideas. Guidelines can be found at graduatestudents.org/guidelines and the submission portal can be found at ugeorgia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cZ6eDzlpY3vriVD.
The deadline for submissions is January 18th, 2017 at 11:59PM. You will be notified of the approval status of your submission on or before February 1st. The Symposium program will be made available on or before February 22nd.
We are pleased to be able to offer early conference registration, with heavily subsidized ticket prices of $30 (standard) and $35 (standard + parking). We encourage you to register before early registration ends on February 22nd.
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7. ICE Project Grants
Invitation for Letter of Inquiry
(no deadline)
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia. ICE invites Letters of Inquiry from UGA faculty and students for innovative and collaborative projects. Selected inquiries will be invited to submit a full proposal and then be considered for an ICE Project Grant.
Projects should be consistent with the ICE mission:
ICE is a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary creative projects, advanced research and critical discourse in the arts, and for creative applications of technologies, concepts, and practices found across disciplines. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. ICE enables all stages of creative activity, from concept and team formation through production, documentation, and dissemination of research.
Letter of Inquiry should be no more 500 words and sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project.
- List of proposed participants (include titles and affiliations).
- Impact of project and potential for future development.
ICE Project Selection Criteria:
- Intellectual and artistic merit
- Degree of innovation
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility under sponsorship of ICE
- Potential for future funding and development
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Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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