Calendar of Events

After 5 years, CSPC is returning to Toronto to host an expanded, diversified and richer science policy conference. The conference offers a unique platform for diverse groups of stakeholders to connect at the national level, to exchange ideas on key issues in science, technology and innovation policy, and to craft a future based on strong, dynamic, and innovative policy-making for the benefit of all Canadians. Under the title of "ScienceNext: Incubating Innovation and Ingenuity", the conference will provide a unique opportunity to facilitate discussion among diverse groups of science policy stakeholders.

Jeffrey Michael, EdD, is Associate Administrator for Research and Program Development at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration with responsibility for the development of programs to increase seat belt use, decrease impaired driving, and improve the safety of motorcyclists, bicyclists, pedestrians and older drivers. Previously he served as Director of the Impaired Driving and Occupant Protection Office, with responsibility for developing and promoting programs to reduce alcohol and drug-impaired driving and increase the use of safety belts and child safety seats.

Office of the Provost of the University of Michigan, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Department of Political Science and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems invite you to participate in a conference on Evolution of Cooperation and The Framing of Peace: A Conference in Honor of Robert Axelrod.

Office of the Provost of the University of Michigan, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Department of Political Science and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems invite you to participate in a conference on Evolution of Cooperation and The Framing of Peace: A Conference in Honor of Robert Axelrod.

The collaborate! initiative at the North Campus Research Complex is sponsoring a one day workshop on May 13, 2013 focusing on collaborative research in the academic environment. Consisting of speakers, interactive working sessions, and networking opportunities, this workshop explores the critical role of interdisciplinary collaboration and team science in a successful research career.

If you are an international student who is interested in seeking policy related jobs in the U.S. but is discouraged by all the restrictions regarding citizenship, InSPIRE invites you to join us in the seminar with Ms. Athena Trentin, Director of the Global Talent Retention Initiative of Michigan a (GTRI) and Gerald R. Ford School alumni.

Joan Fujimura
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD Director, Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions; William C. and Nancy R. Richardson Professor in Health Policy. Dr. LaVeist seeks to develop an orienting framework in the development of policy and interventions to address race disparities in health-related outcomes. Specific areas of expertise include: U.S. health and social policy, the role of race in health research, social factors contributing to mortality, longevity and life expectancy, quantitative and demographic analysis and access, and utilization of health services.

Chris Coward is the co-founder, Principal Research Scientist, and Director of the Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington Information School. Under his leadership, TASCHA has grown in size and scope over the last decade, encompassing research in 50 countries.

The World Health Organization has declared depression to be a pandemic that will be a major cause of morbidity in the 21st century. Although depression was virtually un-diagnosed (and therefore unknown) in China before the 1990s, physicians of Chinese medicine now claim that they can use centuries-old traditions to successfully treat it. They base their claims on a presumed equivalence between the Chinese medical concept of yu ("constraint") and the biomedical concept of depression. This talk examines the historical processes that allowed doctors to equate yu and depression, and it examines what this convergence reveals about Chinese medicine, psychiatry, and constructions of gender.

Charles Corbett examines how diffusion of ecolabels depends on their stringency, their governance, and the way they are portrayed in the media, using data on 41 labels from 67 experts and 3043 media articles.

Co-authored by: Pavel Castka and Charles J. Corbett

This event is sponsored by the ERB Institute

Julia Lynch, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania

Becca Levy, Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Psychology, Yale University

SI doctoral student Trond Jacobsen will use the ideas, writings,initiatives and legacies of American Vannevar Bush and Irishman John Desmond Bernal as a platform for his arguments about the choices facing the iSchool movement in five critical areas: (1) what is the role of science in society?; (2) how should science be organized?; (3) what role do scholarly communications play in science and how could they be improved?; (4) is science for war or for peace?; and (5) how should society be organized?"

STS Distinguished Speaker 2012, Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute / University of Chicago

Sarah Burgard, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Department of Epidemiology
Research Associate Professor
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan

Steven Herman is a Principal in Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.'s Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Herman's practice focuses on the areas of environmental enforcement and compliance. He has counseled and represented major corporate clients trying to avoid adverse enforcement actions by federal and/or state government agencies, and clients who have become the subject of such actions. He also advises clients on strategies for engaging federal and state governmental agencies on environmental and other significant issues.

Join the Ford School community for hors d'oeuvres and refreshments as we celebrate the insightful policy work of our talented students. You're sure to learn something new.

"Autism Speaks Back: Neurodiversity and Disability Studies" explores autistic culture and cutting-edge scholarship in an informal roundtable-style conversation. Panelists will respond to big questions about what neurodiversity means, what autistic people want for themselves, new research on autism, and how popular assumptions about autism may be wrong. We invite audience participation in person, via Twitter, and through note cards. Accessibility features include real-time captioning, a quiet retreat room, interaction badges, and a snack break.

Richard Steckel, Professor, Economics & Anthropology, Ohio State University

Cortney A. Robinson joined AIA\'s Civil Aviation Division as the Director of Civil Aviation Infrastructure in August 2010. Mr. Robinson is responsible for AIA\'s activities on civil aviation issues and policy, specifically the areas of air traffic management, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), spectrum allocation for aeronautical communications, and overall NextGen planning and implementation.

Kosali Simon, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Indiana University

Jody Freeman, the Archibald Cox Professor of Law, is a leading scholar of administrative and environmental law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program.

The University of Michigan community is invited to participate in an important conversation about hydraulic fracturing in the State of Michigan, with a key opportunity to do so via the Internet on March 5, 2013.

Mark A. Peterson, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Public Policy and Political Science
Luskin School of Public Affairs
Department of Law
School of Law
University of California Los Angeles

Michael S. Lubell (CCNY, Director of Public Affairs; American Physical Society) is the speaker for this colloquium.