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The Public Health Undergraduate Scholars Program (PHUSP) is an eight-week residential program at the University of Pittsburgh designed to encourage college students to consider careers in public health. The program focuses on health equity, maternal and child health, environmental justice, and climate and health.  PHUSP offers internship placements, classroom instruction, group activities and mentorship to provide students with opportunities for growth, education and awareness of the role public health professionals play in supporting safe and healthy communities. The program's goal is to advance health equity by increasing public health workforce diversity.  Program dates for summer 2024 are June 10 to August 2, 2024. PHUSP scholars will participate in classroom-based and experiential learning opportunities at the University of Pittsburgh and in public health settings throughout the city. Scholars will also participate in a 2.5-day research poster showcase at the U.S....

Description The Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) is seeking an experienced campaigner and organizer to join our team. The campaign coordinator works with members and staff in the WORC network to plan and execute focused and effective regional and national campaigns focused on addressing impacts of oil and gas development on communities and the environment.  WORC’s Campaign Coordinators work at the intersection of policy, community organizing and advocacy. They work with our members to develop campaign strategies that advance our network’s priorities, center our members’ voices and experience, and build our collective power to win. The Campaign Coordinators are the bridge between our network’s state-based member groups and our national partners and coalitions.  The ideal candidate for this position has a demonstrated ability to build strong relationships, support and develop member leaders, use grassroots organizing to build community power, analyze...

As a new position for the IRC, the IRM&M Library and Repository Manager will assist the Director with tasks related to development and managerial operation of the IRC IRM&M Library and Repository. Overall, the IRC, as an NSF grant funded program, has three core objectives to explore, share, and build institutional capacities related to advancement of Indigenous Research Methodologies & Methods in Geoscience and STEM-related disciplines. IRM&M philosophically, conceptually, and as applied engage trans-disciplinary and multi-methods through culturally sensitive and collaborative approaches and practices. The IRM&M Library and Repository is developed as a collaboration with the Salish Kootenai D’Arcy McNickle Library to house and make available materials both physically and digitally online, and through occasional in-person and online instructional modules, with the goal of providing foundational knowledge and application opportunities associated with Indigenous...

Description The Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) is seeking an experienced community organizer to join our Leadership and Capacity Program Team. The ideal candidate for this position has a demonstrated ability to build strong relationships, develop local leaders, use grassroots organizing to build community power, understand issues impacting rural communities, and excellent communication skills. The Leadership and Capacity Program Coordinator position works to ensure the success of WORC’s member groups by designing and facilitating high quality trainings and workshops for members, leaders and staff within the network in addition to providing timely, targeted and effective consulting services and capacity building assistance to the WORC member groups.  We are looking for someone who has a solid foundation in community organizing, is passionate about developing the leadership of others, and is committed to building broad-based regional power in the West. The...

POSITION: Engagement and Communication Research Fellow DEPARTMENT: Haskell Foundation STATUS: Full Time (2 years; NSF grant funded) NUMBER OF POSITIONS: One  REPORTS TO: Executive Director  PAY RANGE: $61,800 annually, plus health benefits DEADLINE TO APPLY: December 30, 2023 JOB SUMMARY: The Haskell Foundation, which supports Haskell Indian Nations University, is the fiscal-sponsor for the Rising Voices Changing Coasts: The National Indigenous and Earth Sciences Convergence Hub , a large-scale, 5-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The RVCC-Hub at Haskell provides a space for the convergence of disciplines and epistemologies where Indigenous and local knowledge-holders from diverse coastal regions in Alaska (Arctic), Louisiana (Gulf of Mexico), Hawai‘i (Pacific Islands), and Puerto Rico (Caribbean Islands) will work with university-trained social, ecosystem,...

POSITION: Postdoctoral Researcher focused on educational development DEPARTMENT: Haskell Foundation STATUS: Full Time (2 years; NSF grant funded) NUMBER OF POSITIONS: One  REPORTS TO: Executive Director  PAY RANGE: $61,800 annually, plus health benefits DEADLINE TO APPLY: December 30, 2023 JOB SUMMARY: The Haskell Foundation, which supports Haskell Indian Nations University, is the fiscal-sponsor for the Rising Voices Changing Coasts: The National Indigenous and Earth Sciences Convergence Hub , a large-scale, 5-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Haskell Foundation is looking for a recent Ph.D graduate to join our growing team! You’ll have a unique opportunity to play a crucial role in the development of convergence science research on one of the most pressing issues on the planet today—climate change and its impacts on coastal Indigenous Peoples. You’ll work...

One-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetics The Bill and Carl Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Emory University The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University is accepting applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetics for 2024-2025. The theme for the year will be Democracy: Past, Present, Future. Funded by a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fellowship highlights the importance of the ongoing critical, theoretical, and creative engagements with poetry across Emory University, as well as marking the emergence of the Robert W. Woodruff Library’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library as a major center for research in poetry. The Center invites applications from candidates who are eager to be part of a community of scholars engaged in a broad range of conversations in an interdisciplinary setting. The Fellowship funds an academic year of study, teaching, and academic residence at the...

One-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Emory University The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry of Emory University is accepting applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2024-2025 on the theme of "Democracy:  Past, Present, Future."  The Fellowship is for 10 months (August 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025), and carries a stipend of $55,000, a research fund of $2000, and eligibility for a wide range of competitive benefits.  The Center invites applications from candidates who are eager to be part of a community of scholars engaged in a broad range of conversations in an interdisciplinary setting.  The Fellowship funds an academic year of study, teaching, and academic residence at the Center.  The deadline for submission of completed applications is January 31, 2024.  Announcements of awards will begin in mid-April.  More information and application instructions are available from the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at...

The Humanities Policy Fellowship provides an opportunity for recent PhDs with training in the humanities or humanistic social sciences to learn about a career in public policy and administration.   While in residence, the Humanities Policy Fellow serves as a full-time member of the staff, contributing to ongoing Academy projects in the   Humanities, Arts, and Culture   program area . Work for the fellow will include data analysis and interpretation for the   Humanities Indicators . which tracks and reports information about the health of the field, as well as development of new activities, including a forthcoming project on cultural institutions and their communities. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest,...

The Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is recruiting postdoctoral trainees for its NICHD-funded Postdoctoral Training Program in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) Research. Appointments will be for 2 years beginning in the summer of 2024. The program provides multidisciplinary training with an emphasis on social-affective processes, communication, family processes, epidemiology, genetics, and biobehavioral research on IDD. Faculty use sophisticated statistical approaches, longitudinal research methods, brain imaging methods, GWAS, social genomics, and psychobiology, among other approaches to data collection and analysis as applied to intellectual and developmental disability.   Postdoctoral stipends are determined by NIH, based on years of relevant experience beyond the doctoral degree: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-23-076.html .     NIH also provides funds for tuition, travel, and research supplies....