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IDCE News & Views 2008
- IDCE's annual report News & Views 2008 has arrived. Please send IDCE News an email to update your contact information if you did not receive your copy.
Child Development Study
- The University of Massachusetts Medical School, in collaboration with Clark University and faculty at IDCE, is participating in a study on children from before they are born until their 21st birthdays to better understand the influence of genes and environment on health. Tim Downs, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, and Rob Goble, will be responsible for two key aspects: sampling of the environments children inhabit and mapping of sources of stress using GIS. They will also provide expertise on community-based participatory research which will engage participants more actively to improve understanding of child health issues and participant retention through the 21-year period. Read more about the project here.

National Urban Policy Initiatives Competition
- IDCE, GSOM, Community Development Training Institute (CDTI), Freddie Mac, the United States Conference of Mayors and the National Community Development Association are seeking the submission of proposals to an National Urban Policy Initiatives Competition. An award of $20,000 will be given to the winner of each category. The categories are affordable and sustainable housing; neighborhood based economic development and financial services to low income communities. There will also be an award of $2,500 given to the second place winners of each category.

aids2031
- As one of eight partners worldwide, Clark University, represented by IDCE and the George Perkins Marsh Institute, is collaborating in a new global consortium, aids2031. The initiative, currently under development, will reshape how people in the development and medical fields think about the next 25 years of AIDS. Read more about the project in ClarkNews.

Welcome New Class Entering Fall 2008
- IDCE is eagerly anticipating our new class! Congratulations on being admitted to the Fall 2008 Class. We look forward to meeting you and helping you adjust to graduate school here at Clark University.

News and Views (IDCE's annual report)

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Jennie Stephens has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant
- ES&P professor Jennie Stephens has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant from the Science and Society program to support collaborative research on Diffusion of Emerging Energy Technologies within a State Context, a collaboration among Clark University, the University of Minnesota and Texas A&M. Clark University will receive $133,294 over 3 years. This project examines the interconnected, state-level, socio-political influences on diffusion and deployment of emerging energy technologies with potential to contribute to an energy system transformation for climate change mitigation.

Ellen Foley has been awarded a Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts grant
- The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts announced it was awarding funding to “Bridging Barriers: Meeting Youth Immigrant and Refugee Health Needs in Worcester, MA,” a grant proposal by IDSC professor Ellen Foley. Approximately $60,000 was awarded to Clark University for its collaboration with the African Community Development Corporation, Fairbridge International, and the Southeast Asian Coalition Center to work with immigrant and refugee youth in Worcester who, because of cultural differences, are not comfortable with local youth service agencies. This project will begin with primary research that will form solutions in creating after-school programs to better suit the needs of the young population of refugees and immigrants in Worcester public schools.

The National Science Foundation awards Clark faculty $1.5 million grant for research
- The National Science Foundation has announced that it recommends that the research proposal Suburbanization, Water-Use, Nitrogen Cycling & Eutrophication in the 21st Century: Interactions, Feedbacks & Uncertainties in a Massachusetts Coastal Zone, with Principle Investigator Colin Polsky and Co-Principle Investigator R. Gilmore Pontius, Jr. be funded for 54 months at $1,442,930 and a $20,000 supplement to their NSF LTER linked activities. The Clark project will work with Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. and the University of New Hampshire. The project will fund both undergraduate and graduate students through the HERO program.
Laurie Ross Awarded a Learn and Serve Fellowship
- Laurie Ross was recently awarded a 2007-2009 Learn & Serve America - Faculty Fellowship for Youth grant from Rhode Island Campus Compact and Massachusetts Campus Compact to support her development and growth as a leader and campus organizer around issues of youth development in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Ross' proposal will allow her to continue her work with the HOPE Coalition as well as expand the issues of youth mental health to faculty and students on the Clark campus and in the surrounding community of Worcester.

Students Win Melder and IDCE Travel Awards
- Congratulations to 2008’s Melder Award recipients: Alexis Close, Erica Richmond, Joel Masselink, and Naomi Sulley. Congratulations also to 2008’s IDCE Travel Award recipients: Allison Petrozzillo, Allison Towle, Jennifer Boyle, and Shrikant Mohanta.


	Alicia Simonti (GISDE/MA ’08)
GISDE Student Wins AAG Award IDCE is proud to count many winners among our students at the Association of American Geographers student paper competition. In the Illustrated Paper category, Alicia Simonti (GISDE/MA ’08) took First Place for her project Image Time Series Analysis of SeaWIFS Ocean Color Product for the Investigation of Ocean Chlorophyll Dynamics. Classmate Oh Seok Kim (GISDE/MA ’08) took Second Place for his Contribution of GIScience to Carbon Credit Estimation.