Thursday, April 14, 2016 12:00 - 2:00 at RPI, Interview with Director, New York & Federal Policy, www.tstc.org Nadine joined TSTC in March 2010 as the organization's first Albany-based staffer. She is working to advance sustainable transportation policies at the state and federal level to ensure safer streets, better transit service, and improved infrastructure funding. Since 2001, Nadine has been involved in politics and land use advocacy in New York's Hudson Valley. As a two-term elected official in Gardiner, N.Y., Nadine worked to pass and implement smart growth zoning laws and she was the project manager for a $1.6 million federally-funded sidewalk improvement project. As a member of the Region 8 MPO, Ulster County Transportation Council, Nadine helped to oversee all federally funded transportation projects in the county, including ARRA-funded projects. Prior to getting involved in local politics, Nadine was an adjunct professor at City College in NYC and the Founder and Executive Director of The Gunk Foundation, an operating foundation which specialized in supporting and promoting public art projects internationally. Nadine received a B.A. in Economics from Duke University, an M.F.A. in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, and a Ph.D in Sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center
Monday, April 4, 2016
Allen Belenz , with the Environmental Bureau of the New York Attorney General's Office, presents in TIg Howard's class, Environment and Law. Also Michael Myers (AAG -- lawyer) with show titled "Climate Change Litigation: The Clean Power Plan and Beyond."
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
KF learns about Soloman Harris' (anthropologist at Duke) new project on road and rail injuries, and traffic as an embodied part of urban life in India. See this short description.
Monday, March 14, 2016
KF has preliminary exchange with Soraya Boudia at Université Paris Descartes about adding Paris in the 6Cities+ project.
March 10, 2016
RPI group meets Colombian researchers to present the 6 cities research. The researchers along with RH are writing a grant proposal to extend the project to Colombia's capital city, Bogota.
March 3, 2016
KF and RH met with Alissa Zomer, project manager of the Environmental Performance Index at Yale University. The meeting was organized by RH, who interviewed on 2015 EPI's director, Angel Hsu.
March 1, 2016
TAF receives award from the Azim Premji Research Grants Program (India) to add four cities to the 6+ Cities project: New Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
- RPI group hosts a discussion with David Sadoway at Nanyang University (Singapore), who has studied uses of social media in environmental activism in cities across Asia.
- RPI group hosts a short talk with Matteo Tarantino of the (Confucius Institute, University of Geneva), about his research on China's environmental governance and the air pollution map of Beijing's Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE).
February 11, 2016
Mike Fortun, Sam Elrahman, Maria Michails, Alli Morgan, Georgia Hartman and Rodolfo Hernandez interviewed NYSERDA's
Environmental Research team led by Mark Watson.
October 6-11, 2015
KF + AM are in Houston to do interviews (with Juan Perras, ....), and to meet with Dan and Erica.
April 2, 2015 Ali Kenner presented at the “MetaData in the Metropolis” Workshop, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
Summer 2011
RPI PhD student Brandon Costelloe Kuehn and Oxford PhD student Nicholas Shapiro collaborate on a visualization project titled “Networking Asthmatic Spaces: Collaborative Cartographies of the American FEMA Trailer Diaspora.” See news of the project.
Spring 2010
The undergraduate course Asthmatic Spaces: Houston/New York runs at the University of Houston (taught by philosopher Dan Price) and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (taught by cultural anthropologist Kim Fortun). See news on the UH course, and on the RPI course.
12:00 - 2:00 at RPI, Interview with Director, New York & Federal Policy, www.tstc.org Nadine joined TSTC in March 2010 as the organization's first Albany-based staffer. She is working to advance sustainable transportation policies at the state and federal level to ensure safer streets, better transit service, and improved infrastructure funding. Since 2001, Nadine has been involved in politics and land use advocacy in New York's Hudson Valley. As a two-term elected official in Gardiner, N.Y., Nadine worked to pass and implement smart growth zoning laws and she was the project manager for a $1.6 million federally-funded sidewalk improvement project. As a member of the Region 8 MPO, Ulster County Transportation Council, Nadine helped to oversee all federally funded transportation projects in the county, including ARRA-funded projects. Prior to getting involved in local politics, Nadine was an adjunct professor at City College in NYC and the Founder and Executive Director of The Gunk Foundation, an operating foundation which specialized in supporting and promoting public art projects internationally. Nadine received a B.A. in Economics from Duke University, an M.F.A. in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, and a Ph.D in Sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center
Monday, April 4, 2016
Allen Belenz , with the Environmental Bureau of the New York Attorney General's Office, presents in TIg Howard's class, Environment and Law. Also Michael Myers (AAG -- lawyer) with show titled "Climate Change Litigation: The Clean Power Plan and Beyond."
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
KF learns about Soloman Harris' (anthropologist at Duke) new project on road and rail injuries, and traffic as an embodied part of urban life in India. See this short description.
Monday, March 14, 2016
KF has preliminary exchange with Soraya Boudia at Université Paris Descartes about adding Paris in the 6Cities+ project.
Monday, March 7, 2016
RPI group interviews Peter Iwanowicz, Executive Director, Environmental Advocates of New York.
March 10, 2016
RPI group meets Colombian researchers to present the 6 cities research. The researchers along with RH are writing a grant proposal to extend the project to Colombia's capital city, Bogota.
March 3, 2016
KF and RH met with Alissa Zomer, project manager of the Environmental Performance Index at Yale University. The meeting was organized by RH, who interviewed on 2015 EPI's director, Angel Hsu.
March 1, 2016
TAF receives award from the Azim Premji Research Grants Program (India) to add four cities to the 6+ Cities project: New Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
- RPI group hosts a discussion with David Sadoway at Nanyang University (Singapore), who has studied uses of social media in environmental activism in cities across Asia.
- RPI group hosts a short talk with Matteo Tarantino of the (Confucius Institute, University of Geneva), about his research on China's environmental governance and the air pollution map of Beijing's Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE).
February 11, 2016
Mike Fortun, Sam Elrahman, Maria Michails, Alli Morgan, Georgia Hartman and Rodolfo Hernandez interviewed NYSERDA's
Environmental Research team led by Mark Watson.
October 6-11, 2015
KF + AM are in Houston to do interviews (with Juan Perras, ....), and to meet with Dan and Erica.
April 22, 2015
Mike Fortun, Lindsay Poirier, Dominic DiFranzo present at Drexel's "Building Digital Infrastructures, Empowering Citizen Science" workshop; the workshop was organized by Ali Kenner.
April 2, 2015
Ali Kenner presented at the “MetaData in the Metropolis” Workshop, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.
Summer 2011
RPI PhD student Brandon Costelloe Kuehn and Oxford PhD student Nicholas Shapiro collaborate on a visualization project titled “Networking Asthmatic Spaces: Collaborative Cartographies of the American FEMA Trailer Diaspora.” See news of the project.
Alison Kenner completes Breathtaking: Contemporary Figures of U.S. Asthma Care PhD dissertation, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Mike Fortun, chair).
Spring 2010
The undergraduate course Asthmatic Spaces: Houston/New York runs at the University of Houston (taught by philosopher Dan Price) and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (taught by cultural anthropologist Kim Fortun). See news on the UH course, and on the RPI course.