 | PETRA for Regional Studies and Acquisitions See how PETRA is utilized is discovering new drilling or acquisition opportuinities using the mapping, calculations and data management functionality for well and production data |
 | The Profiles Series - Brody School of Medicine In 2003, the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics formed the Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center in response to the national and regional epidemic of childhood obesity that is threatening the health of our children. Regional studies in eastern North Carolina show about half of all children are at risk for overweight or are overweight in the region. Several studies have found almost twice as many children in eastern North Carolina are considered overweight (about 30%) compared to children nationally (17%). |
 | The State of the World - Highlights On Feb 13-14, 2004, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies held a wide-ranging conference on The State of the World to evaluate some of the most important global issues of our time. Speakers: Miguel A. Centeno/PIIRS, Charles S. Maier/Harvard University, Linda Weiss/University of Sydney, Ravi Kanbur/Cornell University, François Bourguignon/World Bank, Amy L. Chua/Yale Law School, Samantha Power/Harvard University, G. John Ikenberry/Georgetown University, Michael Mann/UCLA |
 | Millennium Schools Design Competition Reynolds fellow Illad Diaz (MPA/MC '08) hosts a gathering to announce the winners of the first Millennium Schools Design Competition at MIT. The event was co-sponsored by CPL, the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies at MIT, and Innodata Isogen, Inc. |
 | The Image Of The City This short film is an adaptation of the classic urban design tome - "The Image of the City" - by Associate Professor Kevin Lynch (1918-1984) of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
 | Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise How Should IPCC Handle Deep Uncertainty? Speaker: Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Location: Princeton University Date: Apr 1, 2008 Oppenheimer expands on the theme of uncertainty in the IPCC's projections of sea level rise and offered a critique of the IPCC process. Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is also Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School and Faculty Associate of the Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences Program, Princeton Environmental Institute, and the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. He joined the Princeton faculty after more than two decades with Environmental Defense, a non-governmental, environmental organization, where he served as chief scientist and manager of the Climate and Air Program. Oppenheimer was a lead author of the chapter on Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change and a co-author of the Summary for Policymakers and Technical Summary of the IPCC Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. He also contributed to Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. The "Inside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Science, Policy and Politics" lecture series is co-sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (WWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) |
 | Campus Safety in Focus: Keynote speech Speaker: Katherine S. Newman, Director, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University and Author, Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings Location: Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Date: Apr 18, 2008 Agenda: One year after the violence at Virginia Tech, the Policy Research Institute for the Region, the Princeton University Department of Public Safety and the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) will host a conference to explore the ongoing progress and continuing questions involved in securing university campuses. The day-long program will feature the release of IACLEA's Blueprint for Safer Campuses, as well as presentations by nationally recognized experts on the best practices and model policies in threat assessment, the growing complexities in liability analysis and the broader sociological phenomena behind incidents. In addition, campus public safety professionals from institutions in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania will offer their perspectives on campus safety in the region. |
 | 2.1.07 Hunter Morrison at Midtown Brews -1 Cleveland, Oh George Nemeth of Meet the Bloggers interviewed Hunter at Webtego offices in an event produced by I-Open. Hunter, Director of the Center for Urban & Regional Studies at Youngstown State, spoke candidly on the challenges NEOhio faces in planning a livable region. |
 | Naturally Central Florida - The Wekiva River Seven critical natural habitats in central Florida and the need to preserve them for future generations. In this episode: Bears and those who love and photograph them in the Florida wild. Plus, how a volunteer citizens group has changed the fate of one of central Florida's most important ecological treasures, the Wekiva River. |
 | HAMAS and the Two-State Solution: Part 1: Dr. Zuhur Part 1 of Middle East Policy Council's 52nd Capitol Hill Conference. Sherifa Zuhur; Research Professor of Islamic and Regional Studies, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. Full conference video and transcript available at http://www.mepc.org |
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