The Boston 2024 Pre-NCSS Outreach Conference, held on November 21, 2024, at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, brought together Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) outreach professionals to exchange ideas, challenges, and strategies for improving community engagement beyond K-12 education. The Center for African Studies at the University of Pittsburgh participated, contributing to discussions on outreach innovation, measuring program impact, and preparing for future NRC collaborations.

Book launch and panel discussion. To register, visit https://shale_book_launch.eventbrite.com.

Panelists:
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, University of Pittsburgh, GSPIA

Reid Frazier
Allegheny Front, StateImpact Pennsylvania, Trump on Earth podcast

Amy Sisk
StateImpact Pennsylvania, 90.5 FM WESA

Niels Malskaer is a Commercial Advisor at the Embassy of Denmark in Washington, D.C., focused on District Energy and Combined Heat and Power, with years of experience in global energy strategy. For the last few years, Niels has been sharing Danish energy experiences with public and private actors across the U.S., through government and commercial activities. He has worked at numerous international organisations, based in Europe as well as the U.S., mainly focused on energy policy analysis, and translating energy planning experiences across the Atlantic.

Students will meet with experts and alumni in various fields in order to learn about different careers and gain an insider's perspective on the different organizations. Students will participate in one of the four tracks:
* Global Health and Development
* Diplomacy and Security
* International Development and Education
* Human Rights and Refugees

Welcome to EPIC

The Electric Power Industry Conference at the Swanson School of Engineering continues to lead the way in exploring energy production and delivery potential.

For a full conference schedule, registration, and additional details, visit http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/Sub-Sites/Conferences/EPIC/_Content/Home....

Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director of the United Nationals Development Program, "Shining a Light on Decision-Making in Public Institutions: Reflections on SDG Data to Fuel Women's Empowerment in the Public Service" followed by a declaration of the goals of the workshops by Dr. Müge Finkel (Global Studies Center 2017-18 Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor, GSPIA), Dr. Melanie Hughes, (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh) and the United Nations Development Program's Pelle Lütken.

Save the date for the EU Development Symposium, to be held on the afternoon of Monday, December 5th!

Primary Guest:
Renate Hahlen, the Minister Counselor of Development at the Delegation of the European Union to the US

To be accompanied on the following panels by:

EU Development Policy & Latin America and the Caribbean
Scott Morgenstern, Director Center for Latin American Studies, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

This presentation will examine Latino voter registration rates and voting rates in the presidential elections from 1992 through 2012 with projections to 2016. Latinos have had the lowest voter registration rates in the nation at 58% of all eligible voters, compared with about 73% among Non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks; and the lowest overall participation rate at 48% of all eligible voters compared with about 67% among Non-Hispanic Whites and Blacks. Potential Latino political influence has been mitigated by these low rates.

CLAS would like to welcome all of our faculty, graduate, undergraduate students, community members, UCIS Colleagues and CLAS friends.

CLAS STUDENT FELLOWS AND INTERNS

CLAS Student Ambassadors
Caileigh Carei, Poltical Science
Jordan Kurzum, Spanish/Chemistry
Melisa-Marie Nelson , Spanish

Political leadership has been conceived thus far mostly based on achievement. Consequently “transformational” presidents have been usually considered as the only true leaders. In recent years, this view has been criticized for overestimating the importance of achievement, as in reality it is contingent on context. This talk will discuss some ways of developing leadership as a dependent variable considering both achievement and restrictions as well as of developing strategic action as a key independent variable, over factors such as “vision,” charisma, juncture or institutions.