This is a webinar style event with Guest Speaker: David Miliband, President and Chief Executive Officer, International Rescue Committee.

Students are invited to bring their own lunch, listen to the discussion and comment and ask questions in real time.

Afterwards. Professor Andy Pugh, Interim Director of the Center for Disaster Management, will lead a Q&A with students.

The EU has devoted much attention to the issue of employment, especially to female employment. For example in 1997, The European Employment Strategy (EES) aimed to increase employment levels to evaluate the strategy’s results through an interpretation known as gender mainstreaming. In 2000, the Lisbon European Council set up quantitative parameters for female employment, such as a European average employment rate of over 60% to be achieved by 2010.

Russia Today is a one-credit (Pitt)/ three-unit (CMU) mini course, consisting of 14 hours of classes over a weekend, with a major paper assignment to be completed for credit. This course is created for undergraduate and graduate students. However, K-12 educators, business and community members are welcome to attend all or sections of the course for free. The course will open with two keynote lectures on Friday evening on an overview of the issues. This will be followed by instructional lectures on Saturday on the various themes by experts in the fields.

During September's K-12 Educator Advisory Board meeting the staff met with members to discuss the following: introductions (specifically Kathy as the new outreach coordinator), grant updates, 2015-2016 program highlights, collaborative partnerships (ESCAPE, Global Scholars), as well as program and assessment feedback (Model EU assessments, COTE framework).

The Global Studies Center invites you to join the discussion of the ongoing refugee crisis around the Mediterranean. Our guest experts will speak on the causes of displacement, the European response, and the refugee experience and will take your questions!

Dr. Sola Talabi is a Professor of Nuclear Physics and Risk Management at Carnegie Mellon University. He will discuss the role of advanced Technology in bridging Africa's power gap. Pizza will be proivided.

The presentation will focus on Human Security and Human Rights — Are these streams of work complementary or competitive?

Join AID Pitt and the Fossil Free Pitt Coalition for a discussion on the connection between climate change and the Syrian refugee crisis. We'll be discussing the latest developments in the refugee crisis in Europe as well as explore the drought that sent Syria into a civil war that's so far displaced more than 9 million and led to the deaths of more than 200,000. For more information and the reading list, please follow, https://www.facebook.com/events/610159095789606.

Come join Abraham Kim, Pitt's Peace Corps Campus Recruiter, for more information and help on applying to the Peace Corp.

For the ESC’s first installment of our monthly virtual roundtables series, we are asking a panel of experts to reflect upon some of the most significant differences between the US and European models of higher education. In particular, we will be looking at the question of who pays for students to go to University, and how much it costs both the individual and society. Our panel of experts will include: Dr.