Thursday, January 16, 2014

Training opportunity: RAND Corp. Community Resilience. January 23, 2014. Santa Monica, CA

RAND Corporation


Date:

Community Resilience




January 23, 2014
Time:
6:00 p.m. – Registration
6:30 p.m. – Program
Location:
RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street
Santa Monica, CA

Program

The 20th anniversary of the 1994 Northridge earthquake in January will bring fresh memories of a local natural disaster, while November's Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines still hits home for many Filipinos living in Los Angeles. These events remind us that it's important to build community resilience for the sake of long-term recovery, but how do we make resilience happen? Anita Chandra will distill the extensive body of research on resilience-building into simple steps that communities and organizations can take to help strengthen themselves against all kinds of disasters.

Featured Speaker

Anita Chandra
Director, Behavioral and Policy Sciences Department, RAND Corporation

Register for This Program

Register online by January 20. Reserved seating is available for members of the RAND Policy Circle. If you are not currently a Policy Circle member, visit Support RAND to learn more about the benefits of membership.

About RAND

The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND focuses on the issues that matter most such as health, education, national security, international affairs, law and business, the environment, and more. With a research staff consisting of some of the world's preeminent minds, RAND has been expanding the boundaries of human knowledge for more than 60 years.

Further Inquiries

Contact events@rand.org.

2014 Summer Programs for Students. Summer Language Programs

As students begin to make summer plans, be sure to share with them the following website that lists African language programs being offered in the US and abroad in Summer 2014. This list includes the Fulbright-Hays GPA Intensive Advanced Language programs in Swahili and Yoruba that the Association of African Studies Programs sponsors.

·  Summer 2014 African Language Programs: http://bit.ly/AfLangSum2014
A list of African-based programs that students have in the past attended for language study with FLAS fellowships is here: 
If your program is offering an African language in Summer 2014 and it is not already listed, you can include the information by completing the following online form:
Sincerely,
Martha Saavedra

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Martha Saavedra, PhD | Associate Director | Center for African Studies
356 Stephens Hall | University of California | Berkeley, CA 94720-2314
martha@berkeley.edu | tel 510.642.8338 | fax 510.642.9466
http://africa.berkeley.edu/ http://UnderstandingSudan.org/ http://africareportingproject.org/