Campus ambassadors have a unique opportunity to spread the word about Peace Corps on college campuses. The campus ambassador develops relationships with professors and student club presidents, coordinates events, creates social media, and much more. Peace Corps is seeking next year’s campus ambassador.
The Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development is accepting applications for undergraduate students to serve as interns. Interns specialize in public relations or data management and earn academic credit while developing critical job skills. Applicants must be available for both fall 2019 and spring 2020. Email StevensonCenter@IllinoisState.edu to learn more and apply now!
“Thought for Food in the Luso-Hispanic Transatlantic,” the International Food Symposium, aims to celebrate and examine the complex cultural, social, environmental, political, and economic interconnections that define food’s position within these regions.
Laura VanderDrift Machia of Syracuse University will present “With a little help from my friends: The effects of need fulfillment outside of the relationship” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in Schroder Hall, room 244.
Video, photographs, and the winners from Illinois State University’s Three Minute Thesis competition.
Renee Palecek is currently serving as a women’s and girl’s development facilitator with the Peace Corps in Morocco. Palecek is completing her master’s degree in sociology with a sequence in Applied Community and Economic Development through the Stevenson Center.
For the Sociology and Anthropology Research Series, Michael L. Dougherty will explore mining operations in Latin America.
Jason De León, scholar and author of The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail, will focus his talk on a United States border enforcement strategy.
A junior from Chicago, Maria Kitchin has been selected as an inaugural Undergraduate Research Fellow for the American Anthropological Association.
The series, titled Natural Resource Extraction in Latin America: Society, Environment, and Politics will include scholars from around the globe exploring the social and environmental impact of withdrawing natural resources from the Earth.
