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Greetings colleagues:

Alice! is currently recruiting students to be a part of our team with a stress and coping intercept interview process.  Please share the information below with students that may be interested.

In health,
Michael

Qualitative Research Opportunity - Alice! Health Promotion Program

What:  Be a part of a team of qualitative researchers investigating how students cope with stress at Columbia. 

When:  Fall 2009

Details:  You will be trained to conduct brief intercept interviews on the Morningside campus.  Intercept interviews will take place weekdays.

Time commitment:  1 hour of training & a minimum of 5 hours of interviewing students.

Compensation:  $50.00 Barnes and Noble Gift Card

This is a great opportunity to build your research skills.

Email Susan Hochman sh2537@columbia.edu  for more information and/or to apply.

Monday, September 21
The International Media, Advocacy and Communications Specialization
Brown Bag: Talk with Reporter Katharine Zaleski, who will talk about her recent travels around the U.S. for her reporting on the health care debate, the future of digital journalism and how to get a job in online media.
12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 253

Here is the description:

Zaleski will talk about her recent travels around the US for her reporting on the health care debate, the future of digital journalism and how to get a job in online media.

This will be from 12:30-2pm in room 253 on the 2th floor of the International Affairs Building.
Katharine Zaleski is the Senior Editor at the Huffington Post who oversees special projects. Previously she was the Senior News Editor of the site, overseeing the front page from the month Huffington Post launched in May
2005 until May 2009. Previously, Katharine worked for CNN after graduating from Dartmouth College. She has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, CBC, Air America, BBC Radio as well as other media outlets.

To get to room 253, ignore the main bank of elevators and find the lone elevator next to the toilet and opposite the office of career services. Take that elevator down to 2, go through the forbidding door on your left and go right down the hall.

A quick note to say hello to our new PT January 2008 class, which has its orientation today. Fifteen students from a wide variety of backgrounds and interests begin RW1 today, studying with Prof. Ruth Padawer.

Good luck, everyone.

Prof. Victor Navasky wins one of the most prestigious awards in journalism:
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=11112

Victor S. Navasky will receive the George Polk Book Award for “A Matter of Opinion,” a unique memoir full of colorful personalities and big events published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Navasky, who became editor of the The Nation in 1978 and rose to become its publisher and editorial director in 1995, is now publisher emeritus. His work provides a historically significant view of the role that public discourse plays in sustaining the democratic process in an age of mass media and corporate dominance.