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- FWIG PROJECTS
- FWIG/ACSP Birth/Adoption Policies project expanded to include family leave: This Spring ACSP approved our request for funds to support the dissemination of the Birth/Adoption Policies study results through a newly-created FWIG website, under the direction of Carissa Schively-Slotterback. Carissa heads up the Birth/Adoption Policies project and will oversee the website design. A small amount of money was also approved to support an expansion of the scope of the FWIG/ACSP Birth/Adoption Leave Policies study to include family leave to care for dependents of all ages, especially the elderly. We are very pleased that Katherine Lieberknecht, Ph.D. (Cornell CRP, now living in Eugene, Oregon) has agreed to do this work. The findings from the review of family leave policies will be included in the FWIG website featuring the results of the Birth and Adoption Policies in the Planning Academy project. Feel free to contact either Carissa (schiv005@umn.edu) or Katherine (klieberknecht@gmail.com) if you have information or a story to share on the topic.
- Revision of "The Yellow Book": Ann Forsyth will be taking the lead in revising "the Yellow Book" this summer. Feel free to contact her if you are interested in helping. E-mail: af16@cornell.edu
Ann Forsyth on writing and tenure
Recent activities/publications 
Congratulations to our colleagues:
- When Marcia Marker Feld retired a few years ago, the Dr. Marcia Marker Feld Social Justice & the City lectureship was established at the University of Rhode Island with donations made at the time. The funds are now all spent but Kathryn Quina, a long-time "Marcia-fan" who has taken over the activities of the Center for Urban Studies and Research at URI, tells me that speakers keep agreeing to come for free or reduced honoraria and the 4th lecture in the series is in the works. The lectures have apparently been well attended, including many of her former students, who include such folks as the city planner for Providence. Attached to this e-mail is a fund-raising brochure for the lectureship.
- Ann Markusen has been awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the UK for six months, beginning September 15, 2010. It will be at the Glasgow Urban Lab, a civic partnership led by the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art, with core partnerships with the City of Glasgow and the Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City.
- Hazel Morrow-Jones (Ohio State University) has been appointed Associate Provost for Women's Policy Initiatives and Director of The Women's Place at OSU. This position is intended to help change the climate for women at OSU, rather than offering services for individuals.
The job announcements can be seen at
Director, The Women's Place and engineering news. The Women's Place's web site is: http://womensplace.osu.edu/about.html.
Kudos for grants and other research activities
- Ann Lusk
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Three-year NIH F32 Training grant at the
Harvard School of Public Health.
- Dr. Lusk (Ph.D. in
Architecture/Environment and Behavior)conducts research on
environments for routine physical activity for all populations.
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this grant, she will take classes in epidemiology, biostats, kinesiology
and GIS, conduct research on 20 greenways (bicycle paths) in the nation,
write peer reviewed journal articles, and teach a class titled "Physical
Activity Environments and Health" at the Harvard School of Public
Health.
- Tracy McMillan
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Her research was the subject of a UT Austin feature story and her talk on "Safe Routes to School: a transportation policy’s
impact on child and family health” was featured on C-SPAN radio on May 18, 2006.
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