BUSINESS BOOT CAMP for Liberal Arts Students Sponsored by the Wasserman Center for Career Development and Morgan Stanley SAVE THE DATE: Thursday & Friday, January 14th-15th, 2010 Join us for an exciting two-day business career exploration workshop! Explore ways to market your liberal arts degree in the business world and learn the "business language" you need to land your dream job. The program will include: Exposure to Industry Knowledge & Corporate Career Paths, Teamwork & Leadership, Network Building, Economic Trends, and more! Open to NYU Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors in CAS, Gallatin, Liberal Studies, Tisch, SCPS and Steinhardt. More information is available at www.nyu.edu/careerdevelopment under Student Highlights. Applications are being accepted via NYU CareerNet.  Search for /Job ID #777541/ and follow the detailed instructions. Application deadline is NOVEMBER 9TH.

On Thursday, November 5th from 6:00pm-9:00pm at The Arsenal in Central Park (5th Avenue & 64th Street), New York, the University of California at Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences, the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment and Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies will be hosting a Joint Information Session. This event will be the perfect opportunity for students to learn about graduate opportunities in the environmental field *_from the Nation's top environmental schools. All four schools will make a brief presentation and will be available to answer questions throughout the gathering. All disciplines are welcome to attend. If you are interested in attending, please RSVP at the following link: https://apply.environment.yale.edu/events/?id=562fa72a50044f0ca0ef05e97cce038a If you have any questions regarding this event, please feel free to contact corlei@bren.ucsb.edu

Tired of seeing major corporations get bailouts while you struggle to make ends meet? Well, here’s your chance to ask Congress for your own bailout. The Brown Bailout public education initiative is giving away $1,000 bailouts to five winners in our new /Where’s My Bailout? /Contest. We invite you to grab a video camera, shoot your own video, and in 30 to 60 seconds, tell us why you deserve a bailout. (You can even download your own Brown Bailout Guy mask to use if you want.) The reasons could be anything, but winners will be judged on their creativity and humor. For more information and to submit your video, go to www.brownbailout.com/contest.

DO YOU WANT TO visit Honduras this Winter? An NYU student-led trip during the January intersession to an NGO bilingual school will allow participants to: teach Honduran children, ages 5 through 12, alongside U.S. volunteer teachers; be exposed to a unique Honduran community and an innovative non-profit that operates there; live with a low-income Honduran family for a week (optional); attend educational seminars on social and economic issues facing low-income Hondurans; visit the ancient Mayan ruins of Copán. The trip will run from January 10 to January 17, 2010. Want an opportunity to be more involved and improve your leadership skills? We're looking for students interested in leading the trip! Want to hear more? Contact us by email: jmason@nyu.edu Learn about past and present trips online: www.becaschools.org/davidson

Are you passionate about global change, committed to learning by doing, and ready to engage in hands-on international development? The Global Engagement Summer Institute at Northwestern University will equip you to: Work directly with grassroots NGOs and local communities in Uganda, India, Nicaragua, or Bolivia  Earn two Northwestern course credits through a weeklong training institute in Chicago Leverage the strengths -- rather than list the weaknesses -- of the communities in which you live and work abroad Live with a host family and immerse yourself in another culture for eight weeks Work in teams to design and implement an original development project in environmental development, microfinance, youth and education, gender and development, global health, social enterprise, and more Ready to take the next step? Visit www.mycge.org   to learn more, or sign up here for our mailing list.

Professors Carol Gilligan, David Richards, and Frank Upham, in collaboration with the Hauser Global Law School Program, will host a talk and discussion by Professor Kazuo Sato, Professor at Chiba University in Japan.  Professor Sato will discuss the result of the recent general election in Japan, introducing the possibility of representative democracy in Japan for the first time.  The title of his paper is:  The History of Modernization in Japan and "the Foundation of Freedom."  Professor Sato's many books include Women's Criticism of Modernization, In Praise of Friendship Between Men and Women, and Struggle Against the Stupidity of Labour. Please join us. Tuesday, November 3, 2009 6:00-8:00 p.m. Greenberg Lounge Vanderbilt Hall 40 Washington Sq. South Reception to follow the talk.  RSVP to globalevents@exchange.law.nyu.edu

Call for Applications USA Meets Europe: A Forum for Young Leaders Next Weeklong Seminar (6th – 10th November 2009, Berlin) This is the announcement with the details of the next Weeklong Seminar that will be taking place as part of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy’s program USA Meets Europe: A Forum for Young Leaders. The program will be taking place on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and therefore offers a unique opportunity for participants to experience this historic occasion. The program will include lectures, seminars, and panel discussions with leading speakers from the fields of academia, politics, diplomacy, civil society, and the private sector. The event runs concurrent to the ICD  program “A World Without Walls”, and the contributing speakers will include: Dr. Benjamin Barber *(Professor, Maryland University, author of “Jihad Vs McWorld”) Ms. Ségolène Royal* (2007 Presidential Candidate, French Socialist Party, President of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council) The Rt. Hon. David Trimble* (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Former First Minister of Northern Ireland) Jack McConnell *(MSP; Former First Minister of Scotland) Mike Kenneth Moore* (Former Director-General of the World Trade Organization and Former Prime Minister of New Zealand) Annelli Jäätteenmäki* (Former Prime Minister of Finland) Emil Constantinescu* (Former President of Romania) The topics under discussion will include: The history and development of transatlantic relations since 1989 The process of European integration from political, economic, and cultural perspectives and the implications of this for US-European relations The current and future impact of the Obama administration on transatlantic relations Comparing and contrasting US and European approaches towards the Russian Federation and the importance of Russia in determining the nature of transatlantic relations The interdependent nature of the challenges faced by sovereign states and the challenges and opportunities this brings

ACLU, Cooper Union and PEN American Center present Reckoning with Torture:Memos and Testimonies from the “War on Terror” Featuring readings by Matthew Alexander, Jonathan Ames, Paul Auster, Ishmael Beah, David Cole, Don DeLillo, Eve Ensler, Nell Freudenberger, AM Homes, Susanna Moore, Jack Rice, George Saunders, Amrit Singh, and Art Spiegelman With a special presentation by Jenny Holzer Tuesday, October 13 at 7 p.m. The Great Hall, Cooper Union, NYC Authors Jonathan Ames, Paul Auster, Ishmael Beah, Don DeLillo, Eve Ensler, Nell Freudenberger, AM Homes, Susanna Moore, George Saunders and Art Spiegelman will take the stage with Matthew Alexander (former U.S. interrogator and author of /How to Break a Terrorist/), David Cole (author of the recently released /The Torture Memos/), Jack Rice (former CIA case officer), and Amrit Singh (former staff attorney for the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project) to call attention to acts of torture and abuse carried out by the United States since 9/11. The event will feature readings from recently released secret documents that have brought these abuses to light--memos, declassified communications, and testimonies by detainees--and a special presentation by Jenny Holzer. "One officer expressed concern that one day, Agency officers will wind up on some 'wanted list' to appear before the World Court for war crimes stemming from [these] activities."--Report of the Office of the Inspector General of the CIA, May 7, 2004 WHEN: Tuesday October 13, 2009, 7:00 p.m. WHERE: The Great Hall at Cooper Union 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue, NYC Subway: 6 to Astor Place or the R, W to 8th Street TICKETS: $15/$10 for PEN/ACLU Members - *$10 ONLY FOR STUDENTS* Tickets are available through www.smarttix.com or (212) 868-4444. They may also be purchased at the door. Seating is by general admission, on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, please visit www.pen.org or www.aclu.org This event is co-sponsored by The Cooper Union and ACLU.

ASMEA Annual Conference October 22-24, 2009 Washington, D.C. ONLINE REGISTRATION A preliminary version of the schedule for ASMEA’s 2009 Annual Conference—The Middle East and Africa: Historic Connections and Strategic Bridges—is now available on our website. The conference will feature presentations that demonstrate the inter-relationships between the two regions over time with special emphasis on the historical, political, economic, religious, security and cultural links between them. Along with the academic paper presentations, ASMEA's 2009 conference will feature special presentations by: -ASMEA Chairman Bernard Lewis -Dennis Ross, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Central Region -John Bolton, Former United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security -Gerard Prunier, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris -General William E. "Kip" Ward, Commander of U.S. Africa Command (invited) View the entire schedule (subject to change) here. On top of the normally heavy volume of tourists in the Washington, DC area, a large numbers of visitors are expected in town for the Marine Corps Marathon on Oct. 25^th .* In light of this, we encourage you to make your travel plans to Washington, DC for our conference as soon as possible. To assist you in this matter, we have put together some helpful travel resources for your visit to Washington, DC. Email info@asmeascholard.org for more information.