April 24th, 2012 | Published in Events
The Latin American Arts Festival, co-sponsored by the College of Social Sciences & Public Affairs runs until Monday, April 30.April 18th, 2012 | Published in Center on Main, Community & Regional Planning, SSPA News & Events
Please join us for an evening
celebrating the students, community partners, and university supporters
of the recently established
Department of Community and Regional Planning
of the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs
Thursday, May 10th
Center on Main, 1020 Main Street, Boise, 83702
Event Schedule
5:00pm – Meet & Greet
5:30pm – Welcome
5:40pm – Sumner Sharpe, FAICP, Planner-in-Practice
6:00pm – Community Research
6:30pm – Student Presentations
Please RSVP by May 1:
Amanda Johnson – amandajohnson4@boisestate.edu – 208.426.2605
April 18th, 2012 | Published in History, SSPA News & Events
Dr. Oliver Bast discusses Iran’s foreign policy-makers and the United States in the wake of World War I.
Monday, April 23
6:30—8:00 p.m.
SUB LOOKOUT ROOM
Dr. Oliver Bast is an Associate Professor in Middle Eastern History and Persian at the University of
Manchester. He read History and Persian in Berlin, Tehran, Paris, and Bamberg and is currently Visiting Fellow in Iranian Studies at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. He researches diplomatic and political history of Modern Iran and the interface between historiography, politics and cultural memory.
View Dr. Bast’s Abstract & Bio
Free and open to the public.
Presented by the BSU History Department.
For more info contact 426-1255
March 21st, 2012 | Published in Center on Main, Events, Public Policy & Administration, SSPA News & Events
Urban West Revisited: Governing Cities in Uncertain Times is a revision of an acclaimed 1990s study, updated and colorfully illustrated with more than 200 photos and graphics. The softbound volume sells for $29.95 at sspa.boisestate.edu/publications/.
The book also will be available for purchase at the Center on Main, 1020 W. Main St. in Boise, from 5:30-8 p.m. on First Thursday, April 5. The event, titled “A Celebration of Cities,” will feature a book signing by authors Stephanie Witt, professor of public policy and administration, and James Weatherby, emeritus associate professor of public policy, as well as free trolley tours of the Mercantile District led by historian Jacey Brain. Tours depart from the center at 6:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Participants will receive a book, a tour and a colorful tour brochure in exchange for a $25 donation to the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs.
March 14th, 2012 | Published in Community and Regional Planning
In consultation with the Central District Health Department, the Community and Regional Planning program conducted a bike share analysis that locates and optimizes the number of bikes and bike share stations for a 2.25-mile radius in the Downtown Boise area.
After examining several bike share projects in other cities and studies of their methodologies two analyses from Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles County, California proved helpful in developing the Boise Bike Share Location Analysis.
Using GIS optimization analysis to determine the optimal number of bikes and bike stations resulted in 140 bikes and 14 stations as the optimal finding.
March 13th, 2012 | Published in Events, Political Science, SSPA News & Events
The Political Science Alumni Association of Boise State University invites you to a very special event!
Be a member of the live audience for the C-SPAN taping of author Scott Farris’s presentation on:
How Losing Presidential Campaigns have Shaped the 2012 Election –
How the 2012 Losing Campaign may Shape Politics in the Future.
When: Monday, March 19th, 6-8pm
What: An Evening with author Scott Farris, “Almost President: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the Nation.”
Where: Rediscovered Books and the Grape Escape.
6pm – Rediscovered Books (180 N. 8th St., Boise) – join us for Mr. Farris’s formal presentation which will be taped for C-SPAN’s Book TV program.
7pm – The Grape Escape (800 W. Idaho St., Boise) – join with other Political Science Alumni Association members and Mr. Farris for some social time and book signing opportunities.
Please RSVP to rickjung@boisestate.edu if you plan on attending by Thursday, March 15th.
March 8th, 2012 | Published in Anthropology, Events, Student News
Joseph Purcell will present his thesis “Investigation of Histomorphometric Values in an East Arctic Foraging Group, the Sadlermiut” on Tuesday, March 13, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in B312.
March 8th, 2012 | Published in Brown Bag Series, Communication, Events
Wednesday, April 4
12:40 to 1:30 p.m.
ILC 315
Dr. Trevor Hall, Department of Communication, will discuss the following:
One of the challenges of traditional student learning from an instructor’s perspective, involves achieving a deep understanding of how students learn.
This project involved using Q-Method as a tool to identify learner styles.
The authors adapted an existing learning styles instrument to a Q Method analysis in courses across three different disciplines: Communication, Geography, and Recreation Management.
March 8th, 2012 | Published in Brown Bag Series, Events, Sociology
Wednesday, April 25
12:40 to 1:30 p.m.
ILC 315
Dr. Arthur Scarritt & Dr. Sergio Romero, Department of Sociology, will discuss the following:
This year marks the maiden voyage of the Inter-Mountain Social Research Lab (IMSRL) of the Department of Sociology.
In a yearlong intensive research training program, faculty guide a small group of undergraduate students through developing and executing all aspects of an original research project, from inception to dissemination.
This presentation discusses the general contours of this program, and the challenges we have encountered in attempting to integrate teaching into a rigorous research project.
March 8th, 2012 | Published in Events, Public Policy & Administration
The next PPA brownbag colloquium will be at noon on Monday, April 2nd in the 1st floor conference room of the ERB (Room #1127).
Greg Hill, chair of the Department of Public Policy and Administration, will be presenting on his research on immigration.
Please bring your lunch and join us and learn about this timely topic.