This November, SMART's Sustainable Urban Mobility & Accessibility Summit is back by popular demand at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Moving Minds: The Next Transportation Infrastructure will bring researchers together with business leaders, entrepreneurs, practitioners and policy makers from around the world.

Elected Representatives who are coming to SMART Summit:

Title:

Moving away from prescriptive pachyderm palliatives: Toward an integrated assessment of farmer-elephant conflict in Gabon

Chair:

Prof. Bobbi Low 

Abstract:

IRB-on-the-Road

An open session with an IRB representative to discuss your IRB application or questions on a future submission.
IRB (Institutional Review Board)  The purpose of an IRB is to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects in research.

Jay Shimshack, a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan from Tulane University, will present a lecture as a part of the Erb Colloquium series.  Pizza will be served; please bring your own beverage.

John M. DeCicco, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer this year at the School of Natural Resources and Environment. (View his profile)

The School of Natural Resources and Environment meets prospective students at this fall recruiting event, co-hosted with other environmental schools, including those at Duke, UC-Santa Barbara and Yale. This is your opportunity to learn about graduate opportunities in the environmental field from the nation's top environmental schools. Each school will make a brief presentation and be available to answer questions.

Join us for this half day public symposium to feature keynote speaker: Bruce M. Kahn, Ph.D., Director and Senior Investment Analyst, Deutsche Bank Asset Management.

The symposium will also host a panel discussions focused on current investment spaces in wind, bio-fuels, and energy storage. Panelists will discuss technology, financing, policies, and other specific aspects of development related to these specific markets within Cleantech. Following this will be a panel on 'Developments in Today's Cleantech Industry within the State of Michigan'. The symposium will wrap-up with a networking luncheon followed by a post lunch discussion on positioning cleantech within the State of Michigan.

Cleantech 2009 is co-presented by the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and by the Erb Institute for Global and Sustainable Enterprise, at the University of Michigan.

Title:

Food Web Constraints on Chinook Salmon Recruitment in a Large Lake Michigan Tributary

Co-Chairs:

James Diana

Edward Rutherdord

Nigel Melville will present the lecture "Information Systems Innovation for Environmental Sustainability: A Framework for Research and Practice" as part of the Erb Colloquium series.  Dr. Melville is Assistant Professor of Business Information Technology at the Ross School of Business.  Pizza will be served; please bring your own beverage.