Penn State University African Studies Program 7th Annual Conference

Pennsylvania State University

"Africa on the Rise! 60 years after 1960" The African Studies Program at The Pennsylvania State University, 7th annual conference, on April 17th-18th, 2020, titled “Africa on the Rise! 60 years after 1960,” commemorates the “Year of Africa.” 1960 significantly cascades the independence of African nations, as no less than 17 countries gained their freedom from […]

UNFCCC Technical Expert Meetings on Mitigation (TEM-M)

The UNFCCC Technical Expert Meetings on Mitigation will be held at The Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB 50) in Bonn, Germany on June 20th and 21st from 11:00 to 19:00 (CEST). UNFCCC will be running a live webcast available to those not in physical attendance. The meetings aim to promote sustainability of the water-energy-food nexus […]

SNIP: Ben Ruddell

Strategic Networks and Initiatives Program (SNIP) Speaker Series Ben Ruddell, Ph.D., P.E., Director Associate Professor of the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University and Director of FEWSION project, held the webinar, “FEWSION, a National U.S. Mesoscale Supply Chain Network” on September 13th. FEWSION is an empirical description of the U.S. food, energy, […]

SNIP: Claudia Ringler

Strategic Networks and Initiatives Program (SNIP) Fall Speaker Series On September 20th, a seminar and coffee hour with Claudia Ringer was held at Penn State University. Claudia Ringler was appointed deputy division director of the Environment and Production Technology Division at IFPRI in 2011. Claudia manages IFPRI’s Water Research group and since 2015 is also […]

SNIP Speaker Series

Pennsylvania State University

Strategic Networks and Initiatives Program (SNIP) Fall 2019 Speaker Series at Penn State "Building a Food-Water-Energy Nexus Community of Transformative and Convergent Research" Upcoming Events: Friday, September 20, 11:00 AM Seminar with Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division at IFPRI, entitled: "The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Insights from Global, Basin and Local Case […]