Announcements from the RVCC Hub
First Annual Children’s Health and Climate Change Symposium
The First Annual TCU Symposium of Climate Change and Children’s Health will bring together tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) and larger public and private universities to share research, education programs and work on the most pressing environmental issue facing our Mother Earth—global climate change. Held in conjunction with this symposium, The Health and Medicine Career Fair will connect TCU students with R1 research universities—such as UCLA, Harvard and Kansas University—so they may learn about each other and find creative ways of working together.
On Thursday Nov. 14, 2024, Haskell Indian Nations University’s Rising Voices Changing Coast Convergence Science Hub will convene the first TCU Symposium on Climate Change and Children’s Health in the historic Haskell auditorium. The Symposium will bring together researchers, faculty, and students from R1 institutions and TCUs to share their work in children’s health and climate change. Through this convening, we hope to foster a new level of respect between R1 institutions and TCUs and advance a better understanding of how critical interdisciplinary approaches are to successfully addressing global climate change.
On Nov. 13th from 10 am to 2pm in the Stidham Student Union, Haskell will host a Health and Medicine Career Fair. This event will bring tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) and larger public and private universities together to share research, education programs, and explore opportunities for TCU students to work on the most pressing environmental issue facing our Mother Earth – global climate change. Invited medical schools, public health programs, and related environmental health programs will share education and career opportunities.
Invited universities include UCLA, Harvard, Kansas University, University of Oklahoma, Creighton, University of New Mexico, University of Washington, University of Minnesota, North Dakota University and a host of schools with a demonstrated commitment to serving American Indian and Alaska Native students and their Nations.
Follow this link to register for the First Annual Children’s Health and Climate Change Symposium.
Click here to apply for a travel stipend
Please email any questions to admin@rvcchub.org.
2025 RVCC Summer Internship
You can submit your application to the 2025 Summer Internship through this link.
This internship trains participants how to explore climate changes through the multiple lenses of research instructed by Native scholars. It will center Indigenous Knowledges/sciences and compliment Western Science as it explores the many ways to do climate science work. Each year the internship will travel to one of four research sites of the NSF CoPe RVCC grant #2103843: Hawaii, Alaska, Louisiana, and Puerto Rico, to meet with the scientists, community members and the land itself to be introduced to how we can learn from and care for places.
Interns will spend four plus weeks in Lawrence Kansas at Haskell Indian Nations University studying about research, writing, the site culture, etiquette and protocols, science communication, TEK, Indigenous science and Western science, and science communication. Week five will take students to Louisiana southern coastal regions to visit some research sites, scientists doing research, and Native Americans from the communities to learn about the multiple ways climate is observed, adapted to, and expressed across disciplines to inform other scientists and community members.
Meeting Native and Non-Native scientists doing the research in place will allow participants the opportunity to explore how they might consider their own interests and skills to advocate and care for their own homelands with education and research. Participants will be taught how to develop a research question and research to answer their question and communicate their findings in multiple ways which includes mixed media. At the end of the sixth week, interns will return home to finish their summer research project working with faculty on-line to complete their summer research project. Faculty mentors, scientists, and community knowledge holders will be available to help students to independently complete their summer research project.
For more information contact;
Dr. Paulette Blanchard (Absentee Shawnee Citizen) at pblanchard@haskellfoundation.org