GREEN CORPS
Early Fall Application Deadline: October 11, 2014
Click here to request more information about Green Corps. Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental challenges of our day. In Green Corps’ yearlong paid program, you’ll get intensive training in the skills you need to make a difference in the world. You’ll get hands-on experience fighting to solve urgent environmental problems – global warming, deforestation, water pollution, factory farming and many others – with groups like Sierra Club and Food & Water Watch. And when you graduate from Green Corps, we’ll help you find a career with one of the nation’s leading environmental and social change groups. For more information, visit http://www.greencorps.org/findoutmore.

SENIOR ENERGY ADVOCATE – NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
Washington DC
NRDC is seeking a Senior Energy Advocate or Attorney to work with our energy team based in Washington, DC. Responsibilities include: Provide written and oral advocacy in furtherance of NRDC’s electric sector carbon standard, utility reform, clean energy and energy efficiency priorities at the state and federal level; develop relationships and collaborate with utilities and utility associations in DC and at the state or regional level; develop state-level support to push for federal regulations on carbon emissions from the electric sector; conduct legal and policy research and analysis to develop and support positions; coordinate and represent NRDC in coalitions on specific issue-areas; and finally respond to media requests and develop advocacy material to spread NRDC’s message. For further information about NRDC, please visit http://www.nrdc.org

RESEARCH ASSISTANT: ENERGY ACCESS AND POVERTY
Vienna, Austria
IIASA’s Energy Program is looking to recruit a motivated and talented young researcher to join a team analyzing a wide range of issues surrounding energy economics and climate change. The successful applicant’s research will focus on modeling energy use among the global poor with the MESSAGE model and its extensions. The purpose of the research is to inform international policy efforts, such as the United Nations Sustainable Energy for All initiative (http://www.se4all.org/), that aim to improve health, gender equality, education, and economic development by improving the access to and affordability of modern energy services in developing regions. Deadline for receipt of applications: 31st October 2014. More information is available here.

Back in the day, like way back (1987), there was an anti-drug ad campaign in which the frying of an egg in a very hot pan was likened to the effect of drugs on your brain. For the uninitiated, the egg is your brain; the hot pan is the drugs. Put the former in the latter and all hell breaks loose.  (Don’t do drugs, children.)

In this blog,  we’re instead going to liken that very hot pan to emotions and affective processes. In a series of blog posts, many authored by students enrolled in my seminar in affective neuroscience at Tufts University, we’ll be cooking up** a variety of topics all addressing how it is that the brain represents emotions and affective processes – things like rage, stress, joy, panic, delight, and despair. Each post will offer some useful conclusions that might be drawn on the basis of the available scientific literature. We hope that these posts will be both interesting and informative and we welcome your comments.

First posts will be published on or around Friday, October 10, 2014. Stay tuned.

** Rest assured; no eggs (or brains) will be harmed in the making of this blog.

Leo is back to discuss study room policies.  We are introduced to Lizzy who has a bit of a dilemma while studying.

Ask Leo Episode Four: Study Rooms from Tufts HHSL on Vimeo.

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