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ENVS 380: Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Deepwater Horizon Tragedy
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College of the Environment Announces 2012 Internships

The College of the Environment internships are for students to do research under the guidance of a faculty mentor during the Summer or Fall, 2012, on projects directly concerned with Environmental Studies. These internships are available to students and faculty across the entire University.

The summer internship will run from May 29, 2012 – August 2, 2012, while the Fall 2012 internship would run the term of the semester.

The deadline for applications is due on or before Monday, February 20, 2012, allowing us to announce internship candidates by Friday, March 9^th, prior to spring break. Student applications are to be delivered to Ms. Valerie Marinelli, Administrative Assistant, College of the Environment, 284 High Street.

For more information and the application, please refer to our COE Website under INTERNSHIPS.

Michel Varisco's Artist Talk - Thursday, February 23rd, NOON to 1pm

Michel Varisco, a fine art photographer and a New Orleans Native, has studied and worked at the Lacoste School of Art in France and holds an MFA from Tulane University. She has taught at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts since 1997. Since 1990, her work focused on different architectural forms such as New Orleans and Parisian cemeteries, abandoned factories, and portraits that explored the relationship between individuals and their environment. Her abstract work includes series based around the American Can Company and the McGinnis Cotton Mill in New Orleans and her documentary work has taken her to Guatemala, France, Germany, and Italy. Recent work explores post-industrial remnants of rural and urban areas mostly located in the south. She has received grants from the Louisiana Division of the Arts in 1998 and 2000 and a SURDNA fellowship in 2002. She has exhibited in Louisiana, New York, Memphis, Nashville, Mississippi, Washington, France, Italy and Czechoslovakia. Varisco's work has been published in Adbusters, USA Today, Common Ground Archeology, Cultural Vistas, New Orleans Review, Habitations and New Orleans River Region Renaissance.

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