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July 15 thru 17, 2010 - Critical Issues in Hispanic Health and Aging: Issues of Disability, Caregiving and Long-term Care Policy. This is an international conference on aging in the Americas and is the fourth installment of a successful series on health and aging in the Hispanic community. The conference will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center located on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. Start time is 1:00pm. For more information please visit www.utexas.edu/lbj/caa//2010cfp.php
July 22, 2010 - Distinguished Speakers Luncheon at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Austin 6121 North IH 35 Title of talk: The Economic Impact of Reducing Your Carbon Footprint. The city of Austin fosters a fast-growing clean energy industry that will have long term effects on the local economy. We want our members to be aware of these new opportunities and the impact they will have. Additionally, as our city makes great strides to implement clean technology and energy, the resulting carbon footprint will shrink. A carbon footprint is the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an organization, event or product. Join us and learn what this means for the economy, local businesses, about the new job trends in clean technology. Keynote Speaker: Brewster McCracken Executive Director Pecan Street Project. Hosted by the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. For more information call: (512) 476-7502
July 28, 2010 - Graduate Portfolio Plática: Melissa A. Martinez at 12:00 noon in the Cissy McDaniel Parker Dean’s Conference Room (SZB 238) in the School of Education at The University of Texas at Austin. “Traversing Literal and Figurative Borders in South Texas: Mexican Americans and College Choice” College choice is often described in terms of three-stages: predisposition, search and choice. Existing research, however, suggests this model does not account for all aspects of Latina/os’ college choice experience. As such, this portfolio plática by Melissa A. Martinez presents findings of a dissertation study that sought to provide a deeper, more critical understanding of the college choice process of 20 Mexican American high school seniors from the South Texas Border through individual phenomenological, in-depth interviews and the use of a hybrid Chicana feminist and social capital theoretical lens. Sponsored by: The Center for Mexican American Studies, the College of Liberal Art
