Roundtable on Natural Disasters. She is one of five members on the roundtable, and her term expires August 31, 2002. NRC roundtables are a type of convening activity of the National Academies that provides a means for representatives of government, industry, and academia to gather periodically for identifying and discussing issues of mutual concern on a continual basis. It will be taught by Jani and Zeke Little . All interested faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to attend.
Enrollment is limited.
Information Technology Services is also offering short Statistical Computing Workshops that could be of interest to some IBS researchers. Profile African Ethnopolitics and Democratization and Continuity and Change in Zambia James R. Scarritt, Professor of Political Science, is a Faculty Research Associate in the Research Program on Political and Economic Change. His research focuses on political leadership, ethnopolitics, and democratization in sub-Saharan Africa. He has made six research visits to Zambia, the first in 1961 and the latest in May and June of this year, and is completing a book on continuity and change in the politics of that country during this thirty-nine year period. The data set includes indices of groups' geographical concentration, and the ethnopolitical fragmentation of countries.