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We are planning to do an International Project with our Kindergarten class, and were wondering if you may be interested in participating.

Our idea is to send out a ‘balloon’ via email to Kindergarten classes across the world and develop a project around this. The idea will be to see where the ‘balloons’ land and try to find out some information about those countries and schools.

It will be done as a class project and is not really intended to set up ‘penpals’. We would write the letter together as a class, with the children deciding what questions they would like to ask. If you choose to participate, your class would then answer our letter and possibly ask their own questions for us to answer.

The India Water Portal(http://indiawaterportal.org) is a not-for-profit, open website to discuss water and sanitation issues in India. It links non-profits, government, citizens, corporates, teachers, policy makers and enables open discussion and knowledge sharing.

Over the next 2 months, we are redesigning the portal. Please let us know what we should we doing right. You may include technical, marketing, sectoral suggestions.

Please take the survey on http://bit.ly/elicm

The first competition focuses on professional anthropologists who have already earned a PhD. The winner will be selected based on (1) the public significance of the problem being addressed, (2) the way the problem is being approached, and (3) the author’s ability to write for a public audience (as judged by one or more previous publications). The winner will receive, in addition to a formal book contract from U.C. Press, a ten thousand dollar advance.

The second competition focuses on graduate students who are preparing to conduct fieldwork or who have not, as yet, completed their doctoral dissertations and/or received their PhD. The winner will be selected based on (1) the public significance of the problem being addressed, (2) the way the problem is being approached, (3) a sample of the student’s writing, and (4) a signed agreement from the student’s dissertation committee supporting the student writing up his or her research in a form readable by a broad, public audience rather than as a standard academic dissertation.