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2nd Saturday at CSU Spur (Health and Wellness Spring Festival)

Name: 2nd Saturday at CSU Spur (Health and Wellness Spring Festival)
Start: 2025-04-12T10:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-04-12T14:00:00-06:00
Location: CSU Spur

April 12 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Every 2nd Saturday of the month, visit CSU Spur for free, family-friendly fun presented by Canvas Credit Union. This 2nd Saturday, we’ll be joined by Denver Broncos mascot Miles! Miles will be on campus from 11 a.m.-12 p.m. for photos and autographs. Other activities include making hummus, sampling food made from insects, watching an equine sports medicine demonstration, learning how to tie fly fishing flies, and more!

April 2nd Saturday activities include:

Timed events:

10 a.m.-12 p.m.: Spur Music Lab: Colorado Youth Mariachi open rehearsal (Hydro 1st floor)
11-11:30 a.m.: Equine Sports Medicine demonstration (Vida 2nd floor)
11 a.m.-12 p.m.: Meet Miles, the Denver Broncos mascot!
11:30-11:45 a.m.: Meet the mini horses (Vida 2nd floor)
12:30-2 p.m.: Spur Music Lab (Hydro 1st floor)
1-1:15 p.m.: Meet the mini horses (Vida 2nd floor)

Ongoing programs (10 a.m.-2 p.m.):

Fly-tying demonstrations with Trout Unlimited (Hydro 1st floor)
Make a macro with FFA (Hydro 1st floor)
Make leather keychains in the Makerspace with FFA (The Shop @ Hydro)
Trout in the Classroom demonstration (Hydro 2nd floor)
Spur Music Lab workshops (Hydro 2nd floor)
Interactive Stream Table (Hydro 2nd floor)
Kids’ Mock lab (Hydro 2nd floor)
Plant pot painting and wildflowers with FFA (Hydro 3rd floor)
Tree cookies with the Colorado State Forest Service (Hydro 3rd floor)
Hummus making with the Ardent Mills Teaching and Culinary Center (Terra 1st floor)
Make beaded bracelets with the Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center (Terra 1st floor)
Make buttons and sign up for a library card with the Denver Public Library (Terra 1st floor)
Focus Points Family Resource Center activity table (Terra 1st floor)
Develop your own Italian ice flavor at the Food Innovation Center (Terra 1st floor)
Duck trivia with FFA (Terra 1st floor)
Mayor’s Office of the National Western Center activity table (Terra 3rd floor)
Kids’ mock kitchen (Terra 3rd floor)
Cam’s Ag Academy activities (Terra 3rd floor)
Sample food made from insects with Denver Extension (Terra 4th floor)
Humane Colorado surgeries (Vida 1st and 2nd floors)
Virtual reality for ages 9+ (Vida 1st floor)
Kid’s mock vet clinic (Vida 1st floor)
LEGO building with BrickSlopes (Vida 1st floor)
Family Resilience Center resource table (Vida 1st floor)
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies activity table (Vida 1st floor)
Make microbial handprints with CSU Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology (Vida 2nd floor)
Temple Grandin Equine Center information table (Vida 2nd floor)
Colorado Pork Producers information table (Vida 2nd floor)
Colorado Beef Council information table (Vida 2nd floor)
Learn about animal byproducts with FFA (Vida 2nd floor)

Plus, enjoy food, coffee, and drinks available for purchase from Western Daughters.

*All activities subject to change or cancellation.

Details

Date: April 12
Time:
10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Series:

2nd Saturday at CSU Spur

Organizer

CSU Spur
Phone 303-534-6290
Email csusystemspur@colostate.edu
View Organizer Website

Venue

CSU Spur
4817 National Western Drive
Denver, CO 80216 United States + Google Map
View Venue Website

KATHLEEN GALVIN

University Distinguished Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University

Dr. Kathleen Galvin is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography and former Director of the Africa Center at Colorado State University. She is also an Advising Faculty member for the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, where she founded the Human-Environment Interactions specialization for graduate students interested in a robust academic background in social-ecological systems.

She has conducted interdisciplinary social-ecological systems research in the drylands of East Africa and East Asia. Galvin has worked with local communities on land-use change, biodiversity conservation, food security, and climate change impacts and adaptation. She uses social-ecological systems frameworks, simulation modeling, and geospatial tools to understand human-environment issues and interactions. Her current research examines local perceptions of climate change and environmental issues, and explores actions to achieve viable solutions in Kenya. Another project focuses on understanding the trade-offs of community-based conservation for people and the environment throughout Africa. She has just completed a NASA grant to understand household decisions, ecosystem change, and atmospheric water recycling in Kenya through modeling for water futures.

She has taken on transdisciplinary science, linking science with society to ensure that her work’s impact goes well beyond the academy. As a lead author of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, 2019), she was instrumental in linking the science of biodiversity and ecosystem services with diverse governance and knowledge systems worldwide.

She is a Fellow in the Society of Applied Anthropology, a past Fellow in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, and a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In 2012, she received the National Sustainability Science award from the Ecological Society of America for her team’s efforts to use their scholarship to collaborate with pastoral communities and policymakers in eastern Africa. In 2017, the College of Liberal Arts awarded her the John N. Stern Distinguished Professor Award, recognizing a career of outstanding research, teaching, and service achievement.

2nd Saturday at CSU Spur (Health and Wellness Spring Festival)

Details

Organizer

Venue

Hours

Location

CHRIS SHAFFNER

JAMES HENDERSON

EMMA TROLLER

PETER CULP

KATHLEEN GALVIN

CHRISTINA SOHN

BORIS NIKOLAEV

ELIZABETH BABCOCK

ALEX BUDAK

KAREN SCHLATTER

LINDSAY ROGERS

JARED ROMERO

JULIE DAVIES O’SHEA

GIGI KARMOUS-EDWARDS

MARA WALLER

TOM VILSACK

KATE WATKINS

TONY FRANK

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