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Activities for Jan. 21

Name: Activities for Jan. 21
Start: 2025-01-21T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-01-21T23:59:59-07:00
Location: CSU Spur

January 21

Timed demos

10 a.m.-4 p.m.: Sensory taste testing: strawberries (21+) (Terra Sensory Lab 1st floor)
10:30-11 a.m.: Equine sports medicine demo (Vida 2nd floor)
10:30-11:30 a.m.: Denver Water: Meet a scientist (Hydro 3rd floor)
11-11:15 a.m.: Virtual reality human anatomy program (Vida 1st floor)
11 a.m.-2 p.m.: Spur music lab (Hydro 2nd floor)
11:15-11:45 a.m.: Equine Explores (for youth) (Vida 2nd floor)
11:30 a.m.-12 p.m.: Temple Grandin Equine Center demo (Vida 2nd floor)
12-12:30 p.m.: Meet the mini horses (Vida 2nd floor)
1-1:15 p.m.: Virtual reality human anatomy program (Vida 1st floor)
1:30-2 p.m.: Equine sports medicine demo (Vida 2nd floor)
2:30-3 p.m.: Meet the mini horses (Vida 2nd floor)
3-3:30 p.m.: Temple Grandin Equine Center demo (Vida 2nd floor)
4-4:30 p.m.: Equine Explores (for youth) (Vida 2nd floor)

Ongoing programs (10 a.m.-5 p.m.)

Dumb Friends League ongoing surgeries (not guaranteed) (Vida 1st and 2nd floors)
Kids’ mock veterinary clinic (Vida 1st floor)
Virtual reality classroom (ages 9+) (Vida 1st floor)
Water Exploration Lab: Macroinvertebrates (Hydro Teaching Lab 1st floor)
Interactive stream table (Hydro 2nd floor)
Trout tank (Hydro 2nd floor)
Kids’ mock lab (Hydro 3rd floor)
Ardent Mills Teaching and Culinary Center: Meats & sweets sampling (Terra 1st floor)
Kids’ mock kitchen (Terra 3rd floor)
Rooftop greenhouse (Terra 4th floor)

Ongoing programs (10 a.m.-3 p.m.)

Nancy Richardson Design Center Makerspace (The Shop, Hydro 1st floor)
Denver Water youth education activities (Hydro 3rd floor)
CAM’s Ag Academy activity booth (Terra 3rd floor)

Details

Date: January 21

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.

Activities for Jan. 21

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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