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Halloween-themed Truffle Workshop (paid registration)

Name: Halloween-themed Truffle Workshop (paid registration)
Start: 2025-10-23T16:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-10-23T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Terra @ CSU Spur

Oct 23, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Join the Food Innovation Center for a guided truffle-making and decorating event to learn how chocolate is made and about the different kinds of chocolate ganache, especially ganache used to make chocolate truffles.

Participants will make both dairy-containing and dairy-free truffles and decorate them as desired. Halloween-themed decorations will be available. Participants will also have the chance to learn about bean-to-bar chocolate making and observe chocolate-making equipment. They will be able to see and participate in the chocolate-making process.

Cost: $30 per person (ages 12+ only please)

Details

Date: Oct 23, 2025
Time:
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Organizer

Venue

Terra @ CSU Spur
4780 National Western Drive
Denver, CO 80216 United States + Google Map
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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.

Halloween-themed Truffle Workshop (paid registration)

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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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