Grain School | Register Today! |
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Sponsored by UCCS Human Physiology & Nutrition Department, Grain School online is a foundational course that builds knowledge and hands-on practical skills for university students and community participants. University students take Grain School Online as a regular academic course taught in the semester. Community students can register for 3 different short courses or opt to take all three courses.
Grain School Online is an annual online course building the foundation for students to take Grain School in the Field. Grain School in the Field is a field-based course with greater hands-on learning offered across Colorado with a changing curriculum annually.
Grain School has always extended its programming into the community through its free Public Forums. In 2021, we offer three online Public Forums aligned with each short course. The dates are February 6, March 6, and April 3, 2021.
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Join Dr. Peter Gorder at the GLINT Talk Series: Integrating Cultural Awareness into the Engineering Design Process |
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The Global Intercultural Research Center (GLINT) is an interdisciplinary research unit of UCCS that provides support and training for global intercultural scholarship.
GLINT hosts a series of events each semester that support faculty research.
Join Dr. Peter Gorder, UCCS Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, on a discussion of integrating cultural awareness into the engineering design process.
Thursday, March 11th | 12:00-1:00pm
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Join Dr. Christine Biermann at the Virtual Lecture: Exploring our Urban Forest |
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In honor of Colorado Springs’ sesquicentennial anniversary, the Colorado Springs Pioneer Museum unveiled a new exhibit, COS@150. This robust exploration of our community’s history and culture features 150 objects, illuminates 150 stories, commemorates 150 years. Throughout the commemoration year we invite you to explore these stories through a series of regional history lectures.
Join Dr. Christine Biermann, UCCS Geography & Environmental Studies and Will Dennis, COS Forester on a discussion of the urban tree canopy.
Saturday, April 10th | 2:00-3:00pm
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Clean-the-Stream | Adopt-a-Waterway
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Join us on Friday, April 23rd from 11am-1pm to help cleanup the Templeton Gap Floodway. UCCS adopted a segment of the creek through the City of Colorado Springs' adopt-a-waterway cleanup program. Three times a year, we invite volunteers to help us cleanup this precious resource.
This year, due to COVID-19 impacts, we are only allowing 50 UCCS volunteers total (25 at each section of the adopted waterway).
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Help Us Plant Trees at UCCS
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The City of Colorado Springs is celebrating 150 years!
As part of their Sesquicentennial celebrations, the City has challenged businesses, homeowners, organizations and schools to collectively plant 18,071 trees by July 2021 to honor General Palmer's legacy of land stewardship.
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Food Literacy Fosters Citizenship at UCCS |
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Universities, and specifically dining halls, have been recognized as possible living learning labs for food literacy for students. Campus farms and gardens have received some attention in supplementing students’ classroom learning in agroecology and other fields. Likewise, studies have evaluated academic courses and their impact on eating behavior and co-curricular activities using experiential learning with a focus on cooking classes. However, there are currently no studies in which nutrition students—future RDs—experientially learn to integrate healthy eating from sustainable food systems through food value chains.
Thus, more needs to be known about educational opportunities that promote learning engagements in sustainable foods systems, especially in cyclic, value-based food systems where students, and in this case, nutrition majors, partake in all aspects from food production to consumption. Positioning such experiences for students and future professionals as food literacy and citizenship also remains unexplored. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe experiences in university customers eating at, and students volunteering for and leading Food Next Door (FND)—a student-run, local food establishment—on a university campus. A secondary aim was to identify potential pathways from food literacy to citizenship through experiences with FND.
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Sustainability LibGuide Update |
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The Sustainability LibGuide, hosted by the Kraemer Family Library, has been updated to include research from UCCS faculty within the past three years.
Click on the tab "Sustainability at UCCS" to browse our amazing faculty research by department.
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Join the hyperloop research team, the Hyperfalcos! |
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If you’re interested in building a more sustainable future, the Hyperfalcos team is interested in you; no STEM, no problem!
The Hyperfalcos is a cross discipline, diverse research team competing in the hyperloop competition, hosted by SpaceX! We need members in our business, mechanical, and electrical teams; we welcome ALL majors and years, and there’s no need for prior knowledge, as we are prepared to teach anyone anything they need.
Together, we will build the fastest, most efficient passenger rail system possible!
The business team needs assistance with
- media promotion,
- bookkeeping,
- networking,
- sponsorship acquisition, and
- tech writing;
Mechanical needs assistance in
- energy efficiency,
- power delivery,
- aerodynamics,
- materials,
- manufacturing, and
- heat transfer;
Electrical needs assistance with
- induction research and machine coding,
- specifically controller code for Arduinos.
If any of that sounds appealing, shoot us an email! All are welcome.
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Earn PIPs even when we're 100% remote!
Click the link below to download your daily actions of water bottle refill, recycle and compost. Check out other actions that are accessible from home, including trivia, walking, attending a virtual event and more!
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Green Action Fund | Submit a Proposal |
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The Green Action Fund committee wants your project applications! All funding opportunities are available to UCCS students, faculty and staff.
Do you have a project, event, program, campaign that would
- help reduce UCCS' carbon footprint?
- increase education on sustainable practices?
- increase student involvement in sustainability opportunities?
- leave a lasting legacy of good at UCCS?
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Green Action Fund | Project Spotlight |
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The SOLE Center received funding for a ski/snowboard EcoWaxer Fall 2020 and the equipment is ready for UCCS students!
How will the EcoWaxer support sustainable practices at UCCS?
- Reduces harmful EPAF’s into the environment
- Reduces waste and the wax process lasts twice as long as the typical drip and scrape methods
- SOLE staff educate the user on sustainable practices and the positive impact to winter sports
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Due to COVID-19 regulations, the Sustainability Demonstration House and Office of Sustainability will 100% remote as of 11/30/2020. Please email sustain@uccs.edu with questions.
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