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Important Dates
January 9- February 16:
Orchid showcase, Denver Botanic Gardens
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more info
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January 17th:
MLK Peace Breakfast, Tivoli Turnhalle
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more info
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January 29-31:
2020 Water Congress Convention, The Westin Westminster
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more info
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January 30:
Italy Study Abroad Info Session
(see flyer below)
February 4-6:
Riparian Restoration Conference, Colorado Mesa University- Grand Junction
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more info
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May 7:
Spring Plant Sale, Denver Botanic Gardens
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May 25:
Memorial Day
Campus Closed
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Student Corner
January 21: S
pring Semester Starts
February 8:
Graduation Application for Summer 2020 Available
February 24:
Su
mmer P
riority Registration Begins
March 2:
2020-2012 MSU Denver Scholarship Application Priority Date
March 23-27:
Spring Break-
No Classes
March 30:
Fall Priority Registration Begins
April 15-16:
Spring Fling, Auraria Campus
April 21-22:
Earth Week hosted by
ASCP
May 15:
Spring 2020 Commencement
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Pizza and a Movie with an Italian Twist
January 30, 2020 • 5-8pm
Tivoli - Garage Lounge
Join us to learn more about the 2020 Maymester study abroad trip to Italy where students will learn how Italian culture, history, food, wine and tourism intersect with the environment. This event includes pizza and a showing of the classic film "Roman Holiday."
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Auraria Campus Water Competition
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This fall semester, six MSU Denver classes participated in the first Auraria Campus Water Competition. The students were asked to create innovative projects to increase water conservation and education on campus. This project was part of a grant awarded to the One World One Water Center by the Colorado Water Conservation Board to increase awareness of the Colorado Water Plan and to lead in university water conservation projects. Of the participating classes, the winning projects were a new and improved Public Relations plan for the OWOW Center, implementing a centrifuge machine at the Tivoli Brewery to reuse water efficiently, and a landscape plan from campus that incorporated xeriscaping and other water saving methods.
Each class was paired with a water industry expert to help create projects and increase understanding of water in Colorado. The experts then served as the judges for the competition and scored projects based on their connection to the Colorado Water Plan, ability to engage the public about a water issue, raise awareness of water issues, provide resources and tools for action, and a level of feasibility for real-world integration.
The event was very successful in bringing industry experts, students, and community members together to engage and learn from one another during the final judging session and the tabling event that immediate followed. The OWOW Center is excited to host another round of the competition in the fall of 2020.
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Students at Soehl Middle School in Linden, New Jersey participated in a class project as part of a special lesson to encourage student activism. Social studies teacher Michael D’Amato created the One Gallon Challenge after showing his sixth and eighth-graders a documentary about the global water crisis and its impact on women.
For one day, the students were challenged to carry around an entire gallon of water from class to class to bring awareness of the fact that women around the world spend a collective 200 million hours collecting clean water for themselves and their families. The One Gallon Challenge is only a small fraction compared to the amount of water that people in developing countries are used to carrying around every single day, often filling up 5-gallon jugs with up to 40 pounds of water.
At the end of the challenge, D'Amato asked his students to brainstorm a couple of ways that they can help make a small difference, even from thousands of miles away. He hopes the activity will give his students an opportunity to reflect and spark a bigger movement and conversation during Women’s History Month and World Water Day in March.
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Australia's Raging Fires Will Create Big Problems for Fresh Drinking Water
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As record-breaking bush fires move across the drought-stricken Australia, fears have begun to rise from the scientific community about the future of water health. When rains eventually fall, ash and charred debris will be washed into rivers, dams, and the ocean, leading to more wildlife death and even putting the drinking water supplies of major cities, such as Sydney, at risk. More than 26 million acres of Australia have burned, including many watersheds—where rainfall begins its journey into rivers, lakes, and dams.
“Disturbance on this scale is almost certainly going to impact biodiversity. I’m remarkably worried about the effects on freshwater ecosystems,” says Ross Thompson, a freshwater ecologist at the University of Canberra. One of the biggest worries is that the sudden increase in nutrients from the ash flow into waterways will create“blackwater events” caused by blooms of blue-green algae. Oxygen can subsequently drop to dangerously low levels for other aquatic life, creating uninhabitable environments.
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With the current drought, Sydney’s water supplies are already overstretched, necessitating the use of a desalination plant. Forested areas that makeup water catchments have been incinerated throughout southeast Australia and the fire crisis is likely to continue for several months, so it’s possible the drinking supply of many urban centers across the southeast could be affected by the end of the summer.
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[ONE WORLD ONE WATER CENTER]
[www.msudenver.edu/owow] | [303.615.1199] |
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