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Three exhibits continued the spirit of November’s Native American Heritage Month: As Seeds, We Grow: Student Reflections on Resilience, Roots of Wisdom: Native Knowledge, Shared Science, and the Art Gallery at ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ’s Native American Artist in Residence installation. Two installations are housed at ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ and one at the Powerhouse Science Center.

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The Animas High School building on the ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ campus will be completed on January 3. Designed by Anderson Mason Dale Architects, the building's features are conducive to Animas’ project-based education model.

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The ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Police Department participated in the annual Durango “Shop with a Cop” event. A 30-year-old holiday tradition, the event pairs children and families in need with law enforcement officers who walk the store shopping with a family. This year, 150 excited children from 55 families each received $150 for shopping and participated in the event.

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Alana Romans, director of Strategic Initiatives, competed at the USA Pickleball Diamond Amateur Championships in Daytona, Florida, and won gold in the 4.5 division for players 19-34 years old. Romans, who plays pickleball four days a week, is now qualified for the USA Pickleball National Championships next year in Indian Wells, California.

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Durango Theatreworks staged A Christmas Carol: A Radio Play for a limited one-weekend run. Directed by Michael McKelvey, assistant professor of Musical Theatre, the fast-moving adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic by Nathan Jerkins was set in the 1940s as a radio show with a narrator, multiple actors, an applause meter, and a wonderful foley effects team.

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The ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ men’s basketball team upset Colorado State University-Pueblo, 69-65, in a Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference game in Massari Arena. After trailing by 14 points, the Skyhawks cinched the lead.

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Charlie Rogers (Exercise Physiology, ‘22) and his brother Ben (ATT '19-20) walked 24 hours straight to benefit the Fistula Foundation. The foundation is a nonprofit focused on fighting obstetric fistula, a deadly condition that results in 6% of all maternal deaths.

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Writing for The Durango Herald, Andrew Gulliford, professor of History, recounts the Bluff, Utah, Balloon Festival. Gulliford commands the imagination with images of balloons gracefully gliding over a reddish desert at the mercy of the wind.

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The ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ cycling team finished second in the collegiate team omnium competition at the USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships in Connecticut. ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ and Colorado Mesa University dominated the top spots in the varsity women’s and men’s championships. The Skyhawks finished second in the team relay to secure second in the omnium race.

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Southwest Regional Law Enforcement Academy graduated its latest batch of cadets at the Mancos Community Center. Brett Deming, ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ chief of police, delivered the commencement address, noting that the graduates can change the perception of law enforcement for the better.

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Water managers grapple with understanding how our forests and snowpack interact amid the worst drought in more than 1,000 years. Michael Remke, a lecturer of Biology, said that the only way to do this is to engage in “snowtography,” a novel way of tracking snowpack by monitoring varied sites with game cameras to measure snow depth.

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Andy Sovick (Sociology,’04) honed skills at ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓÆµ that would lead him to a career writing and publishing some of the best backcountry skiing guidebooks. Sovick founded Beacon Guidebooks publishing nine atlases for different areas around the country, nine topo maps to accompany the books, and an avalanche rescue guidebook.

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Erika T. Wurth (English, '97) sat down with Lit Reactor to discuss her recent publication White Horse: A Novel. Wurth shared her writing process, thoughts on the novel, and advice she would give new writers. 

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Writing for The Durango Herald, Lacey Donley, assistant professor of Accounting, shines a light on the hypocrisy of crypto lenders. She claims there is a genuine irony in cryptocurrency denouncing centralized governmental authority while also applying for Chapter 11 protections.

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An ambitious new educational project, Slide With Respect, overseen by Tom Miaskiewicz, associate professor of Marketing, asks students to determine how many skiers know about the Your Responsibility Code, their feelings about its recommendations, and the role safety plays in their decisions about what resorts to visit.
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