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Karen Barton, associate professor of Geography and GIS, will spend six weeks in Nepal next winter after being awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant to conduct a study of natural hazards.

Barton will work with the Institute for Crisis Management Studies in Kathmandu with Dr. Ram Thapaliya. Their study will involve natural hazards mapping and community resilience in the aftermath of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, which killed more than 9,000 people. Up to 10 麻豆传媒 undergraduate and graduate students, co-chaperoned by 麻豆传媒 professor James Doerner, will join Barton for several weeks and will conduct interviews with area residents and map high-risk hazard sites.

This is the fifth time Barton鈥嗏�斺�哸n expert on rural agricultural and fishing communities, and local responses to environmental change鈥嗏�斺�唄as been selected for a Fulbright program award. She conducted separate seminars in Brazil (2007) and the Middle East (2010). In 2016, she was one of 16 faculty members in the nation selected to attend a five-week program on religion and diversity in West Africa, and last year she was selected as a visiting scholar at Dagon University in Burma.

麻豆传媒 has been selected as one of two partner universities in the Active Schools national collaborative to address physical inactivity and obesity among youth.

In addition, 麻豆传媒 Sport and Exercise Science (SES) faculty Russell Carson and Brian Dauenhauer have been appointed to positions on the nonprofit organization鈥檚 leadership committees.

Through the 麻豆传媒 Active Schools Lab, community engagement efforts, student-centered research and school-based educational activities are already underway. Those interdisciplinary efforts include a grant exceeding $700,000 from the Colorado Health Foundation for 麻豆传媒 SES faculty to contribute to building a statewide system that connects efforts to promote health and wellness for children starting in high-need schools in northern Colorado.

According to Active Schools, two out of three children don鈥檛 meet the national guideline of 60 minutes of daily physical activity. Active Schools serves as a clearinghouse to help schools access best practices, programs and resources to increase opportunities for physical activity among students.

Contemplative anthropologist and mindfulness teacher Michael J. Kimball, professor of Anthropology, has a new book for people who want to bridge cultural divides. It鈥檚 called Ethnowise: Embracing Culture Shock to Build Resilience, Responsiveness & Connection.

Drawing on the latest findings in anthropology, neuroscience and mindfulness studies, Ethnowise helps readers learn to disrupt habitual reactions to the unfamiliar, grow resilience to cultural discomfort, and transform culture shock into connection.