One Health InstituteVolume 6 | November 2018
Winter is Coming!
CSU Awarded Rockefeller Grant: Youth Engagement: Healthy Eating and Activity
Colorado State University, with the Departments of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Public Health, and the One Health Institute, have collaborated with the Bruce Randolph School in Denver, Colorado on a youth-led healthy eating and physical activity project. This project, funded through the Rockefeller Foundation, seeks to bring youth into discussions on health, wellness, and community solutions and provides students with a stage to implement lasting change in their own communities.
This project aims to engage community and university partners to identify and implement effective intervention strategies to curb the rise of childhood obesity. High school and middle school students will participate in youth engagement activities to identify, assess, and propose policy, systems, or environmental changes to enhance healthy eating and physical activity in their community.
Dr. Laura Bellows is the lead PI.
Brazilian Amazonia Engagement & Research: A Workshop Organized by One Health Institute and the School of Global Environmental Sustainability.
The workshop showcased CSU’s current connections and recently developed partnerships in the Brazilian Amazonia and defined strategies to strengthen the university’s presence as a relevant player in research, civic engagement and education in the so-called “lungs of the planet”. CSU faculty members currently researching (i) soil biodiversity, (ii) leprosy, (iii) environmental justice, and (iv) pollinator insects in that region presented their work and partnerships in place, and opportunities for other disciplines were discussed. The presenters included:
Bruno Sobral, One Health Institute and Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology | Introduction
Michele Betsill, Department of Political Science | Global Environmental Politics in the Amazon: A CSU-UnB education abroad course.
Diana Wall, SoGES and Department of Biology
Andre Franco, Department of Biology
Zaid Abdo, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology | Soil biodiversity in Amazonian land-uses: building collaborations for a pilot study on the functional diversity of genes.
Arathi Seshadri, Department of Soil and Cop Sciences | Building collaborations for participatory research in the Brazilian Amazon: stingless bees and specialty fruits.
John Spencer, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology | Building international leprosy collaborations in the Brazilian Amazon: 10 years of experience.
