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This month, we welcomed the 2024-2025 cohort of the
We have a full year of water education, opportunities for connection, and fun lined up for these Water Fellows.
 
Are you interested in connecting with students as a guest speaker, have an idea for a future field trip, or just want to learn more about the Colorado Water Fellows at the OWOW Center program? 
 
Interested in reading past newsletters? Check them out here!

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Photo: Denver Botanic Gardens
2025 Watershed Summit- Call for Presenters
Are you interested in presenting at the 2025 Watershed Summit on Friday, June 20, 2025? Water professionals, faculty, staff, and students are welcome to submit a presentation proposal!
Deadline to submit is December 1.

 

Student Corner:

Earn Money for your Commute with Commutrics
Commutrics is an app that rewards its users for reporting how they commute. The more sustainably you commute, the higher the reward! If you are a student, please download the app and join today using your student email.
 
Internship & Employment Opportunities
Check out our Water Jobs & Internships Board on our website and follow the OWOW Center on LinkedIn for frequent job and internship opportunities in the environmental community. 
 
Earn & Learn- Spring 2025

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October 28:Spring 2025 Priority Registration Begins
November 25- December 1: Fall Break
December 13: Fall 2024 Commencement
Contact Nona or Mia for course questions or advising appointments.
 

Events: 
Ask a Professor- Water and the West
Oct. 22: 11am-1pm | Pedestrian intersection between the Emmanual Gallery and the Library
Be engaged, get informed, VOTE!
Here’s your chance to ask faculty experts about the big issues in the 2024 Election. Food, prizes, or other swag available to those that stop by to “Ask a Professor."  
This week's topic--Water and the West.
 
Undocu-Career Workshop
Oct. 22: 11:30am-1:00pm | AES Room 150
Attend this workshop on career & income options for professionals without work authorization! Following the workshop, lunch will be offered and a panel of immigrant entrepreneurs will address questions from moderator and audience. 
 
2024 Water Connections- The Ute Water Legacy Film Screening & Panel
Oct. 23: 5-8pm | Fort Lewis College- Student Union Ballroom
 
Fall Job & Internship Fair 2024
Oct. 24: 10am-2pm | Tivoli Turnhalle
The Fall Job & Internship Fair is open to all Auraria Campus students/alumni from all majors who are looking for post-graduate opportunities or internships in a wide variety of industries. 
Dress for success and bring several copies of your resume to connect with employers!
 
ASCP Spooktacular
Oct. 24: 2pm-4pm | Tivoli 346
Celebrate a fun and sustainable Halloween.
 
Water In The West Symposium
Nov. 14: 8am-6:30pm | CSU Spur

News: 
Video: MSU Denver
Closed-loop compost system paves the way for a sustainable future
RED- Polina Saran and Josh Geurink | October 1, 2024
The tri-institutional program, which works in collaboration with Metropolitan State University of Denver, Community College of Denver and the University of Colorado Denver, developed an innovative solution: Bring all composting in-house.
 
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Photo: Joshua J. Cotten
Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats
High Country News- Natalia Mesa | October 11, 2024
A program that pays rice farmers to create wetland habitats is a rare conservation win.
 
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Photo: Submarine Cable Map by TeleGeography
 This Week In Water- Sharks or Saboteurs. What Could Bring Down the Internet?
H2O Radio- Frani Halperin | October 20, 2024
We depend on the web for nearly every aspect of our daily lives but is this vital infrastructure secure from hackers or bad actors? That answer rests on the bottom of the ocean—or on university job boards.
 

Do you have news, events, jobs, or internships you'd like to share? Send details to mpino16@msudenver.edu.

Stay in touch by following the OWOW Center on social media!
We regularly post fun water facts, scholarship and job opportunities, and more.
As always, please reach out if you have any questions or concerns.
 
All the Best, 
The One World One Water Center Staff
Nona Shipman: nshipman@msudenver.edu
Jennifer Riley-Chetwynd: jennifer.riley@botanicgardens.org
Mia Pino: mpino16@msudenver.edu
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