Tag: Faculty
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Mammoths, mastodons and sloths — in Breckenridge tonight
Two CMC faculty share their experiences from the Snowmass Mastodon Discovery Site tonight This article was first published in the Summit Daily News. By Kathryn Corazzelli. It sounds a little odd, but it served as a rite of passage, and celebration, for the folks working on the Snowmass Mastodon Discovery Site last summer, where the…
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Give me shelter
Colorado Animal Rescue (CARE) and the Aspen Animal Shelter create safety net for other shelters This article originally appeared in the Aspen Daily News. By Chad Abraham. The pig arrived at Colorado Animal Rescue outside Glenwood Springs on Wednesday from the Front Range. Oinking quietly in an employee’s arms, the swine helps define one of…
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Breckenridge: A-Basin lift tower frames CMC outdoor classroom
Campus to open amphitheater in spring This article was first printed in the Summit Daily News. By Janice Kurbjun. There’s a new sight to see along Highway 9 heading into Breckenridge: A chairlift tower standing singularly outside of the Colorado Mountain College campus. The tower is phase one of a project to create an outdoor…
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EMS Symposium Lives up to Its Mission
CMC Educators bring home best practice ideas from annual event EMS Director Mike Trujillo, Clinical Coordinator Ken Rogers and Paramedic Professor Liz Owen attended the 16th Annual Educational Symposium & Trade Show Sept. 13-18 in Reno, Nevada. The National Association of EMS Educators (www.naemse.org) puts on the event. Their mission is to “Inspire Excellence in…
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Q & A with Sustainability Studies professor Mercedes Quesada-Embid
New professor reflects on sustainability, service, and teaching Mercedes Quesada-Embid’s life reads a bit like a script for the content of the Sustainability Studies class she recently taught on a crisp autumn morning at Colorado Mountain College in Dillon. Deeply active in community work, pursuing research that explores the intersections of economics, resources and…
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100,000 year old Mastodon DNA
Dr. Ron Carsten lectures tonight in Snowmass Village Colorado Mountain College instructors have been presenting a weekly mini-series of presentations, “A Walk Back in (Ice Age) Time,” on topics related to the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site in Snowmass Village. The sessions are free and open to the public. Sessions are held on Fridays through Sept.…
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Good Morning Vail TV features CMC’s Amy Connerton
CMC’s medical programs highlighted Interested in CMC’s EMT, WEMT, CNA, Paramedic, Medical Assisting and Nursing programs? Amy Connerton shares some success stories on Good Morning Vail TV last week. Many successful grads have been hired directly from their internships; current students range in age from 20 to 50. It’s never too late to expand or…
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Helping the four-legged residents of Joplin
Colorado Animal Rescue trainer Tracy Yajko volunteers in Missouri This article first appeared in the Glenwood Springs Post Independent on July 4, 2011. By John Colson When a tornado hits and levels a good part of a town, help comes running from all over for the people whose lives have, at best, been turned upside…
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Area teachers diggin’ what they learned at Snowmass fossil site
Experience to help CMC contingent develop climate model This article first appeared in the Glenwood Springs Post Independent on July 2, 2011. By John Stroud. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — Sandy Jackson’s career teaching archaeology has taken her throughout the southwestern United States on various field expeditions looking for human artifacts that are maybe several hundred…
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An artist with a sculptural aesthetic
CMC Ceramics instructor to exhibit at Art on the Rockies Reprinted from the Vail Daily. By Brenda Himelfarb Artist Colleen Sullivan Everett is gregarious and energetic. Everett, the executive director of the Vail Valley Arts League, is one busy lady who juggles her time promoting the arts in the valley, teaching ceramics at Colorado Mountain…