DU Portfolio

Materials from 2020-2021 Courses/ Presentations

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Fall 2021

Nov 5th Friday Webinar - Lessons From War—My Soldier Story in the 10th Mountain Division 2005 - 2009

Oct 29th Friday Webinar - The Cold Isn't the Biggest Threat to Colorado's Power Grid—Other Climate Disasters Might Be

Oct 22nd Friday Webinar - Colorado's Stagnant Budget Isn't Helping the Shrinking Middle Class

Oct 15th Friday Webinar - Sports Betting in Colorado

Oct 8th Friday Webinar - Mayor Robert Speer and the City Beautiful Movement

Oct 1st Friday Webinar - The Power of Census Data

Sept 24th Friday Webinar - Climate Change and Extreme Weather: Links Between the 2020 Colorado Wildfires and 2019 Missouri River Floods

Materials from 2020-2021 Courses/ Presentations

Spring 2021

May 14th Friday Webinar - First Non-Stops: Flying the North Atlantic

May 7th Friday Webinar - The Comfort of Murder: The Origin, Rise and Unstoppable Popularity of the Mystery Novel

April 30th Friday Webinar - Recognizing and Preventing Frauds and Scams that Target Older Adults: A Guide from the US Postal Service

April 23rd Friday Webinar - Cities of the Future

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Videos from the facilitator - some mentioned within the presentation and some are additional information.

Full articles which were referred to in the presentation -

April 9th Friday Webinar - Colorado's Propensity for Drought

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Below are the videos mentioned within the PDF

Another view of the North American Drought Projection

Winter 2021

Feb 12th Friday Webinar - Black Americans in the West

A note from presenter, Terri Gentry ~ We are looking forward to opening (the museum) in late spring, and invite guests to check in with us via www.bawmhc.org to learn of our reopening plans as we determine when that will be. We appreciate the community's support as we navigate through these experiences.

Terri's recommended reading list:

Feb 5th Friday Webinar - Colorado's COVID-19 Epidemic: What Is Going On at the Beginning of 2021?

LINKS PRESENTED DURING WEBINAR

Johns Hopkins Dashboard: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

NY Times COVID-19 World page: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html

NY Times COVID-19 USA page: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html

NY Times COVID-19 Vaccine Development page: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html

NY Times COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Tracker: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html

CDPHE COVID-19 Homepage: https://covid19.colorado.gov/

CDPHE COVID-19 Data Dashboard: https://covid19.colorado.gov/data

CDPHE COVID-19 Vaccine Dashboard: https://covid19.colorado.gov/vaccine-data-dashboard

Colorado School of Public Health Regional Model Dashboard: https://colorado-data.org/

Denver Museum COVID-19 Series: https://institute.dmns.org/perspectives/posts/covid-19-in-colorado-a-virtual-conversation-series/

Jan 29th Special Interest Group Conversation - Changing the Narrative: Heal the Nation

Jan 29th Presentation - Peacemaking and Communicating Ethically

Jan 22nd Presentation - America's Experience in Vietnam and Its Lasting Impacts

Jan 15th Presentation - Preventing the Cascading Collisions of Space Debris

Fall 2020

Oct 23rd Presentation - The Electoral College: Tyrannizing, or Tyranny of, the Majority?

Sept 25th Presentation - Power Against Fraud

Genetics and Genetic Engineering with Colleen Jorgensen

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Materials from 2019-2020 Courses/ Presentations

February 14, 2020 Presentation Slides

Recycle Often, Recycle Right with Laila Amerman and Wolf Kray

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PLEASE NOTE - The information below regarding what can and cannot be recycled is for the trash collector Waste Management ONLY (additional information can be found on Waste Management’s website under Residential and Recycling). If Waste Management is not your Trash Collector, check the respective website for what can or cannot be recycled.