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5/20/2013
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5/23/2013
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Category:
Professional Development
Contact Email: gprice@ksu.edu Description:
NECV presents an opportunity for sharing and learning the latest research and trends in volunteerism, gaining innovative ideas for reaching new volunteers, investigating the best practices for developing and retaining current volunteers, and strengthening volunteer management efforts.
Target Audience:
Extension professionals, educators, community development professionals, anyone wanting to increase knowledge and skills working with volunteers.
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Professional Development
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Frankenmuth, Michigan
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Gayle Price
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5/21/2013
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5/23/2013
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Category:
Professional Development
Contact Email: zwiley@ksu.edu Description:
The navigating Difference training is designed to assist Extension professionals expand their skills in working with diverse audiences. Participants can expect this training to provide:
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A set of skills to enhance your work with diverse audiences
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A solid foundation in intercultural communications theory and practice
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Opportunities to apply new learning in your work.
This training is based on a set of cultural competencies and creates a safe and welcoming environment for all learners with activities that respect and support individual learning styles. Participants' life experiences are viewed as an important source of knowledge.
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Professional Development
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Colby
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Zelia Wiley
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5/28/2013
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5/31/2013
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Events
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Manhattan, KSU
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5/29/2013
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Category:
Events
Contact Email: cathy@ksu.edu Description: You are invited to Jim Strine's Retirement Reception on Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at the Kansas Forest Service State Office located at 2610 Claflin Rd, Manhattan, KS . The reception will begin at 1:30 PM with a tree dedication ceremony on the State Office grounds. Following the dedication, refreshments will be served. The reception will conclude at 4:00 PM. Celebrate 35 years of forestry service with Jim, for more information contact Cathy x23300.
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5/29/2013
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1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
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5/29/2013
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5/29/2013
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1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
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Events
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Manhattan, KS
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Cathy Sandoval
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5/29/2013
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Category:
Events
Contact Email: gmcclure@ksu.edu Target Audience: Riley County wheat growers and industry representatives
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5/29/2013
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5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Events
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Riley County
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Greg McClure
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5/29/2013
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6/1/2013
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Category:
Professional Development
Contact Email: mhiggins@ksu.edu Description: The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) is a professional educational and membership society whose areas of research and study includes Fitness Assessment and Training; Cardiovascular, Renal and Respiratory Physiology; Skeletal Muscle, Bone, and Connective Tissue; Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement; Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Promotion; Metabolism and Nutrition; Psychology, Behavior, and Neurobiology; Environmental and Occupational Physiology;
Immunology/Genetics/Endocrinology; Athlete Care and Clinical Medicine; Clinical Exercise Physiology; Clinical Case Abstract Categories.
& Target Audience: Professionals, practitioners, and educators.
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Professional Development
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Indianapolis, IN
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Mary Meck Higgins
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6/1/2013
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6/30/2013
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Category:
Professional Development
Contact Email: mhiggins@ksu.edu Description: The topic of the two-day annual nutrition conference varies each year. The conference provides participants with the most current, objective
and authoritative information available in important and emerging areas
of human nutrition. The conference, typically held in June, draws health educators and other professionals from around the nation because of its
outstanding reputation among nutrition professionals. Sponsored by the College of Applied Human
Sciences at Colorado State University through an endowment established by the
family of Lillian Fountain Smith. Smith was a 1918 graduate in home economics at
Colorado State University who recognized the importance of nutrition in
her own life and the lives of her family members and chose to assist
the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition in
improving and extending its nutrition outreach activities.
Target Audience: FCS professionals and health educators such as dietitians, nutritionists, exercise physiologists, physicians, nurses, physician assistants and others
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Professional Development
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specific dates to be determined; Colorado State Un
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Mary Meck Higgins
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6/3/2013
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6/5/2013
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Category:
Professional Development
Contact Email: swarner@ksu.edu Description: New extension agents participate in a three-day orientation designed to welcome them to K-State Research and Extension and launch them toward a successful career.
Topics include an introduction to organizational history and mission, extension educational programming, and the building of professional relationships. Target Audience: New Extension Agents
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Professional Development
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Manhattan
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Stacey Warner
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6/4/2013
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Category:
Events
Contact Email: gillen@ksu.edu Description: Management of winter- and spring-grown crops
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6/4/2013
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9:00 AM -
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Events
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K-State Northwest Research-Extension Center, Colby
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Bob Gillen
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