Utah recognizes Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month in May and the 2024 theme is technology. Caroline Gabe, Ph.D., assistant professor of archeology, wrote Archaeological Investigations at the Hamlin Valley Trap Site, a blog post, focused on mapping efforts at her thesis site.

Curtis Garcia, Ph.D., School of Education professor and director, and Michele Mann, Ph.D., School of Education associate professor, had a paper accepted by the University of New Mexico Mentoring Institute  and will present the paper at the institute’s annual conference in October. The title of the paper is Implementing a rural school-based mentoring program: A promising practice case study. It focuses on the School of Education’s collaboration with Center Consolidated School District to design a school-wide mentoring program based on the School of Education’s mentor teacher endorsement program.
Two School of Education graduates, Breck Smith and Joylyn Kinnie, were inducted into the state’s Future Educator Honor Roll. Visit CDHE for more information.

James Fuller, Henry Blount, Anthony Guntren, Eugene Schilling, Nora McBride, Matthew Capell
James Fuller, Henry Blount, Anthony Guntren, Eugene Schilling, Nora McBride, and Matthew Capell ’10

The Blo Back Art Gallery, Pueblo, Colo., April, 2024, exhibit Celery Jam: Colorado PopSurrealists featured Anthony Guntren, M.F.A., assistant professor of art and Class of 2011; Eugene Schilling, M.F.A., emeritus professor of art,; and art alumni Nora McBride, Class of 2011; Henry Blount, and James Fuller in the BIG Blo Gallery.

Christopher Schwinghamer’s, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, paper, “Genetic predictors of population resilience: A case study of native Brook Trout in headwater streams,” was published in North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

Higher Education Administration Leadership alumni: Title V Cornerstone to Capstone Project Director Anna Torello, Class of 2017, and CSU-Pueblo Director of Intercultural Initiatives and Belonging Victoria Obregon, Class of 2013, were nominated for CoCEAL’s impact awards. Anna was a nominee for the Faculty and Staff Impact Award, and Victoria for the Mary O JEDI Impact Award. Colorado Coalition for the Educational Advancement of Latinos (CoCEAL) was started as the Colorado chapter of Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) and has become a leading voice for advancing Latinx students in higher education.