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New Study Shows the Impact Trail Recreation Has on Deer, Elk in the Gunnison Basin

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Write What You Know? Maybe Not So Much.

Write What You Know? Maybe Not So Much. It’s probably somewhat fitting that the origins of the phrase “write what you know” are a matter…

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What “Nature Writing” Means Now

What “Nature Writing” Means Now: New paradigm shifts in America’s oldest writing tradition — and a unique program at Western Colorado University From seven to…

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Meet the Experts

Our School of Graduate Studies faculty are leading experts in their fields, combining academic research, professional experience, and applied knowledge to inform practice, policy, and industry.

Laura Pritchett

Nature Writing Concentration Director
Madelon Van de Kerk

Director of MS in Ecology; Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology
CMarie Fuhrman

Associate Director, Graduate Program in Creative Writing; Faculty, Poetry and Nature Writing Concentrations
James Napoli

Screenwriting Concentration Director
Kevin A. Nelson

Associate Dean of the School of Business, Professor of Business Administration
Derek D. Houston

Assistant Professor of Biology
Brad Burton

Rady Chair in Petroleum Geology
Kari Commerford

Lecturer in Psychology