Twelve months of wellness: February 2024

Follow your heart

Charles Dickens offered this advice on boosting emotional, physical and social health:

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

Featured events

HeartMath Techniques: Science of the Heart by Let's CU Well

Explore the latest research on the role Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and emotions play in performance and health. Participants will learn how to utilize the heart/brain connection to regulate heart rhythms to immediately address their emotional state.

Tues., Feb. 13 at 1 p.m.
Registration required.

Erin Cunningham Ritter, PhD, is the director of wellness and employee engagement for the College of Arts and Sciences at CU Boulder.

We’re Not OK: Black Faculty Experiences and Higher Education Strategies

Utilizing self-reflection exercises and small and large group discussion, the authors of “We’re Not OK: Black Faculty Experiences and Higher Education Strategies” along with workshop participants will examine real-world narratives from Black faculty.

Noon Tues., Feb. 27, 2024
Registration required.

Spring Conference Promising Teaching Practices in the 21st Century

Join us for a two-day exploration of innovative teaching methodologies and practices that are shaping the future of learning in higher education. This conference is free to all CU educators and future educators, including faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate students.

Feb. 26-27

Keynote speaker: Christina Katopodis, PhD, City University of New York (CUNY)
Sponsor: Center for Teaching and Learning

Wellness Insight: Heart Health may link to the gut

Research led by Vienna Brunt, suggests that changes in our gut might affect our heart health.
In a study, they found that older mice had better heart health when their gut bacteria were altered.
Brunt and Doug Seals recommend eating yogurt and fiber to keep our gut healthy, which could help our hearts.

Vienna Brunt, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Integrative Physiology.

Ready. Set. Take action!

Check out CU research on heart health.

Learn about the Department of Integrative Physiology's evidenced based tips and research.

Earn cash and participate in research.

Join a study on stress and coping in college.

Get paid for participating in collaborative research.

Study examining teamwork, collaboration

Take part in Body Image Awareness Month.

Join the Rec for a series of free events to celebrate every body.

Celebrate Days of Gratitude on campus.

Join this event from Feb. 12-16 to learn about benefits of gratitude.

Douglas Seals, CU distinguised professor of integrative physiology specializes in the following:

Biological and lifestyle factors that influence cardiovascular aging.
Mechanisms that mediate cardiovascular aging.
Interventions to improve cardiovascular health, motor performance and cognitive function.
Integrative Physiology of Aging Laboratory

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