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Student Flourishing with David Germano on Tuesday's Access Utah

LA Johnson
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NPR

David Germano will give a workshop for faculty and administrators on Wednesday, March 1 at 4 p.m on the Utah State University campus. The workshop will be held in Old Main 225, and registration is required. Register here.

David Germano is the Executive Director of theContemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia. He is one of the co-leaders of theStudent Flourishing Initiative, a three-way partnership with UVA, the University of Wisconsin, and Penn State University, as well as the lead organizer of an international research community of scholars and translators specializing in the Great Perfection (Dzokchen) tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

Professor Germano is director of the Tibet Center at UVA (www.uvatibetcenter.org), He also is the founder and director of the Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL, www.thlib.org), the largest international initiative using digital technology to facilitate collaboration in Tibetan Studies across disciplines. He is on the Utah State University campus in Logan to give several presentations on student flourishing and he joins us today.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.