A project to construct school buildings for orphans in a Uganda village – started by a Colorado State University custodian and student more than seven years ago – has not only survived the pandemic but expanded, and fundraising continues for additional improvements.
The CSU Fight Song turns 90 years old this Saturday, Nov. 19! While the lyrics have changed over time – such as modifying "stalwart Aggies" to "stalwart Ram Team" as the university's mascot and name changed in 1950s – the beloved rallying tune has been sung thousands of times across nine decades.
CSU Sociology Professor and Food Systems Institute Co-director Michael Carolan spoke to The Audit podcast about his research into food, food systems and building empathy on common ground.
CSU is a global leader in climate change education and research and has been selected to host a unique art exhibit and side events at the U.S. Center Pavilion in the negotiation zone of COP27. The CSU team will be hosting a booth and several panel discussions in the main area of the COP27 during the 12-day summit Nov. 6-18. in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula.
A cohort of seven Colorado State University faculty members are the first of a new initiative by the Office of Vice President for Research to help faculty influence public policy.
Colorado State University achieved another record-breaking year in sponsored projects expenditures, topping last year’s record by nearly $10 million as it invested in research areas such as climate solutions, public health and agriculture.
The CSU Summer Extension Internship program gives students the opportunity to take their research and expertise into the field to help communities across Colorado.
Riley Lynch, CSU watershed science alumna and anthropology graduate student worked with the Colorado Stormwater Center during her CSU Extension internship where she managed communications with over 300 applicants and the 20 selected program participants of the Rain Garden Pilot Program. She also co-taught the three-hour Certified Rain Garden Installer Course, sourced nearly 600 native plants, and led multiple rain garden installations with groups of youth and adult volunteers.
Two history majors get archival research experience during their summer CSU Extension internships: Tobin Gold documents the agricultural history of the Sterling Irrigation Company and Aubree Vecellio helps with geolocation and visualizing historic images of the Colorado River Compact.
Riley Lynch, CSU watershed science alumna and anthropology graduate student worked with the Colorado Stormwater Center during her CSU Extension internship where she managed communications with over 300 applicants and the 20 selected program participants of the Rain Garden Pilot Program. She also co-taught the three-hour Certified Rain Garden Installer Course, sourced nearly 600 native plants, and led multiple rain garden installations with groups of youth and adult volunteers.
Abi Tekeste and Giselle Alpizar-Calixto use their summer internship experience with CSU Extension to understand the language barriers to healthcare, and to provide information and resources, in rural Colorado in a project called Spanish in Professional Environments.
Assistant Professor Alexis Kennedy speaks about engaged scholarship, the strong student community, and the value of a public policy and administration degree in today's society.
CSU graduate students presented their research, entrepreneurship and creative arts while competing for over $20,000 in scholarships during the 2022 GradShow on Nov. 16.
The words used to describe those who received last year’s Colorado State University Best Teacher Awards showed why they were selected. Nominations are being accepted for the 2023 winners.
CREWS, which stands for Creating Respect, Educating Wellness (for and by) Students, is a diverse, trained peer education team who help fellow Rams make safer, healthier decisions about alcohol, sexual health and nicotine.
The mural, titled "State S(t)eal," is part of the Department of Art & Art History’s Mural Initiative and Engaged Art Walk program.
On the final day of the Symposium for Inclusive Excellence last month, MURALS hosted A Glimpse of MURALS in the Lory Student Center Theatre.
The CSU Fight Song turns 90 years old this Saturday, Nov. 19! While the lyrics have changed over time – such as modifying "stalwart Aggies" to "stalwart Ram Team" as the university's mascot and name changed in 1950s – the beloved rallying tune has been sung thousands of times across nine decades.
CSU Sociology Professor and Food Systems Institute Co-director Michael Carolan spoke to The Audit podcast about his research into food, food systems and building empathy on common ground.
Spooky season is the perfect time to get scared with friends, and what better way than to watch a few horror films, heart-pumping thrillers, and scary TV shows together? Luckily the Department of Communication Studies is home to CSU’s film studies minor, so Communication Studies faculty and graduate students know a thing or two about spooky films.
Little’s expertise as a historian of early North America, emphasizing women, gender, and sexuality has made her the go-to expert for the showrunners in delving into the lives of early colonial women.
Colorado State University Associate Professor Katie Abrams discusses how the right message - and the right photo op - can help influence our behavior out in the wild.
The educational research effort is currently collecting artifacts, historical documents and personal stories as part of an online archive to preserve Northern Colorado's LGBTQ+ past.
The Writer's Harvest is slated for 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 10 at the Longs Peak Room in the Lory Student Center, and spotlights Jaquira Díaz, Nina McConigley, Todd Mitchell and Harrison Candelaria Fletcher.
As part of a continuing effort to bring community members and city leaders on campus to engage with students, the Straayer Center for Public Service Leadership and the Department of Political Science hosted a series of events to support and educate members of the campus community prior to the 2022 election.
Nalini Nadkarni, Professor of Biology at the University of Utah, will be the keynote presenter at Grad Show 2022 on Nov. 16 in the LSC Theater at 4 p.m.
The Colorado State University community is starting to buzz with excitement with the approach of the Oct. 13-15 Homecoming and Family Weekend.
Kerry Sanders was keynote speaker for CSU's inaugural Donald and Lorena Wildlife Photo and Video Symposium.
In the autumn of 1922, Benito Mussolini, the ambitious and charismatic founder of the Fascist Party, became Italy’s youngest prime minister – seizing power in a march on Rome that ushered in a dark period of totalitarian rule.
Americans don’t agree on much these days, but many feel that the U.S. is on the wrong track and the future is bleak.
After the FBI completed a lawful search of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Aug. 8, 2022, conservative politicians responded with one of three strategies: silence, circumspection and attack.
Any speculation about whether Donald Trump will return to Twitter after his permanent suspension in 2021 must begin with two caveats. First, we do not know for sure if, or when, the presumed new owner of the social media platform, Elon Musk, will lift the ban. Second, Trump has said he will not come back.
A border can be so many different things and have so many different implications once it is drawn. Borders define culture, opportunity, and identity. Some borders are visible and tangible while others are conceptual and symbolic. Learn more about how the liberal arts helps us navigate the borders in our lives in the Winter 2021 issue of the College of Liberal Arts Magazine.
Learn more about our curiosity, ability to adapt, engagement with the community, and research and creative expertise in the Spring 2021 issue of the College of Liberal Arts Magazine.
The focus of our majors in liberal arts - culture, politics, communications, economics, and the like - intertwine with health challenges worldwide that range from pandemics to affordable housing, air quality to spiritual health. Learn more about how the liberal arts approach the topic of health in the Winter 2020/Spring 2021 issue of the College of Liberal Arts Magazine.
In the Winter 2019/Spring 2020 issue of the Liberal Arts Magazine, we apply the lenses of the liberal arts to place and space. Colorado State University and the Clark Building are both spaces located in Fort Collins, along the Front Range, in the Mountain West. But they are also places -- made meaningful by the people attached to them and the memories created within, through, and because of them.