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Together, we Connect

In a 2021 monthly series, we share stories that reflect our curiosity, ability to adapt, engagement with the community, and research and creative expertise. In April, we focused on community engagement.

Together, we Persist

In a 2021 monthly series, we share stories that reflect our curiosity, ability to adapt, engagement with the community, and research and creative expertise. In March, we focused on our determination and flexibility.

Together, we Explore

In a 2021 monthly series, we share stories that reflect our curiosity, ability to adapt, engagement with the community, and research and creative expertise. In February, we focused on our curiosity.

Tackling human attitudes and behaviors to address wicked environmental problems

Finding solutions to global environmental challenges such as climate change and growing threats from wildfires requires the perspectives of the liberal arts.

Inclusion, identity, innovation: Tackling the wicked problem of racism and exclusion

“Too often diversity issues are seen in a quantitative way, like we just need to add more people of color, and that will solve the problem. That might be part of the solution, but it’s also about addressing the systems and structures that created the problem in the first place.”

Us versus Them: The 'wicked problem' of how we talk to each other

Political polarization in an election year is nothing new, but in 2020, when you add to the mix deep divisions over the handling of a pandemic, addressing systemic racism and stopping racially motivated violence, it seems as if we’ve forgotten how to talk to each other about what is ailing society and how to fix it.

Addressing society’s ‘wicked problems’

Some may assume that dealing with the “wicked problems” of our age, like climate change or world hunger, only requires technical solutions from hard sciences like engineering. But there is growing recognition that persistent social challenges are intrinsically tied to human emotions and behavior, and can be effectively addressed only by incorporating the liberal arts.

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ACT Year-Round returns with film on inclusive education

On Sept. 23, ACT Human Rights Film Festival and The Lyric will bring 'Forget Me Not' (2021) to Fort Collins for a one-night film screening and post-film discussion.

Video: CSU professor explains his research on COVID conspiracy theories

Assistant Professor of Political Science Dominik Stecula’s research interest has always been centered around how the media shapes what people believe. In 2020, the global pandemic provided a rare opportunity to study an international emergence of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and the role media plays in shaping people’s political and personal beliefs.

CSU center works to recover remains of American WWII pilot in France

The effort is a follow up to an archeological survey conducted in 2019, which found pieces of wreckage consistent with that of a B-17 aircraft.

CSU sees spike in student/employee aid gifts during 3rd-highest fundraising year

Even as the pandemic was taking a severe financial toll on people around the world, Colorado State University had one of its strongest years ever for fundraising — and donors were especially interested in contributing to programs for people in need, such as Ram Aid and Rams Against Hunger.

CSU researchers think it’s time for a government agency focused solely on climate research, innovation

The researchers propose a new agency, ARPA-C, that would place issues of culture and equity alongside science and technology.

CSU announces new vaccine, screening and mask mandates for Fall 2021

As we head into our in-person Fall 2021 semester, we call on each of you to remember that Rams Take Care of Rams and to adhere to the new vaccine, mask and screening mandates.

Together, We

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.

Together, We Celebrate Earth Day

This Earth Day, view some of the many ways the College of Liberal Arts focuses on environmental sustainability.

Together, We Connect

In a 2021 monthly series, we share stories that reflect our curiosity, ability to adapt, engagement with the community, and research and creative expertise. This month, we are focusing on community engagement.

Together, We Persist

College of Liberal Arts Community

CSU student finds confidence, inspiration and meaning at international conference

Political Science and International Studies student Lakshitha Nagesh represented CSU at the Harvard Project for Asia and International Relations Summit (HPAIR) this summer.

First faculty member for the Father Don Willette Professorship for Theological Studies

The first faculty member to fill the endowed Willette position is Douglas Finn, Ph.D., a one-year visiting professor of Catholic studies.

Virtual Career Fair set for Sept. 22-23 offering networking opportunities

CSU’s Career Center and the College of Business are hosting the Fall All-Campus Career Fair on Sept. 22-23.

Remembering 9/11: CSU community recalls a day that changed the world

Take a look back at photos from that eventful day and hear from CSU community members in their own words.

CSU alum’s book tells how small Canadian town helped Americans in wake of 9/11

CSU alumnus Jim DeFede recently re-released his book The Day the World Came to Town, which focuses on a small Canadian town that welcomed stranded passengers on 9/11.

Creative Writing Reading Series welcomes literary voices to CSU starting Sept. 16

The Creative Writing Read Series kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 16.

Research & Creative Scholarship

History grad students chronicle wilderness preservation and backcountry camping at RMNP

The Public Lands History Center’s Parks as Portals to Learning field workshop celebrates its ninth year.

Economics research internships increase student data skills, partnerships across Colorado

This summer, the CSU Department of Economics launched a new program to increase funded research opportunities and data skill development for undergraduate students.

CSU student and alumni films to screen online for inaugural film festival

The inaugural edition of CSU’s Through the Student Lens Film Festival is scheduled to premiere online at 6 p.m. on May 3.

CSU faculty launch Center for Environmental Justice to tackle access and inequality

Colorado State University has a long history of commitment to environmental initiatives and sustainability. In March 2020, CSU expanded their environmental expertise to include social justice with the formal creation of the Center for Environmental Justice.

Bunn and team win NASA grant to forecast conservation futures in South Africa

Colorado State University Geography Professor David Bunn and his research group have won a $750,000 award from NASA to develop an “ecological forecasting” system for South Africa’s Kruger National Park and the surrounding region.

CSU economists: Investment in education would reduce financial inequality in Colorado

If Colorado wants to proactively decrease poverty levels and the income gap between white communities and communities of color, it should invest in education, the judiciary, health care and human services, according to CSU researchers.

The Conversation

Unverified reports of vaccine side effects in VAERS aren’t the smoking guns portrayed by right-wing media outlets – they can offer insight into vaccine hesitancy

Chances are you may not be not familiar with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. Co-managed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, VAERS was established in 1990 to detect possible safety problems with vaccines.

How 'In God We Trust' bills are helping advance a Christian nationalist agenda

City vehicles in Chesapeake, Virginia, will soon be getting religion.

‘Megadrought’ along border strains US-Mexico water relations

When American and Mexican engineers drafted the 1944 water treaty, they did not foresee today’s prolonged megadrought.

What the Ottoman Empire can teach us about the consequences of climate change – and how drought can uproot peoples and fuel warfare

While severe droughts, hurricanes, rising oceans and climate migration can seem new and unique to our time, past crises carry important lessons about how changing climates can destabilize human societies.

Events

ACT Year-Round returns with film on inclusive education

On Sept. 23, ACT Human Rights Film Festival and The Lyric will bring 'Forget Me Not' (2021) to Fort Collins for a one-night film screening and post-film discussion.

GAMA hosts Sprinkle, Stephens for film screening and Ecosex walking tour Sept. 9-10

The Gregory Allicar Museum of Art has announced two exciting programs with multimedia performance artists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens Sept. 9-10.

Dionne Lee to give artist talks Sept. 2-3 with poet Dungy, photographer England

In the first week of September, the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art will welcome Dionne Lee for two programs accompanying the exhibition Dionne Lee: A Muscle Memory, presented in partnership with the Center for Fine Art Photography.

Osborne’s ‘Reclamation’ exhibit offers hopeful vision of humanity, planetary future

Complex problems require creative solutions, and artists are visionaries by nature.

‘Dionne Lee: A Muscle Memory’ opens at Gregory Allicar Museum of Art

The American landscape is often portrayed as a place for contentment and peace, even as it preserves a history of trauma and violence.

College of Liberal Arts Magazine

Together, We

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.

Lenses of the Liberal Arts: Health

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.

Lenses of the Liberal Arts: Space and Place

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.

Lenses of the Liberal Arts: Technology

In the Spring 2019 issue of the Liberal Arts Magazine, we approach the topic of technology through our disciplines. The specific skills and tools unique to the liberal arts can provide understanding and a way to navigate the ways technology does (or doesn't) advance the human experience.