CSU among nation's top producers of Fulbright U.S. Scholars
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently listed CSU among the top 20 doctoral institutions for Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program recipients in the U.S.
College of Liberal Arts Latest News
Beyond the A and the M: College of Liberal Arts
The liberal arts have been essential to Colorado State University since its first class in 1880.
The Liberal Arts in the 21st century
College of Liberal Arts Dean Ben Withers discusses the power of a liberal education.
Reel CSU Stories: Pop artist Andy Warhol visited campus in 1981
Relive Andy Warhol's 1981 visit to Colorado State University in this "Reel CSU" story.
Scenes from CSU's 150th birthday celebration
A variety of events marked CSU's official 150th birthday on Feb. 11, 2020.
Submissions open for Through the Student Lens Film Festival
Through the Student Lens: Colorado State University Film Festival, supported by the ACT Human Rights Film Festival is now taking submissions. The festival takes place Thursday, March 26 and will showcase short films made by CSU students and alumni. Guidelines for submission are available at https://actfilmfest.colostate.edu/tsl/.
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Seven outstanding teachers to be honored at the 2020 Best Teacher Awards
Meet the seven teachers who've inspired students, faculty and alumni at CSU.
CSU’s Puksta Scholars dedicated to civic engagement and social justice
See how CSU’s Puksta Scholars are working to find solutions to major community issues.
Art professor and ceramicist wins prestigious United States Artists Fellowship
Associate Professor Del Harrow is the first faculty member of the Department of Art and Art History to receive a USA Fellowship.
To host or not to host: CSU welcomes 1,000 theater students
CSU has welcomed more than 1,000 students from western colleges and universities to the weeklong Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and the University Center for the Arts.
Johnson joins Department of Communication Studies as Assistant Professor in Race and Rhetoric
In fall 2020 the Department of Communication Studies expands its faculty expertise in the area of rhetoric and civic engagement with the addition of newly hired Assistant Professor Morgan Johnson.
Proud to Be: Self-described introvert Valdez finds her voice with Red Cross
Josett Valdez (B.A., ’01, speech communication), chief development officer for the Red Cross of Colorado and Wyoming, comes to her leadership strengths by way of being a self-proclaimed introvert.
Faculty Friday
Flashback Faculty Friday: Mary Crow
Professor Emerita Mary Crow was a professor in the Department of English from 1964 to 2003. Her specialty was in poetry, of which she wrote several books thanks to the research support she received from the College of Liberal Arts.
Flashback Faculty Friday: David McComb
Professor Emeritus David McComb from the Department of History pens a letter to the Clark Building, reflecting on the years since they both arrived on campus in 1969.
Flashback Faculty Friday: Sue Ellen Markey Charlton
Professor Emerita Sue Ellen Markey Charlton taught in the Department of Political Science from 1967 to 2010. She specialized in international relations, comparative politics, and gender studies and now reflects on some of her memories from her time at CSU.
Faculty Friday: Tom Lundberg
Professor Tom Lundberg coordinates the Fibers program in the Department of Art and Art History. He is especially interested in cloth that marks time, carries identity, or migrates with people.
Research & Creative Scholarship
The language of science
Erika Szymanski, assistant professor of rhetoric of science in the Department of English, uses language to make the invisible visible. That’s a challenge when you study microbes. Read more about microbiomes and about how our perceptions bring them into being.
Submissions open for Through the Student Lens Film Festival
Through the Student Lens: Colorado State University Film Festival, supported by the ACT Human Rights Film Festival is now taking submissions. The festival takes place Thursday, March 26 and will showcase short films made by CSU students and alumni. Guidelines for submission are available at https://actfilmfest.colostate.edu/tsl/.
Center for Literary Publishing wins $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
The Center for Literary Publishing at CSU has been awarded a $10,000 Art Works grant from NEA to support national and regional publications in 2020.
Are you listening? Contribute to research in listening across difference
Have you ever been accused of “not listening”? Did you feel misunderstood? Now is your chance to put that misunderstanding to good use.
CSU prof’s new book explores environmental policy’s impact on nomadism around Mediterranean
In the 1800s, shepherds around the Mediterranean Sea moved their flocks between summer and winter pastures seasonally, traveling through forests in southern France and other areas.
Fiber-rich diet eases son’s asthma, launches professor’s interdisciplinary microbiome research
Gamze Cavdar’s son, Ada, had suffered from asthma since he was a toddler, and by the time he was 7 years old, his attacks were so bad that he was regularly missing school and being taken to the emergency room.
Events
NASA astronaut Dr. Yvonne Cagle to headline Women in Science symposium March 3
Dr. Yvonne Cagle, NASA astronaut and a family physician, will provide the keynote address.
ACT Human Rights Film Festival celebrates five years of film, community and social justice at CSU
On April 3, the ACT Human Rights Film Festival will open at the Lory Student Center Theatre at Colorado State University, celebrating its fifth annual run as Colorado’s only film festival wholly dedicated to the intersection of art and social justice.
Mona Hanna-Attisha discusses the Flint water crisis Feb. 12
'What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City' tells the story of how the pediatrician discovered lead in the local drinking water.
CSU art museum features Kandinsky, Torres-García and other modern masters
The Gregory Allicar Museum of Art is presenting two new temporary exhibitions this spring.
Community invited to Dec. 7 event for exhibition on the history of brewing in Fort Collins
The Fort Collins community is invited to engage in an interactive experience with brewing enthusiasts and CSU graduate students at "History Harvest," being held from 10 a.m. to noon on Dec. 7 at the Global Village Museum.
The Conversation
A quarter of US parents are unmarried – and that changes how much they invest in their kids
Families with different structures parent differently – and that can perpetuate inequality across generations.
America can afford a Green New Deal – here’s how
Democrats such as Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Markey are proposing an ambitious decarbonization plan that critics are calling unaffordable. A green economist explains how the US could pay for it.
When newspapers close, voters become more partisan
American politics has gotten more partisan in the last 50 years. One of the reasons: the closing of local newspapers.
Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many ways besides climate change
The coal, oil and natural gas industries are also connected with human rights violations, public health disasters and environmental devastation.
College of Liberal Arts Magazine
A Liberal Arts Lens: Technology’s role in society past, present, and future
We’re aware of the role technology plays in shaping our individual lives, but how does technology affect and influence our society and our future? The specific skills and tools unique to the liberal arts can provide understanding as well as a way to navigate the ways technology does (or doesn’t) advance the human experience.
This content is not available in your country (yet)
Getting locked out can happen not just from your car or your home. Getting locked out can happen online when you’re not able to view certain films or media. Geoblocking, or regional lockout, is a way that media distribution companies protect their films. While we may think that the internet and other technologies have created a global village, media distribution practices and other uses of technology have prevented that global interconnection.
Recognizing and reporting signs of terrorism can help prevent attacks
Technology has played a large role in the growth of terrorism through recruitment of terrorists worldwide or through cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. Jordan Clark (’11) trains people to recognize warning signs of possible terrorist or criminal acts on social media and in other settings through the Community Awareness Program at the CELL in Denver, Colo.
Artificial intelligence, the future of work, and inequality
One of the most spectacular facts of the last two centuries of economic history is the exponential growth in GDP per capita in most of the world. This economic progress, unprecedented in human history, would be impossible without major breakthroughs in technology. Many believe we are on the verge of a new technological revolution that will see Artificial Intelligence (AI) automating a majority of tasks that are currently performed by humans. Should we see AI as liberating or as a destructive force?