Summertime Standouts: Craig Somers
History graduate student Craig Somers spent his summer interning with the Public Lands History Center and the City of Greeley's Historic Preservation Office.
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CSU played key role in restoration of Apollo 11 Mission Control Center
The Public Lands History Center at Colorado State University played an integral role in restoring the Johnson Space Center’s Apollo Mission Control Center that was used during the Apollo 11 moon landing 50 years ago.
Building maps of the past with new technologies
Robert Ower (’18) uses the research skills from history classes to build maps and create ‘mappable data’ for high tech industries. Ower’s path from work to college to a meaningful career reflects the maps that he makes with ArcGIS. Layers of skills, research, patience, effort and luck are the mappable data. His emerging career is a world of his own creation.
Screening the Past: Student documentary screening event May 9
Assistant Professor of History Thomas Cauvin is hosting a short historical film screening of five student-made documentaries on Thursday, May 9.
College of Liberal Arts Faculty & Staff Honored at 2019 Awards Ceremonies
The College of Liberal Arts acknowledged the accomplishments and efforts of the outstanding faculty, staff, and volunteers within the College at annual award ceremony.
NEH awards CSU $350,000 grant for Colorado Encyclopedia
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently awarded Colorado State University a $350,000 grant to enhance the Colorado Encyclopedia, an online compendium of information on life in Colorado.
History Career Day explores liberal arts career options beyond the classroom
“What are you going to do with that?” is a question many parents and relatives ask potential history majors.
Liberal Arts students can spend a semester at CSU’s Todos Santos Center in Mexico
A new semester-long education abroad program, Liberal Arts and Community Engagement, will give students the opportunity to immerse themselves in a new culture, lifestyle, and community at the CSU Todos Santos Center in Baja California Sur.
Sharing the lessons learned during the 2013 Colorado flood
What can a historian do in response to life-threatening flooding like we’ve seen in Northern Colorado? Quite a lot it turns out. By documenting the communication, cooperation, and activity of disaster responders, historians capture the knowledge and information-sharing process that is so crucial to future response and recovery.
Ramskeller teaching brewery taps first beer in time for CSU Homecoming
The inaugural beer produced in the new Ramskeller teaching brewery at Colorado State University hit pint glasses on Friday, just in time for Homecoming and Family Weekend.