Music alumna, Xareny Polanco, named 2025 CMEA Outstanding Young Educator
Colorado State University music education alumna, Xareny Polanco, B.M.E. ‘21, has been awarded a 2025 Colorado Music Educators Association Outstanding Young Educator Award.
CSU invites campus presenters for Democracy Summit focused on democratic innovation
The university will hold its second Democracy Summit in March 2025, building on last spring’s successful event. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students are invited to present their research, scholarship, and artistic work on the theme of Democratic Innovation.
CSU, UW Border War game to include wager between art museums
As part of the annual Border War game, each school’s university art museum has wagered an important work from their collection, and the winning museum will get to keep the loser’s artwork on display until the end of the academic year in May.
A Life in Radio: Marty Lenz (’90) lives his childhood dream
Ram fan, student-athlete, donor, and radio personality Marty Lenz (’90) receives the College of Liberal Arts Honor Alumnus Award in 2024.
CSU Theatre’s ON THE BRINK Company amplifies marginalized voices through its reading series
CSU Theatre has curated and hosted a reading series of plays that address hot topic themes – issues that have pushed our culture to the brink and reveal new possibilities. The ON THE BRINK Company is a collaboration between professional theatre artists, faculty, students, and alumni exploring works representing underrepresented voices.
Get to know Tara Opsal, sociology’s new department chair
Tara Opsal has taken over as chair of the CSU Department of Sociology, becoming the first woman-identified faculty member to hold this position in the department.
Race, Gender and Ethnic Studies announces Distinguished Lecture Series for Fall 2024
This fall, the Distinguished Lecture Series on Race, Gender and Ethnic Studies will welcome leading scholars from around the country to give public talks, meet with reading groups, and connect with students, faculty, and CSU community members.
Artmaking is the Perfect Intersection for Making and Doing
“The Perfect Intersection: Art-making as a way to Learn (and Do!) Anything” is an interdisciplinary class for first-year students to explore art as a gateway to deeper learning, and features special guests across campus including President Amy Parsons, Dean Kjerstin Thorson, and Professor Temple Grandin.
CSU Dance majors are attending the 2024 National Dance Education Organization conference
CSU Dance majors are attending the 2024 National Dance Education Organization conference.
CSU’s Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities Announces 2024-2025 Faculty Fellows
The Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities at Colorado State University has named five College of Liberal Arts faculty members as Faculty Fellows for 2024-2025: Kari Anderson, Carrie Chenault, Jessica Jackson, Tobi Jacobi and Emily Moore. The Faculty Fellows Program is designed to support and promote humanities-oriented scholarship and to foster fellowship among humanities faculty who either already conduct engaged research or are interested in doing so.