College of Liberal Arts enjoys successful Fulbright award season

Story by Lena Ham. Originally published on SOURCE. Several members of the College of Liberal Arts recently won awards from the Fulbright Program. Below are descriptions of how some of those awards are being used. Stephan Weiler Stephan Weiler was one of about a dozen people selected as a Fulbright Distinguished Research Chair, a subset […]

Presenting the Spring 2018 Liberal Arts Magazine

In the CSU College of Liberal Arts, our research, scholarship, and creative artistry teaches people to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. We provide skills for people to explore or solve the world’s most pressing human problems. In other words – we advance the human experience. From an archaeological site in northern Tanzania to the […]

Under the surface: How CSU economists tracked a disease in Flint’s water crisis

Story by Jeff Dodge. Originally published on SOURCE.  At first glance, it seems like an unlikely pairing: How could economists conceivably help decipher what caused the public health crisis in Flint, Michigan, in 2014-15? Statistical analysis, that’s how. Sammy Zahran, an associate professor in Colorado State University’s Department of Economics, calls it “econometrics.” In a […]

Dr. Tracy Brady and Fort Collins teachers collaborate on a K-12 teaching workshop

On Thursday 1st March, twenty-five teachers attended the first of two collaboration days between CSU’s History department and Social Studies teachers from across the district. The individuals most responsible for establishing this fruitful link up were Kurt Knierim of Rocky Mountain High School, Dan Rypma from Fossil Ridge and CSU’s Tracy Brady. The morning started […]