Democracy is shaped by the people who show up, ask questions and challenge the status quo. At Colorado State University’s fall Democracy Summit, students, scholars, judges, journalists and civic leaders came together to tackle the big questions facing democracy, from artificial intelligence and the courts to public deliberation and independent journalism. Over two days, they explored not just what democracy needs, but what each of us can do to strengthen it.
Following the same educators over seven years gave the researchers a view of how personal and professional experiences shaped one another. Participants’ histories, relationships and communities influenced how they understood themselves as teachers, as did their ideas about who they wanted to become.
Blythe LaGasse, a professor of Music Therapy and the coordinator of the Music Therapy program in the College of Liberal Arts, has been awarded $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Moving Through Parkinson’s, a Colorado State University Dance-affiliated community program, presents ‘My Brain Has a Mind of Its Own.’ The new documentary shines a light on the transformative role of movement, dance, creativity and community for people living with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative challenges.
The exhibition, on view Aug. 26-Dec. 13, includes a catalog of 149 original artworks spanning 60 years, tracing the 90-year-old’s artistic practice from his early years as a student to his political illustrations, social commentary and activism.
The research, led by CSU and Germany’s University of Tübingen, offers new insights into how Homo floresiensis survived in part due to an unlikely ally, the Komodo dragon.
Erin Carignan, an associate professor of theatre in the College of Liberal Arts’ School of Music, Theatre and Dance, has been awarded the 2026 Oscar G. Brockett Golden Pen Award from the United States Institute of Theatre Technology. This award is given annually to “an outstanding publication in the field of design and production for the performing arts.”
The Colorado State University Percussion Ensemble, directed by music professor Eric Hollenbeck, was named a winner of the Percussive Arts Society’s International Percussion Ensemble Contest.
Yosemite National Park welcomes more than 4 million visitors each year, but those visits come at a steep environmental cost. National parks historian Michael Childers discusses the impact of the park’s decision to end its reservation system and what the record-breaking crowds expected this season could mean for the future of our national parks.
