Guatemala climate scientists look to tree rings for answers at CSU 

Guatemala climate scientists look to tree rings for answers at CSU  Joshua Zaffos  This October, four researchers and technical scientists from INSIVUMEH Guatemala, the country’s meteorological service, spent a week in the Colorado State University Biogeography Lab counting the rings from cored samples of Caribbean pine trees through the lenses of stereo microscopes. The weeklong […]

Best and Brightest Management Fellow: Emily Myler

The Master of Public Policy and Administration has partnered with the Colorado Department of Local Affairs to offer the Best and Brightest Management Fellowship to MPPA students. The Best and Brightest Fellowship Program partners with counties, municipalities and universities across the state to meet the needs of communities, engage future leaders, and connect students to […]

Ethnic Studies classes uncover Indigenous history through Blanket Exercise rendition

Ethnic Studies classes uncover Indigenous history through Blanket Exercise rendition Joshua Zaffos  In a large room inside the Lory Student Center, Colorado State University students each hold a colored index card and stand on an array of blankets placed on the floor. The blankets represent Turtle Island,  the Indigenous conception of North America as it once was.    During the following joint class between Native American Cultural Experience (ETST 240), […]

2021 All-State Instructional Videos Now Posted

For a seventh year, the music faculty at Colorado State University brings you All-State Instructional Videos to help prepare your High School student instrumentalists for their upcoming auditions. Dedicated to its land-grant heritage, the music faculty at CSU are committed to promoting music and pedagogy of the highest quality, serving music education through actions that […]

Alumni News: Angelo Sapienza receives 2021 Outstanding Young Music Educator Award

In January 2021, the Colorado Music Educators Association named Colorado State University alum Angelo Sapienza as the recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Young Music Educator Award. Angelo Sapienza is the director of bands at Doherty High School where he conducts the Concert Band, Wind Symphony, Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Band, and Pit Orchestra. He also teaches the […]

Ethnic Studies Responds to White Supremacist Posters on Campus

Department of Ethnic Studies Statement on White Supremacist Posters of September 10, 2021 September 14, 2021 On the morning of Friday, September 10, posters were placed on campus with misleading and derisive phrasing about diversity. This phrasing has been used in the past by white supremacists and used by various individuals, groups, and institutions in […]

Sagás Wins Fulbright to Teach – and Learn – about Race and Ethnicity in Bolivia

Sagás Wins Fulbright to Teach – and Learn – about Race and Ethnicity in Bolivia  Joshua Zaffos Relations between the United States and Bolivia have been tense – to put it modestly – in the last 15 years. From 2006-2019, Bolivian President Evo Morales – the country’s first ever Indigenous-born president and a socialist and former coca growers’ union organizer – […]