CSU team wins humanitarian competition involving 130 students from 16 countries
The proposal focused on resiliency kits for people in Mozambique who have been the victims of natural disasters.
Story of Fort Collins’ net-zero L’Avenir building to be featured in Rocky Mountain PBS program
The L’Avenir multi-family housing complex in Old Town is Fort Collins’ greenest building. The story behind it is being broadcast by Rocky Mountain PBS.
Study finds that singing, being male, and being an adult tend to produce more respiratory aerosols
CSU is very pleased to announce the publishing of the first peer-reviewed scientific paper based on the analysis of the data collected in the CSU study: Reducing Bioaerosol Emission and Exposures in the Performing Arts: A Scientific Roadmap for a Safe Return from COVID-19. The paper is available at Environmental Science and Technology Letters via open access. Dr. Volckens […]
Study finds that singing, being male, and being an adult tend to produce more respiratory aerosols
The study, launched early in the pandemic, sought to determine the extent to which singers, musicians and actors emit aerosols, and whether those emissions could be quantified.
CSU Paleontology Field School Rides Again in Summer 2021
Out, Standing in the FieldCSU Paleontology Field School Rides Again in Summer 2021 Joshua Zaffos Colorado State University Anthropology student Natalie Freeman is doubled over, staring at the sun-scorched ground of the Wyoming badlands. A few yards away, Isabelle Dones, another CSU Anthropology major, scrapes her knees as she crawls along the rocky terrain. The nearly 100-degree midday July […]
Henry Wins Top Southeastern Archaeology Award
Henry Wins Top Southeastern Archaeology Award Joshua Zaffos Colorado State University Assistant Professor of Archaeology Edward Henry has won the 2021 C.B. Moore Award from the Southeastern Archeological Conference. Henry received the award at the professional organization’s annual meeting in Durham, North Carolina this October. The C.B. Moore Award annually recognizes a preeminent young scholar in the field of Southeastern United States archaeology. Recipients are determined by a committee of past award winners and other conference executive-committee members, including global leaders […]
CSU faculty receive $450,000 Carnegie grant to track how U.S. international policy impacts local communities
Starting January 2022, a CSU research team will lead a project that will produce a map of the distributive implications of U.S. foreign policy – a map that will allow communities to better understand their relationship to America’s role in the world.
Ready Primate One: Role-playing video game levels up biological anthropology
Ready Primate One Joshua Zaffos Video gaming may be a diversion from research and coursework for some, but Anthropology Ph.D. candidate Alex Pelissero is another species, so to speak. Pelissero recently published a video-game review in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, offering his well-qualified commentary on Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. Ancestors is a third-person […]
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 […]