Helping the ski industry with better climate data
The Colorado Climate Center is bringing together key weather and climate forecasting tailored specifically for winter mountain recreation businesses.
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks author Rebecca Skloot to speak at virtual Murray Honors Visiting Scholar event Nov. 10
Over 10 years, Rebecca Skloot researched and wrote The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which investigates the personal stories, family history, and scientific implications surrounding HeLa cells. The Immortal Life raises questions about race, class, and bioethics in America.
New master’s programs in the College of Liberal Arts welcome cohorts of future community leaders
CSU’s Master of Public Policy & Administration and Master of Sport Management welcomed their first cohorts this fall.
Us Versus Them: The ‘wicked problem’ of how we talk to each other in 2020
Political polarization in an election year is nothing new. But in 2020, when you add to the mix deep divisions, it seems as if we’ve forgotten how to talk to each other about what is ailing society and how to fix it.
Liberal Arts in Solidarity: A message from Dean Withers
Dear College of Liberal Arts Community, We in this college work with words and pictures, music and movement, data and analysis to process and perfect the world we live in. But we live in times where words seem to fail, when images overwhelm, and the consolation and comfort of coming together is denied. We struggle […]
Food supply task force at CSU providing rapid-response research for COVID-19
CSU experts in economics, supply chains, agriculture, food systems, food safety, and health and nutrition are contributing fact-based insights at a fast pace to address issues that affect millions of people.
CLA research and creative scholarship – growing alongside CSU
Over the past five years, Colorado State University’s College of Liberal Arts has experienced a period of exponential growth in funded research. From 2014 to 2019, funding increased by 54.3 percent, with the number of funded projects nearly doubling from 27 to 45. Year-over-year, research funding grew 13.8 percent from 2018 to 2019. The growth […]
ACT Human Rights Film Festival celebrates five years of film, community and social justice at CSU
Originally published on Source by Carol Busch On April 3, the ACT Human Rights Film Festival will open at the Lory Student Center Theatre at Colorado State University, celebrating its fifth annual run as Colorado’s only film festival wholly dedicated to the intersection of art and social justice. The nine-day festival, produced by CSU’s Department of Communication Studies, will feature […]
CSU faculty writing history of the modern U.S. Forest Service
Originally posted in Source by Jeff Dodge Two Colorado State University faculty members have received a four-year, $200,000 grant to write an updated history of the U.S. Forest Service. Michael Childers and Leisl Carr Childers are assistant professors in the Department of History who left the University of Northern Iowa in 2018 to join CSU’s […]
Fiber-rich diet eases son’s asthma, launches professor’s interdisciplinary microbiome research
Originally published in Source by Jeff Dodge Gamze Cavdar’s son, Ada, had suffered from asthma since he was a toddler, and by the time he was 7 years old, his attacks were so bad that he was regularly missing school and being taken to the emergency room. “We literally kept an overnight hospital bag in […]