CSU students are tackling big questions through original research alongside faculty mentors. Explore how undergraduate research is shaping students’ academic success, career paths and ambitions to make a difference.
At the start of her annual Fall Address, CSU President Amy Parsons said she recently found the old nametag she wore as a CSU student ambassador, leading prospective students and their families on campus tours.
CSU’s sponsored project expenditures – a standard barometer of university research activity – exceeded $613 million in the 2025-2026 fiscal year. That is only a 1% decrease from the record-setting level the year prior and reflects a robust scientific enterprise that continues to place the university among the top research institutions in the country. CSU’s sponsored project expenditures have climbed steadily over the past decade, starting at $332 million in fiscal year 2016 – an 85% increase.
In honor of the state’s 150th birthday, here are 150 ways Colorado State has bolstered the economy, set students up for success, fed the world, and so much more.
Six interdisciplinary teams from across Colorado State University will leverage internal funding and engagement support from the Office of the Vice President for Research to better pursue large, center-scale funding opportunities.
CSU officially joins the Pac-12 Conference, marking a new chapter in intercollegiate athletics and offering a new level of visibility for the university and its upwardly mobile athletics, academic and research activities.
With the boom of a canon and flight of mortarboards into the blue midday sky, thousands of Colorado State University students graduated Saturday at Canvas Stadium on the Fort Collins campus.
A team of undergraduate students from Colorado State University recently took their farmworker health policy ideas to the national stage, representing CSU at the National Collegiate Policy Challenge hosted by the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago.
With the approach of commencement this weekend, CSU President Amy Parsons reflects on her own daughter’s graduation and the connection of more than 6,000 graduates to the enduring power of the university. This campus is a connection point that brings people together and imparts a shared identity; it is a place that will always be theirs.
In this package, meet the Outstanding Graduates, find University-wide Commencement details, the back story about 2026 commencement speaker and Olympian Hunter Powell and insights from speakers dating back to the first graduation held on campus.
