This special report from SOURCE explores the breadth of multidisciplinary, agricultural work happening at CSU — a place where researchers, students and food producers can all gather around a kind of university-wide table to acknowledge the vital importance of ag in Colorado and beyond.
CSU has the best interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum among all institutions listed in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s Sustainable Campus Index Rankings. CSU also ranked No. 4 overall among doctoral institutions.
On Sunday, July 30, all CSU fans are invited to see the Colorado Rockies hopefully light up the Oakland A’s at Coors Field during the 2023 Rams at the Rockies game.
During the 2022-23 academic year, we are highlighting one Colorado State University student or alum from each of Colorado’s 64 counties. The Centennial State’s land grant university has a connection to the diverse lands and people from the counties of Moffat to Baca, Montezuma to Sedgwick and everywhere in between.
CSU Sociology Professor and Food Systems Institute Co-director Michael Carolan spoke to The Audit podcast about his research into food, food systems and building empathy on common ground.
The CSU Summer Extension Internship program gives students the opportunity to take their research and expertise into the field to help communities across Colorado.
Riley Lynch, CSU watershed science alumna and anthropology graduate student worked with the Colorado Stormwater Center during her CSU Extension internship where she managed communications with over 300 applicants and the 20 selected program participants of the Rain Garden Pilot Program. She also co-taught the three-hour Certified Rain Garden Installer Course, sourced nearly 600 native plants, and led multiple rain garden installations with groups of youth and adult volunteers.
Two history majors get archival research experience during their summer CSU Extension internships: Tobin Gold documents the agricultural history of the Sterling Irrigation Company and Aubree Vecellio helps with geolocation and visualizing historic images of the Colorado River Compact.
Riley Lynch, CSU watershed science alumna and anthropology graduate student worked with the Colorado Stormwater Center during her CSU Extension internship where she managed communications with over 300 applicants and the 20 selected program participants of the Rain Garden Pilot Program. She also co-taught the three-hour Certified Rain Garden Installer Course, sourced nearly 600 native plants, and led multiple rain garden installations with groups of youth and adult volunteers.
Abi Tekeste and Giselle Alpizar-Calixto use their summer internship experience with CSU Extension to understand the language barriers to healthcare, and to provide information and resources, in rural Colorado in a project called Spanish in Professional Environments.
