The Practical and Applied Side: Liberal Arts students intern with CSU Extension
The CSU Summer Extension Internship program gives students the opportunity to take their research and expertise into the field to help communities across Colorado.
Rain Garden Summer: Anthropology graduate student interns with Colorado Stormwater Center
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.
Archiving 150 Years of Agriculture in the Centennial State
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.
Maintaining the Land: How Grad Students are Helping Preserve the History of Routt and Grand County in the Face of Land Development
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.
Closing Language Barriers in Healthcare for Spanish Speakers: Español para Fines Específicos
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.
Wildfire Risk Mitigation and Environmental Justice in Colorado’s Forest Landscapes
This summer, political science major Aidan Lyde worked on the Community Networks in Fire-Environment Resilience (CoNIFER) Project to improve the understanding of wildfire risk mitigation planning based on wildfire protection plans in Colorado with CSU Extension.
Out of the Classroom and into the Community Three PhD students engage in CSU Extension internships
Putting communication theory into practice, three PhD students engage in Extension internships that result in a Middle Eastern cookbook, updated curricula for a local 4-H program, and increase awareness of Extension and the Colorado State Fair.
Building Bridges to Better Communities: Sociology PhD candidates use their skills in CSU Extension internships
Working with Grow and Give and the Family Leadership Training Institute respectively, Emilia Ravetta and Milagro Núñez-Solis, both Ph.D. candidates in sociology, connected food pantries with gardeners and youth with opportunities to strengthen their local communities in their CSU Extension summer internships.
Benchmarking Best Practices for Supporting County Agricultural Initiatives MPPA graduate student interns with the Larimer County Agricultural Initiative and CSU Extension
MPPA graduate student Caesar Garduno worked with Larimer County agricultural outreach programming to learn about the policymaking processes for rural agriculture support.
Showcasing Career Pathways for a Local Workforce MPPA graduate student interns with the Colorado Workforce Initiative and CSU Extension
MPPA student Jake Brick worked in southwestern Colorado on a Colorado Workforce Initiative to help underserved communities access education in their CSU Extension internships.