Following the same educators over seven years gave the researchers a view of how personal and professional experiences shaped one another. Participants’ histories, relationships and communities influenced how they understood themselves as teachers, as did their ideas about who they wanted to become.
Researchers in the Department of Occupational Therapy and Music Therapy Program are recruiting children with autism for a study examining how music therapy affects brain responses, sensory processing and attention.
Blythe LaGasse, a professor of Music Therapy and the coordinator of the Music Therapy program in the College of Liberal Arts, has been awarded $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Colorado State University dance education faculty and students brought their research, teaching and community engagement work to a national audience this fall at the National Dance Education Organization Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Held Sept. 25–27, the conference brought together dance educators, artists, researchers and students to exchange ideas and explore developments in dance education. This year, all sessions submitted by CSU dance education faculty and students were accepted for presentation.
As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, Colorado State University musicians are using the concert stage to explore the many voices, histories and experiences that make up the American story.
Moving Through Parkinson’s, a Colorado State University Dance-affiliated community program, presents ‘My Brain Has a Mind of Its Own.’ The new documentary shines a light on the transformative role of movement, dance, creativity and community for people living with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative challenges.
The 12-week study is entirely digital and smartphone-based, allowing researchers to observe natural changes over time.
Erin Carignan, an associate professor of theatre in the College of Liberal Arts’ School of Music, Theatre and Dance, has been awarded the 2026 Oscar G. Brockett Golden Pen Award from the United States Institute of Theatre Technology. This award is given annually to “an outstanding publication in the field of design and production for the performing arts.”
The College of Liberal Arts announces that Amanda Ashley, Ph.D., will join CSU as the inaugural executive director and associate dean for the arts in the College of Liberal Arts.
The Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities at Colorado State University has named four faculty members as Faculty Fellows for 2026-2027: Maura Velazquez Castillo, Johnny Plastini, Nabile Galván Garcia, and Sarah Cooper.
