Friendship crisis? Study says it’s quality, not quantity with friendships
A new two-year study led by CSU and the American Friendship Project sheds new light on one of our most important — but least studied — relationships.
Rise of the machines: How is AI changing art?
While AI-generated art doesn’t pose quite the same life-or-death consequences, for some in the art world, it’s seen as just as real of a threat.
The Audit: Were early humans cannibals? CSU paleoanthropologist talks about new findings regarding the oldest taboo
Colorado State University paleoanthropologist Michael Pante talks about this important discovery, what it means for future fossil research, and what was it that led our early ancestors to eat each other.
The Audit: Camille Dungy’s new book, ‘Soil,’ digs into prose, plants, parenthood and pandemic
The author and poet had a very specific plan for how her Guggenheim Fellowship for her next book was going to go. Then 2020 happened and a new idea bloomed.
The Audit: From environmental disasters to eco-grief — CSU’s Center for Environmental Justice aims to find sustainable ground
Co-founder Stephanie Malin talks about the center’s research into cases of environmental injustice, what impact a renewed focus from the current political administration could have, and how to turn climate grief and fatigue into hope and action.
The Audit: The bumpy history of Colorado’s ski industry and its potentially problematic future
From voters rejecting a bid to host the Winter Olympics to the Earth Liberation Front’s attack on Vail Ski Resort, CSU Associate Professor Michael Childers says it hasn’t been all powder for Colorado’s snow business.
The Audit: CSU’s Prison Agriculture Lab researches the roots, impact of the prison agriculture industry
There are more than 600 prison agricultural programs currently in the United States, but very little data looking at the how, what, and maybe most importantly, why of these programs. Colorado State University’s Prison Agriculture Lab is looking to change that. Co-directors Joshua Sbicca and Carrie Chennault talk about the lab’s recently published landmark dataset analyzing the different types of current prison agricultural programs, as well as the underlying drivers behind them.
The Audit: Can healing our divided nation start at the dinner table?
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 Audit Podcast: Can social marketing keep wildlife – and you – safe? This CSU researcher says the right messaging can help
Colorado State University Associate Professor Katie Abrams discusses how the right message – and the right photo op – can help influence our behavior out in the wild.
The Audit Podcast: From Matthew Shepard to CSU’s first (and last) male homecoming queen, the Queer Memory Project archives Northern Colorado’s LGBTQ+ history
The educational research effort is currently collecting artifacts, historical documents and personal stories as part of an online archive to preserve Northern Colorado’s LGBTQ+ past.