NSF, NBC Learn and The Weather Channel showcase research to protect against nature’s fury
The Weather Channel
9/29/2015
Flash Floods – Russ Schumacher, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, studies areas with combined factors such as heavy precipitation, particular geography and soil conditions that put them at risk for flash floods, one of the most common and deadly natural disasters. Read More…
CSU gets grant to place engineers into teaching positions
Denver Business Journal
10/5/2015
But Colorado State University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ? with the help of a new, $593,000 grant from the National Science Foundation ? hopes to change that. Read More…
CSU researchers awarded $1M to study crop rotation strategies for dry climates
BizWest
9/30/2015
A team of Colorado State University researchers has received a $1 million grant from the Natural Resources Conservation Service to study how crop rotations and management can improve soils through the retention of carbon and water in drier growing regions of the Great Plains. Read More…
US Experts, PSG Institute to Team Up to Develop New Low-cost Heart Valve
New Indian Express
10/2/2015
The two US universities are the Colorado State University and the Ohio State University. The research will get a grant for two years from the National Institutes of Health in the US and Department of Biotechnology in India. Read More…
Colorado State University’s international poster exhibition announces winners
Cherry Creek News
9/29/2015
The 19th biennial Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, a collection from the world’s top poster artists and designers hosted by Colorado State University’s Department of Art and Art History, has announced its winners. Read More…
Why did the tarantula cross the road?
Channel 9 News
10/4/2015
Colorado State University professor Whitney Cranshaw was out along a rural road south of La Junta on a recent evening as furry spiders crept across the macadam. Read More…
USDA Finds ‘Local’ and ‘Organic’ Closely Tied in America’s Grocery Basket
High Plains Public Radio
10/5/2015
More consumers are demanding organic options at retail outlets, and grocery stores are responding, says Dawn Thilmany, a Colorado State University economist who studies the organic food sector. Read More…
Larimer County seat belt usage among highest in state
Coloradoan
10/6/2015
According to a joint Colorado Department of Transportation and Colorado State University study, Larimer County has a 90.3 percent seat belt usage rate, which ranks tied for fifth among the 30 counties where surveys are done and tops among the most populated counties. Read More…
Robbie Myers Breaks Down the DNA of Elle
Business of Fashion
10/5/2015
A graduate of Colorado State University, Myers began her career in journalism in the mid-1980s, around the time Elle entered the US market. Her first job was at Rolling Stone, when the seminal rock magazine was still settling into its New York headquarters, having been relocated from San Francisco in 1977. Read More…
Colorado State announces 2015 Hall of Fame Class
Loveland Reporter-Herald
10/2/2015
Clark Haggans (football), Mike Newell (football), Richard Cooley (men’s swimming), Loree Smith (women’s track and field), Jessica Cole (softball) and Catie Mintz (volleyball) will make up the Colorado State Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2015, the university announced Friday. Read More…
Sorghum good fit for region
Journal-Advocate
10/5/2015
In 2014 Colorado State University conducted performance trials on the plains of hybrid sorghum varieties submitted by seven different seed companies. On Tuesday Jerry Johnson and Sally Sauer, two of the researchers who conducted the project, hosted a “sorghum field day” in Akron in order to show farmers their results. Read More…
Colorado State University’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories relate animals and humans
Collegian
10/6/2015
Colorado State University is a place where Rams take care of Rams? this doesn’t just mean students, but animals as well. Read More…
CSU in the Blogosphere
Old MacDonald Had an App
Hp.com
10/1/2015
Rajiv Khosla, a professor of precision agriculture at Colorado State University, says the seeds of the modern smart farm were planted about 25 years ago, when farmers were given access to military-grade technology, like GPS-guided tractors and satellite imaging. Read More …
After-School Exercise Yields Brain Gains: Study
Medicine.net
9/29/2015
Nathaniel Riggs, an associate professor of human development and family studies at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, said, “One important direction for future research is to actually measure physiological processes that may be able to explain these associations.” Read More …
Higher Ed News
Army U
Inside Higher Ed
10/6/2015
Everyone in the U.S. Army, from top officers to new recruits, gets some kind of training. Soon, many of those trainees will also be in college. Sort of. Read More …
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