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CSU seeks institutional reaccreditation for 2024

CSU seeks institutional reaccreditation for 2024

Piper Russell, News Director March 2, 2023

Colorado State University seeks institutional reaccreditation every 10 years and is working to prepare for the Comprehensive Evaluation to receive it in 2024. According to CSU SOURCE, institutional...

Temple Grandin,

Temple Grandin receives CSU’s 2023 Founders Day Medal

Piper Russell, News Director February 21, 2023

Mary Temple Grandin, a professor of animal sciences, added Colorado State University’s 2023 Founders Day Medal to her long list of accomplishments and honors.  CSU started the Founders Day Medal...

Rams Against Hunger Food Pantry

RAH Food Pantry celebrates refrigerator and milk donation

Piper Russell, News Director January 25, 2023

Colorado State University held a ribbon-cutting event Jan. 23 at the Rams Against Hunger Food Pantry located in the General Services Building. The event was a celebration of Dairy MAX’s donation of...

Proposed regulations would limit new FoCo oil, gas facilities

Proposed regulations would limit new FoCo oil, gas facilities

Piper Russell, News Editor November 17, 2022

The Fort Collins City Council will consider adopting new oil and gas development regulations. Staff proposed new oil and gas regulations at the Oct. 25 City Council work session. Oil and gas regulations...

Fort Collins residents can use the ballot box outside the Larimer County courthouses building to deliver their ballots. (Photo illustration, Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Cameras, GPS tracking: How Larimer County keeps your votes safe

Sophia Masia, Staff Reporter October 20, 2022

"I am completely and 100% comfortable with elections in Larimer County," Larimer County Clerk and Recorder Angela Myers said. Myers explained the secure process of counting ballots amid controversy...

Midterm voter guide: Candidates for CO governor, lt. governor

Midterm voter guide: Candidates for CO governor, lt. governor

Piper Russell, News Editor October 18, 2022

Five pairs of candidates are running for Colorado governor and lieutenant governor, jobs that implement state laws and oversee the Colorado executive branch primarily. Heidi Ganahl/Danny Moore Republican...

NoCO CoC releases Point in Time Count, looks at trends

NoCO CoC releases Point in Time Count, looks at trends

Piper Russell, News Editor October 6, 2022

The Northern Colorado Continuum of Care, which works to provide housing and services to homeless people in Larimer and Weld counties, took their annual Point in Time Count in late January. According...

Omicron boosters available as Larimer County enters winter

Omicron boosters available as Larimer County enters winter

Piper Russell, News Editor October 5, 2022

Omicron-specific booster shots for COVID-19 are now available in Larimer County.  According to Larimer County’s COVID-19 vaccine webpage, Pfizer boosters are available to people aged 12 years and...

Officers were able to safely lower the 200lb bear into rubber innertubes

Bear makes it way onto CSU’s Oval

Piper Russell, News Editor September 19, 2022

On Sept. 16 the Colorado State University Police Department and Colorado Parks and Wildlife team responded to reports of a bear in a tree on the north end of The Oval near Ammons Hall. Brandon Muller,...

Third-year computer science student Rithik Correa explains why he joined the Associated Students of Colorado State University.

ASCSU swears in new senators, hears legislation on elections

Piper Russell and Sam Hutton September 19, 2022

The Associated Students of Colorado State University held their fifth senate session of the semester Sept. 14. ASCSU swore in three new senators and associate senators, heard from committee chairs and...

Photo courtesy of Platte River Power Authority

Platte River Power Authority works toward 2030 carbon-use goals

Piper Russell, News Editor September 13, 2022

Colorado's Platte River Power Authority hired new leadership and added to their organization to achieve their goals regarding energy transitions. Raj Singam Setti: Transition and integration Platte River...

Masters student Vaishnavi Sonarikar introduces herself at the first senate meeting for the Associated Students of Colorado State Unviersity. I decided to get involved into ASCSU because I wanted to try something really intense and impactful.

ASCSU ratifies new senators, associate justices, election manager

Piper Russell, Emmalee Krieg, and Allie Seibel September 9, 2022

The Associated Students of Colorado State University held their second senate meeting of the semester Wednesday, Sept. 7. ASCSU reviewed bylaws at the meeting and ratified the supreme court associate justices...

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