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Veteran Dan Wise reflects on service, career

Molly O’Shea November 10, 2020

Dan Wise is a United States service member and professor of mechanical engineering, who is currently a professor at Colorado State University. Wise was a captain of the U.S. Navy for over 25 years, but...

Miranda Kurtz, a Eagle Feather Tutor, sits at the front desk of the Native American Cultural Center in the LSC. (Collegian file photo)

NACC receives donation, funds help programming

Natalie Weiland November 9, 2020

Colorado State University’s Native American Cultural Center received a financial donation from the John and Sophie Ottens Foundation.  The donation totals $700,000 and will be used to support a myriad...

Graphic Illustration by Katrina Clasen | The Collegian

3 bills to support students introduced to ASCSU senate

Ceci Taylor and Serena Bettis November 6, 2020

The Associated Students of Colorado State University senate spent over two hours Wednesday night discussing three bills on the senate floor, focusing on a proposed travel grant for Indigenous students.  Senator...

(Graphic Illustration by Katrina Clasen | The Collegian)

Daily symptom checker is no more with new COVID-19 reporter

Serena Bettis November 5, 2020

Starting Nov. 4, the feeling of forgetting about something important that lingers at the back of students’ minds is probably a missing assignment, not the Colorado State University daily symptom checker.  In...

Graphic Illustration by Katrina Clasen | The Collegian

ASCSU discusses U+2, support for Indigenous students

Ceci Taylor November 5, 2020

The sixth session of the Associated Students of Colorado State University senate started with the swearing in of new senators and associates. This included two new senators.  After the swearing in, a...

A single dorm room with a Joe Biden flag and a Donald Trump flag Nov. 2. “I think having a conversation on issues will get a lot more done than saying 'screw you,'” said Ben Morse, one of the residents. (Ryan Schmidt | The Collegian)

CSU students reflect on voting as they leave the polls

Laura Studley November 4, 2020

Students at Colorado State University lined up Nov. 3 to cast their ballots, many of them voting for the first time.  According to data released by CNN this year, there were more than 100 million people...

The Cameron Peak fire burns across the ridge above Glen Haven, Colorado, Oct. 16. (Matt Tackett | The Collegian)

Local fires: What you need to know, updated

Laura Studley and Sam Moccia November 3, 2020

Editor's Note: This post will be updated as information becomes available.  Update 11/3: All mandatory and voluntary evacuation notices on the Cameron Peak Fire and in the Thompson Zone of the East...

The front side of the Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion project in the CSU Hydraulics Lab on October 5, 2020. The project is a 1ft:12in  scale model created by engineers, and engineering students at CSU. (Bella Johnson | The Collegian)

CSU Hydraulics Lab creates physical model for dam design

Molly O’Shea November 3, 2020

The Colorado State University Hydraulics Lab has been working on the Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion Project for the last 11 months. The lab plans on running the model built for the project for at least...

Mechanical Engineering Major Shahzeb Chaudhary works a testing site inside Canvas Stadium on Oct. 31. Chaudhary said this job was “very risky” but also “very essential” to make sure that the University can prevent large outbreaks. (Ryan Schmidt | The Collegian)

CSU researchers develop saliva-based COVID-19 test

Nicole Taylor November 2, 2020

Amid the rising COVID-19 cases and need for testing, Colorado State University has created a new, more efficient coronavirus detection test. ​Associate Director of the Prion Research Center Mark Zabel...

(Graphic Illustration by Katrina Clasen | The Collegian)

CSU pushes 2021 spring break back 4 weeks

Samantha Ye October 30, 2020

Colorado State University will be keeping its weeklong spring break next semester, but it will take place in April, four weeks later than originally scheduled.  The new dates are April 12 through April...

The Colorado State University Administration Building Sept. 9, 2019.

Letter demands presidential action after symposium keynote

Laura Studley October 30, 2020

Colorado State University students have drafted a letter to President Joyce McConnell addressing the University’s 20th Diversity Symposium speaker choice, Melina Abdullah.  Abdullah has been associated...

First Director of Sustainable Livestock Systems, Kim Stackhouse-Lawson, at the Colorado State University’s Agricultural Research, Development and Education Center Oct. 22. 
“Something that inspires me every day is to give back to an industry who gave me so much,” Stackhouse-Lawson said. "The livestock industry just embraced me, where I came from and who I was with open arms. It's always been what I’ve wanted to do."

First director of livestock sustainability program announced

Ceci Taylor October 28, 2020

Colorado State University has named Kim Stackhouse-Lawson as the first director of its new Sustainable Livestock Systems Collaborative, which was announced last December. The collaborative will work to...

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