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April Fools': CAM the Ram diverts 2024 YR4 asteroid, avoiding Fort Collins collision

April Fools’: CAM the Ram diverts 2024 YR4 asteroid, avoiding Fort Collins collision

Kat Fish April 1, 2025

Editor’s Note: This is a satire for April Fools’ Day. Real names and the events surrounding them may be used in fictitious/semi-fictitious ways. Those who do not read the editor’s notes are subject...

(Updated) DeSalvo Meme

April Fools’: Nick DeSalvo cloning scandal unearthed in chem research building

Cosmic Misfortune, Photo Director April 1, 2025

A secret cloning facility underneath Colorado State University’s Chemistry Research Building was discovered by university staff March 31. With it, evidence of an experiment on Associated Students of...

Courtesy of the Clapp Lab

Anatomical advancements: Clapp Lab develops VR anatomy education software

Katie Fisher, Science Editor March 31, 2025

On the second floor of Colorado State University’s Health Education Outreach Center, 100 virtual reality headsets hang from retractable plant hangers in the immersive learning teaching lab. The product...

Colorado Forest Service measures forest carbon emissions

Colorado Forest Service measures forest carbon emissions

Rebekah Barry, Staff Reporter March 27, 2025

A recent study published by the Colorado State Forest Service took a deeper look into the impact of Colorado's trees and how they store carbon. The findings reported that some of Colorado's forests release...

Photo Courtesy from Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)

Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere affected by NOAA layoffs

Katie Fisher, Science Editor March 26, 2025

A Category 5 hurricane slams a local coastline, tracked every inch by satellites as it moves down the shore. Tornado sirens wire to life at the first alert of a vortex formation. Services are all possible...

Chad Miller, associate professor at Colorado State University, begins his talk, "Tiptoeing Through the Tulips: Exploring a Colorful History," at the Fort Collins Welcome Center March 12. In 1636, tulip prices rose quickly and then plummeted the next year, demonstrating a market trend known as "tulip mania," Miller explained.

Ram Talks: Chad Miller discusses tulips’ enduring impact on status, history

Sananda Chandy, Staff Reporter March 16, 2025

Walking through the welcome center with bowls of organic yellow tulip petals and not an empty chair, a chorus of chatter stops. The audience begins curiously listening to Chad Miller, who excitedly waves...

Colorado State University students and faculty and Fort Collins community members make their way to Old Town Square on College Avenue, chanting and cheering in support of the nationwide protest Stand Up for Science March 7.

Gallery: Stand Up for Science protest

Abigail Burns, Staff Photographer March 13, 2025

Image of a protester holding up a sign.

Hundreds in FoCo community rally against censorship in Stand Up for Science march

Chloe Waskey, Staff Reporter March 11, 2025

Nearly 1,000 Colorado State University students and Fort Collins community members gathered at the Lory Student Center Plaza Friday, March 7, to march in the national Stand Up for Science 2025 movement....

A person stands holding a skull in front of a 3-D scanner.

CSU technology aids in new evidence of early human ancestors in Europe

Hana Pavelko, Staff Reporter March 6, 2025

Modern-day humans, scientifically known as Homo sapiens, are the sole living members of the genus Homo. Our human ancestors originated from Africa, and recent studies indicate that humans do not have a...

Courtesy of Colorado Water Center.

Sustainable water interdisciplinary minor redefines water education for students

Mckenna Van Voris, Staff Reporter March 6, 2025

Colorado State University’s sustainable water interdisciplinary minor, SWIM, is composed of 23 enrolled students and 43 alumni. This niche program allows students flexibility in their courses while studying...

Professor Kirk McGilvray, student Olivia Pyke and graduate students Amelia Stoner and Jacqueline Linn apply a biopolymer foam to a mock wound at the Colorado State University Orthopaedic Bioengineering Research Laboratory Feb. 28. The team was awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Defense to research and develop the foam for use in wound treatment, healing and recovery. “What's unique about vital foam is that it's a topical delivery solution that allows us to fill the volume of the wound,” McGilvray said. “That (also) allows for a homogeneous distribution of the therapeutics.”

$1.5 million grant funds CSU antibiotic wound foam research

Katie Fisher, Science Editor March 5, 2025

In the heat of combat, every second counts to treat soldiers injured on the battlefield. A $1.5 million U.S. Department of Defense grant awarded to investigators at Colorado State University’s Translational...

Dante’s Inferno Strain Review

Dante’s Inferno Strain Review

Miles Buchan March 4, 2025

Strain Review – Dante’s Inferno Cannabis strains are plentiful, potent, and ever-evolving as cultivation culture strives to develop new and improved flower. It can be difficult to anticipate the effects...

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