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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

The Student News Site of Colorado State University

The Rocky Mountain Collegian

The Student News Site of Colorado State University

The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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Postdoctoral researcher, Sere Williams is sitting and dropping water samples into test tubes at a desk in her lab where she’s working on research under NASA’s astrobiology grant in the Molecular and Radiological Biosciences building on Colorado State University’s main campus on Tuesday, February 18. “It looks like being in the lab all the time. It looks like extracting DNA. It looks like reading papers,” Dr. Williams said.

CSU aids in NASA’s search for extraterrestrial life

Riley Paling, Staff Reporter February 27, 2025

What is life? This is the typical big question scientists have been trying to answer for millenniums. But this time, the big question is: Where is life? Colorado State University's Santangelo Lab, housed...

Love bombing: What it is, how it works

Love bombing: What it is, how it works

Caden Proulx, Staff Reporter February 20, 2025

Love bombing is a misunderstood phenomenon yet a situation increasingly common for people to find themselves in. While being a form of abuse, love bombing often has easily disguised signs and deep roots...

Photo courtesy of Garret Miyoke

CSU research shows promise in destroying forever chemicals

Ella Dorpinghaus, Staff Reporter February 18, 2025

Originally published in Nature, a scientific paper led by a Colorado State University-based team announced massive strides in technology that can be used to break down perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl...

An open door that says "College of Liberal Arts" on it.

Communication studies powers every field as science of its own

McKenna Van Voris, Staff Reporter February 10, 2025

Often confused with being limited to one's daily interactions with friends, communication studies are much more than the facile course load many believe it to be. Communication is a science. “You...

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