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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...

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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...

A man kneels down to tend to some crops while a sprinkler system runs alongside him.

Harvesting solar energy, crops: CSU researches agrivoltaics’ possibilities

Chloe Waskey, Staff Reporter February 27, 2025

As climate change accelerates and competition for land resources increases, researchers are seeking innovative solutions to balance food production with renewable energy generation. At Colorado State University,...

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...

Honeybee pollinates flowers

CSU’s AI tutoring system shapes future of pollinator conservation

Mckenna Van Voris, Staff Reporter February 24, 2025

There are more than 1,000 bee species in Colorado alone. Although pollinators are responsible for one-third of our diet, their populations have been on the decline. It was facts such as these that motivated...

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