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Members from Team Awesome test their virtual reality headset during the Ram Reality 48-hour Create-A-Thon in the Morgan Library. Team Awesome developed a virtual reality multi-user template using development tools by Unreal Engine 4. (Brooke Buchan | Collegain)

Create-a-thon weekend produces multidisciplinary VR projects

Samantha Ye October 21, 2018

More money, more competition and even more virtual reality flooded the 2018 Ram Reality Create-a-thon this weekend. Previously named the Hackathon, Colorado State University’s third annual three-day...

Interested students listen to Carl Zimmer's lecture on heredity and its application. (Alyse Oxenford  | Collegian)

Science Journalist Carl Zimmer speaks on heredity, new book at CSU

Julia Trowbridge October 17, 2018

If you've ever read his column in the New York Times or listened to Radiolab, you've probably heard science from Carl Zimmer. Zimmer, an award-winning scientific journalist who focuses on hereditary and...

Students walk in front of the solar-powered trash and recycling bins in the Plaza. The bins were introduced to campus in late September. (Photo Illustration by Colin Shepherd | Collegian)

Solar-powered trash, recycling compactors installed across campus

Blake O’Brien October 16, 2018

Solar panels have started to appear more across Colorado for a while now; no longer are these energy-absorbent sheets of silicon limited to calculators and rooftops. In the last few weeks, solar panels...

Graduate Archeology student Marie Taylor works in her lab on a private collection of artifacts such as stone and arrow heads that were sent in to be analyzed and documented. Through taking an Anthropology class during her undergraduate degree, Taylor found her interest in Archeology and wanting to learn more about the history of people. (Matt Begeman | Collegian)

Graduate student uncovers the past to understand human behavior today

Jorge Espinoza October 9, 2018

After enrolling in an Archeological Field School course, a hands-on crash course in archeology, first-year graduate student Marie Taylor discovered her passion for studying humans of the past. Taylor,...

Engineering Students Galen Burr, David Miller, and Karl Mallinger work 
on a CSU Drone Center aircraft for a research project. (Photo courtesy of the CSU Drone Center)

New CSU Drone Center focuses on enabling airborne research opportunities

Charlotte Lang October 8, 2018

Colorado State University now offers a way for researchers to get their work off of paper and into the sky as the University welcomes its new drone center. The CSU Drone Center, hosted by the Vice President...

Eco Leaders host Food Waste Audit on the plaza Wednesday to help spread knowledge of recycling and compost rules. Photo by Kaitlyn Ancell | Collegian

Students want more support as CSU earns high ranks for sustainability

Samantha Ye September 25, 2018
Colorado State University now has rankings to back-up their sustainability image, but students wish the University’s actions would too.
College and high school students working at the All-Woman Innovation Marathon. The event was held at CSU on September 22nd and 23rd. Participants were assigned a project for their client, the City of Fort Collins, that supported the city's Climate Action Plan. (Abby Flitton | Collegian)

First MISSion Innovation ends with five climate action plans moving forward

Samantha Ye September 23, 2018

Mission impossible? More like mission accomplished. MISSion Innovation is the first all-woman innovation marathon for creating and developing targeted solutions to help Fort Collins advance its Climate...

Dr. Sarah Ardanuy Johnson, assistant professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at CSU hosts an open house Wednesday for the new clinical research laboratory. The space is located in Gifford room 216, and will, "support transdisciplinary and translational clinical research studies which will also enhance student learning and research within our department and outside of our department," Johnson says. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

New CSU clinical research lab helps students conduct nutritional studies

Emma Iannacone September 19, 2018

https://youtu.be/IW_Y3SuGqQo Video by Emma Iannacone A newly renovated clinical research lab is offering new opportunities for food science and human nutrition students. The Office of the Vice President...

Students and faculty attend the Thinking Story Like a Journalist panel and pitch pit event on Tuesday in the Lory Student Center. At the event, science journalists debated what makes a good story from their point of view, how current events are influencing journalism and what challenges are there today. (Colin Shepherd | Collegian)

Scientists pitch story ideas at ‘thinking story like a journalist’

Charlotte Lang September 18, 2018

Scientists and journalists lined the walls and filled every seat of the Lory Student Center’s Grey Rock room as a panel of professional journalists discussed the dos and don’ts of story pitches. The...

CSU alumni develop company for faster vet diagnostics

CSU alumni develop company for faster vet diagnostics

Charlotte Lang September 16, 2018

Lacuna Diagnostics, a local company founded by five Colorado State University alumni, has made it their goal to keep pets and other animals as happy and healthy as possible with the use of the business’s...

Wilson and Wang use an ultrafast pump-probe microscope to image mitochondria in cells, uspecifically looking at the excited state lifetimes of proteins called cytochromes, which mediates electron transport, specifically the last step in the electron transport chain that requires oxygen. (Julia Trowbridge | Collegian)

Boettcher Investigator grant recipient studies mitochondrial diseases

Julia Trowbridge September 12, 2018

Colorado State University is a host of life-changing research, including improving the diagnosis of more challenging diseases to detect.  Jesse Wilson, 2018 Boettcher Investigator and electrical...

The 50th anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act is on October 2, 2018. The act was created in 1968 to protect rivers from development. The Cache la Poudre river was granted protection in 1986 (Abby Flitton | Collegian)

Wild and Scenic Rivers Act celebrates 50th anniversary

Ravyn Cullor September 9, 2018

The Wild and Scenic River Act passed Oct. 2, 1968, but a number of environmental groups, government agencies and local businesses think there is still more work to be done in 2018. American Rivers,...

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