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Heidi Olinger of Pretty Brain presented her pitch to the Innovate Fort Collins. Her pitch towards the grant was asking for funds to help encourage young women to develope new technologies. (Josh Schroeder | Collegian)

Innovate Fort Collins Challenge presents sustainability solutions

Julia Trowbridge September 4, 2018
The finalists for the second annual Innovate Fort Collins Challenge, a city grant challenge that's aimed at reducing Fort Collins' carbon footprint, presented their pitches to a panel of judges on Thursday, Aug. 30.
Atticus, a 3-year old St. Bernard, is enrolled in a CBD oil clinical trial at the James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Atticus is in for a recheck by Dr. Stephanie McGrath, Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences, and Breona Thomas, Clinical Trials Coordinator. April 11, 2018 (Photo courtesy of John Eisele | CSU Photography)

CBD found to reduce frequency of dog seizures in CSU study

Charlotte Lang September 3, 2018

Recent studies at Colorado State University’s James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital, overseen by Dr. Stephanie McGrath, have found the use of cannabidiol to be beneficial for dogs with epilepsy. Cannabidiol,...

CSU researchers funded $1.6 million from NASA for air quality study

CSU researchers funded $1.6 million from NASA for air quality study

Julia Trowbridge August 22, 2018
CEAMS received $1.6 million in funding from NASA for a citizen science project to better map air pollution from the ground.
Some view the media and science as inherently opposed, but the two institutions need each other and need to work on improving their relationship. (Julia Trowbridge | Collegian)

Conference on relationship research to be held at CSU mid July

Samantha Ye June 27, 2018

Family, friends or coworkers: Relationships of all forms will be examined and presented on at the 2018 International Association for Relationship Research conference held at Colorado State University July...

Lillian Fountain Smith Nutrition Conference to discuss food distribution, public health

Lillian Fountain Smith Nutrition Conference to discuss food distribution, public health

Samantha Ye May 6, 2018

The semester may be ending, but the learning opportunities are not. Students, educators and professionals can still register for the 38th Lillian Fountain Smith Nutrition Conference to be held May...

Dr. Rainer Blatt, a scientific director of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck, Austria who has done groundbreaking research of quantum computing, is seen taking a question from an audience member during his hourlong presentation on quantum computing. (Matt Bailey | Collegian)

Experimental physicist Rainer Blatt gives presentation on quantum computing

Matthew Bailey May 5, 2018

Editor's note: A previous version of "Experimental physicist Rainer Blatt gives presentation on quantum computing" published on May 5 had one inaccuracy. It was stated that research in the measuring...

Fort Collins Mayor Wade Troxell listens to community concerns at the city council meeting Tuesday, Sept. 19. (AJ Frankson | Collegian)

Fort Collins on track to meet first carbon emissions milestone

Samantha Ye May 2, 2018

Fort Collins continues to progress ever closer to carbon neutrality, as Mayor Wade Troxell announced at Friday’s ClimateWise Envirovation event that the City’s carbon emissions for 2017 were 17 percent...

Pollinators are a vital part to the food system.

Campus buzzes after beeing Bee Certified

Meagan Stackpool May 2, 2018

Since Sunday, April 22, Colorado State University is officially a bee certified school.  Bee hives were placed on the west side of Durrell in an effort to make CSU a more bee friendly campus. The bees,...

UC Berkeley's Kathryn DeMaster discusses importance of intersectionality in environmental justice

UC Berkeley’s Kathryn DeMaster discusses importance of intersectionality in environmental justice

Jorge Espinoza May 1, 2018

Colorado State University’s Environmental Justice Working Group hosted Kathryn DeMaster, an assistant professor of agriculture, society and environment at the University of California, Berkeley, to...

CSU computer scientists and statisticians are working on a three year grant to combat livestock disease. The computer science building is pictured above.

Renowned researcher Craig Partridge named chair of Computer Science Department

Charlotte Lang May 1, 2018

Colorado State University’s College of Natural Sciences will be welcoming the new chair of the Computer Science Department this summer. Craig Partridge, the chief scientist for networking research in...

Haley Dallas and Allie Huber chat with Blake Jackson during the TILT awards Lunch.(Devin Cornelius | Collegian)

CSU students receive nationally competitive scholarships

Matthew Bailey April 26, 2018

Editor's note: A previous version of "CSU students receive nationally competitive scholarships" published on April 26 had two mistakes. Hannah Hurlbut was incorrectly stated as Hannah Hurlburt, and the...

Chris Kopack holds research papers of his and poses for a portrait inside his home office in Fort Collins, where he keeps two large aquariums with freshwater fish species from his graduate work. The fish Kopack has at his home are muskelunge, which are large predatory fish, and Arkansas Darters, a smaller fish that's native to Colorado. Kopack was recently awarded a fellowship from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program that will help him continue his graduate research. Kopack is doing his graduate work on native fish species in Colorado.  (Forrest Czarnecki | The Collegian)

7 CSU students named awardees in Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Matthew Bailey April 25, 2018

Editor's note: A previous version of "Seven CSU students named awardees in highly competitive Graduate Research Fellowship Program" published on April 25 had  three inaccuracies. Kathleen Wendt is majoring...

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