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CSU's Little Shop of Physics to showcase half-million volt Tesla Coil

CSU’s Little Shop of Physics to showcase half-million volt Tesla Coil

Julia Trowbridge December 4, 2017

Putting out foot long sparks at half a million volts, Little Shop of Physics' largest Tesla coil is a main attraction for its open house Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Lory Student Center. While...

CSU group researches CRISPR mechanism

CSU group researches CRISPR mechanism

Julia Trowbridge November 29, 2017

With Colorado State University being a top research university, it is no surprise a group has taken on investigating one of the hottest topics in the scientific community: the Clustered Regularly Interspaced...

Francis Commerçon studies biological sciences at Colorado State University. He studied conservation in China for his honor's thesis. Photo by: Zoe Jennings

CSU student researcher studies conservation in China

Zoë Jennings November 27, 2017

The two hardest things that Francis Commerçon has done in his life are interviewing 200 rural Chinese villagers and raising a wild owlet. Many who know Commerçon describe him as modest, intensely...

Dr. Albert Fret speaks to students in the Lory Student Center about his research in physics that won him the Nobel Prize in 2007. (Brooke Buchan | Collegian)

Nobel Laureate Albert Fert educates students, professors on magnetism

Julia Trowbridge November 15, 2017

Nobel Laureate Albert Fert spent a couple days at Colorado State University speaking to scientists with all ranges of education, from undergraduates to professors, about the field of magnetism and...

Commercially grown tomatoes in the Super Market. (Megan Daly | Collegian)

18th Thorton-Massa Lecture discusses reinserting flavor into modern tomatoes

Samantha Ye November 13, 2017

Harry Klee and his team have worked for years to find the modern tomato’s missing flavor and put it back. For the 18th annual Thorton-Massa Lecture, Klee, a horticulture science professor from the...

Bill Ritter speaks on whether or not the grid will exist with the rudder of renewable energy. The final session of the 21st energy symposium discussed the future renewable energy will have in terms of education, jobs and the economy. (Tyler Morales | Collegian)

CSU’s 21st Energy Symposium concludes with panel on future of utilities

Ty Betts November 1, 2017

The 2017 21st Century Energy Transition Symposium concluded in the Lory Student Center with a panel discussing utilities, and whether or not they are on their way to becoming obsolete. The utility...

Dr. Patz describes the health effects of climate change and explains the importance of sustainable practices.
(Brandon Mendoza| Collegian)

Jonathan Patz discusses climate change in context of public health

Samantha Ye October 25, 2017

If myopic thinking is what prevents people from taking action against climate change, then Jonathan Patz has a way to get around that. The professor and director of Global Environmental Health at...

Solar panels sit on the Engineering building at Colorado State University. Solar panel additions are common on other buildings throughout the campus.(Photo credit: Megan Fischer)

Seventh annual Energy Transition Symposium will celebrate energy

Emma Taylor October 24, 2017

The seventh annual 21st Century Energy Transition Symposium will celebrate conversation about energy and energy conservation.  The symposium, hosted by the Energy Institute and the School of Global Environmental...

Gravitational waves are detected with an interferometer. The design consists of two vacuum tubes with a beam splitter, which allows a beam of light to be emitted into the device, split identically by the beam splitter. The light travels down the tubes, reflects off of a mirror at the end, and the interference pattern is detected.

CSU professor assists in next generation of Nobel prize research

Julia Trowbridge October 19, 2017

In 1916, Albert Einstein's general relativity theory predicted that our world is of four dimensions: three of space and one of time. Any event in the universe will disturb the space time continuum,...

Graduate watershed seminar discusses water quality regulations

Graduate watershed seminar discusses water quality regulations

Julia Trowbridge October 17, 2017

Watershed science majors listened to and discussed water quality control and clean water regulations for an interdisciplinary water resources seminar class Monday evening. Patrick J. Pfalzgraff, the...

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CSU’s Student Sustainability Center encourages student engagement

Jorge Espinoza October 17, 2017

Colorado State University can only be as green as its students. While CSU has received two platinum ratings from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System, a comprehensive sustainability...

CSU chemistry, biology buildings officially open, create place for students to learn

CSU chemistry, biology buildings officially open, create place for students to learn

Julia Trowbridge October 16, 2017

The biology and chemistry research buildings had their official opening ceremony with ribbon cutting and building tours. The Dean of the College of Natural Sciences Janice Nerger and others who were...

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