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CSU receives $1.8 million Air Force grant for AI weather monitoring development

Katie Fisher, Science Editor September 1, 2025

As weather predictability grows increasingly unstable in the face of climate change, a sudden, unpredicted episode can have costly consequences to military action. One Colorado State University professor...

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Delve into the natural world with these 6 recent CSU studies

Katie Fisher, Science Editor August 25, 2025

In a natural environment full of growing instability, scientific breakthroughs and further inventions are more critical now than ever. Here are six recent scientific breakthroughs and projects made on...

Interdisciplinary researchers develop first-ever genetic switch in plants

Interdisciplinary researchers develop first-ever genetic switch in plants

Katie Fisher, Science Editor August 21, 2025

Plants' successful growth and production often hinge on specific environmental and genetic conditions. This is a reality agricultural producers have become accustomed to that is now threatened with instability...

Photo courtesy of Steven D. Miller/CIRA/CSU and NOAA/NESDIS

Mapping myths: Researchers create first milky sea database

Katie Fisher, Science Editor July 26, 2025

For centuries, sailors have returned from voyages with tales of eerie, steady-glowing oceans. These episodes would sometimes last for months, atop water capable of glowing in a bucket, deep beneath a ship’s...

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Biomedical engineering seniors create patented 3D-printed prosthetic foot

Katie Fisher, Science Editor May 2, 2025

After having his left leg amputated from pediatric osteosarcoma at 6 years old, Colorado State University student Garrison Hayes adapted to wearing a prosthetic limb throughout his childhood. While...

Lauren Brainard, Samantha Preuss, Robert Serunjogi, Shelby Ardehali and Kelli McGuire pose for a photo behind test materials for their biodegradable menstrual pads April 25. "Engineering is, as a profession, really about service," Preuss said. "That's not how everybody sees it, but I think it's about improving the world around you."

Engineering students address health care accessibility by developing sustainable menstrual pad inserts

Hannah Parcells, Managing Editor April 28, 2025

The first conversation Colorado State University engineering student Samantha Preuss had with faculty member and political science alumnus Robert Serunjogi was about the importance of education. Preuss...

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Kristen Buchanan appointed chair of CSU physics department

Riley Paling, Staff Reporter April 23, 2025

Colorado State University's department of physics is entering a new chapter under the leadership of Kristen Buchanan, who was recently appointed department chair. A longtime faculty member and expert...

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Regenerative agriculture gives back to local soil environments

Natalee Garcia, Staff Reporter April 15, 2025

Colorado State University's College of Agricultural Sciences is collaborating with farmers to explore and promote regenerative agriculture techniques. Regenerative agriculture is a practice that can improve...

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John Matsushima’s research impacts cattle industry decades later

Riley Paling, Staff Reporter April 14, 2025

John Matsushima is a name known by most everybody in the animal science and cattle industries. He is a renowned figure in the field of animal science, specifically cattle nutrition. Born in Colorado to...

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Doctoral candidate’s machine learning assists in African leopard tracking

Katie Fisher, Science Editor April 2, 2025

While African leopards span the continent, inhabiting a variety of environments like grasslands, rainforests, deserts and savannas, their migration population changes can often be difficult to track —...

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Anatomical advancements: Clapp Lab develops VR anatomy education software

Katie Fisher, Science Editor March 31, 2025

On the second floor of Colorado State University’s Health Education Outreach Center, 100 virtual reality headsets hang from retractable plant hangers in the immersive learning teaching lab. The product...

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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...

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