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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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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...

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...

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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...

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