Recent News Releases
- Thursday, July 03, 2008
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, NCEDC TO COLLABORATE ON SURVEY OF LARIMER COUNTY BUSINESSES
Colorado State University's Office of Economic Development and the Northern Colorado Economic Development Corp. will survey 850 businesses in the next few weeks to determine business perceptions of future workforce needs. - Tuesday, July 01, 2008
PERRYMAN NUTRITION COLUMN: TEN TIPS TO EASE THE BOTTOM LINE AT THE GROCERY STORE
It's not just shock at the price of gas making headlines. Food costs at the grocery store are getting our attention as well. On a recent trip to the store I left with four small bags of basic groceries for nearly $100! Reporters talk about the parallel rise in the cost of gas and milk in the same sentence. - Tuesday, July 01, 2008
COLORADO STATE AG DAY WEBSITE IS LAUNCHED
Making plans to attend this year's Colorado State University Ag Day is as easy as going to www.CSUAgDay.com. The annual event, hosted by Colorado State University's College of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and Colorado agricultural organizations and associations, is 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, prior to the home football opener against Sacramento State University. The event will be held in the south parking lot at Hughes Stadium on Overland Trail between Drake and Prospect roads in Fort Collins. - Tuesday, July 01, 2008
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY POLICE DEPARTMENT HOSTS DUI SATURATION
The Colorado State University Police Department, in conjunction with the Larimer County DUI Task Force, hosted a DUI saturation event on Sat., June 28, to remove intoxicated motorists from Colorado roads. Members of the Colorado State Patrol, Larimer County Sheriff's Office, Fort Collins Police Services and the Loveland Police Department were also involved. - Friday, June 27, 2008
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY ENCOURAGES SAFE HOLIDAY WEEKEND
The Fourth of July means a three-day weekend filled with summer fun and tradition. But for some neighborhoods around the Colorado State University campus, the holiday also means a barrage of fireworks going off in neighborhoods. Each year, neighbors around campus get frustrated with illegal fireworks being set off at inopportune times of the day and night. - Tuesday, June 24, 2008
LATINO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO LEGISLATE ACTION AT COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
High-achieving Latino students will debate issues and experience the complex world of government while participating in the National Hispanic Institute's 19th Annual Colorado Lorenzo de Zavala Youth Legislative Session June 22-29. - Tuesday, June 24, 2008
COLORADO VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO MEASURE RAINFALL IN THEIR BACKYARDS
CoCoRaHS, the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, is celebrating its 10th year anniversary with a campaign to find 500 additional volunteers this year. - Monday, June 23, 2008
PROFESSOR TO TEACH NATIONAL TV METEOROLOGISTS LATEST IN WEATHER RADAR DEVELOPED AT COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
A Colorado State University professor on Wednesday will teach a short course in Denver for TV meteorologists on the latest in weather radar developed at Colorado State. - Monday, June 23, 2008
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO CELEBRATE 20 YEARS AS THE REGION’S CANCER RESEARCH POWERHOUSE
On Wednesday, leaders and researchers from two of the nation's top cancer research centers will celebrate more than 20 years of collaboration. For at least the past two decades, the researchers from the Colorado State University Cancer Supercluster and University of Colorado have partnered on research that has lead to breakthroughs in cancer treatment for humans and companion animals. - Friday, June 20, 2008
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY ONE OF 13 HONORED BY USDA
Colorado State University has been recognized with a top award from the United State Department of Agriculture for its Clean Energy Supercluster. The supercluster concept involves speeding cutting-edge technology to the marketplace. Colorado State's Clean Energy Supercluster is an institution-wide effort to develop and disseminate market-driven clean energy solutions on a sufficient scale to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gases that are affecting climate change. - Tuesday, June 17, 2008
RIVER ECOLOGY DOCUMENTARY FEATURING COLORADO STATE RESEARCHER SET TO AIR JUNE 22 ON ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS
"RiverWebs," a documentary film about life, death, science and streams that features Colorado State University Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology Professor Kurt Fausch will air at noon June 22 on Rocky Mountain PBS. - Monday, June 16, 2008
CHECK FIREWOOD FOR MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLES SAYS COLORADO STATE FOREST SERVICE
Mountain pine beetles are getting ready to emerge and fly, which means Colorado residents should check their remaining firewood stock now to ensure they are not aiding the infestation of urban or neighboring trees. - Monday, June 16, 2008
COLORADO KEEPS A WATCHFUL EYE OUT FOR EMERALD ASH BORER AND GYPSY MOTH
The Colorado State Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal Plant Health Inspection Services-Plant Protection and Quarantine and the Colorado Department of Agriculture are carrying out a statewide plan to monitor two non-native insects that may be damaging to Colorado's forests. Gypsy moth and emerald ash borer have not yet been found in Colorado; however, if they are transported into the state, infestations would severely affect the tourism industry and urban and rural areas that rely on forests to produce forest products and services. - Friday, June 13, 2008
NOTED INDIAN RESEARCHER TO ADDRESS CROPS AND CLIMATE CHANGE AT COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
A seminar by M.S. Swaminathan, chairman of the National Commission on Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security of India, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, June 20, at Colorado State University. The seminar will explore the relationship between orphan crops and climate change. Orphan crops are regionally important crops that are critical in many developing countries as part of their strategies for alleviating poverty. - Friday, June 13, 2008
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY A PIONEER IN WIND ENERGY, PARTNER WITH WORLD-LEADING DENMARK
Since 2005, Denmark - the world's most advanced wind-powered nation - Colorado State University and a startup company in Fort Collins have collaborated to address challenges of taking intermittent wind power and turning it into a stable and reliable renewable resource.

CSU CHILL Radar
Colorado State University this spring installed a unique antenna on one of the nation's most advanced polarimetric weather radars to more precisely detect major storms and precipitation. The new antenna gives scientists a "more delicate knife" to evaluate thunderstorms and the size and distribution of rain, hail and snow, said Steven Rutledge, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State and the scientific director of the CSU-CHILL radar facility.
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