Preventing email, online employment, and social media scams
Email and social media scams have targeted the Colorado State University community in recent weeks. These scams aim to be as sophisticated as possible to trick unsuspecting recipients.
Author Archives: Nik Olsen
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Rams Against Hunger’s Food Pantry providing steady food security
The Rams Against Hunger Food Pantry, fully operating from its permanent location in the General Services Building, aided two-thirds of all Rams Against Hunger program users in 2022. About 20% of participants utilized the meal-swipe program in campus dining halls.
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Fall Break 2022 hours for university services
Colorado State University offices and buildings will have reduced operating hours during Fall Break.
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CSU faculty, students head to COP27 in Egypt to advocate for aspects of global climate change policy
CSU is a global leader in climate change education and research and has been selected to host a unique art exhibit and side events at the U.S. Center Pavilion in the negotiation zone of COP27. The CSU team will be hosting a booth and several panel discussions in the main area of the COP27 during the 12-day summit Nov. 6-18. in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula.
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With $2 million from NSF, Indigenous knowledge and western science meet to advance mountain sustainability
Ensuring sustainability of mountainous regions and peoples around the world, centered around local and Indigenous knowledge, is moving forward with a $2 million funding push from a National Science Foundation award to Colorado State University. Mountain Sentinels, based at CSU, is an international alliance focused on synthesizing local and Indigenous knowledge, regional policy, and western science to strengthen mountain communities and sustain mountain ecosystems.
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Mountain goats and bighorn sheep battle in climate crisis, new study shows
A Colorado State University/Wildlife Conservation Society study revealed that mountain goats with their saber-like horns emerged victorious over bighorn sheep in more than 98 percent of contests at three sites along a 900-mile gradient of above-treeline mountainous habitat from Colorado to Alberta, Canada.
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Combatting the illegal cheetah trade, researchers first need to find the source
Paul Evangelista, a senior research scientist at CSU’s Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL), is leading the international initiative to find the sources of the hundreds of cheetah cubs estimated to be taken from their mothers each year.
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Open forums for AVP for Indigenous and Native American Affairs candidates start Sept. 30
Three finalists to serve as the first Assistant Vice President for Indigenous and Native American Affairs at Colorado State University will participate in forums open starting Sept. 30.
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Charter bus tour to CSU Spur for those considering programing proposals for next round of funding
A charter bus tour to CSU Spur campus for CSU faculty and staff actively considering a program proposal for FY24 will leave CSU’s Oval on Main Campus at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, and return approximately 4:30 p.m. that day.
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Forest fires impacting snowpack and compounding Western water woes
Snowpack is a victim of increasing western wildfires, causing some regions to have less peak snow accumulation and reducing the number of days snow is on the ground, according to new Colorado State University research.