MOVE-IN 2015: First 50 Days
Important activities highlighted during first eight weeks of first semester.
Important activities highlighted during first eight weeks of first semester.
Time's running out to sign up for the 2015 Homecoming Parade at CSU.
New initiatives provide opportunities for faculty innovation around important global issues.
With the fall semester beginning next week, Academic Computing and Networking Services (ACNS) reminds instructors that courses are now expected to be housed in Canvas rather than RamCT.
Center finds home in Ethnic Studies department, hires full-time director, plans for undergraduate major.
With about 6,200 students moving into the residence halls this week, campus housing opens at full capacity with both a record number of first-year students and a record number of returning students.
Updated August 17, 2015
A celebration of Jerry’s life will be held from 3-5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10 in the Cherokee Ballroom in the Lory Student Center.
Original post (July 2)
Dr. Jerry Eckert, born on March 29, 1939, passed away on May 27.
Jerry Eckert was an emeritus professor at Colorado State University, where he taught and conducted research in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics from 1972-2005. As an academic, he wrote nearly 200 articles and professional papers, two of which won best published article awards.
In addition to his academic pursuits, Jerry worked on many international projects, ultimately living more than 20 years in South Asia and Southern Africa. His work redirected agricultural and labor policies in Pakistan and Lesotho and contributed to food grain self-sufficiency in Pakistan and The Gambia. In South Africa, where he worked at the University of Cape Town, the Development Bank of Southern Africa and the University of Stellenbosch, his research and writing spurred the apartheid government to accelerate change by creating a more inclusive middle class. He developed the framework for an interracial dialogue on rights in South Africa leading, ultimately, to a new bill of rights in 1997. Following the first open elections in South Africa in 1994, Jerry helped to develop an economic growth strategy for the incoming Mandela government.
At CSU, he also served as DARE Faculty Council representative for several years and later as associate director of Society of Senior Scholars, promoting the involvement of retired faculty in the broader CSU community. Following his retirement in 2005, Jerry immersed himself in his twin passions of hiking and nonfiction writing. Jerry’s early nonfiction celebrated the natural world, especially wildlife, in American and Pakistani outdoor magazines. His literary nonfiction has appeared in Pilgrimage, Matter, the Superstition Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, Memoir Journal, Ruminate, and elsewhere. “Mahlapane’s Story,” first published in the Superstition Review, won the Northern Colorado Writers 2011 essay competition. His soon-to-be published memoir entitled “Weeping Kings and Wild Boars: Moments of Magic and Sorrow from Forty Years of Trying to Save the World” recently won the first place award in the Northern Colorado Writers Top of the Mountain Book Award.
Jerry and his wife, Betty, divided their time between Fort Collins and Vail, Arizona, hiking the central Rockies in the summer and the southern Rockies in winter. He is survived by his wife, Betty, their four children, Erin Eckert, Traci Cooley, Scott Eckert, and Todd Doss, seven grandchildren and two sisters. He will be missed enormously. A memorial service to celebrate Jerry’s life will be held at CSU later in September. Memorial donations may be made to the National Park Foundation (http://www.nationalparks.org).
Adele Igel, a graduate student in CSU's Department of Atmospheric Science, recently visited Stockholm University, where she worked with Professor Annica Ekman and her research group to study Arctic clouds.
Atmospheric science doctoral student Christina McCluskey is currently participating in a research study being conducted at the Mace Head Atmospheric Research Station (Carna, Ireland), a coastal site near an oceanic region of seasonally prominent biological activity.
Hussam Mahmoud, assistant professor in the CSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is among 89 young engineers selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's 21st annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium in September.