Wildfires focus attention on air quality and equine athletes
Veterinarians and epidemiologists study the health impacts of air pollution, including wildfire smoke, on performance horses.
Veterinarians and epidemiologists study the health impacts of air pollution, including wildfire smoke, on performance horses.
After being evacuated because of the Cameron Peak Fire, Dr. Amy MacNeill received good news: her bison, Buttercup, survived the fire.
Outstanding Z Course winner: Medora Huseby, General Microbiology, CSU. The Zero Textbook Cost Challenge encourages Colorado institutions of higher education to increase access, equity, and affordability for college students through expanding the use of open educational resources.
Colorado State University’s spending on research activities reached a record $407 million for fiscal year 2020, a 2% increase over last year.
The new patents were issued to researchers and inventors in six colleges and Facilities Management, through the University’s technology transfer office, CSU Ventures.
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Colorado State University has received more than $16 million in funding for COVID-19 research projects.
"The paradigm's changing where a [smoke event] is not just this one-time disaster for many communities in the West," says Sheryl Magzamen, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Colorado State University. "They're actually chronic disasters that occur every two to three years."
A research team has created an open-source data set for epidemiological research on tropical cyclones.
With modern medical treatments and management options, your arthritic horse can remain active longer and enjoy a better quality of life.
“Artificial intelligence and other digital tools won’t replace a veterinarian,” says Aaron Massecar, assistant director of Colorado State University’s Translational Medicine Institute (tmi.colostate.edu), “but they will replace a practitioner who doesn’t use them.”