March 12 COVID town hall: Pandemic life at CSU passes one-year mark
The Zoom event featured updates on the university's Summer Session plans, vaccine rollout, and ongoing public health precautions and guidelines.
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Colorado Food Systems Initiative provides interactive map of COVID-19 food sites and pantries
Initially developed as a useful tool to help inform how food system initiatives are planned, implemented, and evaluated, the Colorado food systems map now includes tools to fight food insecurity in the wake of COVID-19.
VIDEOS: Saliva screening at CSU, demystified
Go behind the scenes of CSU's saliva screening processes, including how to get it done, and what happens to the samples once they're collected.
CSU civil engineers publish strategies for better managing health care systems during pandemics and natural disasters
Health care systems could save lives and minimize losses by optimizing resource allocation and implementing mitigation strategies, according to two new studies by Colorado State University researchers.
Don't wait on CSU: Eligible student-facing employees advised to get COVID vaccines where available
When Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced on Feb. 26 that student-facing faculty and staff at colleges and universities would be added to the phased rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines as early as March 21, many of the state's higher education employees breathed a sigh of relief.
Colorado’s Been Pretty Face Mask Savvy But Now’s Not The Time To Slack Off
“I don’t want to say bad because bad is not wearing a mask at all. So we could be doing a lot better," said John Volckens, a professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado State University. (Colorado Public Radio)
Summer 2021 at CSU town hall scheduled for March 12
CSU will host a town hall session for the university community on Friday, March 12, to provide updates and answer questions about its ongoing response to the COVID pandemic.
IT community pulled together during pandemic to find solutions for students
When Colorado State University transitioned to remote learning about a year ago, one of the many challenges that IT staff faced was how to give students access to the software they needed in campus computer labs.
Indoors, outdoors, 6 feet apart? Transmission risk of airborne viruses can be quantified
Early in the pandemic, a CSU team set out to quantify the dynamics of how aerosols like viruses travel from one person to another, under different circumstances.
Nature/Lab Animal: Keeping an eye on the human-animal interface
Sometimes, symptoms of a disease are obvious – think of the mass mortality events observed in crows infected with West Nile Virus (a mosquito-borne virus that can also cause febrile illness in humans), says Angela Bosco-Lauth, a virologist and veterinarian and at Colorado State University. Often, signs are much subtler – if they are there at all.