Building A Culture of Innovation: National Academy of Inventors Chapter Opens at CSU
Recent faculty honors and increased patent awards at CSU have prompted the establishment of a local chapter of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Artificial intelligence enables strategic hydropower planning across Amazon basin
A new study focuses on tradeoffs between energy generation from dams and a suite of ecosystem services supplied by rivers throughout the Amazon Basin.
Apparel and merchandising students attend the Outdoor Retailer tradeshow in Denver thanks to support from donors
Students and faculty from the Department of Design and Merchandising attend the Outdoor Retailer tradeshow in Denver to build industry partnerships and learn about the industry's developments in sustainability.
Keeping it clean: Engineers working to make desalination membranes stay scale-free
Mineral scaling on membrane surfaces in desalination applications is a highly technical problem that Tiezheng Tong's lab is working to solve.
Energy and materials chemist Justin Sambur named 2022 Sloan Research Fellow
The fellowships honor extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers whose “creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.”
George Seidel Jr. to be awarded 2022 Founders Day Medal
Seidel was known internationally as an expert on reproductive physiology whose applied research transformed animal agriculture. At CSU, where Seidel spent his 50-year career, he was also known as a brilliant, kind and hard-working colleague and a generous mentor.
Moving Beyond the Business Case for Diversity
Efforts to diversify the geosciences must evolve from transactional to transformational, emphasizing the inclusion of and equity for individuals over the benefits they bring to institutions. (EOS)
Should you keep wearing a mask after mandates end? Here are the factors to consider
CSU researcher Christian L’Orange said there’s nothing inherent in the aerosol transmission of COVID-19 that warrants the change. (Fort Collins Coloradoan)
Phys.org: Hunting by humans can change virus evolution, transmission in pumas
A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution offers rare insight into the pathway of a common virus in two geographic areas with different wildlife management strategies. The research has implications for the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, which potentially emerged following wildlife-to-human transmission.
New method of studying is improving microbiology students’ grades
“I thought it was really exciting and it kind of seemed almost sort of simple, philosophically-wise,” said Jennifer McLean, one of the MIP 300 instructors, “but to put it into practice and get students to actually change their behavior, that’s a whole other story.”