Two Colorado Water Center initiatives aim to expand and diversify the water workforce by encouraging students from historically underrepresented backgrounds to pursue water careers.
In honor of World Water Day, March 23, SOURCE asked Colorado Water Center Director John Tracy a few questions – maybe even some that have been on your mind.
Last year, the Salazar Center for North American Conservation launched the Peregrine Accelerator for Conservation Impact to help address complicated environmental challenges like those found in the Rio Grande River basin. The program provides project teams with $10,000 in seed-funding to accelerate the pace and scale of their proposed conservation innovations, helping them improve ecological and human health.
CSU Extension brought together campus and community partners to learn from each other at the Southern Rocky Mountain Agriculture Conference.
Larimer County Extension's annual showcase brought together local officials and leaders from CSU to celebrate the county team's impressive outreach and engagement efforts in 2022.
Retta Bruegger, a range management specialist with CSU Extension focusing on western Colorado, received the Outstanding Young Professional Award from the Society for Range Management at the organization's annual meeting in February.
To help support older adults, in 2022 CSU Extension adapted its Aging Mastery course in partnership with the Denver Regional Council on Aging (DRCOG) to offer the program in five different languages to immigrants and refugees in Aurora.
Honorees include Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences James Pritchett, who is the 2023 Denver Business Journal's Who's Who in Agriculture Trailblazer, and agricultural education and equine science student Jo Smeby, who will receive the Rising Star award.
With coordinated pipeline engineering management and oversight, we could avoid most gas pipeline explosions, public health emergencies caused by aging pipe infrastructure, and environmental pollution impacts from pipeline failures.
CSU Extension will lead a study commissioned by the Colorado Department of Natural Resources to understand the role native pollinating insects have on natural resources, determine how native insect populations are changing across the state, and recommend management practices that will benefit pollinator health.