Hurricane season is expected to be worse than normal
“The hurricane season is coming whether we want it to or not,” Klotzbach said. “And regardless of the seasonal forecasts, people need to be prepared every year.” (NBC News)
Tag: "Research"
Graduate student advocates for success of underrepresented groups in science
Colorado State University graduate student Josué Andrés Rodríguez-Ramos almost put his Ph.D. degree on hold to return home to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017.
Rushika Perera named American Chemical Society young investigator
"I am very excited to move this field forward and to utilize metabolism as a way to choke virus replication in both the human host and mosquito vector." -Rushika Perera
Poxviruses could yield protein pathways for coronavirus vaccine
Dr. Amy MacNeill and her team are using the vaccinia virus – used as the very first vaccine, for smallpox – to make a vaccine that would protect against coronavirus.
Axial/American Chemical Society: Winners of the 2020 ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award
Rushika Perera was named an ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator. The national award recognizes outstanding young investigators in the infectious diseases field who are within ten years of their last training experience or at the Assistant Professor level.
Colorado Sun: Research at CSU shows why testing only symptomatic people won’t stop coronavirus in Colorado
“I think the very clear message — and this isn’t specific to nursing homes — there are a lot of people out there who are infected or infectious and don’t know it,” said Greg Ebel, the CSU professor whose lab ran the tests.
1310KFKA: Dr. Michael Lappin with CSU’s Veterinary Hospital
LISTEN: Dr. Michael Lappin with CSU’s Veterinary Hospital discusses social distancing for pets.
Cultural differences in coping with interpersonal tensions lead to different short- and long-term responses
Gloria Luong, an assistant professor in Human Development and Family Studies, has investigated how Chinese Americans and European Americans choose different coping strategies in response to a social conflict stressor that may either pay off immediately or in the long run.
Beyond the basics: "Foundational science is the point of discovery"
I’ll give you a current example – the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China. Foundational science asks: Where did this virus come from? How does it relate to the other viruses we already know about? Within weeks, the scientific community sequenced the entire genome of the novel strain and determined its relatedness to other coronaviruses.