President Joyce McConnell concludes her tenure as the president of Colorado State University this week – a tenure that saw the university through the unprecedented challenges of the global coronavirus pandemic. Here, SOURCE looks back on some of the highlights of McConnell’s time at CSU.
Colorado State University is now on the leading front of research universities after obtaining a 3.5 megawatt gas turbine donation. (CBS 4 Denver)
Brendan Hanlon, most recently the deputy mayor and chief financial officer for the City and County of Denver, will be joining CSU on Aug. 1 as the new vice president for university operations and chief financial officer.
Professor Edwin Chong has been named head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University. He will begin his new role on July 1. Chong succeeds Professor Tony Maciejewski, who served four terms as head.
Professor Tony Maciejewski ends his fourth and final term as head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering on June 30. He will continue to teach and conduct research as a full-time faculty member.
“I wanted to make golf more of a sport that anybody could look at and say ‘yeah, I’ll try that’,” said Killian Clear, one of two mechanical engineering alums who have developed a lightweight, portable, 3D-printed golf bag.
Only three storms have formed in this zone during June previously as more typically form in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, according to CSU tropical weather expert Phil Klotzbach. (Washington Post)
As Miranda gets ready to assume the interim role on July 1, he took some time to discuss his priorities as well as the search for the new president of CSU.
Climate change and natural variability are making 2022 a year of big weather events—so get ready for more heat waves, droughts, and hurricanes. (Wired)
A chance encounter with a rare phenomenon called a milky sea connects a sailor and a scientist to explain the ocean’s ghostly glow. (Hakai Magazine)