Troy Olchtree, an assistant professor and an eco-physiologist in the department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, chats with the Tune Into Nature podcast about how plants can be more tolerant to drought and fire.
LeAnna Warren is an undergraduate in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability. She began working with NREL senior research scientist Dr. Jill Baron during the Fall 2020 semester doing field and lab work associated with the Loch Vale Watershed.
For the past several years, Colorado State University has sent delegations of students and faculty to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as the Conference of Parties or COP. This year’s delegation led by Dr. Gillian Bowser included several students and alumni from the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability.
Felix Diaz, a fourth-year geology major in the Geosciences Department at CSU, shares his experience at the 2021 Summer Geoscience Field Camp in the most recent episode of Tune Into Nature, a Warner College of Natural Resources podcast with student hosts Becky Barbier and Kelley Sinning.
As more employers in higher education require applicants to submit a diversity statement — a statement in which a job applicant can address how they can contribute to a culture of inclusion and equity — a standard framework for employers to evaluate diversity statements is lacking. Two Colorado State University researchers coauthored a recent study that examined the strengths and limitations of diversity statements and gathered expert opinion on how institutions could meaningfully evaluate statements in the hiring process, as well as other tools to evaluate candidates’ DEI commitment.
In an effort to improve forest resilience and reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires in the Interior West, three organizations, including Colorado State University’s Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, are receiving $20 million from the U.S. government.
The Center for Collaborative Conservation at Colorado State University is pleased to welcome the twelfth cohort into their Conservation Fellows Program. For a second year, the CCC has partnered with the Warner College’s Diversity and Inclusion Program to support a cohort of Fellows that includes individuals from demographics historically under-represented in conservation and projects that engage communities that are often under-served.
A Colorado State University researcher has co-authored a chapter in the series Climbing Initiative Best Practice Project called “Climbers and Bat Conservation” that details the ways in which recreational climbers can aid researchers in bat conservation.
In 2018, Fran Letts came to Colorado State University from rural Illinois with a purpose. Letts, who has majored in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources and minored in Spanish, has made the most of her time as a student at the Warner College of Natural Resources.
Through a class, CSU students built wildlife-friendly crossings on conserved ranches in Colorado.