CSU has taken a leadership position in clean energy, in part, through the establishment of the clean-energy supercluster and its accompanying enterprise arm Cenergy.

“2009 will be hard, and the recovery will be slow in 2010 and 2011,” said Martin Shields, a regional economist with Colorado State University who gave a separate forecast Wednesday morning to the South Metro Chamber of Commerce.

A report compiled by Colorado State University economics professors Martin Shields and Harvey Cutler shows CSU and its Colorado-based alumni generate about $4.1 billion in annual household income, making it one of the most significant economic growth engines in the …

CSU and its state-based alumni produce $4.1 billion in household income in Colorado, according to a new study by university researchers.

The 23-year-old is a grad of Ralston Valley High in Arvada and Colorado State University, where she studied to become a teacher.

Lead researcher Marc Winokur of the Social Work Research Center at Colorado State University reviewed data from 62 studies on children in out-of-home placements.

While wind farms are far from new, what makes a newly proposed site at Maxwell Ranch, 25 miles northwest of Fort Collins, unusual is that Colorado State University is the driving force behind it.

That is essentially what has happened with the arrival of Hexcel Corp., said Martin Shields, a regional economist at Colorado State University.

The Colorado State University junior — a political science major, no less — volunteered with everybody else in his family to work on the campaign in Boulder County, he said.

While calling 2008 “a horrific year,” Martin Shields, regional economist at Colorado State University, said that “things really weren’t so bad in Colorado” as they were across the nation.