Linda Stanley, Ph.D., is a research scientist at Colorado State University. Send e-mail to linda.stanley@ colostate.edu.

Colorado State University astronomy professor Roger Culver clues you in on what’s happening in the night sky.

However, Colorado voter rolls show more parity between registered Republicans and Democrats now than ever in recent memory, said John Straayer, professor of political science at Colorado State University.

Vickie Bajtelsmit, J.D., Ph.D., is a professor of finance at Colorado State University and the author of two books on financial planning: “The Busy Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom” and “Personal Finance: Skills for Life.”

Yet ranchers would be in even worse condition without meatpacker mergers that have occurred in recent decades, said Stephen Koontz, an associate professor in the Agriculture and Resource Economics department at Colorado State University.

“We’ve gone crazy,” said John Straayer, political science professor at Colorado State University. “We are drunk on direct democracy in this state.”

Colorado State University political science professor John Straayer said several factors are driving high turnout.

“A lot of the animals we see, especially the ones that go out at night, have a special, reflective surface right behind their retinas,” says Dr. Cynthia Powell, a veterinary ophthalmologist at Colorado State University.

CSU senior Juwon Melvin said he was barely old enough to vote in 2004. He said he’s taking this election much more seriously.

Morgan DeFoort, Associate Director of the Energy Conversion Lab at Colorado State University, says helping develop the stoves puts the Fort Collins lab at the center of what could be a worldwide improvement in public health.