CSU In The News Archive

$68 million donated to state ballot issues

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October 29, 2008

“They touch on policy matters that are of national interest,” said John Straayer, political science professor at Colorado State University. “You got oil and gas from all over the country coming in here. When you mess around with labor laws …

Obama visit provides PR boost for Fort Collins, CSU

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October 29, 2008

From CNN to Fox News, the New York Times and the Bangkok Post, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s massive Sunday rally at the CSU Oval helped put Fort Collins “on the map,” several publicity experts say, but warned the headlines …

Role Of Soil Microbes In Global Warming Clarified

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October 29, 2008

“It is often said that in a handful of dirt, there are somewhere around 10,000 species and millions of individual bacteria and fungi,” said study co-author Matthew Wallenstein, a research scientist at Colorado State University.

Troubling toll in Thoreau’s backyard

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October 29, 2008

While there is much melancholy among the scientists involved in the study – Davis thinks that if Thoreau were alive today, he’d write a book called “Walden Lost” – Phil Cafaro, an environmental philosopher at Colorado State who has written …

University continues to play host

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October 29, 2008

CSU played host to both Kevin Costner and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter on Tuesday, with both men urging students to early vote rather than wait for Election Day.

50,000 crowd onto CSU Oval to cheer Obama

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October 27, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama ignited a crowd estimated between 45,000 to 50,000 on the Colorado State University Oval Sunday with his familiar theme of change.

Democrats hope Obama’s success rubs off

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October 27, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama was near the end of his well-worn stump speech at Colorado State University on Sunday, when he got to one of those lines that always makes his college audiences listen a little more closely.