“Sheep don’t like to be by themselves,” explained Tom McBride, who heads the Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Office in Thornton.

The sculpture is part of CSU’s annual Cans Around the Oval food drive, the largest single-day food drive in Larimer County. Donated cans will be weighed later this morning.

CSU students and employees this morning are completing an approximately 40,000-can “footprint” made from donated food.

Colorado State University is enrolling 36 dogs for a clinical study on the effects of an herbal supplement on pain and lameness associated with arthritis. The randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study will also investigate complications associated with herbal supplements.

It’s a place Stanley Scott, director at Colorado State University’s Curfman Gallery, wants you to know.

Colorado State University is collaborating with the Bas Bleu Theatre on “The Beckett Project,” two weeks of Beckett biographer Jim Knowlson performances and sessions that culminate with an Oct. 26 talk featuring Beckett biographer Jim Knowlson.

The alternative energy industry is one that isn’t expected to contract, unlike other more traditional market segments, said Tom Dean, economist at Colorado State University.

Robert Duffy, chairman of the political science department at Colorado State University, said Palin’s visit will energize partisans on both sides but is unlikely to change the political dynamic.

Robert Duffy, chairman of the political science department at Colorado State University, said Palin’s visit will energize partisans on both sides but is unlikely to change the political dynamic.

CSU and Neenan Archistruction will build a sculpture out of 50,000 individual canned goods to unofficially break the Guinness Book of World Records mark of 45,557 cans set in July 2008 in Rothbury, Mich.