Colorado State University received the 2008 Royal Award for Sustainable Technology Transfer for three clean technology innovations

Research spending at CSU climbed 2 percent to nearly $303 million, the first time the university has eclipsed the $300 million mark.

Colorado State University set a record in its fiscal year 2008 for research expenditures, topping $300 million for the first time.

Colorado State University officials said Thursday the school spent $302.6 million on research in fiscal year 2008, surpassing CSU’s previous record.

U.S. News and World Report named Colorado State University in its 2009 “America’s Best Colleges” edition.

CSU received the 2008 Royal Award for Sustainable Technology Transfer from Crown Prince Felipe of Spain and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. The award was presented at COPENMIND, a technology transfer conference under way in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week.

“New Orleans lately has just been unfortunate in terms of the storms that have formed have happened to take a track up in that general direction, said Dr. Phil Klatzbach, a hurricane research scientist at Colorado State University.

Studies by Colorado State University researchers determined that wine tourism throughout Colorado generated $20.6 million in economic activity in 2005.

In an updated forecast, Colorado State University hurricane researchers announced Tuesday that a total of five tropical storms would form in the Atlantic Ocean in September, which includes four hurricanes.

Former Colorado State University climatologist William Gray said Tuesday that would be nearly twice as busy as an average September.