“I hesitate to use the word likely – I wouldn’t predict it,” said John Straayer, a political scientist at Colorado State University. But, he said, “I would not be the least bit surprised if it happens.”

When several small pockets of cutthroat trout were found in isolated mountain streams in the 1960s, however, Dr. Robert J. Behnke of Colorado State University compared them to museum specimens collected more than 100 years earlier.

Before claims adjusters can get into the area and people can return to their homes, emergency inspectors must determine the stability of structures, said John van de Lindt, a civil-engineering professor at Colorado State University.

Karla Gingerich, a child psychology professor at Colorado State University, said it’s important for parents to make children feel safe again.

“It’s kind of a wake-up call that, yes, tornadoes can occur, they can be big, they can be fatal and they can be near the Front Range, so don’t take them for granted,” said Nolan Doesken, the state climatologist at …

The Rocky Mountain Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at Colorado State University has formally received “select agent” research approval from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making it the first lab of its kind in the country to begin studying …

The death of a top race horse in the Kentucky Derby is something researchers at Colorado State University hope to help prevent in the future.

“I’ve been here 28 years and never seen a setup quite like this,” said Richard Johnson, head of Colorado State University’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences. “It was strong and so close to the mountains.”

Richard Johnson, chairman of the department of atmospheric sciences at Colorado State University, said the storm’s track – from southeast to northwest, also was unusual.

Witnesses at Colorado State University’s research farm north of Fort Collins said they saw at least two funnel clouds “hopscotch across the facility on the east side of interstate.”