Colorado State University and the University of Colorado planned vigils Wednesday, and a CSU alumni-student group was preparing care packages to send to Virginia Tech for finals week.

Shirley Perryman, M.S., R.D., is a cooperative extension specialist with the Colorado State University Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.

Vigils planned for Wednesday include one at Colorado State University in Fort Collins at noon near the sculpture garden outside the Lory Student Center.

Colorado State University’s National Resource Ecology Lab conducted the open space inventory and mapping study, assisted by Southpaw Consulting, a Longmont firm.

The report by Colorado State University’s Natural Resource Ecology Lab and Southpaw Consulting found 29.9 million acres in Colorado are protected by federal, state or local governments, private conservation organizations or conservation easements on private land.

Another bill appropriates money for the Collaboratory involving CU, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The study, conducted on behalf of lottery-funded Great Outdoors Colorado by Colorado State University’s Natural Resource Ecology Lab, was exhaustive, requiring researchers to contact 450 agencies and to conduct extensive digital mapping.

In 1999, Colorado State University psychology professor Jerry Deffenbacher issued a study in which he compared “high-anger” drivers – those who measured in the top 25 percent in tests – with the “low anger” drivers in the bottom quarter.

“If you’re driving an hour-and-a-half each way twice a day for 30 years, the consequences don’t catch up with you at 32, they catch up in your 50s,” said Jerry Deffenbacher, a professor of psychology at Colorado State University, who …

Veterinarians at the Colorado State University Tissue Engineering Laboratory are growing 24 copies of a rabbit’s corneal tissue from a single cornea, and doing the same with animal skin and heart muscles.