“The biggest advice that can be given is, don’t delay filing if the government is going to give you a refund,” said Vickie Bajtelsmit, a professor of finance at Colorado State University and a Coloradoan columnist.

Research from Colorado State University points to the possibility that climate change may hurt hibernating animals.

Gregory Florant, a biology professor at Colorado State University, has been studying the role in hibernation of a fat cell-secreted hormone called leptin.

Gregory Florant of Colorado State University has studied the effects of temperature changes on hibernating ground squirrels.

But unlike humans, our canine companions experience dangerous effects from eating chocolate—it can poison them and in some cases is lethal. The hazard, however, is probably overblown, says Tim Hackett, a veterinarian at Colorado State University.

Two weeks in India taught Colorado State University student Katie Lucchesi that an idea developed in the U.S. might need some tweaking to make it useful to poverty-stricken Indians.

Baylor University geology Professor Lee Nordt, along with Professor Joseph von Fisher of Colorado State University and Larry Tieszen of the U.S. Geological Survey, produced the 12,000-year temperature record by studying the stable isotopic composition of buried soils.

John Straayer, a political-science professor at Colorado State University, called it a bad public-relations move by the Democrats.

Eight academic departments at Colorado State University recently ranked in the top 10 nationally in their disciplines.

The program is called the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, or CoCoRaHS www.cocorahs.org. Thanks to a federal grant, Colorado State University will be able to apply this model – of volunteer weather watchers – across the country.