Convention-goers will be close to the mountains — August is just wonderful — and they’ll want to get up there over the weekend or on either end of the convention, said Stephan Weiler, interim associate dean for research in the …

Celebrations to honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. are scheduled to kick off Sunday night and will include the annual march from Colorado State University to Old Town.

Regardless how cold it might be, Greeley will continue to be one of the colder areas of the northern part of the state, said Nolan Doesken, state climatologist at Colorado State University.

The documents were sent electronically to the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., at around 2:30 p.m., Colorado State University physicist Robert Wilson said.

Wednesday is the last day to sign up to attend the launch of Colorado State University’s Division of Continuing Education Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

In Springfield, county seat of snowswept Baca County, “We still have producers who haven’t gotten to their cattle, so they don’t know what their losses are,” said Bruce Fickenscher, a Colorado State University Extension agent.

The affected herds in Colorado represent about $1.8 billion worth of cattle including breeding cows that will produce calves for next year’s supply, Colorado State University agriculture extension agent Leonard Pruett said.

John Straayer, a political science professor at Colorado State University, said it’s also a risky strategy if Democrats can’t deliver.

The next big concern is rounding up enough hay for area herds, said Scott Brase of the Colorado State University agriculture extension agency.

Larry Edward Penley, chancellor of the Colorado State University system, has unveiled his strategy for transforming the state through higher education as the 2007 Legislative session begins.