Earthquakes might be rare in Colorado, but a Colorado State University professor is working to make safer structures for those who live in earthquake-prone areas.

William Gray and Phil Klotzbach, the scientists at Colorado State University who issue widely reported seasonal forecasts, tend to agree.

Psychologists at Colorado State University have found that people who give their car a name or gender are more likely to express road rage, a growing problem that causes some 370 deaths and more than 20,000 injuries each year.

“You may see a few fireworks in the regular (legislative) session,” said John Straayer, a political-science professor at Colorado State University.

“If they get the virus down there, then it could spread all over the U.S.,” said Charles Calisher, a Colorado State University virologist.

Colorado State University geologist John Ridley is searching the globe for oil – but not the 200- million-year-old oil that energy companies pump out of the ground and into your gas tank.

Diana Wall, director of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, is to make her 16th trip to the continent next month.

The study, conducted by Colorado State University biologists and published last month in the journal Science, demonstrated that the blood and saliva of deer with chronic wasting disease carry enough of the infectious agents known as “prions” to transmit it.

Diana H. Wall, director of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, is to make her 16th trip to the continent next month.

“We are a low-tuition state if you have money,” said Larry Penley, president of Colorado State University. “We’re a high-tuition state if you happen to be poor.”