CSU In The News Archive

Weakened Ernesto Drenches East Coast

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September 01, 2006

Meanwhile, hurricane forecaster William Gray’s team downgraded its expectations for the 2006 Atlantic season today, predicting a slightly below-average season, with only five hurricanes instead of the seven previously forecast. Two of the hurricanes will be intense, according the team, …

Angst over storms a modern spectacle

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August 31, 2006

”They used to measure the distance between wave swells,” says famed hurricane predictor William Gray, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University. “If there was a longer distance, a storm was coming.”

College funding changes sought

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August 31, 2006

Colorado State University president Larry Penley wants a return to a funding system that considered a student’s course of study when setting rates of per-student funding.

Ernesto hits forecasters’ target, just not too hard

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August 31, 2006

It’s much easier to predict a storm’s track because “the motion is dictated by the broad environmental winds it’s embedded in,” said hurricane researcher William Gray of Colorado State University. Gray said those winds can be measured by planes that …

Ex-president of Mexico to speak at CSU

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August 31, 2006

The former president of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo, will be giving a lecture, at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 28, at Colorado State University.

Team tracks Katrina victims

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August 31, 2006

It has been a year since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 people and displacing thousands more. A team of researchers from Colorado State University has spent that past year documenting the challenges faced by those …

Bears Beware

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August 30, 2006

Despite the division’s encouragement of the hunt, Bernard E. Rollin, Colorado State University professor of philosophy and animal sciences and university bioethicist, says he would like to see the “detailed argument” demonstrating that the bear numbers must be thinned by …

CSU gets grant

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August 30, 2006

Onion thrips, minute insects that cause millions of dollars in damages to onion crops in Colorado and the West, can be controlled, said researchers from Colorado State University.