CSU In The News Archive

How the Famous ‘Colorado Experiment’ Caused 63lbs of Muscle Gain in 28 Days

Outlet: Men's Health UK

October 03, 2025

In 1973, Jones teamed up with Casey Viator, a professional bodybuilder and former Mr. America, for a 28-day trial at Colorado State University. Under the supervision of exercise physiologist Dr Elliott Plese, Viator and Jones trained just 14 times in 4 weeks, one set per exercise, mainly to failure or even ‘negatives only’.

The surging price tag of wildfires, in one chart

Outlet: Vox

October 03, 2025

The results tie together trends that fire researchers have been picking up on for years now. “They do a nice job presenting that fires are happening at the extremes of these conditions and these extremes are happening more frequently,” said Jude Bayham, an associate professor of agriculture and resource economics at Colorado State University.

Blue Laser Fusion Wins US Department of Energy 2025 INFUSE Project Award

Outlet: Associated Press

October 03, 2025

Blue Laser Fusion Inc. (BLF), a leading fusion energy company, has won a highly competitive US Department of Energy (DOE) INFUSE project award to further develop its novel high-energy pulsed laser for inertial fusion energy applications in collaboration with Colorado State University (CSU).

The legacy and loss of Colorado’s once-mighty glaciers

Outlet: Denver Gazette

October 03, 2025

Others before her include Dan McGrath, a glaciologist and professor at Colorado State University. Earlier this month he joined a research flight over a dozen snowbound sites around the state — sites with “glacier” in their names but not meeting a scientific standard to be defined as such.

Ultracold clocks could reveal how quantum physics alters time

Outlet: New Scientist

October 03, 2025

“Normally in experiments, you need to play tricks to engineer entanglement. The fascinating thing here is that it comes whether you want it or not,” says team member Christian Sanner at Colorado State University.

Report: USDA move to Fort Collins could boost economy

Outlet: AOL

October 03, 2025

“The infusion of USDA personnel into Fort Collins will further strengthen the state’s agricultural infrastructure, enhance access to federal resources and research to CSU students and the community, and ensure that policy and programmatic decisions remain closely aligned with the needs of producers on the ground,” CSI said.