Previous Issues: Research & Scholarship
Research & Scholarship
Not your grandfather’s mapmaking
At its core, the Centroid uses geographic information systems, open-source programming languages, and other geospatial technologies to visualize and analyze data.
Sustainability
Living Ink grows into sustainable printing
Living Ink’s algae-based pigment is renewable, biodegradable, and carbon-negative, because the algae absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow and produce oxygen through photosynthesis.
Research & Scholarship
Another record year for research
In the past fiscal year, CSU’s sponsored projects expenditures totaled $456.9 million, up from $447.2 million in fiscal year 2020-21.
Wildfires
Which buildings will survive a wildfire?
CSU engineers have developed a model that can predict how wildfire will impact a community, down to which buildings will burn.
Sustainability
At CSU, even the labs are going green
Green labs follow the “3 Rs” – reduce, reuse, and recycle – to keep waste out of the landfill, and reduce energy use where possible.
Climate Change
CSU researcher part of Indigenous climate resilience science hub
The collaborative pairs Indigenous knowledge and earth science research to improve climate resilience in coastal communities most affected by severe climate hazards.
Health
DNA barcodes reveal mosquito movement
Researchers can not only track where the mosquitoes ended up, but also where they started and how they moved.
Health
Cooking, cleaning, and indoor air quality
When you’re cooking or cleaning inside your home, what chemicals are you breathing, and are they potentially harmful? Colorado State University chemists have given us a solid start on the answer. A large, collaborative research experiment that attempted to map the airborne chemistry of a typical home took place in 2018 and was co-led by […]
Water
CSU Spur Hydro lab TAPs into six types of water
In a building dedicated to all things water is a first-of-its-kind lab dedicated to developing innovative ways to clean and reuse humanity’s most precious resource.
People
Tom Painter cracks the calculus of snowmelt
Painter combines his interests in data and snow to measure, model, and predict the amount of water in snowpack to improve water management.