NPR Science Friday: Unprecedented Avian Flu Outbreak Continues
LISTEN: Host Ira Flatow talks with Dr. Kristy Pabilonia, professor and director of the Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratories at Colorado State University.
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CBS Colorado: Bison population, with Yellowstone National Park roots, explodes in Colorado
VIDEO: In 2015 researchers at Colorado State University, in conjunction with the City of Fort Collins and Larimer County, released a small herd of bison onto the 2,700-acre Soapstone Prairie north of Fort Collins. The herd originally included just 10 bison, but thanks to advanced assisted reproductive technologies at CSU, the herd has grown significantly and has been kept as close to genetically pure as possible and free of brucellosis.
Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management
Hear from leading experts at CSU, the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Parks Service about how chronic wasting disease impacts cervid populations around the globe, and what we've learned about prion-related infectious agents
Greeley Tribune: Colorado State’s veterinary medicine program ranked 2nd by U.S. News and World Report for 2023-24
University of California-Davis (average rating of 4.5) was ranked first, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York was third, Ohio State ranked fourth and North Carolina State and the University of Pennsylvania tied for fifth.
KDVR: CSU vet school ranked 2nd in nation
VIDEO: Colorado State University's veterinary medicine program has been ranked as one of the top grad schools in the whole U.S.
Ag Daily: Equine infectious anemia reported in horse brought to Colorado
The Colorado Department of Agriculture’s State Veterinarians Office was notified on March 28, 2023 that a horse residing in Garfield County had tested presumptive positive for Equine Infectious Anemia. The initial test was completed at Colorado State University’s Western Slope Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory with the confirmatory test completed at the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, on April 4, 2023.
Coloradoan: Fort Collins 2nd-graders’ best questions about space, answered by a real astronaut
CSU alum astronaut Kjell Lindgren visited the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery on Thursday morning to speak to second-graders from Putnam and Laurel elementary schools, along with dozens of community members who showed up to watch.
New York Times: Why Dead Birds Are Falling From the Sky
CSU alum Dr. Nicole Nemeth, a wildlife pathologist at the University of Georgia and her colleagues found a high rate of bald eagle nest failure (no surviving chicks) and adult deaths, with dead birds brought to the lab and confirmed to be ravaged by the H.P.A.I. virus. “It was very sad and alarming,” Dr. Nemeth said.
Knowable Magazine: Inside the brains of aging dogs
Veterinary neurologist Stephanie McGrath at Colorado State University performs MRI scans on participants in the Dog Aging Project, looking for features that may connect brain shrinkage and other physical changes to dementia in older dogs. Most exciting, she says, is that her work suggests MRI might one day be used as an early detection tool.
Denver7: Moose at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo recovering after toe amputation
Zoo staff and Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital members operated on Atka on Tuesday to remove the toe. As of 4:30 p.m., Atka was doing well and had even stood up.