Alumni News: From Fort Collins to outer space
News from our alumni around the world and beyond.
News from our alumni around the world and beyond.
Sometimes, symptoms of a disease are obvious – think of the mass mortality events observed in crows infected with West Nile Virus (a mosquito-borne virus that can also cause febrile illness in humans), says Angela Bosco-Lauth, a virologist and veterinarian and at Colorado State University. Often, signs are much subtler – if they are there at all.
Outstanding Z Course winner: Medora Huseby, General Microbiology, CSU. The Zero Textbook Cost Challenge encourages Colorado institutions of higher education to increase access, equity, and affordability for college students through expanding the use of open educational resources.
In honor of the fifth anniversary of the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd and to celebrate National Bison Day, a variety of talks, tours, and activities will take place Nov. 7-8.
“Science is a very collaborative endeavor. It really takes many individuals, many groups of people with different talents, differing capabilities to come together to solve problems that are of the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic that we’re trying to solve right now." -Ray Goodrich
Angela M. Bosco-Lauth, Airn E. Hartwig, Stephanie M. Porter and other researchers at CSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences note that while millions of humans have been infected with the virus worldwide and 1 million have died, there are only a handful of reports of pets that have become infected naturally.
Biomedical sciences doctoral students publish cutting-edge research that helps unravel vast neuroscience mysteries.
Understanding why and how prolonged psychosocial stress, including mood and anxiety disorders, increases risk for chronic physiological illnesses like hypertension and diabetes is at the heart of Brent Myers’s research.
“It’s now more important than ever that we’re training the next generation of scientists to be prepared for the next pandemic.” -Josh Schaeffer, assistant professor of occupational and environmental health
Professor Richard Bowen awarded the AVMA 2020 Lifetime Excellence in Research Award