“Seeing the people in action, the great work that’s going on here, it is phenomenal. It’s helping us to beat this pandemic.” -Tom Gonzales, Larimer County Health Director
Medora Huseby was honored by Gov. Polis for making textbooks and learning materials affordable for students through use of open educational resources.
Amid fluctuating scientific recommendations and a virus that still holds uncertainties, colleges across the country are taking a choose-your-own-adventure approach to COVID-19... Testing is at the core of those plans.
Veterinarians and epidemiologists study the health impacts of air pollution, including wildfire smoke, on performance horses.
After being evacuated because of the Cameron Peak Fire, Dr. Amy MacNeill received good news: her bison, Buttercup, survived the fire.
"The paradigm's changing where a [smoke event] is not just this one-time disaster for many communities in the West," says Sheryl Magzamen, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Colorado State University. "They're actually chronic disasters that occur every two to three years."
LISTEN: According to microbiologist Carol Wilusz, CSU's efforts seem to be working: When they've identified elevated levels of the virus in wastewater, follow-up testing has found positive cases.
Students in the Community Practice program at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences get hands-on experience working with animals outside of a clinical setting, while students from the School of Social Work gain skills providing assistance and resources to the pet owner.
To maintain the effectiveness of hand sanitizer, Karen Dobos, Ph.D., a professor in the department of microbiology, immunology and pathology at Colorado State University, recommended to Health.com, that it’s stored at a temperature of 45 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit.
To explain how researchers are harnessing big data to understand more about the coronavirus, Dan Jacobson, a computational systems biologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will deliver a virtual talk, followed by a panel discussion with Ray Goodrich, director of CSU’s Infectious Disease Research Institute, Professor Carol Wilusz, and other CSU faculty.