Category: Research & Creative Scholarship
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Researchers challenge beliefs about the hunting habits, fire use of ‘hobbits’
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Read More: Researchers challenge beliefs about the hunting habits, fire use of ‘hobbits’The research, led by CSU and Germany’s University of Tübingen, offers new insights into how Homo floresiensis survived in part due to an unlikely ally, the Komodo dragon.
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Sociology Professor Tara Opsal named William E. Morgan Endowed Chair in the College of Liberal Arts
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Read More: Sociology Professor Tara Opsal named William E. Morgan Endowed Chair in the College of Liberal ArtsTara Opsal, a professor and current chair of the Department of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts, has been named the William E. Morgan Endowed Chair in the College. A nationally respected public sociologist, Opsal advances community-engaged reform in the criminal legal system, examining how it produces harm and…
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CSU research on how Colorado measures water for ecosystem and human use
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Read More: CSU research on how Colorado measures water for ecosystem and human useWith a grant from the Colorado Water Conservation Board, Jacob Petersen-Perlman and an interdisciplinary group of CSU researchers are now examining how Colorado and other states measure and establish standards for instream flows – actual water in a river or lake needed to support ecosystems as well as human uses.
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A roll of the dice: How Native Americans shaped gambling and probability long before the Old World
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Read More: A roll of the dice: How Native Americans shaped gambling and probability long before the Old WorldNew research pushes the earliest known origins of dice, gambling and the exploration of randomness back six millennia and into North America.
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CSU’s Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities Announces 2025-2026 Faculty Fellows
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Read More: CSU’s Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities Announces 2025-2026 Faculty FellowsThe Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities at Colorado State University has named four faculty members as Faculty Fellows for 2025-2026: Abraham Khan, Nina McConigley, Brittney Sly, and Jonna Yarrington.
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New evidence suggests early human ancestors were present in Europe 200,000 years earlier than previously thought
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Read More: New evidence suggests early human ancestors were present in Europe 200,000 years earlier than previously thoughtCSU paleoanthropologist Michael Pante was part of the team that uncovered evidence suggesting that early human ancestors were present in Europe 1.95 million years ago.
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What can the discovery of two medieval Silk Road cities teach us about urbanism today?
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Read More: What can the discovery of two medieval Silk Road cities teach us about urbanism today?Cutting-edge drone-based lidar allowed archaeologists to capture stunning details of two newly documented trade cities high in the mountains of Uzbekistan.
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CSU’s Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities Announces 2024-2025 Faculty Fellows
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Read More: CSU’s Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities Announces 2024-2025 Faculty FellowsThe Joe Blake Center for Engaged Humanities at Colorado State University has named five College of Liberal Arts faculty members as Faculty Fellows for 2024-2025: Kari Anderson, Carrie Chenault, Jessica Jackson, Tobi Jacobi and Emily Moore. The Faculty Fellows Program is designed to support and promote humanities-oriented scholarship and to…
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Insights Speaker Series: Elevating award-winning work
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Read More: Insights Speaker Series: Elevating award-winning workAs part of the Insights Speaker Series, four award-winning CLA faculty talk everything from Korean media to the power of community.
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Mercury rising: How does gold mining in Ghana impact health, environment?
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Read More: Mercury rising: How does gold mining in Ghana impact health, environment?CSU Associate Professor of Geography Heidi Hausermann and colleagues have won a $1.537 million National Science Foundation grant to study the health, social and environmental effects of rapidly expanding, small-scale gold mining and mercury pollution in Ghana and beyond.