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The Student News Site of Colorado State University

The Rocky Mountain Collegian

The Student News Site of Colorado State University

The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Course surveys have large impact on CSU faculty

Course surveys have large impact on CSU faculty

January 22, 2015

When students finish their finals at the end of each semester, the last thing they are worried about is course evaluations. While these surveys aren't mandatory, they have a large impact on the faculty...

Graduate students work on flavor profile research project.

CSU Meat Lab offers students research opportunities

Amy Borngrebe December 4, 2014

Tucked back in the corner of the Animal Sciences Building resides the Colorado State University Meat Lab, one of the University's little known facilities on campus. The lab serves as a meat processing...

Students and community members gather round the table for interfaith discussion in celebration of Thanksgiving at Hillel Center.

Hillel Center hosts interfaith Thanksgiving event

Amy Borngrebe November 14, 2014

On Wednesday the Hillel Center hosted a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with other campus groups in an effort to have an interfaith Thanksgiving. The participants present were affiliated with campus...

State House District 53: Jeni Arndt and Tim Bessler

State House District 53: Jeni Arndt and Tim Bessler

Amy Borngrebe October 28, 2014

Republican candidate Tim Bessler and Democratic candidate Jeni Arndt are running for the open state representative seat in House District 53. This district encompasses western and southern Fort Collins....

State House District 52: Joann Ginal and Donna Walter

State House District 52: Joann Ginal and Donna Walter

Amy Borngrebe October 28, 2014

Incumbent Democrat Joann Ginal and Republican candidate Donna Walter are running for the state representative seat in District 52. Both women have dedicated their lives to the health of others; Ginal is...

The C.P. Gillette museum provides outreach programs to the community three or four times a month. Some of the specimens are used for these programs.

C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity tries to work with space

Amy Borngrebe October 22, 2014

The C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity has housed one of the most extensive arthropod collections in the region in one of the smallest spaces on campus for the past 12 years. The museum,...

Office of the Vice President for Diversity moves into the President’s House

Amy Borngrebe October 19, 2014

The old President's House on the corner of Shields and Laurel is no longer empty with the Office of the Vice President for Diversity now residing there. The house, located at 645 S. Shields Street,...

Students from all backgrounds eat and converse inside Sukkah at Hillel Center during the Bedouin Hospitality Night

Hillel and Jewish students host “Bedouin Hospitality Night” with Muslim Student Association

Amy Borngrebe October 15, 2014

In celebration of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Hillel and the Jewish fraternity AEPi reached out to the Muslim Student Association and invited them into their Sukkah in an effort to dispel the commonly...

Students from all backgrounds eat and converse inside Sukkah at Hillel Center during the Bedouin Hospitality Night

Upcoming interfaith Sukkot event

Amy Borngrebe October 14, 2014

The Jewish fraternity AEPi and Hillel will collaborate with the Muslim Student Association on Tuesday to host a Bedouin Hospitality Event at 7 p.m. The event will be held at the Hillel Sukkah at 720...

A group of International students bond at the ropes course at Pingree Park during A Weekend in the Mountains Sept. 27-28. (Photo credit: Amy Borngrebe)

International students go to Pingree Park for A Weekend in the Mountains

Amy Borngrebe September 30, 2014

Ninety students headed up to Colorado State University's mountain campus Pingree Park for the weekend to hike, make new friends and experience the Colorado outdoors. The Office of International...

Freshmen Orsen Zhang, Michael Zhou, Andy Shi, and Walt Kong spending time on campus after the Presidents Fall Address.

Colorado State records highest international student numbers for 2014-15

Amy Borngrebe September 12, 2014

In the 2014-15 school year, Colorado State University has the largest international student population the campus has ever seen. As of this semester,  1,840 international students are enrolled...

Colorado State alumnus, Michal Kmita, expressing his passion for humanitarian development. Kmita came to campus Friday to recruit volunteers for his organization, Invictus Initiative. The organization takes a different approach to humanitarian development. (Photo Credit: Megan Fischer)

CSU alumnus Michal Kmita talks Invictus Initiative

Amy Borngrebe September 8, 2014

Informational booths lined the Lory Student Center Plaza Wednesday afternoon at the Fall Involvement Expo — Colorado State University 2006 alumnus Michal Kmita sat among them, recruiting students...

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