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Nuclear expert to address CSU
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Amid growing concerns about America's energy future and CSU's push to be carbon neutral by 2020, Gwyneth Cravens, author of the book "Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy," is speaking at CSU on Wednesday to tear down what she says are misconceptions about nuclear power and sustainable energy.
Forms questioned in registration drives
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BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. - Summit County officials are investigating voter registration forms signed by Rip Van Winkle and a handful of other questionable applicants. At least six people provided fake driver's license numbers, and one person tried to register twice, according to registration records.
Erratic winds hinder, help California wildfires
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LOS ANGELES - Ferocious desert winds pushed one of three major wildfires burning across Southern California to nearly double its size overnight, firefighters said Tuesday, the third day of the blazes that have destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands to flee.
CSU works to prevent spread of listeria
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In the wake of a food-borne bacteria outbreak in Canada that has killed at least 17 people and sickened more than 60 others, CSU researchers are working to prevent the spread of the deadly bacteria, listeria. The university's Center for Meat Safety and Quality and the Food Safety Cluster will collaborate with Cornell University, the University of Nebraska, Ohio State University and Kansas State University to better understand outbreaks like the one Canada has experienced this year.
United Way helps fund child care for single mothers at CSU
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Last year, CSU senior Shawnee McPahil worked three jobs while taking 18 credit hours at school and raising her three-year-old -- all to be able to afford daycare for her son, Tristan. Now, though, the English Education major has a scholarship from the United Way WomenGive program, which helps fund all of her childcare expenses.
Shell Oil Co. grants $950,000 for plant research
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Shell Oil Company granted $950,000 to the Warner College of Natural Resources to continue a decades-long research project that aims to restore plant growth in northwestern Colorado's Piceance Basin, which was devastated by extensive oil harvesting in the area until the 1970s.
Student leaders initiate financial oversight committee
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In response to CSU President Larry Penley's controversial spending in recent years -- pushing millions of dollars that could have gone to starving classrooms into administration and research -- student government officials have formed an investigative committee to review the trends reported in the Collegian.
