Kellie Alexander and Tara Opsal publish chapter on fracking in Routledge handbook

“Fracking the Rockies: The production of harm” by Ph.D. student Kellie Alexander, Tara O’Connor Shelley (Tarleton State University) and Associate Professor Tara Opsal is chapter 19 in the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Find out more about the book here.

Routledge publishes KuoRay Mao’s and Ph.D. student Yan Shan’s chapter on green criminology

KuoRay Mao, Yiliang Zhu, Zhong Zhao, and Ph.D. student Yan Shan’s work “Authoritarian environmentalism and environmental regulation enforcement: A case study of medical waste crime in Northwestern China” is chapter 21 in the Routledge International Handbook of Green Criminology. Find out more about the book here.

KuoRay Mao encourages students to “Fight on!” in CSU Social’s video

CSU Social put together this encouragement video with “Best Teacher” faculty from around the University. At 1:40 from start, please find KuoRay Mao’s words of wisdom: “The world will need solution makers to help us better prepare for the future. That is why listening to your professors’ online lectures – it is not a chore, instead it is […]

This is no time for panic or cynicism: Steve Dandaneau’s op ed in Coloradoan

By Steven P. Dandaneau, Associate Professor of Sociology at CSU. Originally published by the Coloradoan. Opinion: This is no time for panic or cynicism From where I stand, among the greatest challenges we face vis-à-vis the coronavirus pandemic, but one that we can certainly meet, is to keep our collective heads. It’s not just panic that […]

Stephanie Malin guest-edits special issue on uranium for The Extractive Industries and Society

Stephanie Malin and co-editor Becky Alexis-Martin (Manchester Metropolitan University) guest-edited The Extractive Industries and Society’s special issue on uranium and published the introductory essay “Assessing the state of uranium research: Environmental justice, health, and extraction.”  HIGHLIGHTS This introductory essay for the Special Issue on uranium highlights the state of the research and ways forward. Global […]

Elena Windsong and Tara Opsal honored as Faculty Institute for Inclusive Excellence Fellows

Joyce McConnell, President of CSU, and Shannon Archibeque-Engle, Assistant Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Assessment in the Vice President for Diversity office, recognized Tara Opsal and Elena Windsong at the 2020 Faculty Institute for Inclusive Excellence Awards Ceremony. Joyce wrote about the institute in her weekly email message to the campus community: “Last week, […]

KuoRay Mao named a 2020 Best Teacher Award winner

By Tony Phifer. Originally published on Source. BEST TEACHER AWARDS Seven outstanding teachers to be honored at the 2020 Best Teacher Awards Each year, students, faculty and alumni nominate the teachers who’ve inspired them and made an impact in their lives for the Best Teacher Awards. The 2020 recipients of the Best Teacher Awards, representing five […]

M.A. Student Severin Mangold publishes research in Social Sciences

Social Sciences published research by M.A. student Severin Mangold and co-authors Chelsey Willoughby and Toralf Zschau (both University of North Georgia). Their paper is titled “Small Houses, Big Community: Tiny Housers’ Desire for More Cohesive and Collaborative Communities.” ABSTRACT Past research on the tiny house movement has primarily focused on understanding the individual motivations behind […]

Keith Smith, Michael Lacy, and Adam Mayer published by The Stata Journal

The Stata Journal published “Performance simulations for categorical mediation: Analyzing khb estimates of mediation in ordinal regression models” by Keith Smith, Ph.D. student, Michael Lacy, Emeritus Associate Professor, and Adam Mayer, Ph.D. ’17. Abstract Standard mediation techniques for fitting mediation models cannot readily be translated to nonlinear regression models because of scaling issues. Methods to assess mediation in […]