Jeni Cross interviewed about why humans are howling during COVID-19

Originally appeared in SOURCE. Article by Ty Betts Why humans are howling every night, and why wildlife is joining in Click to hear from Jeni Cross and others in this video by Ty Betts Listen carefully the next time howling erupts in your neighborhood in honor of the healthcare workers who are saving lives while risking […]

Joshua Sbicca and Ph.D. student Becca Clark-Hargreaves present at annual American Association of Geographers Meeting

Joshua Sbicca and Ph.D. student Becca Clark-Hargreaves organized and participated in a virtual session in April for the annual American Association of Geographers Meeting. The session was titled “Food and Carceral Intersections: From Geographies of Confinement to Enactments of Abolition.” There were over forty participants who attended this session.

Jessica Gutierrez presents at CURC Showcase

Jessica Gutierrez is a senior General SOC major with a minor in Interdisciplinary Leadership Studies. In spring 2020, she presented her research poster, “Representative Leadership for Students of Color” at CSU’s annual Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity (CURC) juried showcase. Her research was initially sparked by her friends’ reluctance to join her in leadership positions that represent […]

Michael Carolan on CSU’s food supply task force providing rapid-response research for COVID-19

Originally appeared in SOURCE. Article by Anne Manning. Food supply task force at CSU providing rapid-response research for COVID-19 During a global pandemic that changes daily, rapid-response scientific research isn’t just about finding vaccines or antiviral treatments. The COVID-19 pandemic has produced a ripple effect of economic devastation, much of it tied to how Americans […]

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, […]