Poudre School District (PSD) is naming its new elementary school after the late Gary Bamford (’68), a longtime principal and staff member and a CSU Sociology alum. Read PSD’s article here about Gary Bamford’s career and impact.
Ph.D. student Azmal Hossan has been accepted to the Agents of Change in Environmental Health Fellowship, a joint initiative of George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health and Environmental Health News. In spring 2021, his cohort will begin a nine-month program to receive rigorous training on writing and publishing academic pieces on environmental health […]
Dr. KuoRay Mao and Ph.D. student Nefratiri Weeks co-published three recent articles. KuoRay Mao, Shuqin Jin, Yu Hu, Nefratiri Weeks & Liangjun Ye “Environmental Conservation or the Treadmill of Law: A Case Study of the Post-2014 Husbandry Waste Regulations in China” – International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology Read it here ABSTRACT As industrialized animal agriculture expanded […]
Rather than focus on race, the class explores theories which emphasize the social nature of reality.
CSU joins global team to study ecosystem, climate change interactions in thawing permafrost Article by Jeff Dodge. Originally published on SOURCE. A footbridge has broken due to permafrost thaw at the study site in Sweden. Photo by Patrick Crill Colorado State University is one of 14 universities from around the globe that have collectively been awarded $12.5 […]
Colorado State University is one of 14 universities from around the globe that have collectively been awarded $12.5 million by the National Science Foundation to launch a new Biology Integration Institute called EMERGE.
The West African nation of Burkina Faso was once the poster child for genetically modified crop advocates.
The 115th American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting was held virtually this year. 2020’s theme was “Power, Inequality and Resistance at Work.” Presentations: Dr. Pat Hastings co-presented “Seasonality in Parental Investments in Children: Understanding the ‘Other Faucet’ and the Summer Learning Gap.” Dr. Jessie Luna gave a talk for a paper co-authored with Ph.D. student […]
Jessie Luna published “Peasant essentialism in GMO debates: Bt cotton in Burkina Faso” in Journal of Agrarian Change on August 7, 2020. ABSTRACT Amidst polarized global debates about genetically modified (GM) crops, much attention has focused on Burkina Faso, where farmers grew Bt cotton from 2008 to 2015 in the first widespread commercial adoption of […]
Story by Jessie Luna and Brian Dowd-Uribe (University of San Francisco). Originally published by The Conversation. How power shaped the ‘success story’ of genetically modified cotton in Burkina Faso The West African nation of Burkina Faso was once the poster child for genetically modified (GM) crop advocates. Its 2008 adoption of GM cotton for smallholder farmers was hailed […]
