Colorado Evaluation and Action Lab appoints Tara Opsal as CARAN fellow

The Colorado Evaluation and Action Lab team invited Tara Opsal to join the Colorado Applied Research and Action Network (CARAN). As a CARAN fellow, she will be among a select group of outstanding researchers who are committed to improving the lives of Colorado residents. CARAN fellows will serve an important role in asking and answering […]

Pat Mahoney selected as Global Teaching Scholar for Semester at Sea

Pat Mahoney has been selected as a Loren W. Crabtree Global Teaching Scholar for the Fall 2020 CSU Semester at Sea (SAS) voyage. Four CSU faculty members are chosen for this honor on each voyage. SAS moved its offices to the CSU campus in 2016, and well-deserving Global Teaching Scholars have been boarding the ship since. This article describes […]

CSU’s Fostering Success Program benefits from research by Tara Opsal and M.A. student Rebecca Eman

New peer mentoring program created as part of Fostering Success Article by Drew Smith. Originally published on Source. A new mentoring program has been formed for CSU students who were foster youth or otherwise separated from their parents. The Fostering Success Program was started at CSU in 2010 for students from independent backgrounds. This includes […]

Michael Carolan releases The Food Sharing Revolution

The Food Sharing Revolution:How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way We Eat was just released by Michael Carolan. The key to successful sharing, he shows, is actually sharing. He warns that food, just like taxis or hotels, can be co-opted by moneyed interests. But when collaboration is genuine, the sharing economy can offer […]

Ph.D. student Azmal Hossan collaborates with South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center

Ph.D. student Azmal Hossan is an Early Career Research Fellow at the South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, University of Oklahoma. As part of the fellowship, Hossan attended the Fall Science Working Group Meeting held in Dallas/Fort Worth in 2018 and 2019. He is collaborating on a project titled, “Enhancing Resilience of Indigenous, Rural and Vulnerable Communities.” […]

The Tobin Project awards Pat Hastings the 2018 Prize for Exemplary Work on Inequality and Decision Making

The study offers an outstanding examination of how inequality manifests itself in individuals’ day-to-day lives, how individuals react to such inequality, and the possible consequences of their actions for the rest of society.

2018 Extension Forum invites Lynn Hempel to present on social sustainability

Over 190 CSU Extension employees from all over Colorado joined their on-campus colleagues October 22-25 for the 2018 Extension Forum held at the Lory Student Center. The annual event provides professional development, recognition and networking activities, as well as opportunities to work together and reach common goals. CSU’s Office of Engagement asked Dr. Lynn Hempel to […]

Food Tank’s Fall 2018 Reading List features books by Michael Carolan and Josh Sbicca

Food Tank’s Fall 2018 Reading List—19 Books To Take the Food System Back Contributing Author: Katherine Walla. Originally published on foodtank: The Think Tank for Food Food Tank is highlighting 19 books about food and agriculture to fall for this season! These books explore food policy, nutrition science, healthy eating, food justice, and the challenges […]

Mike Lacy retires after 28 years in CSU Sociology

Dr. Mike Lacy has made very significant contributions to the teaching, research and service missions of CSU’s Department of Sociology. As a teacher, over the last nearly 30 years helped to build strong sociology undergraduate and graduate programs, providing key required courses, including research methods, statistics and computer methods. He’s been in high demand for […]