News Archive - July 1999

Jul 2

For Mountains, History, Scenery and Old-Fashioned Locomotives, this Trip is the Way to Experience Colorado (1999)

This fall, groups of senior tourists will have an opportunity to experience how the wild, wild West was tamed by the iron horse when Colorado State University and Elderhostel collaborate on a fall field studies program called "Seven Rails of Colorado."
Jul 6

High School Students Will "Answer the Challenge" at Colorado State University's Seventh Annual Black Issues Forum

More than 70 high-school students from across the United States will gather at Colorado State University July 8-10 to research and discuss issues facing the African-American community.
Jul 8

American West Program at Colorado State University Explores Rough Riders, Yellow Journalism and Effects of Civil War

The role of the Civil War on the defeat of Western Indians will be discussed at Colorado State University as part of the theme of the 22nd American West Program, "Manifest Destiny Realized: 1850-1898."
Jul 9

New Colorado State Study on Road Rage Suggests High-Anger Drivers Become Angrier Behind the Wheel, but Can Benefit from Therapy

Something as simple as deep breaths, a soothing mental image or thinking about things differently can calm angry drivers, but they have to see their anger as a problem and want help with it, according to a new study by Colorado State University researchers.
Jul 16

Colorado State Biochemist Wins Searle Young Scholar Award to Unravel How Information is Extracted from Packed Strands of Dna

Karolin Luger will spend the next three years seeking a three-dimensional image of how a two-yard-long strand of DNA can be folded into a tiny package inside a cell nucleus.
Jul 23

Colorado State University Students to Design Cleaner, Quieter Snowmobile

Colorado State University has been selected as one of five universities to participate in the Clean Snowmobile Challenge 2000, a new international competition designed to create cleaner quieter snowmobiles and to address the controversy between snowmobilers and other winter backcountry users.
Jul 29

Colorado State Experiment Aboard Space Shuttle Columbia Flight Will Help Determine How Plants Detect, Respond to Gravity

An experiment on the space shuttle Columbia by an associate professor of biology at Colorado State University should help explain how plants tell up from down.
Jul 30

Colorado State University Program Provides Back to School Supplies for Area Children

Colorado State University's School Is Cool program, a community outreach effort organized by university employees, will provide hundreds of area school-children with backpacks and supplies this fall.
Jul 30

Colorado State University Names New Graduate School Dean

James L. Fry, former vice president for graduate studies, research and economic development at the University of Toledo, has been appointed dean of the Graduate School at Colorado State University.
Jul 30

Colorado State Microbiologists Help Identify Cell Membrane Substance that Could 'boost' Vaccines for Tuberculosis, Other Diseases

Two Colorado State University microbiologists have helped identify a substance produced by the tuberculosis bacterium that triggers an immune response in the human body.