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Jul 1
The Fourth of July means a three-day weekend filled with summer fun and tradition. But for some, the holiday also means a barrage of fireworks going off in neighborhoods close to the Colorado State University campus. Each year, neighbors around campus get frustrated with illegal fireworks being set off at inopportune times of the day and night.
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Jul 6
Colorado State University's College of Business extended its Distance MBA program to the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan on July 1.
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Jul 7
Envirofit International, a technology leader using sustainable, scalable business models to solve global health and environmental problems, is introducing its next generation of clean cookstoves for emerging markets. Featuring the EnviroFlame Combustion System and Envirofit Cooking System, the Envirofit G-Series represents a revolutionary change to traditional cookstoves paradigm, enabling Envirofit to enter new global markets and meet increased demand around the world.
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Jul 9
On July 14, Colorado State University researchers - in collaboration with Simpson Strong-Tie - will conduct the world's largest "shake table test," simulating the ground motion of a 2,500-year earthquake (similar to a 7.5 magnitude earthquake) on a seven-story, 40-foot by 60-foot condominium tower with 23 one- and two-bedroom living units. The test will take place on the world's largest shake table (known as E-Defense) near Kobe, Japan.
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Jul 13
Colorado State University's College of Business has partnered with a Denver alumnus to build a unique, strategy-based course with one of Colorado's largest employers, Lockheed Martin Space Systems.
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Jul 13
Wayne Clyma, professor emeritus of civil engineering at Colorado State University, has been honored with the 2009 Kishida International Award by The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
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Jul 14
Colorado State University along with industry leader Simpson Strong-Tie and other partners successfully led the world’s largest earthquake shake table test in Japan on Tuesday, showing that midrise wood-frame buildings can be built to withstand major earthquakes.
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Jul 14
The following information provides seasonal advice and information for pet owners.
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Jul 15
Colorado State University students spayed and neutered more than 240 animals for free in makeshift five-day clinic, filling a great need for cat and dog care. Set up in a school gymnasium in San Isidro, Costa Rica, the students and veterinarians used baby cribs and school desks as surgery tables and soccer goalie boxes as IV carts. To reach the free clinic, residents who had few resources carried cats in birdcages and cats and dogs in suitcases, coolers and boxes.
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Jul 16
Colorado middle school teachers are participating in a Research Experience for Teachers at the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology at Colorado State University this summer.
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Jul 16
Colorado State University Continuing Education will expand its offering of its doctoral degree in Education and Human Resource Studies in Organizational Performance and Change to the Brighton area this spring.
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Jul 17
The School of Social Work at Colorado State University will now offer its Master’s of Social Work distance education program in Brighton to meet the growing labor market demand for trained social workers. The program, offered through the Division of Continuing Education, will be held at their Brighton Learning Center at the Brighton Learning and Resource Campus at 1850 Egbert St.
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Jul 17
With unemployment still high and the economy thus far insufficiently stimulated by the federal stimulus, home sales are not where they have been in years past. However, real estate professionals in Fort Collins have seen some glimmers of hope with spring and early summer sales. Sellers have reduced asking prices and buyers have benefited from mortgage rates that are quite low by historical standards.
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Jul 20
A significant part of the question of what causes mitral valve disease in dogs, giving scientists and medical experts clues into new possible ways to treat or prevent the disease, may have been solved by a Colorado State University veterinarian. The discovery refutes the current believe that mitral valve disease, the top heart disease in dogs, is inevitable as a part of aging in pets.
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Jul 20
While shopping at a farmers' market I asked various vendors what the difference was between more expensive organic eggs and cheaper eggs available in the supermarket. Most were in agreement that the flavor of organic eggs is far superior to conventionally produced eggs. One producer spontaneously broke open a fresh egg tossing it from one hand to the other to demonstrate the firmness of the yolk. However, many of the vendors' responses prompted me to wonder if the average consumer knows when an egg producer may be spouting bad information while selling good eggs. In an effort to separate fact from fiction check out the basics on buying and using eggs.
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Jul 21
Colorado State University faculty members have more than doubled the number of invention disclosures – detailed descriptions of inventions - filed with the university’s technology transfer office in the past three years.
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Jul 22
Colorado State University today named Wendy S. Rich-Goldschmidt as chief of the Colorado State University Police Department after an extensive search. Rich-Goldschmidt will official begin as chief on August 17.
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Jul 23
Companies can achieve competitive advantage and superior performance if they pair specific marketing policies, processes and programs with their business strategy – a groundbreaking new model developed over the past decade by Stan Slater, a marketing professor at Colorado State University illustrates.
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Jul 28
Being a stowaway is risky, but people don’t often think of stowaways posing a risk to the health of an entire nation. But since 1986, one professor at Colorado State University has quietly kept a database of incidents of the worst kind of stowaways -- mosquitoes -- in an effort to ensure that new diseases don’t become a threat to the United States.
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Jul 30
A study at Colorado State University’s Animal Cancer Center is looking at a new way to treat cancer in animals and people. The study is investigating the impact of a drug on cells that suppress the immune system and allow cancer tumors to grow. Initial results in mice and dogs show that the drug can reverse suppression of the immune system and halt tumor growth in dogs and, in some cases, even shrink tumors.
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Jul 30
The cookstove design and development teams at Envirofit International and the Engines and Energy Conversion Lab at Colorado State University have won a Bronze IDEA for Envirofit’s clean cookstove in the Ecodesign category in the 2009 International Design Excellence Awards. The Bronze International Design Excellence Award is shared with the industrial design groups Red Ingot LLC and Sector 7 Studios, LLC.
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Jul 31
Colorado State University has named Bruce Smith as director of the Black/African American Cultural Center.