Death by solar: $1.6 million DOE grant supports scientists studying bird deaths at solar facilities
CSU biologist Kristen Ruegg is working with UCLA researchers to study which bird species are most impacted by the solar industry.
Author Archives: Anne Manning
Improving solar cells’ back-contact is goal of $3.5 million DOE project
A CSU team is leading an effort to make cadmium-telluride solar cells even more efficient by focusing on a classic engineering bottleneck in their design.
Data science program welcomes three new faculty
Nate Blanchard, Andee Kaplan and Emily King are helping lay a foundation of growth for CSU’s data science program.
Outstanding Grad: Faviola Robles-Saenz, College of Natural Sciences
A first-generation college student and a daughter of Mexican immigrants, north Denver native Faviola Robles-Saenz has never been one to take education and opportunity for granted.
Computer scientist Darrell Whitley named an ACM Fellow
Whitley is being honored for technical and professional leadership in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation.
Chemists create new route to PHAs: naturally degradable bioplastics
They offer a cost-effective synthetic pathway for conventional and new PHAs with enhanced properties.
Two CSU chemistry professors to help celebrate 150 years of the Periodic Table
Professors Eugene Chen and Amy Prieto will join a national panel in Washington, D.C. this week discussing chemistry breakthroughs enabled by scientific understanding of the periodic table.
‘I knew that was going to happen:’ Déjà vu and the ‘postdictive’ bias
CSU memory researchers document a “postdictive” bias in deja vu experiencers in the lab, and offer a plausible explanation for why it happens.
Whether direct or indirect, parental alienation harms families
New research shows that mothers and fathers use slightly different tactics when engaging in these destructive behaviors.
By storing ‘sketches’ of data, computer scientists seek to transform urban systems
A research team is developing a system for streamlining and managing vast datasets that could advance research in urban sustainability.