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.
Category: "Sustainability"
Biology professor Kristen Ruegg receives NSF grant to study wintering grounds of migratory birds
Ruegg received the NSF Career Award Grant of 1.18 M dollars to continue her research into migratory birds. Her team will study the migration of 11 species, the first empirical test of the theory that the individuals from the same breeding site migrating to the same wintering site promotes local adaptation in wintering areas.
Study to examine how extreme drought affects grasslands and their grasshoppers
By exposing insects to carefully controlled conditions, researchers will measure their effects on plant production, nutrient cycling, and related plant physiology and traits.
Recyclable plastic innovation named ‘Research of the Year 2018’
Eugene Chen's lab develops new materials and methods for waste-free, sustainable polymers.
The full story on climate change requires the long view
A new study shows what nine different world regions have contributed to climate change since 1900, and what will happen moving forward.
CSU ecologists to track impacts of climate change on grasslands with USDA grant
Grasslands play a large role in Colorado’s agricultural economy, and climate change is having unpredictable effects on them.