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Diana Wall’s legacy of supporting students lives on through $2.5 million gift

True to her nature, Wall left behind a planned gift to CSU: $2.5 million to endow the Sustainability Leadership Fellows Program within the School of Global Environmental Sustainability and the Graduate Fellowship Program in Ecology within the College of Natural Sciences’ Department of Biology.

Embrace Confusion, Reduce Ignorance: Meena Balgopal Meeting the Dalai Lama

Biology Professor Meena Balgopal met the Dalai Lama to share her science pedagogy book and came back with a fresh perspective on teaching.

College of Natural Sciences Dean Nerger taking on new role in the CSU System

Professor Jacob Roberts, chair of the Department of Physics, has been named interim dean of the college.

NSF funds research on the effects of evolution and food webs in climate change response

Colorado State University is leading a new interdisciplinary research project into the ways predators and prey in sensitive ecosystems may react to climate change based on their physiology, genetics and relationships to each other.