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A year in review: A return to life at Colorado State By Ethan Dvorak
This past year at Colorado State University has been special, and CSU Life is here to help you remember it all. Throughout the year, CSU was able to kick off a myriad of exciting programs and memorable events. Beginning in September, with the new year fresh on the horizon, we celebrated Temple Grandin with a rather grand statue. Right outside of the Animal Sciences Building, Grandin is solidified as an example of perseverance and inspiration. This notion of what exemplary Rams look like was also supported by the Office of Inclusive Excellence, working to exemplify CSU’s profound initiatives. Initial warm weather brought out the best of CSU during homecoming weekend where Rams of all generations came together in a weekend celebration. Moving toward Halloween, CANS Around The Oval was anything but scary. Hard workers at CSU were able to support the community and exceed monetary goals, further showing that Rams take care of Rams. Finishing out the semester strong, CSU basketball was on top of the world. It seemed like every opponent coming to our sold out Moby Arena knew what was about to happen. CSU was holding down the fort. With a fresh semester comes exciting developments. On Jan. 7, CSU Spur opened in Denver as a year-round educational destination where individuals have the chance to come learn about water, food and health. This opening is just the beginning into great initiatives and resources for Rams to make the world a better place. For Black History Month, CSU students, faculty and staff celebrated with themes of inclusiveness, working to unite the Diaspora. We were treated to great performances and informational excellence. Things at CSU changed around this time also. The mask mandate was lifted in February and for the first time in a year and a half, CSU students, faculty and staff were able to see each other’s beaming smiles in person. While it is always important to stress safety and remain vigilant in unpredictable times, this was a move toward the direction of normalcy on campus and across the world. March was perhaps the most important month for CSU and an unforgettable one at that. On March 1, CSU launched the Courageous Strategic Transformation Plan, building on CSU’s history and looking toward the future. President Joyce McConnell said: “In that bold new future, Colorado State University will lead the world in creating solutions to global climate change, health, agriculture, and economic, environmental, and social sustainability, while remaining a devoted and adept caretaker of our state.” Even though March Madness did not end how we all had hoped, CSU can look back at the season and be proud of all that has been accomplished. We made a
name for ourselves across the nation and became a feared basketball school. One of the highlights nearing the end of the year was the Best Teacher Awards, where CSU teachers were highlighted for their excellence in the classroom and around the world. This was a great reminder and acknowledgement of the extraordinary work that our teachers do every year and just how lucky CSU is to have such bright and curious minds in the University. A year would not be complete without celebrating our planet. For CSU, April is a profound reminder of the efforts that are required to keep the planet we love as sustainable and beautiful as possible. CSU also earned STARS Platinum rating for sustainability for a record third consecutive year. This collective effort toward sustainability has truly become a staple of our University. Looking back now at the last year at CSU, one thing is clear: Our effort to improve each and every year is what makes Colorado State such a great place to be. CSU prides itself on excellence and the results are synonymous with this sentiment. We can be proud of the programs we created to help our community and the work we have done across the world. We can be proud of our concerted efforts toward building inclusivity and sustainable environments. But most of all, we are all proud to be a CSU Ram.
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IN THIS ISSUE
APPLAUSE The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT)
Staff members of The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT) staff were celebrated by CSU’s Employee Appreciation Board for their successful transition to online/remote learning during the early days of the pandemic.
School of Education
DaeSeok Chai, a scholar in the field of Human Resource Development, has been recognized with the Early Career Scholar Award by the Academy of Human Resource Development for his prominence in the field at this early stage in his career.
Department of Psychology
Professor of Psychology Silvia Sara Canetto has been elected Fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI). Election as a SPSSI Fellow honors those who have made outstanding contributions to the psychological study of social issues.
International Enrollment Center
The Employee Appreciation Board recently honored the contributions of the International Enrollment Center, which has gone above and beyond in recruiting international students. In their first recruitment cycle as a team, in which they are solely responsible for CSU’s international undergraduate recruitment and admissions process, they have broken the all-time record for freshman applications submitted for Fall 2022, after two very difficult years of bringing in international students to CSU during the pandemic.
Warner College of Natural Resources CSU researcher Dominique David-Chavez testified before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology for a hearing on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on April 28. The hearing provided an overview of the recent reports involving the disproportionate impacts of climate change on Indigenous peoples and marginalized communities.
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By Ethan Dvorak With the academic year wrapping up, the fun on campus is still not over. Looking for the best things to do on campus this summer? Look no further. There is nothing like when campus is blooming with life and beautiful green in early June. Take a walk around campus and have a nice picnic in the oval. Perhaps you want to find new buildings that you have never seen before in those corners of campus that you seldom visit. You will be amazed just how much campus has to offer when you go on your own adventure. Be amazed at the little things and visit the CSU Bug Zoo in E-007 for a look into the finite parts of this world and how we can all work together to enhance our own ecosystem.
For nature lovers, it is always great to see the progress of the CSU arboretum where you can step foot into a lush area of campus. Every year, the arboretum becomes more developed and more beautiful. Summertime is a wonderful season to stay in shape and have fun as well. Bring a team and play on the sand volleyball courts, or hone your skills on the basketball courts, bringing back memories of your athletic high school excellence. Look forward to attending great performances at the University Center for the Arts and see for yourself just how talented our Rams are. Within this center, be sure to make time and see the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art and the Avenir Museum of
Design and Merchandising. There are so many wonderful things to do on campus, but most importantly, get outside and enjoy our beautiful University. Summer time feels like home in Fort Collins, so make the most of the time that you have and find something new, something interesting, and something that makes you proud. There are numerous ways that you can give back to your community as well. Starting on Tuesday, August 2 School Is Cool 2022 is an event when Rams of all generations to benefit the community. Their goal is to provide over 3,000 backpacks filled with essentials and goods. For more information, visit schooliscool.colostate.edu/get-involved.
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By MarComm Staff Colorado State University will officially begin to observe Juneteenth on Monday, June 20. A Colorado state bill was signed into law on May 3 to officially establish Juneteenth — June 19 — as a legal state holiday in Colorado. Because Juneteenth falls on a Sunday this year, CSU will observe Juneteenth by closing on Monday, June 20. Faculty and staff who are required to work on Monday, June 20, should be given an alternative paid day off in May or June, before the end of the fiscal year. On June 19, 1865, as the Civil War came to an end, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that all enslaved people had been freed. Enslaved Texans were the last people within the Confederacy to officially learn of their freedom – two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Juneteenth – also sometimes called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day – has since commemorated that historic occasion, but until now has not been recognized as an official Colorado holiday.
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Meet this year’s Distinguished AP Award winners
By Administrative Professional Council
Becky Trentlage
Jimmy Hicks
Becky Trentlage
Business Office – Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
Becky Trentlage has been in her current role within the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology for almost 10 years. She has played a key role in identifying funding sources and strategies that have allowed the huge department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology (DMIP) to flourish. She provides vital ongoing counsel to the department head, associate department heads, and the other 85 DMIP faculty on how to optimize use of their funds to support their students, research programs, and service efforts. Trentlage creates systems that improve the operational efficiency of the department, which benefit students, faculty, and staff, and, most importantly, she has fun doing it. Her enthusiasm is contagious, inspiring, and has a ripple effect through the department. She enjoys creating novel and effective systems and strategies to address gaps in service, meet changes in the environment or market, and seize new opportunities. She thinks about challenges as opportunities, looking for win-win solutions that will be successful and sustainable. She actively promotes professional development opportunities for her team. This includes taking advantage of central conferences, PDIs, Talent Development trainings, and using Employee Study Privilege. She also strongly encourages her team to look outside university training for opportunities such as conferences, workshops, and certifications in areas that interest them. Trentlage has set a standard of excellence for all during her extensive career at CSU. She is a role model and a leader and her impact on CSU cannot be overstated.
Jimmy Hicks
Academic Advisor and Programming Specialist Undergraduate Programs, College of Business
What uniquely characterizes Jimmy Hicks is his drive to go above and beyond his job description and exceed his assigned responsibilities. He never just “meets expectations.” He routinely does more. He contributes new and creative ideas, improves existing policies/practices, and challenges his team to join him in endeavors. He leads by example and motivates through modeling. One of his greatest accomplishments is the complete overhaul of the Business Diversity and Leadership Alliance (BDLA). Under the control of a different staff member, BDLA suffered great losses in membership. By 2020, the organization had just one student member. When the previous coordinator departed CSU, Hicks stepped in to lead and revamp the organization. It now has eight active members. He not only participates in professional
Lauren Alessi
Lisa Chandler
development – he creates it. He is the architect behind a College of Business week-long DEI symposium, debuting this March. It’s called IDEAL Week (Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Accessible, Leadership.) Student organizations (including BDLA) will take turns hosting days, crafting immersive/interactive sessions to teach the COB community about the IDEAL values. The week ends with a case competition. Hicks had a vision, shared his ideas with campus partners, which led to a brand new large-scale collaborative college-wide event. Hicks represents what a student affairs professional should be.
Lauren Alessi
Research Associate III - School of Social Work
Lauren Alessi is the genuine personification of an administrative professional who demonstrates continuing meritorious and outstanding achievement in the areas of research, outreach, and service at CSU. She came to CSU in 2019 as an administrative professional with a Research Associate III appointment and has since exhibited an unwavering willingness to go above and beyond in her work in the SSW, and in collaboration with community partners throughout Colorado. Alessi stands out for her unparalleled accomplishments in operational efficiency, leadership and mentoring, innovation, and principles of community. Alessi is a natural leader and excels in mentoring students, peers, and community partners as project manager for various child maltreatment prevention, family strengthening, and juvenile justice evaluations and research studies. She is incredibly studentcentered in her supervision with the graduate students who power the Social Work Research Center. She generously shares her expertise of the field and the evaluation profession with them and is an active partner in helping students advance their education and careers through publications and other academic efforts. Alessi embodies inclusion, integrity, respect, service, and social justice in her community and models and supports principles of community in the School of Social Work. In three short years, She has distinguished herself as an administrative professional who truly exemplifies the land-grant mission and principles of the community of CSU.
Lisa Chandler
Assistant Director - Adult Learner & Veteran Services
During Lisa Chandler’s tenure at CSU, she has served as a Student Case Manager in the office of Student Case Management and Referral Coordination and the Assistant Director of Adult Learner and Veteran Services (ALVS). She stepped up to fill the interim director position as well as her own assistant director role in ALVS for over a year
Tim Kefalas
while the former director served on the Pandemic Preparedness Team. She was the only full-time professional staff member for over a year, and she was able to transform many of ALVS’s programs from in-person programs to virtual programming. She has helped build a team that has been efficiently run while drastically understaffed, which has been flexible enough to operate remotely when needed due to Covid concerns. Chandler has built relationships across campus, throughout the CSU Fort Collins community, and nationally. She is a wealth of resources for any issue concerning our population and her background in social work brings a ton of value to all of our students. Chandler fully embodies the Principles of Community. Over the years that she has been in this role she has been instrumental in shifting the culture of the office. Her work helped create an office that put inclusivity, integrity, respect, service, and social justice at the center of all things that they do.
Tim Kefalas
Assistant Director for Administration and Assessment Academic Advancement Center
Tim Kefalas serves as the assistant director for Administration and Assessment in the AAC. In this role, he has a variety of responsibilities directly tied with operational efficiency, leadership and mentoring, and innovation. He is also pursuing his Master of Business Administration with a specialization in marketing and data analytics at CSU which has enhanced his contributions to the AAC. Kefalas has helped secure funding by engaging in grant writing, providing data, and conducting assessments. This funding has helped expand the AAC from one unit to three units. The securing of external funds has led to cost-saving measures for CSU which have been important in providing more student services. Kefalas has also contributed to student success initiatives across the institution by being part of the Navigate implementation committee, the academic progress reports committee, the student success implementation committee, and the Division of Student Affairs assessment committee. He has and continues to demonstrate exemplary leadership and mentoring. He has a strong commitment to centering student’s experiences in our business and systems operations. He asks critical questions about the impact of our decisions on students and can identify barriers and provide solutions that contribute to student success. Kefalas approaches his work in respectful ways including creating spaces for folks with different identities to share their experiences in higher education. He actively engages in dialogue that challenges the systems that historically disadvantage the communities the AAC serves. He approaches people and his work by leading with integrity, while also centering the humanity of others.
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Celebrate! CSU Milestones award winners
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Adam Smith Allen Sneesby Scott Speidel Nicole Stafford Abra Steele Mary Stromberger Hana Van Campen Cameron Walford Debra Walker Yong Wang Andrew Warnock Jared Warnock Ted Watson Heather Weir Erin Whipple Barrett Winder Brett Wood Robin Wright
15 YEARS
The annual Celebrate! CSU Milestones event honors Colorado State University employees achieving a decade of service or more. You can see all those with Milestones this year by following this link giving.colostate.edu/celebrate-colorado-stateuniversity and selecting the years of service – anywhere from 10 to 55 – under Milestones. Congratulations to everyone, and thank you for your service to CSU!
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Richard Clark
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James Bamburg William Parton James Sites
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Richard Bowen Ernest Chavez Margaret Grant Gayle Roslund Donald Zimmerman
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Richard Allen George Barisas Viswanathan Bringi Mary Casey Robert Coleman Christy Ferraro Neil Grigg Edward Hoover Gisele Jefferson Martha Kesel Alton Lowry Anthony Rappe David Steingraeber
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Mahmood Azimi-Sadjadi Jimmy Castaneda Maura Green Sande Innes Connie Jaime-Lujan Andrew Jones Janet Meine Mike Moon CJ Mucklow Arlene Nededog Cara Neth Vanda Newman Barbara Risheill Mary Seaman L Whitley
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Vickie Bajtelsmit Daniel Banuelos Troy Bauder Becky Bell Silvia Sara Canetto Ron Cousineau Larry Fox L M Gallamore Valerie Heady Michael Hughes Peter Justice Patrick Kennedy Sonia Kreidenweis Marilee Long Dawn Mallette Jon Matthews Ron Meyer Ronda Perry Bruce Ronda Douglas Satterfield Donna Schmid Mari Strombom Wayne Trzyna Karin Tucker Toni Zimmerman
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Lisa Anaya Zeynep Biringen Jason Bruemmer Kristi Buffington Robert Burnett Dee Castaneda Sandra Dailey Ed Delosh Bruce Draper Viviane Ephraimson-Abt Michele Faris Stuart Field Jonathan Friedrich Kristin Garrison Stacy Grant David Greene Lee Grunau Kirk Hallahan Jenny Hand
Judith Hannah Stephen Harris Terry Henderson Larry Hooker Gwo-Jong Huang George Janson Jr. Michael Jaramillo Bill Kaulback Rita Knoll Lori Kogan James Lindsay Maria Lopez-Cabrales Jerry Magloughlin Khursheed Mama Frank Martinez Heather McCormick June Medford Tae Nosaka John Offerman Susan Panjabi Jon Peterson Oscar Raab Noreen Reist Marvin Reynolds Colleen Rodriguez Susan Rogers William Sanford Steven Schaeffer Robert Schwebach Bolivar Senior Ellen Shaub James Shorkey Laurie Stargell Leslie Stone-Roy Kathleen Thomas Vanessa Tranel Joe Volesky Stephan Weiler Terry Whitaker Robert Work Lisa Dysleski
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John Anderson Jacquelyn Archuleta Elizabeth Atencio JOHN Avila
Lance Baatz Susan Bailey Laura Barrera Christine Battaglia Andrew Beavers William Becker Michael Boyle Yvonne Bridgeman Karin Bright Mark Britton Monica Burk Karrie Butler Sheryl Carter Edwin Chong Kelli Clark Maggie Clark Simone Clasen Andrew Crane David Denniston Jennifer Dimas William Doe Steven Dow Robert Duffy Clayton Edwards Gene Ellis Mark Enns Paul Evangelista Casey Farnell Cody Farnell Bruce Fickenscher Christie Franklin Edward Gage Rodney Gillespie Donna Gines Greg Gress Brian Grube Lorelei Haas Fred Haberecht Ron Hall Idris Hamid Indy Hart John Haynes Libby Hernandez Japheth Hessler Helen Holmquist-Johnson Nancy Hunter Paige Jacobson Janet Janke
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Sonja Hollingsworth Trent Hollister Amy Hoseth Aki Hosoi Janice Inman Leflet Sastry Jayanty Walton Jones Jessy Julch Takamitsu Kato Carolyn Keller Steven Kelley Karmen Kelly Beth Kilpatrick Jangyul Kim Matt Kipper Julia Klein Christian L’Orange Blythe LaGasse Tiana Lackey Amy Lawton Sherri Lebeda Sue Lenthe Nick Long Jayne Loomis Jie Luo Julie Maertens Travis Maynard Teresa McClure Kathryn McGirr John McKay Erin McNulty Eric McPhail Kim Melville-Smith Heather Meyers Eric Milholland Clayton Mincic John Moore Cheyne Morgan Eleanor Moseman Karen Mueller Jack Mullen Rosalina Munguia Lee Nagle Sharmini Nair Amy Nalls Nikhil Narahari Bill Nayal Jr. Kevin Newlin Noah Newman Melanie Nichols Kurtis North Paul Norvelle Branislav Notaros Olivera Notaros Bri Olmstead Nik Olsen Melody Orso Heather Packard Eric Patterson David Pearce Allison Penfield Hannah Penland Fernando Repizo-Melendez Matthew Rhodes Sherri Rhule Edrea Roybal Dawn Rumley Laura Sample McMeeking Adam Sargent Terry Schlicting Susan Schoenig Connie Schunter Thorban Sellers Maggie Seymour Martin Shields John Shirey Rodney Simpson Brittney Sly Mary Snow Charlene Spencer Michelle Stanley Leslie Stewart
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Joanna Doxey Mark Ducoff Felix Duerr Mark Durand Aaron Eakman Jeremiah Easley Greg Ebel Diane Ellsworth John Engelking Diana Fahrenbruck Delphine Farmer Copper Ferreira Wesley Ferreira Brenda Fiddick Jennifer Fisher Ruben Flores Amanda Fordham Michelle Foster Chad Frank Joanie Frantz Paul Freebury Elizabeth Furuiye Dana Gaines Xinfeng Gao Alan Godwin Somer Gomez Leah Grant Barb Gustison Terry Hall Joni Handran Lisa Hansen Jennifer Hatzel Kayleigh Helberg Bradley Hestdalen Chad Hoffman Dave Hoffman Mike Hooker Xingfeng Huang Michael Humphrey Julia Innes Laurel Janelle Christine Jasmann Danielle Keller Annie Kellner Sehun Kim Vincent Kintzley Nancy Klasky Karen Koehn Piotr Kokoszka Jen Kraus Christina Kuroiwa Alora LaVoy Kevin Labus Luke Langholz David Larsen Shannon Lavey Clint Leach Kelsea Macilroy Sarah Maddox Neeta Mahaffey Hussam Mahmoud Tonya Malik-Carson Salley Marcantel Michael Marr Lindsay Mason Chris May Niko Medved Rochelle Mellott Mallory Mentele Ashley Meyer Nancy Miller Wayne Miller Meaghan Monahan Becca Mueller Gretchen O’Dell Donasian Ochola Jose Olivo Zachariah Ortiz Brittany Palmer Lucy Paltoo Jose Pando Holly Panetta
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Lagoon Concert Series is back June 15
By Katelyn Barner
Mark your calendars: Lagoon Concert Series is back on June 15 By Katelyn Barner The Lagoon Concert Series is back and celebrating 25 years of live music after a two-year break due to COVID-19. This free, seven-week series will bring new bands every Wednesday evening starting June 15, with Northern Colorado band Funky Business and ending July 27 with Denver Westworld Music Awardwinner The Wendy Woo Band. Produced by Mantooth Marketing in partnership with Colorado State University, the Lagoon Concert Series has historically consisted of seven concerts throughout the summer. This year’s lineup includes just a bit of everything – from oldies covers to country, from lo-fi to bluegrass and from contemporary pop to rock ‘n’ roll. The series will take place on CSU’s main campus on the Lory Student Center’s west lawn under the trees of the Lagoon to unite music lovers of all ages and backgrounds. Concertgoers are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and picnic blankets to enjoy the offerings of local food trucks on site each week while enjoying the sounds of summer.
2022 Lagoon Concert Series schedule: June 15:
Funky Business
A funky and energetic band based in Northern Colorado that is sure to get you on your feet and dancing to the beat. They have four released original songs and also perform covers with a specialty in jazz.
June 22
Nothing But Nineties
Denver’s favorite ’90s cover band is coming to bring you back in time to experience all of your favorite songs as you sing and dance the night away. Fully immerse yourself in the ’90s nostalgia while you and your friends teleport through time listening to all your favorite old hits.
June 29
Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts
This four-piece touring band is coming to rock out with you at the Lagoon. They recently earned 2021 Female Vocalist of the year and 2019 Band of the year from the Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame. If you’re a lover of classic country or ’70s rock ‘n’ roll, you are guaranteed to dance and sing the night away with Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts.
July 6
Christine Alice
Whether you’re in the mood to listen to pop, country, alternative or lo-fi, Fort Collins native Christine Alice has got you covered. Alice has starred in “Chords,” a short, independent film by Emmywinning cinematographer John Barnhardt, where Alice not only sang and performed, but acted as well. Listen to the soundtrack from “Chords” and more when Alice comes to rock the house.
July 13
Clark Street Station
decades. Don’t miss the opportunity to dance the night away and support this local band.
July 20
Bluegrass is in the blood of this rustic roots band from the Front Range. Bringing unique acoustic styles with banjo accents, this band consists of Fort Collins native Stacy Heikes, Dave Jensen from Blytheville, Arkansas, Colorado native Mike Smith, Derek Crane from North Lake Tahoe, and Wes Tucker from Oklahoma.
July 27
The Wendy Woo Band
Denver singer and songwriter Wendy Woo is coming to rock out on her acoustic and electric guitar all night long. Woo won the Westworld Music Award five times and is coming to show us why on July 27. Woo and her band play over 100 songs in various genres like folk, jazz, blues, rock and pop. Woo has it all, and you do not want to miss a night of dancing, singing and rocking out.
McBride adds to CSU’s NFL pass catchers: by the numbers
15 Years: At least one former CSU player has caught a touchdown pass in the NFL for each of the past 15 seasons. The streak extends from 2007
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A local Fort Collins classic rock band coming to transport you through time while they play a mix of electronic music known and loved throughout the
By Mark Govaki By The Numbers: Colorado State University tight end Trey McBride was drafted 55th overall by the Arizona Cardinals on Friday. The All-American and Mackey Award winner as the NCAA’s best tight end will become the sixth ex-CSU tight end/wide receiver on a current NFL roster. McBride joins former CSU standouts Michael Gallup (Cowboys), Rashard Higgins (Panthers), Preston Williams (Dolphins), Bisi Johnson (Vikings) and Warren Jackson (Rams), who in February signed a Reserve/Futures contract with the defending Super Bowl champions. In 40 games with CSU, McBride caught 164 passes for 2,100 yards and 10 touchdowns. In his senior season alone, he had 90 catches for 1,121 yards.
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Southwestern salad with pomegranate-lime dressing This super flavorful salad has a zesty Southwestern kick. You can plate it as a side dish or add some protein(black beans, grilled shrimp, salmon, or chicken) to make it an entrée salad. This recipe also has a video that you can follow along with. Check it out at youtube.com/watch?v=VczApaWFrIo. Serving Size: 2 cups Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients:
• 1 lime, juiced • 1/2 of a fresh pomegranate, juiced (about 1/4 cup of pomegranate juice) • 1 teaspoon sugar • 1/4 teaspoon salt • 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin • 1/2 teaspoon garlic, minced (about 1 garlic clove) • 1 teaspoon olive oil • 6 cups leafy greens (arugula, spinach, mixed greens) • 1 1/2cups jicama, peeled and julienned • 1/2 cup red onion, sliced • 1/2 cup avocado, diced • 2 tablespoons cilantro, chopped • 1/3 cup pomegranate seeds • 1/3 cup toasted almonds, sliced or chopped
Directions:
1. To make pomegranate-lime dressing, combine lime juice, pomegranate juice, sugar, salt, cumin, garlic, and olive oil in a small bowl and whisk together. Set aside. 2. In a large bowl, add leafy greens, jicama, red onion, avocado, and cilantro. 3. Pour pomegranate-lime dressing over salad and toss to combine. 4. Garnish with pomegranate seeds and toasted almonds. 5. Enjoy!
Nutrition information / amount per serving Calories 200 Protein 4 g Total fat 10 g Total Carbohydrates 18 g Saturated fat 1 g Sugars 7 g Cholesterol 0 mg Dietary Fiber 7 g Sodium 165 mg
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Explore the CSU Mountain Campus this summer
By Kadyn Thorpe
If you’re looking for a holiday weekend getaway this summer look no further. The mountain campus has opened its doors for faculty, staff and alumni of Colorado State University. The Mountain Campus has been a part of Colorado State University since 1912, when Congress granted Colorado State University the opportunity to select a piece of land in the Roosevelt National Forest in order to build a site for biological research and field study. CSU President Charles E. Lory and Colorado Gov. E.M. Ammons finally found the 1,600-acre plot of land, now known as the Mountain Campus in 1914. The Mountain Campus now hosts conferences, workshops, meetings, student learning and retreats during their hours of operation from mid-May to mid-October. For the 2022 summer getaways, the Mountain Campus is opening on May 28-30 for their Memorial Day Weekend retreat and July 1-4 as their Independence Weekend retreat. As of right now, they are sold out for their Labor Day Weekend retreat, which lands on Sept. 2-5, however, people are welcome to join the wait list for any weekend if it is sold out. During your stay at the Mountain Campus, you will be provided with a meal plan that includes meals for your arrival and departure days as well as any day in between. If you are spending one of your days at the Mountain
Campus enjoying nature and hiking, sack lunches will be available to you to take with you. While you stay at the Mountain Campus, you will be given the opportunity to stay in the North Dorm or the Conference Center Cabins. Each Conference Center Cabins are equipped with six rooms, all are fully furnished with a total of 20 beds per cabin. The cabins also have a private bathroom in each room, a common room and a porch with a beautiful view of the mountains. The Conference Center Cabins are great for alumni, faculty and staff who want to have a getaway with their family. The North Dorm is equipped with 19 rooms, fully furnished with two to 10 twin beds in each room. They also have two community style restrooms, a large common room and a large outdoor porch. The North Dorm is great for larger groups who want to have a weekend getaway together at the Mountain Campus. Both buildings provide their occupants with beautiful views of the mountains and an opportunity to see wildlife from the porch. The Mountain Campus is surrounded by multiple hikes for the more active vacationers These hikes will allow vacationers to view different wildlife, like the yellowbellied marmot, a beaver-like animal, pika, which is a short-eared cousin to the rabbit, along with other wildlife
like moose and elk. There are hiking opportunities that provide simple walks around the campus or longer day hikes. Check out the mountain campus website to view all the hikes that surround the campus. If staying at the Mountain Campus isn’t what you want to do, but you are the adrenaline junkie type, check out their Challenge Corse. The Challenge course is a rope course that is meant to help team building and enhance personal growth. Each course takes about 4 hours with a minimum of 14
participants. The Challenge Course is a great way to spend a summer day up in mountains. Registration for the Mountain Campus getaways are open now, to register just go to the Colorado State University Mountain Campus website at mountaincampus.colostate. edu, under the Mountain Campus Getaways page. This page will provide you with hiking information, 2022 rates for rooms and activities as well as contact information.
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Cherry banana ice cream Using less than 10 ingredients, this is a quick and easy ice cream recipe that you can make in only 5 minutes! Make this your own by adding different frozen fruits or milk of your choice! This recipe also has a video that you can follow along with. Check it out at youtube.com/ watch?v=oVqtnOnq6dE&feature=emb_ title. Serving Size: 1 cup Yield: 5 cups
Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup coconut cream • juice from 1/2 a large orange • 3 pitted medjool dates • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract • 2 cups frozen cherries • 2 frozen bananas, diced • 1/2 cup coconut or almond milk
Directions:
1.Blend coconut cream, orange juice, dates, and vanilla in a blender. 2. Add in the cherries and diced bananas.
3. Blend everything together at a high power on the blender. You may have to mix in some of the frozen pieces between blending to get the whole mixture smooth. 4. Add milk until you have reached the desired consistency. 5. Let firm in freezer for 30-60 minutes before serving. 6. Enjoy!
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Nutrition information / amount per serving Calories 233 Protein 2 g Total fat 5.6 g Total Carbohydrates 46 g Saturated fat 4.5 g Dietary Fiber 3.5 g Cholesterol 0 mg Sugar 37.5 g Sodium 30 mg Added Sugar 0 g
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Each year, Colorado State University celebrates the teaching, research and service achievements of CSU students, alumni and friends, academic faculty, administrative professionals and classified staff as part of the Celebrate! Colorado State Awards.
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Board of Governors Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
University Distinguished Professors
Elizabeth Sink Master Teaching Instructor Department of Communication Studies
Professor of Chemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology Department of Chemistry and the Cell and Molecular Biology Program
University Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Debbie Crans
Over her long and extremely productive career, Professor Debbie Crans has made a significant impact in the areas of inorganic, organic, biological and medicinal chemistry. Her contributions to chemical research, to excellence in research and teaching at Colorado State University, and to the national and international science community merit her selection as a University Distinguished Professor. As program chair for the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, she championed inclusion of coordination chemistry at the bi-annual American Chemical Society meetings, which has resulted in a resurgence of the field. Her colleagues at CSU and at institutions around the world have benefited from her energy, her imaginative application of chemical concepts and her commitment to bring scientists together to share their collective knowledge.
Kathleen Galvin
Professor in Anthropology and Geography Department of Anthropology and Geography
Professor Kathleen Galvin has conducted interdisciplinary social-ecological systems research for more than 40 years, serving as a pioneer in this field. Her scholarship focuses on pastoralists in African, North American, and Asian arid and semi-arid rangelands. Her work addresses issues of food security of pastoralists, land-use change, conservation, climate variability, resilience and adaptation strategies, and co-production of knowledge with pastoral communities. Galvin founded The Africa Center, a university forum for solutions-oriented research in Africa. The Center partners with organizations throughout the world to link diverse types of knowledge (e.g., local, traditional, scientific) to identify and solve social and environmental problems on the continent. All her research is inclusive and interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary in nature and has resulted in nearly $22 million as PI and CoPI.
Temple Grandin
Professor of Animal Science College of Agricultural Sciences
Professor Temple Grandin has revolutionized animal care and welfare globally. Grandin has designed facilities throughout the world, and in North America, more than half of the cattle processed in packing plants are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed. She teaches courses on livestock behavior and facility design and conducts applied animal handling research at CSU, while also consulting with the livestock industry on facility design, livestock handling and animal welfare. She has appeared on numerous television and radio shows within the U.S. and internationally, and has been featured in People magazine, The New York Times, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, The New York Times Book Review, and Discover magazine. In 2010, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the U.S.
Wes Kenney
Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
In addition to his work with the CSU orchestra, Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras Wes Kenney is the conductor of the Fort Collins Symphony, Opera Fort Collins and the Denver Young Artists Orchestra. He is considered one of the most outstanding members of his discipline, where scholarship is demonstrated through music engagement with the community. He is one of the founders of CSU’s Master of Music, Music Education-Conducting Specialization. Kenney maintains a rigorous schedule of performances as a conductor and guest conductor, which is represented by over 1,000 conducting appearances locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Of significant note is Kenny’s dedication to maintaining live performance during the global pandemic, while adhering to risk mitigation protocols, both at CSU and professionally. In this regard, CSU, the Fort Collins Symphony, and DYAO have been at the forefront nationally in bringing back live orchestral music to the stage.
Susan van den Heever
Professor of Atmospheric Science Department of Atmospheric Science
Professor Susan van den Heever’s brilliant scientific mind, her tremendous stature in the field of atmospheric science, and her record of leadership guiding national and international planning of large-scale efforts to advance knowledge of the aerosol-cloud-climate system led to her nomination as University Distinguished Professor. NASA announced its newest Earth Venture Mission, INCUS (INvestigation of Convective UpdraftS). Dr. van den Heever is the PI of the $177 million mission, which will include three satellites flying in tight coordination to study the behavior of storms in the tropics and help improve the representation of these systems in weather and climate models. Competition to land such a satellite mission is fierce and was successful due to her exceptional leadership of a large team of scientists and engineers from several universities, NASA labs and private aerospace companies. She has made pioneering contributions to the understanding of the microphysics and dynamics of storm systems using both modeling and measurement approaches.
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Meena Balgopal Professor Biology, Natural Sciences
Monfort Professors
Marcela Henao-Tamayo Associate Professor College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Matthew Hitt Associate Professor Political Science
Scholarship Impact Award Deborah Fidler Professor Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Michael Pante Associate Professor Department of Anthropology and Geography Holly Stein Department of Geosciences
Lincoln Laureate
Jane Stewart Associate Professor Department of Agricultural Biology
Honorable Mention: Lincoln Laureate Kirk McGilvray Assistant Professor Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
14’er Award
Usama Alshaibi Professor Department of Communications Studies
Honorable Mention: 14’er Award Steven Markus Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Provost Teaching Scholar
Meara Faw Associate Professor Department of Communications Studies
Honorable Mention: Kevin Ann Provost Teaching Oltjenbruns Award Scholar for Outstanding Maria Delgado Leadership Assistant Professor College of Health and Human Sciences
Susan Lana, D.V.M. Associate Director Flint Animal Cancer Center
Provost Research Scholar
Barbara Risheill Loan and Reserve Desk Manager CSU Libraries
Jeremiah Easley, D.V.M. Associate Professor Department of Clinical Sciences
Provost’s N. Preston Davis Honorable Mention: Award for Instructional Provost Research Innovation Scholar Andrew McNally Associate Professor Department of Chemistry
David M. Riep Associate Professor College of Liberal Arts
Oliver P. Pennock Distinguished Service Award
Outstanding RSO Advisor of the Year
Gregg Dean, D.V.M. Professor and Department Head Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology Shelley Haddock Professor Department of Human Development and Family Studies Blanche Hughes Vice President for Student Affairs Division of Student Affairs Toni-Lee Viney Manager of Undergraduate Programs Department of Mechanical Engineering Susan De Long Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Carol Wilusz Professor Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
Jack E. Cermak Outstanding Advisor Award
Undergraduate – Faculty and Advisor Carlos Olivio-Delgado Assistant Teaching Professor Department of Chemistry Undergraduate – Advisor/AP Elliot Cooper Academic Success Coordinator, Exploratory Studies Collaborative for Student Achievement Undergraduate – Advisor/AP Sarah Maddox Undergraduate Program Advisor Department of Biomedical Sciences
Colette Sterling Graduate Student and Assistant School of Education
Albert C. Yates Student Leadership Award Alanis Hernandez Student Art and History
Advancing Education Scholarship: Honoring the Legacy and Memory of Martin Luther King Jr. Gabriela Ramirez Graduate Assistant Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
Office of International Programs Distinguished Service Award
John Hayes Dean Warner College of Natural Resources Debra Misuraca Undergraduate Academic Advisor School of Biomedical Engineering Leo Vijayasarathy Department Chair and Professor Department of Computer Information Systems
Margaret B. Hazaleus Award
Antonio Pedrós-Gascón Associate Professor College of Liberal Arts
Meg Skeehan Program Assistant College of Business
Enrollment and Access Distinguished Service Award
Lee Tyson Research Analyst Institutional Research, Planning and Effectiveness
Multicultural Staff and Faculty Network Distinguished Service Faculty Award
Jimena Bretón Associate Professor/Librarian Libraries: Student Success Unit Craig Chesson Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students Division of Student Affairs Meg Skeehan Program Assistant College of Business
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Tim Kefalas Assistant Director for Administration and Assessment Academic Advancement Center Becky Trentlage Business Officer Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology
Faculty Institute for Inclusive Excellence Diversity Impact Award Becki Atadero Associate Professor Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Exceptional Achievement in Service-Learning Student Award
Hannah Hatheway Student Warner College of Natural Resources
Exceptional Achievement in Classified Personnel Service-Learning Council Outstanding Community Partner Achievement Award Award Fort Collins Museum of Amalia Ornelas Medical Assistant Lead CSU Health Network, Medical Services Nancy Rhodes Program Assistant Off-Campus Life Nita Schissell Insurance Specialist Student Insurance Office Julie A. Steinhoff Administrative Assistant Fort McCoy Natural Resource Branch Wildlife Program Felipe Y. Vazquez Animal Care Biomedical Sciences, Animal Care
Distinguished Administrative Professional Award Lauren Alessi Research Associate Department of Social Work Lisa Chandler Assistant Director Adult Learner and Veteran Services Office Jimmy Hicks Academic Advisor and Program Coordinator College of Business
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Garfield County 4-H & STEM AmeriCorps Team
Exceptional Achievement in Service-Learning Instructional Innovation Award
Mountain Campus Service Learning and Action Week Team
Interdisciplinary Scholarship Individual Award
Jude Bayham Assistant Professor Agricultural and Resource Economics
Interdisciplinary Scholarship Individual Award
Delphine Farmer Associate Professor Department of Chemistry
Jack E. Cermak Outstanding Advisor Award
Lisa Angeloni Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies Department of Biology
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Star Award recognizes accomplishments of AP employees where they’re at on their personal and educational journey while pushing them to achieve beyond their comfort zone. She strives to help students find their own voice in their educational experience and learn to advocate for their rights and needs both at and beyond CSU. In all student interactions, she works to make students feel comfortable, heard, and valued, no matter what their situation. Her positive and welcoming attitude is evident in her student feedback. One student shared, “She has been the most kind and caring ASC I could have ever asked for. I absolutely love our meetings, and my favorite part is just the conversations we have. I always leave her office feeling confident and relaxed going into whatever I am doing next.” Another student wrote, “She was always down to earth and spoke with me at the same level. I never felt like she spoke down to me and I felt like I could talk to her like a friend.” In addition to her commitment to student success, Daggett seeks out opportunities to grow in her field and as a student support professional. Daggett feels it is her responsibility to model the Principles of Community in all her interactions with students and values her role in helping to promote a culture of integrity and equity. She participated in the Social Justice Leadership Institute and the Creating Inclusive Excellence Program (CIEP) and has attended Dream Zone and Safe Zone trainings. Within the CSU community, Daggett strives to strengthen connections with student success offices across campus to better connect students to campus resources. Outside of work, Daggett enjoys giving back to her community. She has worked as a volunteer for the CSU Pets Forever program – an organization that helps elderly and disabled community members keep their pets at home by offering in-home pet care – and she also serves as a volunteer for the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas, Fort Collins Bike Co-OP, and Bike Fort Collins.
Lynna Dicamillo
Communications Director – Graduate School
The AP Star Award was created to express appreciation by recognizing the accomplishments of administrative professional employees who have demonstrated outstanding individual performance at CSU. Meet this year’s finalists.
Chloe Wright
Senior Staff Psychologist – CSU Health Network
Dr. Wright joined CSU in 2017 as a doctoral intern, stayed on as a postdoctoral fellow, and is now a senior staff psychologist in the CSU Health Network. She has a PhD in Counseling Psychology with a Graduate Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychology from UNC in Greeley. Dr. Wright contributes to CSU through many official teaching/mentoring roles, as well as other informal roles. She co-leads efforts to deepen counseling services skill level/commitment to our marginalized students, through co-facilitating both our monthly staff Diversity Dialogues meetings and co-facilitating our weekly Diversity Seminar for counseling trainees. Dr. Wright employs a variety of methods to help further develop the talents and skills of those around her, from didactic teaching to deeper reflection/processing. She brings specific attention to intersections of identity, underscoring that it is not possible to separate overlaps of oppression across race, sexuality, gender, socioeconomic status, and ability. Dr. Wright works tirelessly to brighten the lives of students, staff, and the community at large. As the pandemic continued, our BIPOC, queer, and trans students faced an incredibly heavy burden, from disparate impacts of COVID and constant trauma of witnessing the violent deaths of many BIPOC individuals. Dr. Wright specifically centers these students in their work, with innovative services and programming for students, regular presentations to staff & colleagues of color, and mentoring of various BIPOC trainees at the CSU Health Network (CSUHN). Dr. Wright consistently goes above and beyond in their work, both within CSUHN and across campus.
Elaine Kim
IACUC Coordinator – Office of the Vice President of Research
Elaine Kim has been an IACUC Coordinator here at CSU for almost 12 years. As senior coordinator, Kim is responsible for coordinating and holding meetings
for the IACUC to review protocols in accordance with federal regulations, as well as maintaining the animal welfare and use policies for the university. She also acts as a liaison between the researchers and the IACUC, and between the IACUC and federal agencies like the USDA, and she handles each party with the utmost integrity and respect. As a Certified Professional in IACUC Administration (CIPR), she is highly trained in the regulations governing this research and is active at the local, national, and international level in upholding the ethical and legal use of research animals. Her reputation and expertise are recognized at the national level, where she has presented at numerous meetings, conferences and has taught several workshops. Most recently, she was on the planning committee for the 2020 IACUC conference for PRIM&R (an international research ethics non-profit with over 25,000 members), where she was the driver behind incorporating DEIJ principles into every facet of the conference. Kim is a current member of a planning committee with The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that focuses on the issues associated with the unique welfare challenges of conducting research with wildlife. She is a stalwart advocate and mentor for those she supervises both inside and outside of work. She excels at being a mentor and ensures her mentees are not only succeeding professionally but also, drives to ensure they manage a healthy work-life balance too. Elaine is a strong advocate for maintaining a healthy work-life and is often picking up new hobbies or trying new recipes to share with her colleagues. Kim is also an active member on the board of her church and her child’s parent teacher organization.
Kim Daggett
Academic Success Coordinator – College of Liberal Arts
Kim Daggett has been with the CLA Advising Center for five and a half years as an academic success coordinator and advises for English, economics, and History Social Studies Teaching. Daggett’s advising philosophy is to meet each student
Lynna Dicamillo has been with CSU and the Graduate School for over six years and was instrumental during the pandemic. Mary Stromberger says, Under her leadership, the Graduate School now has a well-executed communications plan that markets graduate programs to prospective students, provides timely communications to students, graduate faculty and staff; and elevates the Graduate School and the reputation of CSU through national communications of our students’ successes. Without her leadership, the Graduate School would have struggled during the pandemic in its ability to serve students and faculty as well as it did. She helped with our transition to working remotely and provided clear communications to our students and graduate faculty so that they were able to access much-needed resources. I appreciate Lynna so much, and she is so deserving of this award!” Dicamillo leads efforts to effectively and compassionately share policy updates and new resources with the graduate community. Dicamillo developed a Graduate School COVID webpage and introduced a new chat function to the website. Dicamillo promotes a healthy balance by respecting the time and energy of collaborators. When scheduling meetings, she uses tools to check availability and works in a timely manner on projects, meeting deadlines. Dicamillo maintains professional relationships with campus partners, giving plenty of notice for project timelines. She leads by example, keeping best practices and university guidelines in mind when collaborating with campus partners. Over the last year, Dicamillo particularly supported CSU’s postdoctoral association in developing an email list server and web page. She also supports the Graduate Student Council and other student organizations. These efforts, in turn, support campus-wide AP staff responsible for graduate students and postdoctorates. Dicamillo advocates for tools and practices that make AP tasks easier and support greater work-life balance.
Mark Paquette
Associate Athletic Director for Facilities – Athletic Department
Mark Paquette is CSU’s associate athletic director for facilities, and he has a tremendous job coordinating all of Athletics’ facilities maintenance, game management and day-to-day operations. In that role he coordinates coaches, athletes, Facilities Management, police, fire, medical, Landmark event management, and other community services. On a football game-day he’s coordinating over 400 people to host upwards of 35,000 fans! He constantly builds support for all these constituents by becoming invested in each one. He goes above and beyond in getting to know people personally and building trust. He’s the first to offer a helping hand, offer a solution to a problem and he’s never satisfied until everyone is happy with the resolution. In Paquette’s time on campus, he has touched an uncountable number of
employees, student-workers, and community members. His goal is always to help people thrive and have great experiences with CSU. His leadership and mentoring have fostered a tremendous culture in Athletic Facilities and created amazing partnerships with constituents all across the community and campus. His innovation and creative solutions allow others on Campus to grow and encourage thinking beyond their roles. He’s inclusive of everyone’s ideas and makes each individual feel valued and important. You will not find a better representative of what CSU is or can be than Paquette. He makes CSU a better place for students, staff and our community members.
Matt Markham
Undergraduate Advisor - Mechanical Engineering
After just over two years at Colorado State University, Matt Markham has already had an outsize impact on the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MECH), the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering (WSCOE), and the larger CSU community. One of his biggest strengths is his ability to leverage processes and technology to be more efficient. Markham has spearheaded other administrative efficiency improvements through his continued desire to learn and apply new tools. The list of invaluable tools he has contributed to MECH and beyond is ever growing but includes: mail merge, Live Office Documents, interactive Excel files and PDFs, automated calendar event creation, auto generated creating and naming of advising files and folders, and accessing CSU’s Operational Data Storage via Structured Query Language (SQL) to run various reports internally. These tools allow Markham and the MECH advisors to spend less time on necessary, but time-consuming, administrative tasks, and more time directly providing individualized support for students’ educational journey. He connects with the students he advises on a variety of these topics to build rapport and encourage them to find healthful hobbies to find their own schoollife integration. He regularly brings in baked goods to share with colleagues and give a morale boost during especially stressful times, like bringing his famous cinnamon roll bread during finals week. Markham also finds balance by giving back to the larger community by fostering rescue greyhounds with the Colorado Greyhound Adoption, volunteering with the Fort Collins Running Club at races and to co-facilitate a running-focused book club. When colleagues are out of the office, Markham is the first to volunteer to help cover their responsibilities so they can enjoy their time away to the fullest. Mac Prendergast says, “During [my time as Matt’s adviser] I struggled a lot with personal issues and a lost sense of purposes. Coming into the Mech program Matt was there for me from day one. He is an advisor that listens to his students’ needs and helps them find a path to bring the student the most fulfillment. Matt has given me countless resources both personal and academic that I truly believe helped to get me on course to be successful. Even after leaving the Mech program, Matt has reached out to check in on how I am doing personally… Matt has been and continues to be someone I know I can look towards for guidance in anything.”
Ryan Medhurst
Systems Administrator – Engineering Technology Services
Ryan Medhurst came to CSU in May of 2004 as an IT client services specialist in the Walter Scott, Jr College of Engineering with Engineering Technology Services (ETS). Medhurst is an exceptional and avid learner. He has really created his own professional development over the years through technical reading and tinkering. It is precisely because of this that he became an expert in both the “user support” side of IT and the “systems administration” side. He is able to look ahead to future needs. He embraces challenges and willingly steps up to the plate when asked to take on a new project — often volunteering (or already completed it!) before the ask. Medhurst is often found after hours in the Scott Data Center installing and managing rack-mounted servers comprising Engineering’s entire student Windows Virtual Classroom and Windows Compute Server pool. He is proactive in making these resources the best they can be for the students and goes above and beyond to do so. He was able to save students thousands of dollars by building several GPU servers for their use instead of purchasing the whole machine. He has also helped research groups in the College obtain servers he can repurpose for thousands less than a new one. Medhurst does all these things without ever seeking praise or accolades. He has a huge heart and an amazing creativity and hunger for knowledge.
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Profiles in courage: Meet members of the class of ’22 By Jeff Dodge Courage. It’s been on the minds of many this spring as the CSU community has reflected on lessons learned during the pandemic and marveled at what the May 2022 graduating class endured to get to the finish line. It’s a major theme of the Courageous Strategic Transformation plan launched in March, and it’s been a theme that has run through many of the stories of students nominated to be featured in SOURCE as outstanding graduates from CSU’s eight colleges. Below are some of those stories of courage, from students who overcame significant obstacles to reach commencement weekend and earn their degrees from CSU.
Yoselin Estacuy
Yoselin Estacuy
Yoselin Estacuy has shown courage several times in her young life: being a grade-school immigrant and not speaking English; leaving home for college; and surviving the fateful day of May 23, 2020. Stuck inside a crumpled pick-up, Estacuy was trapped with her two younger brothers after an-out-ofcontrol vehicle pinned her mother against the truck in their Denver driveway two years ago. Her mother, Maria Ixcot, suffered two broken femur bones and lost a massive amount of blood. Both her mother’s legs and life were in jeopardy. “My mom was just so tired of being inside so we decided to go to this park that is around the neighborhood. My siblings and I got into her truck. And her truck was parked in the driveway of our garage,” Estacuy recalled. “We were inside the truck and she went back inside to the garage to grab something and as she was walking back, a car was completely out of control and … got off the road, went over the sidewalk, into our driveway and pinned her against our truck.” Estacuy had the courage to crawl through the window of the pickup, help brothers Eddie Jr. and Jerhemy, then 10 and 8, out of the vehicle, try to calm her still-conscious mother and talk to the police. “They said that [the driver] completely lost control of the vehicle, and they were arrested that day. It was a whole crime scene,” Estacuy said. “We couldn’t step into our garage the whole day. The cops, the investigators were there all day. “I had to translate (English to Spanish) for my mother. I was a witness. I had to call the doctors, and take care of my brothers. It was just an unbelievable mess.” Estacuy courageously cared for her family without being able to hug her mother due to COVID-19 protocols, even after her mother underwent 10 surgeries. She skipped the next semester of school at Colorado State
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University to provide what her family needed. Finishing her Human Development and Family Studies degree at CSU, let alone being named a Spring 2022 Outstanding Graduate of the College of Health and Human Sciences, seemed far away. But not impossible. Eustacuy, who has a minor in business administration, returned to CSU in spring 2021. Her mother, who can fully walk now after months of physical therapy, and her father will attend her May 15 commencement ceremony.
Kori Eliaz
Kori Eliaz, who is graduating with a degree in electrical engineering, demonstrated courage in sacrificing for a loved one. She started attending community college to study engineering, in hopes of becoming an astronaut one day. Eliaz even participated in a robotics competition at a NASA center. But then, her ex-partner’s father suffered a stroke, and he had no health insurance or anyone to take care of him. She chose homelessness to be there for him. “I made a big trade, the biggest decision of my life so far,” she recalled in a speech to graduates of the Fostering Success Program. “I dropped everything and ran. I was living out of my car or couch surfing, subsisting on protein bars, driving 150 miles a day round trip to give care to him.” Eliaz learned the entire probate law process and Medicare process to establish his health care and get him into the only skilled nursing facility in the area that would accept him. “I remember every day waking up and not knowing what the next step would be, not knowing where the next meal would come from, or how I’d ever be able to pursue a college education and become comfortably self-sufficient,” she said. “Most days the dreams were better than the reality. But through it all I had the sobering realization that my life is sharp and
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ragged and aggressively shaping me into a more refined version of myself, like a diamond. I realized, if I can get through this, I can get through anything. I’m going to help this person as much as I humanly can, and then I’m going to help myself.” When Eliaz wasn’t helping with financial paperwork or providing therapy, she was leading a team of 10 undergraduate students in researching and writing a technical proposal for a mission to Mars. It was lauded by NASA leadership for its novel use of ground penetrating radar to characterize Martian water resources. That led to an internship opportunity at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, which led her to CSU, as she was researching highly rated engineering programs in the state. Eliaz, who was awarded the nationally competitive Astronaut Scholarship last spring, has been working at Lockheed Martin Space for the last three years, designing deep space exploratory spacecraft, and she was offered a full-time job there an entire year before graduation. She has been involved in undergraduate research throughout her academic career, working with CSU engineering faculty to submit research proposals to investigate the effects of harmful lunar dust particles in preparation for the Artemis mission to the moon. In 2019, she led an undergraduate effort in the development of a lunar dust mitigation device concept to protect lunar astronauts that resulted in a $10,000 NASA research grant. Eliaz has been working on the Dragonfly mission at Lockheed Martin Space for the duration of her senior year, using skills obtained through her undergraduate research under Dr. James Cale to help design a rigorous system model for the spacecraft. Her dream is to continue to pursue new information on potential habitats for humanity in our universe and to inspire as many others as possible to know that no matter their background, their past failures, or the challenges they face – the sky is not the limit.
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Shiloh Dailey
While many would say that Shiloh Dailey’s many contributions to the LGBTQIA+ community at CSU have been courageous, Dailey describes them as “necessary.” “As a queer student, I recognize that I hold privileges that other members of my community do not,” said Dailey, who is graduating with a bachelor’s degree in social work. “I am a white, middle-class individual that enjoys social support within the School of Social Work and in my personal life. I can safely be ‘out’ without fear that my family will disown me or that I will face academic or professional retaliation interrupting my financial support.” Danielle Willis, an instructor in the School of Social work, described Dailey as “a huge advocate and change agent” who helped the school adopt its Pronoun and Accountability Statement and advocated for mental health awareness, among other contributions. Dailey said the advocacy work was about empowering a community that deserves more. “I wanted to see people like me in leadership positions creating change,” Dailey said. “Fostering equity for LGBTQIA+ students who have been systemically erased, silenced, and ignored. I also wanted students like me to see that we belong in leadership positions, guiding change and being heard. Finally, as the parent of two queer identified children, I wanted them to see that we can build coalitions that dismantle oppression.” Dailey and two fellow BSW students founded the Queer in Action support group in part because of findings in the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, which was the largest study of its kind, with more than 27,000 transgender people responding. The survey found that 40% of respondents had attempted suicide at some point in their life, compared to 4.6% in the U.S. population. Dailey said Queer in Action was founded because
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supportive programming was needed for the overlooked epidemic of suicide in the trans community. Dailey also worked with other members of the School of Social Work Committee for Social Justice to establish the Trans-Cis Alliance. “This was not an act of courage; it was an act of necessity,” Dailey said. “Transgender students and staff deserve to feel affirmed, safe, and accepted in their places of work and learning.” Dailey also organized the Trans Day of Action in collaboration with the Committee for Social Justice and the Pride Leadership Council, to create opportunities to contact government officials in Colorado and across the nation to denounce transphobia and demand protective action for vulnerable Americans. Dailey said it was a move driven by anger. “I felt the fear and hurt in my community as state after state proposed, enacted, or upheld antitrans legislation in record numbers,” they said. “Within the first three months of 2022, over 150 anti-trans bills had been filed, more than the total number of anti-trans legislation proposed in the entire year prior. This legislation correlates to increasing suicide rates for trans youth and record-breaking violent murders of transgender people in the United States and internationally.” “If my work is courageous, it is because the resilience of my community has given me strength and confidence,” Dailey concluded. “I am
indescribably proud of the progress I have been a part of and grateful for the people I have worked alongside. If my accomplishments have helped instill hope in my community, I am thankful to have had the opportunity to walk with them toward a brighter future at CSU.” Dailey is not done advocating for equality; they plan to continue serving on the Committee for Social Justice while completing dual MPH/MSW degrees.
Kaydee Barker
Just after she applied to CSU, Kaydee Barker’s father-in-law began battling a rare autoimmune disease, EGPA vasculitis. “My in-laws, who I have had the uncommon privilege to know and love since I was 15 years old, are truly my other parents,” she said. “Watching my father-in-law suffer was gut-wrenching in the way that I think few people know that haven’t had a loved one suffer like that. It feels so helpless.” The ordeal just got worse. “It felt like the roof came crashing down on us again and again as my father-in-law’s legs, and then lungs, and then digestive system, and then heart, and then extremities, and then digestive system again, were impacted, and we got call after call about the possibility of him dying,” Barker recalls. “Every day was an act of courage to not give in to despair but to just put one foot in front of the other to do what I could.”
She helped out in as many ways as possible. I paid my in-laws’ bills, took care of their house, kept track of medical records, called the insurance, spoke to advocates and lawyers to help with medical bills, arranged for a place for my family to stay when he had to move to a research hospital, read to him to keep him distracted in his hospital bed,” Barker said. “It was all just doing what I could, which felt like way too little.” Ultimately, just before she started at CSU, her father-in-law stabilized, and she was able to pursue her dream of earning a degree in ecosystem science and sustainability. “And somehow, with the support of both my old community and my new one here in Fort Collins, I made it through.”
Annie Chambless
For Annie Chambless, courage is a willingness to confront uncertainty. “So much of college, and life, for that matter, is uncertain,” she said. “No one knows what is in store for them, and it can be scary to face the unknown.” Lorie Humphrey, an academic support career counselor in the College of Business, said Chambless has displayed “determination and grit during her time at CSU. Her positive attitude, thoughtful reflection and deep listening make her an excellent leader, team member and student.” Chambless has volunteered for a different organization in Fort Collins
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during each of her years at CSU. She is the president of the Society for Human Resources, a mock interview specialist, a College of Business Ambassador, a mentor leader for the Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Program and a human resources intern for a local software company. “I didn’t know what to expect in any of these roles, and truthfully, they were all out of my comfort zone to some degree,” Chambless said. “I’ve demonstrated courage through leadership, public speaking, and by being my authentic self. My involvement and experiences in college have allowed me to learn more about myself and embrace who I am with confidence. I’ve learned that having self-confidence and a positive attitude can make a huge difference in my interactions with others and my perspective.” A few months ago, she received a job offer from a large company that she had interned with over the summer. While the offer was good, she knew she was capable of something more challenging, and she turned it down. “That took courage, but it was the best decision for me and I’m proud of myself for knowing my worth and capabilities,” Chambless said. “Having a positive attitude, getting involved, and embracing the uncertainty of life are all courageous things, and they all have enhanced my college experience.”
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Day in the life of CSU Extention’s Peggy Stoltenberg
By Classified Personnel Council
A typical workday for Peggy Stoltenberg could encompass just about anything. She sits at the front desk in the Northeast Regional Engagement Center on a busy corner in downtown Sterling. Many people see the CSU sign and walk in to ask a variety of random questions, such as “How can I get an opossum out of my attic?” More often people wander into the Engagement Center because they are new to town looking for resources, connections, or education — or they are longtime residents, also looking for resources, connections, or education. “Which is great,” says Stoltenberg, “because THAT is what my work is all about: making connections and building relationships.” Stoltenberg is the partnership and project development manager for the CSU Northeast Regional Engagement Center in Sterling, a part of CSU’s Office of Engagement and Extension. She has worked as a CSU State Classified employee for over four years. She enjoys supporting connections that benefit both the person and the community — it’s the aha moment that she lives for. Her day is often spent listening: attending CSU or community meetings, facilitating a program for older adults in their community, or just having a conversation in the grocery store. “My brain is always in connect mode. In every meeting and conversation, I am actively thinking… how can I help this person connect to something or someone that will make their life better and help enrich the community at the same time?” In April, Stoltenberg partnered with the CSU Math Department and many other campus partners to bring a bus of rural high school girls from Northeast Colorado to the CSU Fort Collins main campus for the annual Sonia Kovalevsky Day Women in Math Day. This event included an admissions presentation, a day full of math events, a resource fair, several specialized CSU tours in the girls’ areas of interest, dinner with CSU student ambassadors and alumni, and more. The greatest part of this event was “the amazing collaboration between the partners and the way
they all came together to provide a very unique and rare opportunity for rural high school girls to really imagine themselves being successful in college and fitting in on a college campus.” The Center envisions that this could be a model for students across the state to have an opportunity to visit campus, attend an event and tour in their area of interest, and therefore increase the likelihood of them attending college (and hopefully CSU!). This month Stoltenberg is busy organizing and running the second annual Embracing Aging on the Square event, a community celebration of older adults in recognition of Older Americans month in May. Over thirty vendors will showcase resources for aging well and encouraging people to “Age My Way,” and CSU Extension will feature educational programming on healthy aging. For example, Stoltenberg is leading an age-friendly community project that brings together community volunteers to conduct an age-friendly community survey. This will be followed by developing an age-friendly community plan to make their community more livable and desirable for people of all ages. Another item in Stoltenberg’s wheelhouse is the facilitation of the Center’s weekly workshops for older adults. She spreads the word about these opportunities, creates the marketing and facilitates each group. Offered workshops include Coffee, Tea, and We, a life-long learning and discussion group for English speaking older adults and Es Tiempo de Crear, an education and creation group for Spanish speakers of all ages. This month the Center is hosting mental health workshops in Spanish for the adult participants and success coaching for the youth participants. In response to a community request, the Northeast Regional Engagement Center forged ahead with the CSU Office of Engagement and Extension’s “How might we…” mantra to develop a weekly group for Spanish speakers who wanted to come together to learn new things, form true friendships, and have deep conversations in a safe space. Although Stoltenberg and others in their office
don’t speak Spanish, they figured out a way to make this happen and now hold a successful weekly group, growing relationships beyond the language barriers. Stoltenberg shares, “I was recently brought to tears as the Spanish speakers planned and pulled off an amazing surprise birthday party for me, complete with cake, presents, and singing Happy Birthday to me in both English and Spanish. My heart is full.” CPC thanks Stoltenberg for her contributions to community and her commitment to listening, which transforms lives with each moment of connection. “Day in the Life” features the stories of State Classified colleagues to help the CSU community get to know and recognize their diverse responsibilities and duties. To recommend a State Classified individual or group for a future “Day in the Life,” visit the Classified Personal Council website. Follow the CPC on Facebook at facebook.com/ ColoradoStateUniversityCPC.
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How to navigate construction of LSC revitalization
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By Allison Sylte
The next phase of the Lory Student Center revitalization is slated to begin this summer, and the ongoing construction will cause impacts to the Transit Center at the north end of the building as well as the adjacent parking lot. This $28 million project was delayed two years by the COVID-19 pandemic and is expected to be complete by May 2023. It will include a student feefunded expansion of the Adult Learner and Veteran Services space, as well as renovations to the CSU Bookstore and Aspen Grille. The LSC’s north entrances will close after commencement on May 16 and is expected to reopen in Fall 2022. That means that over the summer, people entering and exiting campus from the Transit Center will have to either go through the Engineering Building or walk to the west entrance of the student center. The Engineering parking lot will remain open. The map shows the location of the construction as well as the detours for pedestrians. CAM’s Lobby Shop, located near the LSC’s north entrance, will be closed over the summer but is expected to reopen this fall. ALVS will also be displaced during the closure, and its employees will work remotely over the summer. This fall, ALVS will reopen in the first floor space formerly occupied by FastPrint until construction is complete. Student Legal Services will also be working remotely over the summer, with the ability to schedule in-person meetings as needed. It too will be located on level 100 in the fall. RamRide will be closed for the summer, and while TransFort will continue to be running buses, the office will be closed and information will be available at the main LSC information desk. The CSU Bookstore will remain open on level 200 during the entire construction process. Here are the highlights of this phase of the LSC revitalization: • ALVS will expand its total area from 1,800 square feet to 8,000 square feet and utilize two floors with an increased study space for students. • Crews will install elevator access to the third level and update the bathrooms. • The aging heating and cooling system will be replaced with more energy efficient technology. • The Aspen Grille will be temporarily relocated to Housing and Dining Services, but will return to the LSC in a revamped space once construction is complete. • The CSU Bookstore will get a complete renovation
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CSU Agronomy Club Plant Sale Fundraiser
your help! Bring your co-workers and make a fun team building event out of it.
Friday, March 25 - Wednesday, June 1 Help support CSU Agronomy Club attend local and national competitions, judgings, and leadership conferences by purchasing your spring flowers! Visit the Soil and Crop Sciences main office in Plant Science C127 to get your certificates.
Fall 2022 Orientation - Ram Welcome
Juried BFA Exhibition 2022
Friday, May 27 - 30, 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. Plan to attend the 2nd Annual Field of Honor® and view a powerful display of 500 flags as a way to honor military, community and personal heroes. This awe-inspiring panorama of red, white and blue is presented by the Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Club. Medallions to honor your hero will be sold for $50 each and affixed to a flag.
Thursday, May 12 - Sunday, Aug. 14 Visual Arts Building The Department of Art and Art History presents the annual Juried BFA Exhibition 2022 featuring new works throughout the Hatton Gallery created by recent graduates who have earned their Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Colorado State University majoring in Art Education, Art History, Drawing, Electronic Art, Fibers, Graphic Design, Metalsmithing, Painting, Pottery, Photo Image Making, Printmaking, and Sculpture.
School is Cool 2022
Tuesday, Aug. 2, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Johnson Hall Join your fellow CSU rams at this annual backpack stuffing event. This year our goal is just under 3000 packs and supply bags. We need
Thursday, Aug. 18 - 19
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Colorado Run 5k/10k
Monday, May 30, 8 - 11 a.m. Spring Canyon Park The Colorado Run features 5k and 10k distances that are open to all. Walk, jog, run, ruck, or race. The 10k is a challenging route taking on Fort Collins’ famous Maniac Hill, with 5k of uphill and 5k of downhill it is the ultimate toughen up course! The 5k course is flat and fast through Spring Canyon Park, welcoming dogs and strollers to join the race.
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Open Jam
Recurring monthly on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 6 - 10 p.m. The Lyric Sign up by your instrument (vocals are instruments, too!) and we’ll pair you up with some fellow jammers. All styles welcome! Bring your guitar/bass, we’ve got you on amps, keyboard, and a drum kit. Let’s boogie.
Father’s Day 5k
Sunday, June 19, 8 - 10 a.m. Foothills Shopping CenterT The 25th Annual Father’s Day 5k run/walk is a favorite Fort Collins local race of the summer! Celebrate all the Dads in your life with family friendly 5k and Kids 1-Mile races! Run/walk with your Dad, run for your Dad, run as a Dad, or run in memory of your Dad. Everyone welcome to walk, jog, run or race, including strollers and leashed dogs.
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Sunday, July 24, 6 a.m. - 5 p.m. New Belgium Brewing Company A gravel ride, a gravel race, rooted in the insanity of a Fondo with the levity of the Fort Collins community. Whether you’re into racing bikes or all day bike parties in the open range of Colorado. FoCo Fondo is your adventure.
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