FACULTY & RESEARCH / COLLABORATORIES
One-year funded groups that bring together CSU faculty across disciplines.
Collaboratories bring CSU faculty across disciplines together to explore critical climate and sustainability challenges. Through discussion, synthesis, network-building, and early-stage ideation, these one-year funded groups foster inclusive engagement and deepen relationships across the School’s faculty sustainability community.
Each Collaboratory is funded for one academic year. The format is designed for the early stage of an idea: when faculty want to convene across disciplines, test framings, synthesize across literatures, or build the relationships needed to develop a larger research program. Collaboratories typically host workshops, working group meetings, and synthesis activities. Many produce a synthesis paper, framework, or position document by the end of the year, alongside the new working relationships built in the process.
Agricultural practices, from farm-scale management to landscape-scale decisions, have a significant impact on biodiversity. They can either sustain and restore (agro)ecosystems or contribute to the ongoing extinction crisis. At the same time, both food production and biodiversity conservation face growing
This Collaboratory aims to establish a cross-campus community of practice (CoP) at CSU to enhance awareness of mass timber. The Collaboratory conversations will cover various aspects of mass timber, including its impact on forest health, design and construction, manufacturing, project
Our Collaboratory explores humans’ long-term relationship to Western lands; we will identify and evaluate historical attitudes, ideas, and land practices that have the potential to sustain western U.S. land health and productivity in the face of accelerating climate change. We
The EST-Collaboratory welcomes CSU faculty and researchers across disciplines to participate in collaborative exploration of and early-stage ideation around critical sustainability challenges at the intersection of the Environment, Society, and Technology (EST) related to technological interventions such as AI and
Our vision is that Colorado State University plays a leadership role in providing the foundational knowledge needed to make the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, primarily via photovoltaic energy generation, ecologically, socially, and economically sustainable. We propose to
The School issues a request for proposals each academic year. Proposals are invited from CSU faculty across all disciplines.