Colorado State University

Off the Hook Arts SummerFest Viewpoint Series presents John Pippen,Professor of Musicology, CSU Department of Music. Presentation Description: Musicians have engage notions of nature in one form or another for centuries. From Enlightenment idealizations of the natural to modern depictions of beautiful places, composers have endeavored to describe and engage nature. More recent musical works […]

SummerFest Viewpoint Series presents science speaker Peter Seel, Professor, CSU Department of Communications Program:  A look at some of the major and emerging figures doing visual documentaries of climate change with a focus on two photographers, James Balog and Sebastião Salgado, and their documentaries, Chasing Ice and Salt of the Earth. Free event, registration required

SummerFest viewpoint series presents Erika Osborne, Assistant Professor of Art, CSU Program: We have entered the Anthropocene—a new geologic epoch characterized by the overwhelming evidence that humans are affecting the world’s ecosystems, geology, and climate in unprecedented ways. This new epoch comes with a myriad of challenges for our globalized world, especially climate change and […]

SummerFest Viewpoints Series presents Monique Rocca, Associate Professor, CSU Department of Ecosystem Science Program: Change will almost certainly increase the prevalence of “megafires” in many parts of the globe, including much of North America. How do scientists make forecasts about future patterns of wildfires, and how ominous is the picture?  What are the likely impacts […]

SummerFest Viewpoint Series presents SueEllen Campbell, Lucinda Smith, and Lindsay Ex Program: In November 2017, the C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards named Fort Collins as the U.S. winner of the Cities4Action Award for its Climate Action Plan and for being one of the “world’s most inspiring and innovative cities tackling climate change.” Join us for […]

Join us the afternoon of Wednesday, July 18, for a firsthand look at community-based, fully immersive university education in action. CSU students will be engaging with project sponsors and the public on six very diverse community projects related to equitable access to active transportation, pollinator habitat conservation, secondary education in a strife-striken country, and alternative […]