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College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Continuing education is a core part of the College’s mission of education and service and outreach. The College offers a wide variety of on-campus continuing education for veterinarians, for equine owners and veterinarians, and for adults seeking a career change requiring a foundation in the life sciences.

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Student Success Initiatives @ CSU: Closing Opportunity Gaps

Colorado State University promotes a definition of student success that embraces all dimensions of a student’s personal development as they progress through and complete their college experience. To achieve this holistic developmental approach, CSU has several student success initiatives within...

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A History of Broadening Participation Within the National Science Foundation

This is post 1 of 5 in the Broadening Participation and Broader Impacts Series The terms broadening participation and broader impacts have been used extensively in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, especially within STEM funding solicitations and proposals....

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2019 NSF IUSE Program Proposal Webinar Series

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will offer two 90-minute webinars about preparing proposals for the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program (solicitation NSF 19-601), one on November...

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Upcoming STEM Events & Activities

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CSU summer experiences for kindergarten through high school students include credit-bearing, academic, and sport programs. Teachers may explore sustainable teaching and the benefits of movement in the classroom. These programs are offered by many CSU departments and organizations hosting events on the Fort Collins campus. Summer programs for kindergarten through pre-college students and P-12 teachers...

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Current Projects

BCSER: Examining inclusive science communication education as a tool to empower historically disadvantaged STEM students

Abstract: Broadening participation in STEM is critical on many levels, from the equity perspective of removing barriers for success for people from historically excluded groups and from the perspective of increasing knowledge in the field of STEM. Both people and scientific endeavors benefit from increasing inclusion. However, evidence indicates that students who experience marginalization due…

Award Amount: $346,658.00

College/Institution: College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Start Date: 12/15/2022

End Date: 11/30/2025

Source of Funding: NSF

CAREER: The success of viral endosymbionts within and between host populations

Abstract: This project has three main goals. First, it seeks to better understand how viruses shape the biology and evolution of their hosts beyond the typical view that viruses are entities that make their hosts acutely sick. New evidence has revealed that viruses are just as ubiquitous in all living organisms as are the bacteria…

Award Amount: $894,808.00

College/Institution: College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Start Date: 05/01/2021

End Date: 04/30/2026

Source of Funding: NSF

Dual-Degree Medical Scientists Training Program for Veterinarians

Abstract: This new Medical Scientist Training Program application from Colorado State University requests funds to support a DVM-PhD dual-degree program with a 15-year history of translational clinician-scientist training. The program currently recruits two students per year from a pool of approximately 40 applicants and has had a 100% retention rate. Nineteen trainees have graduated; 79%…

Award Amount: $1,631,735

College/Institution: College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Start Date: 07/01/2020

End Date: 06/30/2025

Source of Funding: NIH

Predoctoral Training in Quantitative Cell and Molecular Biology

The Quantitative Cell and Molecular Biology (qCMB) Training Program will provide comprehensive and flexible training in quantitative approaches in order to facilitate transdisciplinary and collaborative research in the broad field of Cell & Molecular Biology. The Program will produce outstanding graduates with the skills to meet the computational and professional demands of modern life science…

Award Amount: $159,031

College/Institution: College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Start Date: 07/01/2019

End Date: 06/20/2024

Source of Funding: NIH