He is the director of Colorado State University’s Equine Orthopaedic Research Center, the most prominent and largest of the handful of such facilities in the country.

“This year has shown us the power of private giving to our public university. Our fundraising will exceed last year’s by 35 percent and will be the second best year in CSU’s history,” said Joyce Berry, vice president for Advancement …

Dr. McIlwraith is director of Colorado State University’s Equine Orthopaedic Research Center, part of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He is known as an expert veterinarian in the racing industry. Here, he offers a guest column exclusive …

When Bill Cotton, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, developed a computer model to evaluate seeding measures in Colorado, he came up empty. “The model didn’t show much of a difference between seeding and no seeding,” he says.

According to a 2007 Colorado State University analysis of wildland-urban interface in the state, Colorado had 715,500 acres of interface in 2000. By the year 2030, the analysis shows, Colorado will have more than 2.1 million acres of wildland-urban interface.

Volunteers measure precipitation in their own backyards, email the numbers to headquarters at Colorado State University and a compilation shows up at www.cocorahs.org.

“Consumers are tightening up their budgets across the board,” said Rhonda Follman, a family and consumer science agent with Colorado State University’s extension office in Grand Junction.

In a typical year, the center’s birds eat 4.3 tons of food, mainly rodents. Many rescued raptors require surgery for broken bones; the center’s staffers know the fastest routes to the nearby Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

Extra!’s hat goes off to Colorado State University, which is making itself into a leader in wind power technology.

“In Colorado and Texas, we’re focusing on wind because we have a lot of it,” said Bob duffy, chairman of the political science department at Colorado State University. “In Florida, they’re focusing on solar. Some where else might focus on …