Applause: Celebrating CSU faculty and staff

Office of the Provost

Thanks to a $750,000 gift from an anonymous donor, two CSU faculty members have been selected as inaugural holders of the Gordon and Joan Bishop Professorship, the first endowed professorship ever provided through the Office of the Provost. Kelly Wrighton, an associate professor in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, and Dr. Yvette Nout-Lomas, an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences, will each hold the title for three years and will each receive an annual stipend to support their scholarly activities.

College of Health and Human Sciences

The College of Health and Human Sciences recently announced its 2022-23 Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship recipients. This competitive $20,000 fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students who are full-time Ph.D. students in any of the eight units in the college. The fellows are Mohammad Teymouri in the Department of Construction Management, Heidi Tseng in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies and Elliot Graham in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition. 

Center for the New Energy Economy

Former state legislator Tom Plant, senior policy advisor at Colorado State University’s Center for the New Energy Economy, has been appointed to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission by Gov. Jared Polis.