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UPUB State May2020.Pdf (6.033Mb) MAY 2020 a specialSTATE issue from colorado state university and the csu system INNOVATING in a PANDEMIC [ SPECIAL ISSUE / MAY 2020 ] [ Letter From the / EDITOR ] STATE A SPECIAL ISSUE FROM COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE CSU SYSTEM CONTENTS CONNECTING DURING A PANDEMIC PUBLISHER CARA NETH Director of Executive We are reaching you with three special issues this spring and summer – Communications, CSU System STATE Colorado State combining , the magazine of the CSU System, and DEPUTY PUBLISHER Magazine, the publication for alumni and supporters of our flagship university. KATHY PHIFER Executive Director, CSU Strategic These issues are smaller, more frequent, and are mailed to a combined readership. Initiatives & Partnerships This allows us to conserve resources while staying in touch during a critical time. EXECUTIVE EDITOR COLEMAN CORNELIUS t is stunning to consider: A microbe is behind this. A germ – something we cannot see – ART DIRECTOR | DESIGNER sparked the COVID-19 pandemic and is wreaking havoc on human health and econo- MARY SWEITZER Imies. Here are a few more things we cannot see, things essential to getting through: ideas, knowl- COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY edge, determination, and humanity. SYSTEM AND CAMPUS LEADERS Colorado State University and the CSU System are reaching out to you in this historic mo- ment because you are in our closest circle – alumni, coworkers, parents, partners, policymakers, TONY FRANK supporters, friends. People who, like us, care deeply about higher education and its critical role Chancellor, CSU System in preparing leaders, developing a skilled workforce, driving a vibrant economy, and improving AMY L. PARSONS quality of life in Colorado and around the world. This work has proved vital many times over; Executive Vice Chancellor, CSU System now it is essential to recovery. Just two months ago, as the pandemic grew urgent in the United States, the mechanics of JOYCE MCCONNELL [ Find these stories and much more news / SOURCE.COLOSTATE.EDU ] higher education took the fore. Our physical campuses emptied; our work moved online. Our President, CSU faculty and students convened using tools of the Internet. Our staff worked remotely to sup- TIMOTHY MOTTET port academic missions in teaching, research, and engagement. Our leaders also collaborated President, CSU Pueblo FEATURES PERSPECTIVES virtually to quell the spread of disease. This is innovation in action, involving tens of thousands of students, faculty, and staff. BECKY TAKEDA-TINKER 8 | INSIDE THE BAT CAVE 4 | TONY FRANK President and CEO, CSU Global Yet, these mechanics are a means to our real work: ensuring an energetic flow of ideas, Tony Schountz is a foremost researcher of the bat’s Chancellor of the Colorado State University System knowledge, determination, and humanity for the benefit of society. Discovery is the heart of uncanny ability to halt viral disease, an issue central to our work, and it is heartening to see untiring commitment to it across our campuses, even as FOR INFORMATION OR MAILING understanding and seeking cures for COVID-19 because 6 | JOYCE MCCONNELL they have functioned largely in a virtual sphere. REQUESTS, CONTACT: the novel coronavirus most likely started in bats. President of Colorado State University STATE Normally, our team would be producing the June issue of STATE, the magazine of the CSU 18 | SUE VANDEWOUDE 6025 Campus Delivery 21 | GERM THEORY System, followed by the September issue of Colorado State Magazine, the publication for CSU Director of the CSU One Health Institute alumni and friends. But this is not a normal time, not by a long shot. So our plans changed; Fort Collins, CO 80523-6025 Just how deep does infectious disease research run at we’re reaching you with three special issues that save resources and help us stay connected at a (970) 491-6977 Colorado State University? Well, to 1901 – the early years. 28 | TIMOTHY MOTTET pivotal time. [email protected] That’s when Dr. George Glover, founder of CSU’s veterinary President of CSU Pueblo program, took on bovine tuberculosis. With these issues, we hope to share a sense of how our System and campuses are respond- 30 | BECKY TAKEDA-TINKER ing to the COVID-19 pandemic to uphold our higher-education tenets and goals. After all, 24 | SPUR MOVES AHEAD President and chief executive officer of CSU Global you have shaped and embodied this work – carrying it into the communities of Colorado and The ceremony was delayed, but construction is underway beyond. on the new Spur campus at the National Western Center. In this edition, you’ll find stories about Colorado State University’s internationally regard- ON THE COVER: “Innovating in a Pandemic,” illustration It will be like none other in Colorado: focused on collaborative by Dave Cutler ed expertise in infectious disease, which dates to the school’s earliest years. Our System and research and public education about food, water, and health. campus leaders share their thoughts about recovery and the value of our academic programs, THIS PAGE: Students abruptly moved from on-campus brought into sharp relief by the pandemic. You’ll learn about one of the System’s most promi- 26 | ANGIE'S LIST classes to online course delivery as the pandemic arrived nent initiatives, the new Spur campus, which is forging ahead. You will also meet an alumna, © 2020 Colorado State University; in force in mid-March. Leaders of the CSU System's physical Ensuring opportunities for students tops the priority list for Angie campuses look forward to the return of students, faculty, all rights reserved. Written permission Angie Paccione, head of the Colorado Department of Higher Education, who is working Paccione, CSU alumna and head of the state Department of and staff. Photo: Joe A. Mendoza / Colorado State University required for reproduction of any around the clock on behalf of colleges, universities – and students. Education. She knows the importance first-hand, as a biracial content, in whole or part. Thank you for your shared commitment to students, to discovery, and to the future. n woman from the South Bronx. An equal-access and equal-opportunity university System 2 SPECIAL ISSUE | COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE CSU SYSTEM MAY 2020 3 [ Perspective: Tony Frank / CHANCELLOR, CSU SYSTEM ] DEAR COVID-19: ’m writing to get some thoughts off my friends; even the gentleness in the touch of a chest as I sit here late at night, unable to total stranger for those who are in your final Isleep, thinking about a 25-year-old wom- grasp is beyond your ability to prevent. an. She’s tough as nails, but she has viral pneu- And you can’t stop us from learning, from monia and she’s alone and she’s scared. You’ve innovating, from working together in unex- made a big impression on her – on all of us, for pected ways to fight you. Right now, we’ve got that matter. And I know you’re not done yet. scientists who have shut down their own work You’ve made uncertainty and even fear a to help private companies test their existing part of our everyday lives. You’ve disrupted drugs and chemical compounds to see if any weddings and birthdays, postponed gradua- of them can stop your spread. We have vol- tions, ruined plans, and dashed more than a unteers lining up to give blood, hand out free few dreams so far. You’ve forced hardworking meals at school sites, take in foster pets, and go people into unemployment lines and left small, shopping for strangers. We have front-line em- family-run businesses struggling to hold on. ployees in grocery stores, hospitals, and cam- You’ve given those of us who work with in- pus residence halls who are putting themselves fectious diseases a new understanding of the on the line to make sure their communities are individual lives behind our graphs and curves. safe and cared for. We are strongest together – You’ve surprised us: your silent carriers, your and you have reminded us of that, in ways we diverse symptoms and clinical presentations – should never have forgotten. much about you has us struggling to catch up. So go ahead: Unleash whatever havoc is You’ve pushed our doctors and nurses to within your power, but do so knowing that the brink. And you’ve taken loved ones from we are relentlessly resisting you, learning us. Sometimes, they have died in the hands about you. And we will win. Throw your of strangers, with even their funerals held in worst at us, and realize that it cannot hold a isolation. candle to the beauty of the better angels of the You’ve exposed some of our societal fault human spirit. lines – painful gaps between rich and poor, Goodbye. rural and urban, the young and the old, the technologically connected and those with – tony limited access, the healthy and those whose health is compromised, even in unseen ways. Tony Frank, D.V.M., Ph.D., is chancellor of You’ve made your mark in our history the Colorado State University System, which books – you will be remembered. includes Colorado State University, CSU But what’s more important to me is what Global, CSU Pueblo, and the emerging Spur you can’t do. You can’t keep us from adapt- campus at the National Western Center in ing. You can’t stop our creativity and humor. Denver. He became full-time chancellor in July You can’t stop us from caring for one other. 2019, after serving as 14th president of CSU, You can’t stop us from expressing our diverse the System’s flagship, for 11 years, with four opinions as human beings. You can’t keep us years in the dual role of chancellor and presi- from expressing our beliefs in something larg- dent.
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