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Professor Jamie Neilson’s Project Selected for the MAGNITO Program

Department of Chemistry’s Professor Jamie Neilson’s project that is supported and led by the University of Houston has been recognized as a selectee for the Magnetic Acceleration Generating New Innovations and Tactical Outcomes (MAGNITO) program by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

Meet College of Natural Sciences Dean Randall McEntaffer

Meet the new dean of the College of Natural Sciences, Randall McEntaffer.

CSU chemists help find a new way around a long-established limitation to electron transfer selectivity

For decades, the field has been constrained by a fundamental principle of electron transfer.

Transforming carbon dioxide into a new kind of recyclable plastic

Researchers at Colorado State University have developed a process to transform naturally occurring and highly stable carbon dioxide into recyclable, high-performance materials that could replace today’s plastics in many situations.