What popular university is located in Fort Collins, Colorado?
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Fort Collins, Colorado Fort Collins is the Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, Fort Collins is located 65 miles (105 km) north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2016 estimated population of 161,000, it is the fourth most populous city in Colorado after Denver, Colorado Springs, and Aurora. Fort Collins is a midsize college city, home to Colorado State University.
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Colorado State University Colorado State University (also referred to as Colorado State, State, and CSU) is a public research university located in Fort Collins, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The university is the state's land grant university, and the flagship university of the Colorado State University System.
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Mount Allison University Mount Allison University (also Mount A or MtA) is a primarily undergraduate Canadian liberal arts and science university located in Sackville, New Brunswick. It has been ranked the top undergraduate university in the country for 18 of the last 25 years by "Maclean's" magazine. With a 17:1 student-to-faculty ratio, the average first-year class size is 65 and upper-year classes average 14 students.
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Center for Integrated Plasma Studies The Center for Integrated Plasma Studies (CIPS) is a research center at the University of Colorado Boulder. This center was founded in 1993, in order to consolidate and facilitate plasma physics research on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. Today CIPS is involved with research in plasma physics, space plasmas, dusty plasmas, plasma diagnostics, and nuclear fusion. CIPS is located in the Duane Physics building on the University of Colorado Boulder Campus, and has about 20 research faculty and about 20 graduate and undergraduate students and support staff. CIPS is primarily supported by funding from NASA, United States Department of Energy, and National Science Foundation.
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Poudre School District The Poudre School District (R-1) is a K–12 public school district in Larimer County in northern Colorado. The district operates and manages the public schools in the city of Fort Collins, as well as in the towns of Wellington, Timnath and Windsor, and unincorporated communities of Larimer County including Laporte and Livermore. The district is one of the fastest growing in Northern Colorado, adding 500 students — about the size of an elementary school — each year.
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2017 Colorado Buffaloes football team The 2017 Colorado Buffaloes football team represents the University of Colorado Boulder during the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Buffaloes are led by fifth-year head coach Mike MacIntyre, and play their home games at Folsom Field in Boulder. They compete as members of the South Division of the Pac-12 Conference.
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Utah State University Utah State University (also referred to as USU or Utah State) is a public doctorate-granting university in Logan, Utah, United States. The coeducational, space-grant, land-grant, research university is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. With nearly 18,000 students living on or near campus, USU is Utah's largest public residential campus. As of Fall 2016, there were 28,118 students enrolled including 24,838 undergraduate students and 3,280 graduate students. The university has the highest percentage of out-of-state students of any public university in Utah totaling 23% of the student body.
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Fort Carson Fort Carson is a United States Army installation located in El Paso County, Colorado, near the city of Colorado Springs.
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Colorado School of Mines Colorado School of Mines, also referred to as "Mines", is a public teaching and research university in Golden, Colorado, devoted to engineering and applied science, with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's natural resources. Mines placed 82nd in the 2017 "U.S. News & World Report" "Best National Universities" ranking. In the 2016–17 QS World University Rankings by subject, the university was ranked as the top institution in the world for mineral and mining engineering.
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Lindenwood University Lindenwood University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Saint Charles, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1827 by George Champlin Sibley and Mary Easton Sibley as The Lindenwood School for Girls, it is the second-oldest higher-education institution west of the Mississippi River and since 1990, the fastest-growing university in the Midwest.
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Texas State University Texas State University is a public research university located in San Marcos, Texas, United States. Established in 1899 as the Southwest Texas State Normal School, it opened in 1903 to 303 students. Since that time it has grown into the largest institution in the Texas State University System and the fifth-largest university in the state of Texas with an enrollment of over 38,000 students for the 2015 fall semester. It has 10 colleges and about 50 schools and departments, including nationally recognized programs in Geography, Criminal Justice and Music.
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University of Missouri–Kansas City The University of Missouri–Kansas City (UMKC) is a public research university serving the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. Located in Kansas City, Missouri, UMKC is one of four system campuses that collectively constitute the University of Missouri. UMKC is spread across multiple locales; the main Volker Campus, home to the majority of university operations, is located in Kansas City's Rockhill neighborhood, east of the Country Club Plaza, and adjacent to both the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the world-renowned Linda Hall Library. In 2017 the University, in collaboration with Truman Medical Center, Children's Mercy Hospital, the Missouri Health Department, the Jackson County Medical Examiners Office, and the Missouri Department of Mental Health Behavioral Medicine, formed the UMKC Health Sciences District on Hospital Hill. This district is a first-in-the-nation partnership between local and state governments, the university, and these nationally recognized healthcare faculties, designed to promote collaboration in research, innovation, education, grant funding, and community outreach, for the advancement of health and wellness in the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. Also in 2017, the university announced plans to expand its metropolitan identity with the construction of a downtown Campus for the Arts, located near the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The university's enrollment as of 2015 exceeded more than 16,600 students.
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Fort Collins Colorado Temple The Fort Collins Colorado Temple is a temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Fort Collins, Colorado. Completed in 2016, the intent to construct the temple was announced by church president Thomas S. Monson on April 2, 2011, during the church's semi-annual general conference.
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Lory State Park Lory State Park, is a state park located west of the city of Fort Collins, Colorado and is north of Horsetooth Reservoir. Some of the park's more popular attractions include mountain biking, hiking and horseback riding. The park also contains its own bike park, which features dirt jumping, a pump track, and a skills area.
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Semester at Sea Semester at Sea (SAS) is a study–abroad program founded in 1963, now managed by the Institute for Shipboard Education in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Colorado State University is the current academic sponsor for the program while the program itself is run on a cruise ship. Throughout the history of the program, nearly 55,000 undergraduate students from more than 1,500 colleges and universities have participated in Semester at Sea.
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West Texas A&amp;M Buffaloes The West Texas A&M Buffaloes, also known as the WTAMU Buffaloes or WT Buffaloes, and formerly West Texas State Buffaloes and WTSU Buffaloes, are the athletic teams that represent West Texas A&M University, located in Canyon, Texas, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Buffaloes, colloquially known as the Buffs (men) and Lady Buffs (women), compete as members of the Lone Star Conference for all 14 varsity sports.
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Kittredge West Hall Kittredge West Hall is a dorm in the Kittredge Complex of the University of Colorado Boulder. It is located South of the campus. Kittredge West is 71,797 sqft and houses over 250 CU students.
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2004 Colorado Buffaloes football team The 2004 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado at Boulder in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team played their home games in Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado. They participated in the Big 12 Conference in the North Division. They were coached by head coach Gary Barnett.
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Greeley-Evans Transit Greeley-Evans Transit, known by the moniker of GET, is the public transportation agency that serves the cities of Greeley, Evans and Garden City. Six local routes are provided from Monday to Saturday, with dial-a-ride available on Sundays and after fixed route service ends. The Boomerang, the free campus shuttle for the University of Northern Colorado is also operated by the agency. Over the past few years the bus system has made significant improvements which have included increased frequencies, increased hours and new routes. In addition to this, new technology has been added to make it easier to ride the bus system such as RouteShout and GETrax which can be found on the website.
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1911 Colorado Silver and Gold football team The 1911 Colorado Silver and Gold football team was an American football team that represented the University of Colorado during the 1911 college football season. The team posted it third consecutive undefeated season and Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference championship under head coach Fred Folsom with a 4–0 mark in the RMFAC and 6–0 overall.
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Denver Pioneers men's lacrosse The Denver Pioneers men's lacrosse team represents the University of Denver (DU) in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college lacrosse. The DU men's lacrosse program was first introduced in 1966 as a club sport. The program alternated between varsity and club status until entering Division I in 1999.
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James B. Arthur James B. Arthur was a prominent figure in the early founding of Fort Collins, Colorado and Northern Colorado.