Department of Atmospheric Science | Colorado State University

The Vice President for Research Graduate Fellows Program at Colorado State University supports excellence in graduate student research and promotes interdisciplinary work by engaging the best and brightest students from graduate programs across the institution. These VPR Graduate Fellows receive research funding, professional development, networking opportunities and travel f...

We asked our graduating students about their plans following graduation and the most important thing they learned at CSU. Here are their responses.

Chelsea Bekemeier

Staying at ATS for PhD. Ski on weekdays, work on weekends;) OR I am capable of being a scientist (as a first gen science/grad/PhD student).

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Doctoral student Jennifer McGinnis has been a lifelong learner in the field of aerosols in her time at Colorado State University, even working through a federal shutdown to learn from the experience. 

McGinnis went to Maryland in the fall of 2025 as one of three NASA 

Each spring, our department awards the Herbert Riehl Memorial Award and the Maria Silva Dias Award to — typically two — students nominated by their advisers for outstanding research. This year, three students received awards because the nominees were so strong.

Lena Low and Delián Colón-Burgos both won the won the Riehl Award for an outstanding technical manuscript ...

Postdoctoral Scholar Nick Falk and graduate student Christine Neumaier spent six weeks on the Atlantic Ocean working with colleagues from University of Alabama in Huntsville looking for thunderstorms to measure cold pools, cool air that spreads out at earth’s surface underneath storms. Their research addresses how storms over the ocean form and develop. Surprisingly, they fou...