As a freshman, Sociology student Naiya Budler came to Western Colorado University to compete with the cross-country team. For as long as she could remember, Budler used running as an escape. Yet, in the second semester of her freshman year at Western, Budler was diagnosed with a string of chronic illnesses that prevented her from continuing her running career.
Since June, the number of COVID-19 infections started rising again, as the most transmissible omicron variant started picking up delta variant mutations leading to new subvariants BA.4/BA.5 and Deltacron variants. Out of all the five known variants of concern, which have been shown to evade therapeutic antibodies and vaccines developed against unmutated, original SARS-CoV-2 virus, delta is the most virulent leading to severe symptoms and increased mortality among infected people. A new peer-reviewed study provides answers to why delta is the most lethal variant of SARS-CoV-2.
Western Colorado University’s Nature Writing concentration in the Graduate Program in Creative Writing (GPCW) is set to release its first book-length publication through Western Press books. The announcement of the first title is to come this summer.
They ask us with their pleading looks and waggling tails: “Can we go for a walk? Can we go out and play?” It’s hard to say no to our four-legged friends when they need to stretch their legs, socialize and get a snout-full of smells. Fortunately, Denver is a city that loves its dogs, and there are 13 off-leash dog parks where they can safely romp and roam.
For the past few decades, the sheriff’s office has relied on different law enforcement agencies to train its recruits. But that all changed on June 9, when Sheriff Tyler Brown won final approval from P.O.S.T., Colorado's Peace Officers Standards and Training, to operate his own academy.