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By Anna Gerber, Director of Communications, Colorado State University College of Agricultural Sciences Dave Holm was destined to work with potatoes. He was raised on a potato farm in southeast Idaho, where his dad and grandfather instilled in him a love of one of the world’s most important crops. The first in his family to go to college, he studied plant science during his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Idaho as he narrowed his focus to potato breeding and physiology. “My career started when I was born,” Holm says. “My dad was a big supporter of education. I a...

Type keyword(s) to search "I Lived With the Astronauts": PM at the Beginning of U.S. Spaceflight In December 1959, Popular Mechanics spent a week with the Mercury 7 astronauts and witnessed the beginning of U.S. human spaceflight. By Joseph N. Bell CorbisGetty Images On this day 60 years ago, Alan Shepard packed into the cramped Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket and blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The NASA astronaut climbed to an altitude of 116 miles above Earth's surface and became the first American to reach space. His flight lasted just 15 minutes, but it ...

A set of bills before the Connecticut General Assembly are meant to open more opportunities for women and girls. The bills have the support of the state’s

Snopes, Military.com and other MSM outlets falsely smeared Sen. Cotton and maligned his exceptional military record. The authors of these articles, only one of which served in the military (USMC) and certainly none Rangers themselves, ignorantly, maliciously, and without understanding Ranger ethos and history falsely defamed a soldier with an exceptional military record.    Sen. Cotton, after graduating from Harvard Law School and working as an attorney, decided to join the military in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks. He could have taken a direct commission as a captain in the U...

Why nobody can quite agree on what makes you an Army Ranger Alex Hollings , Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Sen. Tom Cotton. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images A media call-out of Republican Sen. Tom Cotton for calling himself an Army Ranger has ignited another debate over what it takes to be a "Ranger." The debate centers on the difference between "Ranger qualified" and joining the 75th Ranger Regiment, an...