Recent Articles from Rob Reuteman
Confusion muddles the health-care market
Ask a health-care executive for his current outlook on the sector and you’ll likely hear how its extraordinary growth prospects are threatened by confusion about reform. The controversial Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 was passed to address soaring health-care costs that have crippled employers for decades. But its implementation is challenged by […]
Research rock stars: Storage star
Amy Prieto is in hot pursuit of the automotive industry’s holy grail – a battery powerful and cheap enough to make all-electric cars the go-to clean energy vehicle. The young CSU chemistry professor parlayed her research in nanotechnology into Prieto Battery, a 2009 startup that hopes to produce batteries far more powerful and longer lasting, […]
Planet-Profit Report: Nukes on the defensive
Though he retired from life as a corporate executive in 2009, he continues to work as a consultant. His firm, Nuclear Fuel Cycle Consulting LLC, provides services to the nuclear fuel industry, based on 40 years experience in the mining and energy industries, with the last 26 in the nuclear industry. Consulting work has taken […]
State of the state: science
In October, the U.S. Department of the Interior selected CSU as home to one of eight new Climate Science Centers designed to put research in the hands of public and private resource managers so they can better mitigate the negative effects of climate change. In early November, CSU was named by the National Science Foundation […]
The great expansion
Trust for America's Health says Colorado has some of the lowest rates in the country of overweight residents, physical inactivity, hypertension and childhood obesity. Overall, Colorado ranks as the leanest state in its study. But a nagging negative trend has developed, one that may strip us of our...