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.
These Colorado political organizations received the most money from campaign donations from April 1 to June 30, according to the Federal Election Commission.
If Joel Berger had known the roundtrip trek to Nepal’s Mount Everest base camp would involve 134 miles of hiking, he said he might not have agreed to attend the “World’s Highest Climate Summit.”