FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Colorado State head football coach Jay Norvell is building more than a football program. Off the field, he and his wife, Kim, are tackling a fight that hits much closer to home: cystic fibrosis.

The Norvells recently donated $50,000 to support cutting-edge lung research at Colorado State University, advancing development of electrical impedance tomography (EIT), a radiation-free lung imaging technology.

“We’ve always been involved in fundraising everywhere we’ve been for cystic fibrosis,” Jay Norvell said.

The research is led by Dr. Jennifer Mueller, who is developing EIT. This real-time lung imaging method utilizes low-frequency electrical currents applied through electrodes, thereby avoiding exposure to ionizing radiation.

For Kim Norvell, the cause is deeply pe

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