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ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø News: College of Science and Engineering

 

Chris Brininger

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø student athlete Chris Brininger earns master’s in chemistry – heading on for Ph.D.

May 1, 2019

POCATELLO – If ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø student and track athlete Chris Brininger hadn’t decided to ride his motorcycle at the St. Anthony Sand Dunes during his junior year of high school, the Boise resident may have never discovered ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø and his passion for research.

Jon Stoner, lAC directer, left, and John Longley, radiation safety officer, are shown loading a sample of the medical isotope copper-67 into a container for shipment.

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Idaho Accelerator Center announces record production of form of medical isotope copper-67 that will be used in cancer clinical trials

April 30, 2019

POCATELLO – The ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Idaho Accelerator Center has increased its production capacity of a highly pure form of the medical isotope copper-67 that can now be more easily used in clinical trials to test its effectiveness in fighting cancer.

Kathryn Hogarth named ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø 2018-19 Student Employee of the Year

April 29, 2019

POCATELLO — Kathryn Hogarth,  an ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering employee and student, has received the ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø 2018-2019 Student Employee of the Year Award and a $2,000 scholarship from the ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Career Center and Scholarship Office.

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø civil and environmental engineering faculty and students with an industry representative at a conference.

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering receives $110k grant to offer precast concrete engineering design studio

April 24, 2019

POCATELLO – The ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has received about $110,000 to offer a precast concrete engineering design studio.

Dave Huber in the field in a soil pit used for the study.

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø, USGS dryland soil carbon study at Idaho National Laboratory yields surprising results

April 24, 2019

POCATELLO – The results of a 20-year “drylands” experiment at the Idaho National Laboratory by ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø researchers and partners has yielded surprising results, including that native sagebrush shrub communities process soil carbon much differently than non-native crested wheatgrass stands.

Twelve alumni honored with ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø 2019 Professional Achievement Awards  

April 23, 2019

POCATELLO – Twelve ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø alumni will be honored with ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø 2019 Professional Achievement Awards at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Commencement exercises on Saturday, May 4, in Holt Arena.

Dave Patton digging soil pit in desert at Reynolds Creek CZO.

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø and ARS researchers improve method to measure soil carbon at National Science Foundation Reynolds Creek Critical Zone Observatory in Southwest Idaho

April 23, 2019

POCATELLO – There is two to three times as much carbon in the Earth’s soil than in its atmosphere, which has important implications with regard to the effects of climate change, and scientists working at the National Science Foundation’s Reynolds Creek Critical Zone Observatory in southwest Idaho have developed a better method for estimating soil carbon.

Three ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø faculty members – Schoen, Seiger and Lohse – honored as 2019 Distinguished Faculty

April 17, 2019

POCATELLO – Three ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø faculty will be honored as Distinguished Faculty at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Commencement on May 4 in the Holt Arena. The recipients are Distinguished Teacher Marco Schoen, Distinguished Service Cindy Seiger and Distinguished Researcher Kathleen Lohse.

Poster featuring headshots of all Outstanding Students

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø 2019 Outstanding Student Award recipients announced; banquet April 22

April 16, 2019

POCATELLO – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø and the ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Alumni Association proudly announce the 2019 Outstanding Student Award recipients who will be honored at Spring Commencement on Saturday, May 4, in Holt Arena.

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø physics to host particle physics workshop to train secondary education teachers

April 15, 2019

POCATELLO – Secondary education teachers from throughout the western United States will gather at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø June 17-20 to learn about particle physics so they can better teach the fundamentals of science to their students.