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Photo of a Cutthroat Trout swimming underwater.

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø biological sciences, geosciences faculty contribute to new book on Cutthroat Trout

September 6, 2018

POCATELLO – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø biological sciences professor Ernest Keeley, associate professor Janet Loxterman and affiliate faculty Kitty Griswold, and geosciences professor Paul Link have contributed to the new book Cutthroat Trout: Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy.

Idaho State Vice President for Research Announces Retirement

September 4, 2018

Kids and middle-aged to older adults sought for ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø psychology study

August 30, 2018

POCATELLO – Kids and middle-aged to older adults are being sought for a decision-making study in the ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Department of Psychology.

 Jesse Pruitt scanning a humpback whale jaw bone

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Museum of  Natural History researchers receive grant to digitally collect 50 of the world’s largest animals

August 28, 2018

POCATELLO – Whales, elephants and bears, oh my! – A team of scientific Noahs at the Idaho Museum of Natural History at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø has been tasked to digitally collect the skeletons of 50 of the largest animals in the world.

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Institute of Rural Health seeks comment on statewide traumatic brain injury plan

August 20, 2018

MERIDIAN—ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø’s Institute of Rural Health has received a $450,000 grant from the federal Administration for Community Living to continue the development of a statewide action plan to address the needs of citizens living with a traumatic brain injury or TBI.

Nicolas Patton

How thick is the skin of the earth? ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø researchers discover a simple empirical model to predict soil thickness

August 17, 2018

POCATELLO –A team of ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø researchers working at the Reynolds Creek Critical Zone Observatory in partnership with the USDA Agricultural Research Service has discovered a simple method for predicting the spatial distribution of soil thickness across a landscape.

Hercules Recover craft

Public can view live exploration of underwater volcanoes from study that involves ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø researchers looking at possibility of life on Saturn moon 

August 16, 2018

POCATELLO – The public and educators can join ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø geosciences Associate Professor Shannon Kobs Nawotniak as researchers from NASA, NOAA and other partners explore the possibility of life on one of Saturn’s moons by sending unmanned submersibles down to study volcanoes on the Pacific Ocean’s sea floor.

Bridge Girder

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø engineering teams with Idaho Transportation Department on testing low-cost, high-quality concrete used for bridge construction

August 10, 2018

POCATELLO­ – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø civil engineers and the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) are teaming up on the second phase of testing of a new type of concrete material that will be installed between girders on a Highway 36 bridge over the Bear River near Preston.

INBRE researchers

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø summer undergraduate researchers head to Idaho INBRE Research Conference in Moscow July 30-Aug. 1

July 30, 2018

POCATELLO  – Fourteen undergraduate students who paired with mentors to complete 10 weeks of intensive work as full-time biomedical researchers at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø as part of the Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Summer Fellowship program are heading to Moscow to present their findings.

ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø’s Emerald Dawn Ryan among Idaho National Laboratory’s second cohort of 13 graduate fellows 

July 27, 2018

POCATELLO – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø nuclear science and engineering doctoral student Emerald Dawn Ryan is among 13 students in the Idaho National Laboratory’s second cohort of graduate fellows.