MERIDIAN – The Idaho State Board of Education unanimously approved a 40-year lease for the proposed Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine (ICOM) located at the ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø-Meridian Health Science Center at a regularly scheduled board meeting Aug. 11 in Pocatello.
In this Issue
Idaho State Board of Education approves Woodworth-Ney as ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø’s first executive vice president
POCATELLO – The Idaho State Board of Education approved the creation of an executive vice president and provost position at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø.
News Bites
POCATELLO – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø political science Professors Donna Lybecker and Mark McBeth want to know how anglers and the public feel about fish and fishing in the Southeast Idaho region of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
POCATELLO – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø alumna and Blackfoot High School teacher Holly Kartchner was recently named “Teacher of the Year” by the American Lawyers Alliance.
POCATELLO – The new, $500,000 video board donated by the Idaho Potato Commission is almost online at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø’s Holt Arena, and, due to the efforts of an enterprising student, American Falls High School will receive the dome’s old scoreboard.
NASA funds science-based internships for high school girls at Idaho Museum of Natural History
POCATELLO – The NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium (NASA ISGC) has generously funded a pilot intern program for young women in the Idaho Virtualization Lab (IVL), a research group within the Idaho Museum of Natural History at ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø.
ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Homecoming Parade set Sep. 24; Entry deadline is Sept. 9 to avoid late fee
Registration is open for the ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø 2016 Homecoming Parade that will be held on Saturday, Sept. 24. Parade entries are due by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9. After this date a $50 late fee applies. No entries will be accepted after noon on Friday, Sept. 16.
Events
ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Communiversity’s seventh annual “Welcome Back Orange and Black” set 4-7 p.m. Aug. 22
POCATELLO - ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø students will again have a chance to win great prizes and enjoy free food, music and a variety of booths and entertainment during the seventh annual Welcome Back Orange and Black from 4 to 7 p.m. Aug. 22 in Old Town Pocatello.
POCATELLO - ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø will host a range of entertainment during the 2016-17 “A Season of Note” series with all performances at the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m.
ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø alumnus Steve Eaton to perform concert Aug. 13
POCATELLO – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø alumnus Steve Eaton will perform in concert at 6 p.m. Aug. 13 on the West Patio of the ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center.