POCATELLO — After more than a decade of service to ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø, President Arthur C. Vailas has announced his plans for retirement. The announcement was made to the Idaho State Board of Education during its monthly meeting Wednesday, Aug. 9.
POCATELLO – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø geosciences Assistant Professor Shannon Kobs Nawotniak is joining a NASA and NOAA study of underwater volcanoes that has implications for searching for life on a distant moon.
POCATELLO – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø psychology Professor Xiaomeng (Mona) Xu and clinical doctoral candidate, Ariana Tart-Zelvin, recently had their article “What Goes On in Our Brains When We Are in Love?” published online by Scientific American magazine.
Thirty undergraduate students from ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø were awarded Managing Idaho’s Landscapes for Ecosystem Services (MILES) internships to participate in wide range of social science, ecological and geological studies this summer.
POCATELLO – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø senior Erin Sandmeyer has enjoyed her opportunity to conduct field research for NASA this summer at the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve.
POCATELLO – Though many aspiring scientists don’t get the chance to perform lab research until they enter college, eight Southeast Idaho high school students had the opportunity to work in ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø’s chemistry labs this summer thanks to the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Project SEED.
POCATELLO – From classic to contemporary, Dr. Seuss to opera, ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø’s Department of Theatre and Dance will offer a great selection of productions for the 2017-18 season.
POCATELLO – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø junior Megan Brauner had the opportunity to assist graduate student Tyson Hallbert with his doctoral project on habitat restoration for native cutthroat trout in Southeast Idaho and present her research at the Idaho Conference on Undergraduate Research (ICUR).
Patricia Z. Marincic is the new associate vice president for the ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø-Meridian Health Science Center. She’ll manage campus operations, academic programs and facilitate community outreach, according to university officials.
POCATELLO – ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø researchers are seeking input from farmers, water managers and policy makers about their experiences with efforts to replenish the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer that began in 2016.
POCATELLO—ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø senior Gabrielle McIntosh, of Mackay, and freshman Cortney Nelson, of Challis, have each received a $500 scholarship from Bengal Pharmacy for the 2017-18 academic year.
POCATELLO – Ronald Garcia, assistant dean for minority affairs at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will travel to ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø to speak to Spanish for the Health Professions students and minority students on Aug. 24 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Pond Student Union North Fork Room.
POCATELLO – The ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø annual Graduate Art Exhibition will open in the John B. Davis Gallery in the ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø Fine Arts Building on Aug. 29 and will close on Sept. 7.
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 eighth annual Welcome Back Orange and Black from 4 to 7 p.m. Aug. 28 in Old Town Pocatello.
POCATELLO – The Idaho State Civic-Symphony has named Julie Sorensen as interim conductor for the 2017-2018 season. Sorensen is currently part of ºÚ°µ±¬ÁÏÍø’s music faculty and is the conductor of the symphony’s Youth Orchestra.
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