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members of team RAMA in front of their beam

Two Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ civil engineering student teams record Top-10 finishes at national PCI Big Beam Competition

September 17, 2019

POCATELLO – Two teams of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ civil and environmental engineering students finished in the top 10 at the 2019 Precast/Prestressed Institute (PCI) Big Beam Competition.

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Geosciences Professor Glenn Thackray honored as Geological Society of America Fellow

September 6, 2019

POCATELLO – Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Glenn Thackray, geosciences professor, has been honored as a Geological Society of America Fellow for his insightful contributions to the understanding of glaciation and climate across the Pacific region. 

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar elected VP/President Elect for American Nuclear Society

September 4, 2019

POCATELLO – Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar has been elected vice president and president-elect for the American Nuclear Society.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Biological Sciences hosting ORAU series on biosystems signaling

August 21, 2019

POCATELLO – The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Biological Sciences is presenting a four-part seminar series under the theme "From Genome to Exposome: State of Biosystems Signaling in Response to Emerging Environmental Stressors” that begins Aug. 22.

A discarded doll found in Portneuf River

Bengal nation well represented at annual Portneuf River Cleanup

August 19, 2019

POCATELLO – People throw a lot of strange stuff in the Portneuf River – stolen bikes, carpets, a bowling ball, an umbrella, yard waste, cell phones, weird dolls, metal grates, trash of all kinds and hundreds, if not thousands, of plastic bags – and a lot, lot more.

2020 Undergraduate Research STEM travel funds are now available

August 16, 2019

Newly hatched swan cygnets on the nest.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers study Trumpeter Swans on SE Idaho wildlife refuges

August 15, 2019

POCATELLO – Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ biological sciences master’s student Paige Miller has continued Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ research of Southeast Idaho Trumpeter Swans this summer by using remote cameras and placing tiny thermometers inside of empty egg shells.

Mali researchers and guards posing in front of vehicles during 2003 trip.

Saharan paleontology study reveals extremes of science research for Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Leif Tapanila

August 14, 2019

POCATELLO – Leif Tapanila, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ geosciences professor and director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History, is a co-author on a scientific paper published this summer in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History that describes the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali, Africa, and the strange creatures that existed there 50 to 100 million years ago.

Phrozen physics demo, liquid nitrogen ice cream at Pine Ridge Mall Aug. 17

August 14, 2019

POCATELLO – The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ physics program and the Pine Ridge Mall invite the public to join them at the mall’s food court on Saturday, Aug. 17, for liquid nitrogen ice cream and “phrozen physics” demonstrations from 11 a.m. to noon.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers active on the project.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ geoscience grad students help discover new hydrothermal field off Oregon Coast

July 1, 2019

POCATELLO – Two graduate students at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ earlier this month helped discover a new ocean vent field on the deep-ocean floor off the coast of Oregon, a finding that has implications for searching for life on other planets.