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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News: College of Science and Engineering

 

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President of American Society for Civil Engineers Kristina Swallow to participate in presentations at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ on Sept. 18

September 13, 2018

POCATELLO – Kristina Swallow, national president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, will be featured in two presentations at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ on Sept. 18.

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ graduate student James Norris to present overview of neutrino experiment at Weber State University on Oct. 17

September 6, 2018

POCATELLO – Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ graduate student James Norris has been invited to present “An Overview of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)” at Weber State University on Oct. 17 from 1:30 to 2:20 p.m.

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ biological sciences, geosciences faculty contribute to new book on Cutthroat Trout

September 6, 2018

POCATELLO – Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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.

Shannon Kobs Nawotniak

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Honors Program features new director Shannon Nawotniak

August 21, 2018

POCATELLO – Making the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Honors Program, the premier honors program in Idaho, more visible and strengthening collaborations across campus are among the goals new director Shannon Kobs Nawotniak has for the program.

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How thick is the skin of the earth? Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers discover a simple empirical model to predict soil thickness

August 17, 2018

POCATELLO –A team of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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.

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Public can view live exploration of underwater volcanoes from study that involves Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers looking at possibility of life on Saturn moon 

August 16, 2018

POCATELLO – The public and educators can join Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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.

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Biological sciences major Cody Feldman is Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Career Path Intern of the Month for August

August 15, 2018

POCATELLO – Cody Feldman has been named the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Career Path Intern for the month of August by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Career Center.

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ engineering teams with Idaho Transportation Department on testing low-cost, high-quality concrete used for bridge construction

August 10, 2018

POCATELLO­ – Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ as part of the Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Summer Fellowship program are heading to Moscow to present their findings.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Emerald Dawn Ryan among Idaho National Laboratory’s second cohort of 13 graduate fellows 

July 27, 2018

POCATELLO – Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ nuclear science and engineering doctoral student Emerald Dawn Ryan is among 13 students in the Idaho National Laboratory’s second cohort of graduate fellows.