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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ News: College of Science and Engineering

 

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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.

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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.

Phrozen physics demo Set Aug. 1 at Pine Ridge Mall

July 25, 2018

POCATELLO – The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ physics program and Pine Ridge Mall invite the public to join them in the mall’s food court from noon to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1, for liquid nitrogen ice cream and phrozen physics demonstrations.

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ signs MOU on scientific cooperation with Public Health England to continue health physics research collaboration

July 13, 2018

POCATELLO – Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Public Health England to continue collaborating on the effects of radiation on humans.

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July Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Career Path Intern of the Month is Zane Stephenson

July 13, 2018

POCATELLO – The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Career Center has named Zane Stephenson as the July Career Path Intern of the Month.

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'Snakes of Idaho' photography by Professor Chuck Peterson at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Oboler Library

July 13, 2018

POCATELLO – The Eli M. Oboler Library at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is displaying an exhibit of photography by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ biology Professor Chuck Peterson titled “Snakes of Idaho” that will be on display through Sept. 28 in the library’s first floor art exhibit area.