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$20,000 made available for non-STEM Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students for research travel

September 7, 2018

POCATELLO – An additional $20,000 for research travel funds are now available to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students in non-science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

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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.

Idaho State Vice President for Research Announces Retirement

September 4, 2018

Kids and middle-aged to older adults sought for Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ psychology study

August 30, 2018

POCATELLO – Kids and middle-aged to older adults are being sought for a decision-making study in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Department of Psychology.

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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Museum of  Natural History researchers receive grant to digitally collect 50 of the world’s largest animals

August 28, 2018

POCATELLO – Whales, elephants and bears, oh my! – A team of scientific Noahs at the Idaho Museum of Natural History at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has been tasked to digitally collect the skeletons of 50 of the largest animals in the world.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Institute of Rural Health seeks comment on statewide traumatic brain injury plan

August 20, 2018

MERIDIAN—Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Institute of Rural Health has received a $450,000 grant from the federal Administration for Community Living to continue the development of a statewide action plan to address the needs of citizens living with a traumatic brain injury or TBI.

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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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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.