Newsletters
June 2011
Theatre Program Receives National Accreditation
The theatre program in the School of Performing Arts has received national accreditation through the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST). Founded in 1965, NAST is an organization of schools, conservatories, colleges and universities, with approximately 168 accredited institutional members. NAST establishes national standards for undergraduate and graduate degrees and other credentials in theatre. (read more...)
Masters of Public Administration Establishes an Honor Society
The Masters of Public Administration (MPA) program at Idaho State University is proud to announce the establishment of a Pi Alpha Alpha MPA Honors Society. The chapter was formally chartered by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) on March 3, 2011. (read more...)
Angela Petit and Sharon Sieber Awarded Grant to Help Native American Graduate Students
Angela Petit and Sharon Sieber are Senior Personnel for an Alliance for Graduate Education with the Professoriate (AGEP) grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) disciplines. The purpose of the AGEP planning grant ($140,897) is developing infrastructure for recruiting and retaining Native American doctoral students in the STEM disciplines. This initiative, entitled Strengthening Native American Access to the Professoriate (SNAAP) seeks to “build capacity” for Native American Ph.D.s in the STEM fields. (read more...)
Four Faculty Members from the College of Arts & Letters Named as Master Teachers
Four of the five Master Teachers for the 2010-11 academic year are from the College of Arts & Letters. They are Donna Lybecker, political science; Shannon Lynch, psychology; Roger Schmidt, English and philosophy; and James Skidmore, English and philosophy. (read more...)
Two Faculty Members from the College of Arts & Letters Receive Outstanding Research Awards
Two of the Outstanding Research award recipients for the 2010-11 academic year are from the College of Arts & Letters. Outstanding Research award winners are Mark McBeth, political science, and Maria Wong, psychology (read more...)
Two Faculty Members from the College of Arts & Letters Receive Outstanding Service Awards
Two of the Outstanding Service award winners for the 2010-11 academic year are from the College of Arts & Letters. Outstanding Service award winners are James DiSanza, communication and rhetorical studies, and Bethany Schultz Hurst, English and philosophy. (read more...)
Two Psychology Students Earn Research Grants and Scholarships to Study the Spinal Cord
Misty Strain and Hillary Swann, two ISU students in the Psychology Department, recently have been awarded research grants and scholarships to conduct spinal cord research. Both students are members of Dr. Michele Brumley’s Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience Lab at ISU. (read more...)
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