Current Headlines
ISU-Boise Awards More than 100 Degrees at May 3 Graduation;
Mayor Tammy de Weerd Tells Students to "Dream Big"
May 5, 2008
Boise—Barbara Nelson walked across the stage of Boise’s Centennial High School Performing Arts Center on May 3 and flashed the top of her graduation cap at an audience of 700 people.
It read, “I did it!” in bright orange letters outlined in glitter.
Not only did Nelson receive her Master of Counseling degree, she was the winner of Idaho State University-Boise’s Student Excellence Award.
Nelson was one of nine ISU-Boise 2008 graduates nominated for the award by faculty, who select students for academic achievement, dedication to their profession and community involvement. Nelson holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and works as a drug and alcohol counselor in the Ada County Drug Court Program. (story continued and photos...)
ISU-Boise to Confer More than 100 Degrees at May 3 Graduation; Meridian Mayor to Speak
April 22 2008
Boise- Idaho State University-Boise will award more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degrees at commencement May 3, 2 p.m., in the Centennial Performing Arts Center, 12400 McMillan, in Boise.
Meridian Mayor Tammy de Weerd is guest speaker. ISU President Arthur C. Vailas, Ph.D., will confer the degrees. (read more...)
ISU-Boise Faculty Earn 2008 Research Awards
April 16, 2008
Boise-Idaho State University has named ISU-Boise professors Nancy Glenn and Laura Tivis two of its five outstanding researchers for 2008. One of the five finalists will receive the 2008 Distinguished Researcher Award at commencement May 10 in Pocatello. (read more...)
ISU Institute of Rural Health Hosts Youth Suicide Prevention Series
April 14, 2008
Boise -The Idaho State University Institute of Rural Health will host a Youth Suicide Prevention Virtual Grand Rounds Series in May that will be broadcast to locations throughout Idaho. Each session will begin at 1 p.m. MST or noon PST.
The four-week series will be video-cast throughout Idaho. Speakers will cover topics on mental health and veterans, schools and suicide prevention, social marketing and juvenile justice.
The sessions will be broadcast to Boise, Twin Falls, Pocatello, Idaho Falls, Coeur d’Alene and Lewiston. For details on broadcast locations see (story continued...)
ISU Department of Counseling Program Takes National Honor
and Expands Ph.D. Program to Treasure Valley
April 14, 2008
Boise - For the third time since 1985, the Idaho State University Department of Counseling has won the Robert Frank Outstanding Counselor Education Program Award.
The counseling program was selected from university programs nominated from throughout the country. ISU was selected by the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, a dividsion of the American Counseling Association. Counseling faculty and staff were formally honored March 29 at the A.C.A. annual convention in Honolulu, Hawaii. (read more...)
ISU-Boise Researcher Tivis Receives Nearly $320,000 Grant
to Continue Research on Alcohol
April 14, 2008
Boise – Idaho State University-Boise researcher Laura Tivis, Ph.D., has received a $319,686 grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue her research project studying how alcohol affects cognition in postmenopausal women.
This is the fourth year of her study titled “Alcohol, ERT and Cognition in Menopausal Women,” which has received about $1.4 million in funding over the past four years through the NIH’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Tivis will continue to collect data this year before fully analyzing results next year. (read more...)
ISU-Boise to Host Fast-Track Nursing Open House May 6
Complete the Program in 16 Months
March 31, 2008
Boise- Find out how to become a nurse in 16 months at an open house sponsored by Idaho State University-Boise's fast-track nursing program. The event is Tuesday, May 6, 5:30-7 p.m., at 12301 W. Explorer Drive, Suite 100, south of the intersection of Chinden and Cloverdale.
ISU-Boise's fast-track nursing program lasts four semesters, and students graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing.
To enroll, you must hold a bachelor's degree in any discipline and fulfill program prerequisites. For more information, call 208-373-1785 or visit www.isu.edu/nursing/bft.
ISU Health Professions, ISU-Boise Research Days
to be Held in Pocatello and ISU-Boise on April 4
March 24, 2008
Boise- Is there a connection between the amount of money spent on anti-smoking efforts and the prevalence of tobacco use in Idaho?
Are dental hygienists receiving sufficient education about diabetes and patient care?
Both questions are among dozens that faculty and students will explore during the 19th annual ISU Kasiska College of Health Professions Research Day in Pocatello, which will be held in conjunction with Idaho State University-Boise's first annual Research Day from 7:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. April 4. (read more...)
ISU-Boise Professor Awarded Grant
for Hispanic Teen Anti-tobacco Campaign
March 5, 2008
Boise- Idaho State University-Boise professor Galen Louis has received a $240,000 grant from the American Legacy Foundation to help create an anti-smoking campaign targeting Hispanic teenagers in Canyon County. But there’s a twist.
Louis’ research associates won’t be public health experts. They’ll be teenagers from the Nampa-Caldwell area, who’ll decide the most effective way to get their message out. (read more...)
ISU's Family Medicine Residency
Honored for Health Care Excellence
March 3, 2008
Boise—Idaho State University’s Pocatello Family Medicine Residency has received a 2007 Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality from Qualis Health, a nonprofit, health care quality improvement organization headquartered in Seattle. (read more...)
ISU-Institute of Rural Health and Idaho Bioterrorism Awareness and Preparedness Program to Offer Training Sessions in Treasure Valley
Feb. 28, 2008
Boise- Preparing a health-care facility for a disaster or a bioterrorism event will be discussed in training sessions throughout Idaho on March 12, 19 and 26.
Idaho State University's Institute of Rural Health will offer the Treasure Valley sessions at ISU-Boise, 12301 W. Explorer Dr., Room 143, from 1-3 p.m.
The training will provide medical and public-health professionals with detailed information on how to recognize and manage biological/chemical and natural disasters. (read more...)
ISU-Boise's Jim Schmidt Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
from Boise School District
Feb. 20, 2008
Boise- Jim Schmidt, Ph.D., who teaches in the graduate counseling program at ISU-Boise, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his service to the Boise School District. He was honored at a breakfast Feb. 15, celebrating National Career and Technical Education Week.
Schmidt was supervisor of the Boise School District's professional-technical educational program for more than a decade. Before that, he supervised the district's guidance counselors, nurses and health workers. Schmidt received his doctorate in counselor education from Idaho State University in 1986.
ISU-Boise Family Dentistry Provides Free Dental Care
on "Give Kids a Smile Day"
Feb. 6, 2008
Boise- Four-year-old Hannah Gardner wore bright green sunglasses and held a fairy-princess wand as dentist Michael Walker, D.D.S. examined her teeth.
And who says a trip to the dentist can’t be fun? (read more...)
Veteran Football Coach Carl Ferrill joins ISU-Boise Facility
Jan. 24, 2008
Boise - Former university head football coach and athletic director Carl Ferrill, Ed.D., has joined the Department of Sports Science and Physical Education at Idaho State University-Boise.
This semester, he'll teach a graduate course on the principals, problems and ethics of coaching sports. (read more...)
ISU-Boise to offer Ph.D. program in Counselor Education and Counseling in the Treasure Valley
Jan. 2, 2008
Boise – Idaho State University-Boise will offer the doctorate in Counselor Education and Counseling in fall 2008.
The degree, which is currently offered at ISU's main campus in Pocatello, prepares graduates to teach counseling at the university level and supervise counselor education programs in various settings, according to Stephen Feit, Ed.D., the chair of ISU's Department of Counseling. (read more...)
Sixth Idaho WWAMI Mini Medical School to Begin Jan. 10
Idaho State University Offers Credit
Dec. 12, 2007
Boise – Learn about diabetes, thyroid disease and strategies for preventing and treating obesity at the sixth annual Idaho WWAMI Mini Medical School, which begins Jan. 10 in Boise.
The five-week series, presented by physicians from the University of Washington School of Medicine, researchers and health-care professionals, is designed to teach the general public about the functions of the endocrine system.
Presentations are from 7 to 9 p.m., Jan. 10, 17, 24, 31 and Feb. 7, at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center’s Anderson Center, 100 E. Idaho, in Boise. Sessions will be videocast to Idaho State University-Boise, 12301 W. Explorer Drive, and to sites in McCall, Twin Falls, Pocatello, and Idaho Falls. (read more...)
ISU Institute of Rural Health Works to Deflate
the Stigma Attached to Child Mental-Health Disorders
Dec 10, 2007
Boise – Ann Kirkwood, senior research associate at Idaho State University-Boise’s Institute of Rural Health, says she is concerned about the stigma that is sometimes placed on children with mental-health disorders. Because of this stigma, says Kirkwood, children in Idaho and throughout the country often fall through the cracks when it comes to the diagnosis and treatment of mental-health issues.
For the past ten years, Kirkwood has been the project director of Better Todays. Better Tomorrows. (B2T2), a program funded by the State of Idaho that is designed to educate school employees and the larger community on the signs and symptoms of trauma and mental illnesses in youth, and to identify barriers to treatment. (read more...)
ISU Graduate Students Take Top Honors in Research Poster Contest
Dec 7, 2007
Boise - Idaho State University geosciences graduate students, Jacob Tibbitts and Jessica Mitchell, took top honors in a research poster contest at the 2007 Environmental Sensing Symposium, co-sponsored by Boise State University and the Inland Northwest Research Alliance.
First place and a cash award of $1,000 went to Tibbitts, who created a poster focusing on remote sensing of bare ground to monitor rangeland health. Second-place winner Mitchell won $500 for designing a poster focusing on remote sensing for invasive weeds. (read more...)
ISU-Boise's Galen Louis Awarded Contract
to Improve HIV Services in Idaho
Dec 7, 2007
Boise - The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has awarded Idaho State University professor Galen Louis a $109,164 contract to help improve HIV services in Idaho's seven health districts.
"Our goal is to provide a model for creating locally based community plans for HIV prevention and care -- a core function of public health," says Louis, PhD, director of ISU-Boise's Master of Public Health Program. (read more...)
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