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Volunteers Needed for the 2019 Haunted Science Lab

September 25, 2019

POCATELLO – Volunteers are needed for the eighth annual Haunted Science Laboratory that is hosted in late October by the Idaho State University Department of Physics and the Kiwanis Club with support from the community.

Mustafa Mashal and Bruce Savage

ISU awarded more than $1 million to build Disaster Response Complex in Pocatello

September 23, 2019

ISU civil and environmental engineering faculty work in collaboration with INL, CAES

members of team RAMA in front of their beam

Two ISU civil engineering student teams record Top-10 finishes at national PCI Big Beam Competition

September 17, 2019

POCATELLO – Two teams of Idaho State University civil and environmental engineering students finished in the top 10 at the 2019 Precast/Prestressed Institute (PCI) Big Beam Competition.

Glenn Thackray

ISU Geosciences Professor Glenn Thackray honored as Geological Society of America Fellow

September 6, 2019

POCATELLO – Idaho State University’s Glenn Thackray, geosciences professor, has been honored as a Geological Society of America Fellow for his insightful contributions to the understanding of glaciation and climate across the Pacific region. 

ISU’s Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar elected VP/President Elect for American Nuclear Society

September 4, 2019

POCATELLO – Idaho State University’s Mary Lou Dunzik-Gougar has been elected vice president and president-elect for the American Nuclear Society.

ISU Department of Biological Sciences hosting ORAU series on biosystems signaling

August 21, 2019

POCATELLO – The Idaho State University Department of Biological Sciences is presenting a four-part seminar series under the theme "From Genome to Exposome: State of Biosystems Signaling in Response to Emerging Environmental Stressors” that begins Aug. 22.
A discarded doll found in Portneuf River

Bengal nation well represented at annual Portneuf River Cleanup

August 19, 2019

POCATELLO – People throw a lot of strange stuff in the Portneuf River – stolen bikes, carpets, a bowling ball, an umbrella, yard waste, cell phones, weird dolls, metal grates, trash of all kinds and hundreds, if not thousands, of plastic bags – and a lot, lot more.

2020 Undergraduate Research STEM travel funds are now available

August 16, 2019
Newly hatched swan cygnets on the nest.

ISU researchers study Trumpeter Swans on SE Idaho wildlife refuges

August 15, 2019

POCATELLO – Idaho State University biological sciences master’s student Paige Miller has continued ISU research of Southeast Idaho Trumpeter Swans this summer by using remote cameras and placing tiny thermometers inside of empty egg shells.
Mali researchers and guards posing in front of vehicles during 2003 trip.

Saharan paleontology study reveals extremes of science research for ISU’s Leif Tapanila

August 14, 2019

POCATELLO – Leif Tapanila, Idaho State University geosciences professor and director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History, is a co-author on a scientific paper published this summer in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History that describes the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali, Africa, and the strange creatures that existed there 50 to 100 million years ago.