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Master Teachers poster

Five Idaho State University Faculty Honored as 2019 Outstanding Master Teachers  

March 28, 2019

POCATELLO – Five Idaho State University faculty members have been chosen to receive 2019 Outstanding Master Teacher Awards.
Poster of Outstanding Faculty

Five Idaho State University faculty members honored with 2019 Outstanding Researcher Awards

March 28, 2019

POCATELLO – Five Idaho State University faculty members have received 2019 Outstanding Researcher Awards and will be honored at a reception on April 9 at Juniper Hills Country Club.
Photo of award winners at ASCE banquet

ISU Professor Mustafa Mashal receives ASCE Engineer of the Year Award

March 25, 2019

POCATELLO – Idaho State University Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Mustafa Mashal was awarded the Southern Idaho Section Engineer of the Year award at the 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Awards Banquet on March 19. 

 Idaho State physics to host Science Olympiad

March 21, 2019

POCATELLO – The Idaho State University Department of Physics will host a regional Science Olympiad on Saturday, March 30, from 8 a.m. to 1:30 pm in the ISU Physical Science Building on the corner of Eighth Avenue and Carter Street on the ISU campus.

Photo of layout of Opportuni-Tea tables taken from above at the Stephens Performing Arts Center

Five ISU undergraduates to present research at Western Regional Honors Conference

March 21, 2019

POCATELLO – Five Idaho State University Honors Program undergraduates will present research at the Western Regional Honors Conference hosted by Montana State University March 29-31.

Research by ISU’s Shannon Kobs Nawotniak figures prominently in special issue of Astrobiology released in March

March 18, 2019

Is the best way to communicate with future astronauts on Mars by texting?
Photo of equipment in ISU Structural LAB

ISU Professor Mustafa Mashal to address Pocatello City Council, Mayor Blad on Sulphur Peak Earthquake sequence, seismic risk and vulnerability in Southeast Idaho

March 13, 2019

POCATELLO – At 9 a.m. March 14, Assistant Professor Mustafa Mashal from Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Idaho State University will address the Pocatello City Council and Mayor Blad about the Sulphur Peak Earthquake Sequence that occurred near Soda Springs in September 2017.

Idaho Museum of Natural History to honor Charles Peterson, ISU biology professor

March 5, 2019

POCATELLO – The Idaho Museum of Natural History on the Idaho State University campus will honor Idaho State University Professor Charles (Chuck) Peterson with a Natural History Hero Award at the fourth annual Museum Masquerade Benefit on March 30.
Steve Chiu standing next to electrical engineering equipment.

ISU electrical engineering Director Steve Chiu receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant to Iceland to participate in national exchange

February 28, 2019

POCATELLO – The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have announced that Steve Chiu, Idaho State University associate professor and director of electrical engineering, has received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to Iceland.

Photo of Leif Tapanila and Jesse Pruitt of the IVL holding a large vertebrae of a whale.

Idaho Museum of Natural History researchers receive grant to digitally scan bones of California blue whale

February 25, 2019

POCATELLO – The Idaho Museum of Natural History and Idaho State University received a $20,000 award from the National Science Foundation in January to scan the entire skeleton of a blue whale that washed ashore in California. The skeleton is at the Noyo Center for Marine Science in Fort Bragg, California.