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Jared Barrott by computer

ISU College of Pharmacy’s Jared Barrott researching cancer drugs to treat rare tumors in children and teenagers

May 31, 2018

POCATELLO - After more than eight years of research training and education, Idaho State University College of Pharmacy’s Jarod Barrott is ready to begin work studying an anti-cancer drug in a new setting, in the hopes that it will help treat children with advanced bone and muscle cancers.

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INBRE program at ISU gives taste of biomedical research to budding researchers

May 29, 2018

POCATELLO –Undergraduate students have been paired with their mentors to begin an intensive summer working full-time as biomedical researchers at Idaho State University as part of the Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Summer Fellowship program.

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Idaho State University researchers study salmonflies’ benefits, ecology

May 29, 2018

POCATELLO – Idaho State University researchers, including master’s students Adam Eckersell and McKenna Adams, are studying salmonflies on the Henrys Fork Snake River and Middle Fork Salmon River drainages, exploring everything from these insect’s social impact on humans to their importance for providing pigmentation that can color the feathers of songbirds that feed on them.

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'Lunch and Learn' tour shows off Eames Advanced Technical Education and Innovation Complex facilities

May 25, 2018

Community members, local decision-makers, media representatives and Idaho State University faculty and staff visited the William M. and Karin A. Eames Advanced Technical Education and Innovation Complex on May 22 to tour newly renovated research laboratories and technology classrooms.

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ISU Big Beam team to compete in National PCI Big Beam Competition, will hold final beam test on May 25

May 22, 2018

POCATELLO – Idaho State University Civil and Environmental Engineering students will hold the final destructive testing of their big concrete beam on May 25 at 9:30 a.m. in the Structural Laboratory at the Engineering Research Complex (ERC) on 1030 S. Second Ave. in Pocatello.

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ISU research team earns fellowship to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to use statistics to better predict cloud formation

May 18, 2018

POCATELLO – A team of three international researchers from Idaho State University using math and statistics to help better predict cloud formation and the weather  have been awarded a Computing Sciences Research Pathways Fellowship to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, this summer.

14 Idaho State University students awarded INBRE Fellowship

May 18, 2018

POCATELLO – Fourteen Idaho State University undergraduate students were awarded an Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)  fellowship for the summer that start on May 23.

Phil Homan with portrait of Kittie Wilkins

Two ISU researchers interviewed for Idaho Public TV's ‘Taking the Reins’ on Idaho Experience about Kittie Wilkins, ‘Horse Queen of Idaho’

May 15, 2018

POCATELLO – Two Idaho State University researchers, Phil Homan and Laura Woodworth-Ney, were interviewed for the Idaho Public Television program “Taking the Reins” that will air on Idaho Experience at 8:30 p.m. May 24.

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ISU Idaho Museum of Natural History prehistoric bison skull to be transported to exhibit in South Dakota

May 7, 2018

POCATELLO – The Idaho State University Idaho Museum of Natural History will loan a large, prehistoric bison skull  to the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota on May 12-13.

Camerin Passey

ISU graduate student Camerin Passey “excited” to make mark on world

May 1, 2018

POCATELLO – Idaho State University Doctor of Pharmacy graduate student Camerin Passey is excited for many things after graduation, but the first that comes to mind is supporting his growing family.