From plastic eating mushrooms with potential to change the world, to students making musical albums with famous composers, and manikins so lifelike that future health care professionals can gain practice delivering a baby, this year’s issue of the Idaho State Magazine has an array of incredible stories you won’t want to miss. The first edition since 2020, the Idaho State Magazine tells the inspiring stories of ISU students, faculty researchers and alumni who refused to let a global pandemic, or anything else, stop them from achieving their goals.
Expanding Partnerships in Health Care
With approximately one-third of ISU’s 12,000 students enrolled in a health professions degree or certificate program, ISU is the epicenter for health care education in Idaho. Guided by a commitment to expanding the workforce in many of Idaho’s most in-demand job fields, ISU continues its legacy of providing health sciences education across the state by harnessing the power of partnerships to provide transformational education to students. Collaborating with innovative and strategic allies, the University stands to increase access and improve health outcomes in providing high quality, patient centered health care.
Plastic-Eating Mushrooms
With plastic waste becoming increasingly problematic in many parts of the world, and only a small portion that is recyclable, could mushrooms be the solution? A team of ISU student and faculty researchers, city officials and an innovative business owner hope to take the success of their study of mycelium, the root-like structure of fungus, to the world’s stage.
Nature’s Classroom
Unlike any other degree program in Idaho, students studying outdoor education experience the great outdoors as their classroom.
