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Midsummer production advertising poster.

ISU School of Performing Arts to present “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

November 2, 2020

Play will feature limited in-person audience and livestream

President Satterlee

Idaho State University opens distance learning classrooms at area high schools  

October 29, 2020

POCATELLO – High school students in Blackfoot, Fort Hall, Malad and Rockland can now take Idaho State University courses at their own high schools, thanks to new distance learning classrooms.
A painting of the ancient reptile the Skybalonyx.

ISU doctoral student Xavier Jenkins credited with discovery of 220-million-year-old reptile

October 29, 2020

POCATELLO – Over 220-million-years-ago, burrowed deep in the ground of what is now Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, lived the Skybalonyx. Though the Skybalonyx predates most dinosaurs, it was only recently discovered by Xavier Jenkins, an Idaho State University biological sciences doctoral student.

Idaho State’s Rupp Debate to host public debate about women’s suffrage movement

October 28, 2020

POCATELLO — The Idaho State University Rupp Debate Society will join the Idaho Women 100 Celebration with a public debate featuring historical arguments about the suffrage movement. “100 Years Later: The 19th Amendment and Women’s Right to Vote” will livestream online Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.
Several choir singers on stage

ISU School of Performing Arts to present the Choirs Fall Concert Oct. 23

October 20, 2020

POCATELLO – Idaho State University’s School of Performing Arts will present the Idaho State University Choirs Fall Concert on Fri., Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. to be virtually live-streamed from the Jensen Grand Concert Hall in the L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center.

Idaho State’s Justin Dolan Stover named 2020 Innovative Educator for Social and Behavioral Ways of Knowing

October 19, 2020

POCATELLO – The Idaho State Board of Education has named Idaho State University history professor Justin Dolan Stover this year’s Innovative Educator for Social and Behavioral Ways of Knowing.
Sidney Fellows posing in a marsh near camas plants

ISU undergraduate Sidney Fellows researches how to bring camas to Fort Hall Indian Reservation

October 15, 2020

POCATELLO –  Biological sciences undergraduate student Sidney Fellows has lofty goals.
Row of symphony French horn players

Idaho State Civic Symphony to present free virtual concert Oct. 16

October 14, 2020

POCATELLO — Fans of the Idaho State-Civic Symphony can tune in to this weekend’s show from anywhere and on any device.

Tools and bark used to make paper in Mexico.

Art Professor Emeritus Kovacs to present at hand papermakers’ conference

October 13, 2020

POCATELLO – Rudy Kovacs, Idaho State University professor emeritus of art, will deliver the presentation “Homage to the papermakers of San Pablito in the municipality Pahuatlán” at Paper Currents, the North American Hand Papermakers' virtual conference running Oct. 17-18.
ISU debaters who competed in online tournament.

Idaho State debaters record top-10 places at Carroll College virtual tournament

September 25, 2020

HELENA, Montana – The Idaho State University Rupp Debate team began its season online Sept. 18-20, facing 36 teams from 11 universities at “The Sir” hosted by Carroll College.