ISU News: College of Science and Engineering

ISU computer science students volunteer to scrub laptops for Idaho students in need

April 23, 2020

POCATELLO – Three Idaho State University computer science students volunteered for United Way of Southeast Idaho and Idaho Business for Education to help scrub donated computers to distribute to Idaho students in need of a device.

ISU's Team Bird Brain receives $358,000 funding extension from National Institutes of Health

April 21, 2020

ISU's TEAM BIRD BRAIN, the lab of Associate Professor of Neurophysiology Jason Pilarski, recently received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support a project entitled "MECHANISMS OF RESPIRATORY-RELATED RHYTHMIC MOTOR ACTIVITY AND PLASTICITY IN THE DEVELOPING AVIAN BRAIN STEM" (Direct costs= $358,572).

Idaho Chapter American Fisheries Society honors ISU Professor Ernest Keeley

April 6, 2020

POCATELLO – Idaho State University biological sciences Professor Ernest Keeley has received the Outstanding Professional Award by the Idaho Chapter of the American Fisheries Society.

CAES announces participants in Summer Visiting Faculty Program including four from ISU

April 2, 2020

The Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) Leadership team is pleased to announce the selected participants for the 2020 CAES Summer Visiting Faculty Program (CSVFP). Those participants include Idaho State University's Amir Ali, Daniel LaBrier, Anna McCarrey and Irene van Woerden.

ISU student by stream holding up a rainbow trout.

ISU’s Rachel Brinkley receives American Fisheries Society scholarship

April 1, 2020

POCATELLO – Idaho State University’s Rachel Brinkley received the Idaho Chapter American Fisheries Society’s 2020 Graduate Scholarship at the group’s annual meeting in March.

John Stoner and John Longley at the Idaho Accelerator Center

Clarity Pharmaceuticals signs copper-67 supply agreement with ISU Idaho Accelerator Center

March 12, 2020

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Clarity Pharmaceuticals, a radiopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of serious disease, is pleased to announce the signing of a Product Supply Agreement with the Idaho State University Idaho Accelerator Center (IAC) for the production and commercial supply of copper-67 (Cu-67).

Underrepresented college students benefit more from ‘active learning’ techniques in STEM courses

March 10, 2020

Idaho State's Brandon Peecook was a co-author on the study as a UW doctoral student

ISU physics, mathematics programs to host Pi Day Science and free pie at Pine Ridge Mall

March 6, 2020

POCATELLO – Idaho State University’s physics and mathematics programs will host Pi Day Science at Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck on Saturday, March 14, from 1 to 4 p.m.

Math, physics, philosophy and writing all have a place in Alec Lepisto’s world

February 27, 2020

POCATELLO – Senior Idaho State University Honors Program student Alec Lepisto believes in living a well-rounded life and his academic and private pursuits show he walks his talk.

ISU Professor Finney co-authors study supporting theory earliest North American humans arrived by ocean route

February 19, 2020

POCATELLO – A study co-authored by Idaho State University Professor Bruce Finney bolsters the argument that more than 15,000 years ago that the first humans who traveled to North America used a coastal route, traveling by boat, as opposed to traveling from the north, walking over a land bridge and then southward between the large retreating glaciers.