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New grant writer Mary van Muelken focused on research initiatives joins the Kasiska Division of Health Sciences 

October 12, 2018

POCATELLO – Mary van Muelken, a grant writer whose efforts will be dedicated to coordinating research funding for a variety of projects, has joined the Kasiska Division of Health Sciences at Idaho State University.

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 ISU Honors Program student Caleb Renner excels at NASA summer internship

October 1, 2018

POCATELLO – Caleb Renner, a junior in the Idaho State University Honors Program, earned a summer internship at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to work on his project titled “Porosity and Permeability of Basaltic Rocks and their Alteration States: Implications for the Habitability of Microbial Life in Volcanic Rocks on Earth and Mars.”

ISU researchers seek adults 60 and older for research studies

September 21, 2018

POCATELLO – The Idaho State University Laboratory of Aging Science and Health has multiple active studies currently and is seeking adults 60 years and older to participate in them.

Child working on computer to create digital dinosaur

Dino camp teens help create new model of Idaho dinosaur on display at Idaho Museum of Natural History beginning Sept. 22

September 21, 2018

POCATELLO – The new Idaho Dinosaur Exhibit, opening Sept. 22 at the Idaho Museum of Natural History, was created in large part by children age 11 to 15 who participated in Dino Camps hosted this summer by the museum.

ISU Credit Union donates $1,000 to support Sexual Harassment Training Program for Athletic Training Education Program

September 20, 2018

Image from museum display of buzzsaw sharks of Idaho featuring painting of sharks and other sea creatures.

Sharks of Idaho are coming home to Idaho Museum of Natural History

September 20, 2018

POCATELLO – The wicked and weird Buzzsaw Sharks of Idaho are coming home to the Idaho Museum of Natural History on the Idaho State University Pocatello campus.

Researchers from ISU's Communication, Media, & Persuasion

ISU faculty publish research on how to use narrative when navigating a crisis

September 20, 2018

ISU intern Adrienne Petrovic helps Idaho National Laboratory publish ‘A Parent’s Guide to STEM’

September 19, 2018

Idaho National Laboratory has published “A Parent’s Guide to STEM,” a resource available to parents in both English and Spanish, that was a project led by INL summer intern Adrienne Petrovic, a sophomore at Idaho State University.

A rainbow trout splashing in water after being released by a fishermen whose hand you can see.

$20 Million Idaho research award focuses on genetics of rainbow trout, sagebrush

September 18, 2018

MOSCOW, Idaho – The University of Idaho will share a $20 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) with Idaho State University and Boise State University to support research aimed at uncovering and predicting how rainbow trout and sagebrush adjust to changing environments.

$20,000 made available for non-STEM ISU students for research travel

September 7, 2018

POCATELLO – An additional $20,000 for research travel funds are now available to Idaho State University students in non-science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.