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ON Semiconductor Increases Support for Â鶹´«Ã½AV Department of Electrical Engineering

January 18, 2019

Donation of design workstations, funding for design software and curriculum development collaboration underline the company’s support for local students
Ernest Keeley, left, directing a student during a study on the lower Portneuf River.

Â鶹´«Ã½AV professors identify some of last remaining populations of native cutthroat trout in the Portneuf River

January 17, 2019

POCATELLO ­– For the last 20 years, Â鶹´«Ã½AV fish ecologists Ernest Keeley and Janet Loxterman in the Department of Biological Sciences have studied Cutthroat Trout populations in waters from Alaska to New Mexico.  Among their other research endeavors, they have identified some of the last remaining native, genetically pure populations of Cutthroat Trout in the areas around Pocatello, including distinct subspecies variations, in some unlikely places.

Photo of IMNH director Tapanila with replicas of scissor-toothed shark jaws.

Â鶹´«Ã½AV researchers help create skull of ancient scissor-toothed shark, Edestus

January 17, 2019

POCATELLO – The ancient scissor-toothed shark Edestus was a “weird, weird beastie,” according to Leif Tapanila, Â鶹´«Ã½AV geosciences professor and Idaho Museum of Natural History director.
Flyer advertising ice fishing derby.

Jan. 26 Fishing Derby at Sportsman’s Park at American Falls Reservoir Features $500 First Prize for Trout, $250 for Perch

January 7, 2019

POCATELLO – A fishing derby running 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at Sportsman’s Park on the west side of American Falls Reservoir near Aberdeen features a $500 first-place prize for the largest trout and a $250 first-place prize for the largest perch.

ISU Ph.D. student Omid Heidari poses with the type of robot that will be used in the IGEM project.

Â鶹´«Ã½AV, industry partner House of Design receive $162K IGEM grant to develop application to connect robotics with augmented reality

December 11, 2018

POCATELLO – Â鶹´«Ã½AV researchers will work with the robotic systems integration company House of Design in Nampa to enable programmers wearing augmented reality glasses to communicate directly with robots.

Â鶹´«Ã½AV’s Colden Baxter receives Jean’ne M. Shreeve NSF EPSCoR Research Excellence Award

December 7, 2018

POCATELLO ­– Colden Baxter, Â鶹´«Ã½AV biological sciences professor, is the recipient of the 2018 Jean’ne M. Shreeve NSF EPSCoR Research Excellence Award.
Photo of Ph.D. student Amy Commodore and her advisor Bruce Finney in the ISU Stable Isotopes Laboratory, pictured with some samples of owl pellets in small jars.

Old piles of bones deposited by owls assist ISU Ph.D. student Amy Commendador's research on past climates of the Snake River Plain

December 5, 2018

POCATELLO – To understand changes in the Snake River Plain’s climate and ecosystem over thousands of years, Â鶹´«Ã½AV biological sciences doctoral student Amy Commendador has been analyzing the contents of owl pellets using a sophisticated instrument called an isotope ratio mass spectrometer.
Keith Weber sitting at his desk in front of computer screens.

Â鶹´«Ã½AV is using its research and proven technologies to aid wildfire efforts in California, across the West

December 3, 2018

POCATELLO – It is early December and wildfire season for Â鶹´«Ã½AV’s Keith Weber, Director of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV GIS Training and Research Center, is just now winding down – or is it? 

Regional universities including Â鶹´«Ã½AV take part in national cyber competition at INL

November 29, 2018

For the first time, Idaho National Laboratory will host six university teams from across the region, including Â鶹´«Ã½AV, taking part in a national cybersecurity competition, according to an Idaho National Laboratory news release.
Chris Tennant in the field standing on a rock setting up a measuring instrument on a tripod.

Â鶹´«Ã½AV Ph.D. student Chris Tennant’s research on snowpack measurement recognized

November 20, 2018

Big data equals better forecasting and a boon for water managers