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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.

Â鶹´«Ã½AV psychology professor recruits 125 area women for study

January 7, 2019

POCATELLO – Over the past four years, Â鶹´«Ã½AV Clinical Psychology Professor Nicki Aubuchon-Endsley’s Perinatal Psychobiology Laboratory team has talked to more than 100 expectant mothers in Southeast Idaho to help identify risk factors for rural families.
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.
Photo of Oliphant and Berian standing in front of their research poster.

Â鶹´«Ã½AV study reveals dangerous prescribing practices for Idaho patients on opioids

December 11, 2018

A quarter of chronic users received high-risk drug combinations

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? 

Â鶹´«Ã½AV researcher Phil Homan receives $3,500 Idaho Humanities Award to conduct research on South African war horses from Idaho

November 21, 2018

POCATELLO – Â鶹´«Ã½AV Professor Philip Homan was awarded a $3,500 research fellowship from the Idaho Humanities Council to conduct research on the experience of the South African War horse from Idaho to the Transvaal. Homan’s project “‘This Flotsam and Jetsam of Human Passions’: Idaho War Horses to the South African War, 1899-1902,” explores Idaho’s global reach.
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
Maria Wong posing in front of research poster.

Â鶹´«Ã½AV Professor Maria Wong's paper selected for National Institutes of Health Research Spotlights

November 9, 2018

POCATELLO – A recent paper by Â鶹´«Ã½AV Professor Maria Wong has been selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for inclusion in its Research Spotlights series.