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ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï News: College of Science and Engineering

 

L.J. Krumenacker

ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï researcher L.J. Krumenacker helps name seven new Idaho fossil species, including one after his former ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï advisor

June 17, 2019

POCATELLO – Of the seven new species of prehistoric Idaho creatures ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Department of Geosciences affiliate researcher L.J. Krumenacker was able to help document and name in scientific journals that were published this month, his favorite is Cimolodon akersteni, named after his former advisor and paleontological mentor Bill Akersten, who retired from ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï about a decade ago.

Submarine exploring ocean bottom.

Newly discovered Apollo Vent Field in Pacific by ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï researchers offers glimpse of alien worlds

June 11, 2019

The SUBSEA (Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog) Research Program team aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus is thrilled to have discovered a new hydrothermal field at the northern Gorda Ridge in the Pacific Ocean.

ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï physics department to offer water rocket festival June 29-30

June 11, 2019

POCATELLO – There will be a free water rocket workshop for teens put on by students and faculty from  the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Department of Physics from 10 a.m. to noon on June 29 and 30 at Tydeman Park in Pocatello.

ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï student Jennie Nelson receives Goldwater Scholarship

May 21, 2019

POCATELLO – ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï biological sciences major Jennie Nelson was one of 496 students nationwide out of an applicant pool of more than 5,000 who has been selected for a 2019-20 Barry Goldwater Scholarship.

Group holding up a Washie toilet seat.

ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Researchers teaming with Washie the Cleaner Toilet Seat to test, improve new product, with help of $83,000 IGEM Grant

May 21, 2019

POCATELLO – Researchers at ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï and the founder of Washie the Cleaner Toilet Seat in Pocatello are excited to be working together to test and improve the product, thanks to a $83,000 Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission (IGEM) grant from the Idaho Department of Commerce.

ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï's Structural Lab and the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï big beam entered in the 2018 PCI competition.

ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï civil and environmental engineering teams to compete in the national 2019 PCI Big Beam Competition, will hold final beam tests on May 17

May 8, 2019

POCATELLO – Two teams of ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering students are competing in the 2019 Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Big Beam Competition and will hold the final destructive testing of their concrete beams on May 17.

Kayla Pavlick with cockroach

ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï researchers use cockroaches to search for narcotics

May 2, 2019

POCATELLO – ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï researchers, led by biological sciences master’s student Kayla Pavlick, are experimenting with cockroaches to see how well they can be trained to detect narcotics.

Chris Brininger

ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï student athlete Chris Brininger earns master’s in chemistry – heading on for Ph.D.

May 1, 2019

POCATELLO – If ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï student and track athlete Chris Brininger hadn’t decided to ride his motorcycle at the St. Anthony Sand Dunes during his junior year of high school, the Boise resident may have never discovered ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï and his passion for research.

Jon Stoner, lAC directer, left, and John Longley, radiation safety officer, are shown loading a sample of the medical isotope copper-67 into a container for shipment.

ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Idaho Accelerator Center announces record production of form of medical isotope copper-67 that will be used in cancer clinical trials

April 30, 2019

POCATELLO – The ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Idaho Accelerator Center has increased its production capacity of a highly pure form of the medical isotope copper-67 that can now be more easily used in clinical trials to test its effectiveness in fighting cancer.

Kathryn Hogarth named ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï 2018-19 Student Employee of the Year

April 29, 2019

POCATELLO — Kathryn Hogarth,  an ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering employee and student, has received the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï 2018-2019 Student Employee of the Year Award and a $2,000 scholarship from the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Career Center and Scholarship Office.