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ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï News: Research

 

$20,000 made available for non-STEM ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï students for research travel

September 7, 2018

POCATELLO – An additional $20,000 for research travel funds are now available to ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï students in non-science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

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ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï graduate student James Norris to present overview of neutrino experiment at Weber State University on Oct. 17

September 6, 2018

POCATELLO – ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï graduate student James Norris has been invited to present “An Overview of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)” at Weber State University on Oct. 17 from 1:30 to 2:20 p.m.

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ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï biological sciences, geosciences faculty contribute to new book on Cutthroat Trout

September 6, 2018

POCATELLO – ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï biological sciences professor Ernest Keeley, associate professor Janet Loxterman and affiliate faculty Kitty Griswold, and geosciences professor Paul Link have contributed to the new book Cutthroat Trout: Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy.

Idaho State Vice President for Research Announces Retirement

September 4, 2018

Kids and middle-aged to older adults sought for ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï psychology study

August 30, 2018

POCATELLO – Kids and middle-aged to older adults are being sought for a decision-making study in the ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Department of Psychology.

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ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Museum of  Natural History researchers receive grant to digitally collect 50 of the world’s largest animals

August 28, 2018

POCATELLO – Whales, elephants and bears, oh my! – A team of scientific Noahs at the Idaho Museum of Natural History at ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï has been tasked to digitally collect the skeletons of 50 of the largest animals in the world.

ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Institute of Rural Health seeks comment on statewide traumatic brain injury plan

August 20, 2018

MERIDIAN—ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï’s Institute of Rural Health has received a $450,000 grant from the federal Administration for Community Living to continue the development of a statewide action plan to address the needs of citizens living with a traumatic brain injury or TBI.

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How thick is the skin of the earth? ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï researchers discover a simple empirical model to predict soil thickness

August 17, 2018

POCATELLO –A team of ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï researchers working at the Reynolds Creek Critical Zone Observatory in partnership with the USDA Agricultural Research Service has discovered a simple method for predicting the spatial distribution of soil thickness across a landscape.

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Public can view live exploration of underwater volcanoes from study that involves ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï researchers looking at possibility of life on Saturn moon 

August 16, 2018

POCATELLO – The public and educators can join ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï geosciences Associate Professor Shannon Kobs Nawotniak as researchers from NASA, NOAA and other partners explore the possibility of life on one of Saturn’s moons by sending unmanned submersibles down to study volcanoes on the Pacific Ocean’s sea floor.

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ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï engineering teams with Idaho Transportation Department on testing low-cost, high-quality concrete used for bridge construction

August 10, 2018

POCATELLO­ – ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï civil engineers and the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) are teaming up on the second phase of testing of a new type of concrete material that will be installed between girders on a Highway 36 bridge over the Bear River near Preston.