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

August 30, 2018

POCATELLO – Kids and middle-aged to older adults are being sought for a decision-making study in the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Department of Psychology.

Jesse Pruitt scanning a humpback whale jaw bone

ISU 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 Â鶹´«Ã½AV has been tasked to digitally collect the skeletons of 50 of the largest animals in the world.

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

August 20, 2018

MERIDIAN—Â鶹´«Ã½AV’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.

Nicolas Patton

How thick is the skin of the earth? Â鶹´«Ã½AV researchers discover a simple empirical model to predict soil thickness

August 17, 2018

POCATELLO –A team of Â鶹´«Ã½AV 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.

Hercules Recover craft

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

August 16, 2018

POCATELLO – The public and educators can join Â鶹´«Ã½AV 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.
Bridge Girder

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

August 10, 2018

POCATELLO­ – Â鶹´«Ã½AV 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.
INBRE researchers

Â鶹´«Ã½AV summer undergraduate researchers head to Idaho INBRE Research Conference in Moscow July 30-Aug. 1

July 30, 2018

POCATELLO  – Fourteen undergraduate students who paired with mentors to complete 10 weeks of intensive work as full-time biomedical researchers at Â鶹´«Ã½AV as part of the Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) Summer Fellowship program are heading to Moscow to present their findings.

Â鶹´«Ã½AV’s Emerald Dawn Ryan among Idaho National Laboratory’s second cohort of 13 graduate fellows 

July 27, 2018

POCATELLO – Â鶹´«Ã½AV nuclear science and engineering doctoral student Emerald Dawn Ryan is among 13 students in the Idaho National Laboratory’s second cohort of graduate fellows.
Psychology staff

ISU Department of Psychology faculty receive competitive grants, provide opportunities for students

July 26, 2018

POCATELLO – Thanks to six external grants totaling over $3 million, Â鶹´«Ã½AV’s Department of Psychology can provide invaluable research opportunities for students. 
Richard Brey headshot

ISU signs MOU on scientific cooperation with Public Health England to continue health physics research collaboration

July 13, 2018

POCATELLO – Â鶹´«Ã½AV has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Public Health England to continue collaborating on the effects of radiation on humans.