ALMAS Club one of the largest, most active clubs at ISU-Idaho Falls
One of the largest and most active clubs at Idaho State University–Idaho Falls campus is the Asociación Latina Motivante A Superate (ALMAS), which is comprised of nearly 30 members. (more…)
Student clubs, student life a large part of experience at Idaho State University-Idaho Falls
An array of student clubs and a rich variety of student activities make Idaho State University-Idaho Falls much more than a commuter school for those who want to take advantage of what’s offered at University Place.
On Veterans Day this year, for example, the Armed Forces Veterans Club at ISU-Idaho Falls helped organize a variety of events for the whole campus, including a flag-raising ceremony featuring the BYU-Idaho ROTC Color Guard, the landing of an Apache helicopter, a veterans panel discussion, a veterans presentation and free food for ISU students, staff, faculty, guests and their families in the Bennion Student Union. (more…)
Idaho State University physics professor Shropshire elected to national board
Steve Shropshire, a physics professor at Idaho State University, has been elected to serve on the Executive Board of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) as the representative of all four-year colleges and universities in the United States. (more…)
NWCCU gives ISU positive feedback during reaccreditation evaluation
Idaho State University has received positive feedback from an evaluation committee from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) after a visit by two reviewers to the Pocatello campus on Nov. 5 and 6.
The reviewers conducted the standard five-year interim evaluation of the institution and reported they will forward to the NWCCU three commendations and only one recommendation. The University is required by the NWCCU to submit a Regular Interim Report five years after the ten-year reaccreditation evaluation, which ISU completed in Fall 2004.
The Commission will meet in January 2010 to consider the site reviewers' report and will issue its formal report to President Arthur C. Vailas shortly thereafter. (more…)
New $1.7 million NSF grant helps Idaho State University engage in revolutionary historical research project
The Idaho State University history department is engaged in a revolutionary, interdisciplinary historical study that has attracted $1.7 million in funding from the National Science Foundation.
It isn't often the National Science Foundation funds a project from a humanities discipline with a history professor as a principal investigator, but that is exactly what happened earlier this fall when ISU history professor J.B. "Jack" Owens received an award for a project titled "Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS." About $1.3 million of the four-year grant will go to ISU, with about $471,000 to go to the University of Oklahoma and co-principal investigator May Yuan. (more…)
Idaho State University literacy education professor Squires is visiting scholar at Japanese university
Idaho State University Associate Professor of literacy education David Squires has been selected as visiting scholar at Osaka Kyoiku University in Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan, from November 2009 through the end of July 2010.
Osaka Kyoiku University is a teacher education university. Squires will spend his nine-month sabbatical, which began this month, pursuing some of his research interests, which include determining to what extent Japanese elementary teachers use storytelling and children's literature in their literacy instruction. (more…)
Intermountain Center for Educational Effectiveness creates curriculum, helps Idaho’s K-12 educators
Idaho State University's Intermountain Center for Educational Effectiveness (ICEE) in the College of Education is changing the way teachers teach.
The ICEE in collaboration with eastern Idaho School districts is defining classroom instructional objectives based on Idaho K-12 content standards and conforming to the No Child Left Behind Act.
This is just one of several major grant projects the ICEE is currently working on. (more…)
Idaho State University English Professor Alan Johnson awarded Fulbright Scholarship to teach, study in Mumbai, India
Idaho State University Associate Professor of English Alan Johnson has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture and study at the University of Mumbai in Mumbai, India, during spring semester 2010.
“I am thrilled and excited by my selection, not only for the opportunities it allows for study, but also for the opportunity it offers to be an ambassador for Idaho State University and American higher education,” Johnson said. (more…)
Cyber security leader joins ISU Informatics Research Institute; Garcia is former homeland security official
Gregory T. Garcia, a former assistant secretary for cyber security and communications for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has joined the distinguished faculty of Idaho State University’s Informatics Research Institute (IRI) as an affiliate research professor of information assurance policy and strategy.
Garcia will be working closely within the institute’s internationally-recognized programs in information assurance and computer security and bring new perspectives from broad experience in industry and government policy. (more…)
ISU continues ‘Be Advised’ campaign to encourage students to get advice
Idaho State University is continuing its “Be Advised” campaign to encourage students to reap the benefits of good advising.
The campaign by the ISU Division of Enrollment Management directs students on how to best pursue the information they need to progress towards attaining their chosen degree program.
“Advising is the cornerstone of a successful experience at Idaho State University,” said JoAnn Hertz, director of ISU academic advising. “Interaction with departmental faculty who are experts in their field provides an advantage to any student who seeks it.” (more…)