Idaho State University

The Idaho State Planning Council on Mental Health has awarded Ann Kirkwood its Advocacy Award for dedicated service and advocacy on behalf of Idaho children and families. (more…)

A new comprehensive study of records compiled by the Boone and Crockett Club concludes that big game harvest has reduced the size of horns and antlers of trophy male big game species over time.

A team of six scientists from Idaho State University, the University of Montana, Arizona Game and Fish Department, and the California Department of Fish and Game, led by Kevin L. Monteith, now at the University of Wyoming, recently analyzed a 108-year data set comprising 22,000 records among 25 trophy categories of big game inhabiting North America compiled by the Boone and Crockett Club. (more…)

Idaho State University Associate Professor of physiology Shawn Bearden will serve as director for the ISU Biomedical Research Institute, announced Howard Grimes, ISU vice president for research and economic development. (more…)

Do pacifiers affect speech development in children?

That's a question researchers in the Department of Communication Sciences at Idaho State University-Meridian will explore in a study about pacifier use in young children. (more…)

The new geological map of Idaho, which was created extensive input from Idaho State University, is available locally for purchase at the Idaho Museum of Natural History gift shop.

This is the first geologic map of Idaho in 35 years, and is a perfect wall poster. A booklet of explanatory information accompanies the map and includes an index of the map’s many sources, which can be consulted for more detailed geologic information. (more…)

Idaho State University biological sciences professor Jeff Meldrum has began fundraising to build an unmanned airship that he proposes to use to conduct aerial surveys of areas where sasquatch sightings have been reported. (more…)

"Human Interactions with the Portneuf River," a public forum featuring a discussion of how humans have interacted with the Portneuf River in the past and the present, will be held at 5 p.m. Dec. 5 at the Portneuf Valley Brewery in Pocatello. (more…)

Herbert Maschner, director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History and Idaho State University professor of anthropology, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. The American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world’s largest general scientific society. (more…)

It has been a busy year of travel for Idaho State University School of Engineering Director D. Subbaram Naidu who in the last academic year has visited Turkey, Russia, China and Greece to deliver academic and research presentations and to explore research collaborations. (more…)

Idaho State University mechanical engineering Associate Professor Alba Perez Gracia has been awarded a four-year $445,570 grant through the National Science Foundation's (NSF) National Robotics Initiative (NRI) for the design of robotic hands. (more…)