Andrew Crighton Editor-in-Chief NOTE: Do not look directly at the sun without purpose made eclipse glasses. Regular sunglasses ARE NOT adequate protection, even during the partial phases of the eclipse. The beginning of the 2017-2018 academic year at ISU is going to start off in a way that has never […]
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Madison Shumway Life Editor Madeleine Coles News Editor Every year come August, Bengal tigers crop up on store windows and paw prints appear around Pocatello. Local businesses and residents celebrate the start of a new school year by painting the town orange and black before attending an annual school-year kickoff […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer After being chosen as chair for the physics department, Philip Cole is heading to Vienna, Austria April 24 – 26 to finish coordinating the AccApp’ 17 international conference, which will be held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada July 31 – August 4 this summer. Cole was […]
Andrew Crighton News Editor The Portneuf River Visioning Project is taking its next steps after being approved by Pocatello City Council. In order to spark community interest and support on the upcoming projects to the Portneuf watershed the Visioning Project teamed up with community members and ISU faculty to screen […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer A rainbow of poster boards and periodic table t-shirts colored Pocatello sidewalks Saturday as nearly 500 people participated in the March for Science. The march, which sought to raise awareness of scientists’ contributions to Pocatello and support publically funded and communicated science nationwide, was one of […]
Andrew Crighton News Editor The College of Business and Idaho Central Credit Union officially opened a new long-distance learning center in the Business Administration Building on Monday, April 17. Named after the corporation that provided the largest donation, the Idaho Central Credit Union Learning Center is made up of two […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer After coming to ISU in 2012 through a grant awarded to the Gender Resource Center, the Green Dot program is asking students to complete surveys to measure the program’s impact. Starting at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Dorothy J. Edwards developed a business plan to reduce […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Minidoka internment camp, which imprisoned over 9,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, lies just 17 miles from Twin Falls. Few Idahoans know of its existence. Andy Dunn wants to change that. The history graduate student is writing his thesis about the camp and drawing attention […]
Andrew Crighton News Editor April 7 marked a defining point in President Trump’s future stance on foreign policy. Trump ordered a total of 59 tomahawk cruise missiles be fired onto a Syrian airbase. The strike came as a response to the use of chemical weapons in the town of Khan […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer Replaced by professor Michael Thomas, former Biology Chair Mark Austin stepped down to focus on an application for a research grant that could bring up to $11 million to ISU. The grant, Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence grant under the National Institute of Health, is something […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer A recently-published book written and edited by College of Arts and Letters faculty explores the role of narrative in academic research and community. Twenty faculty members teamed up to create “Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education,” released last week. “This idea of narrative really […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer People line the bleachers as dancers take center stage, moving to the beat of the drums. Celebration fills the air while the healing powers of grand entry unfold at the 46th ISU Pow wow. The student group Native Americans United invited community members to Reed Gym […]
Andrew Crighton News Editor A study conducted by ISU students and faculty members has confirmed that nitrate contamination of the Lower Portneuf Valley Watershed is caused by septic tanks, not from agriculture or ranching like it has in the past. Courtney Ohr, an ISU Geographic Information System student, produced the […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer A pair of professors in the ISU Department of History decided to create an opportunity for prospective students with refugee status. Erika Kuhlman and Kevin Marsh were inspired to create this scholarship by the recent political discourse concerning immigration. “We wanted to do something that we […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Laura McKnight can thank squeamishness and a love of cooking for leading her to her future career. Interested in the medical field, a young McKnight quickly learned that dealing with blood and guts wasn’t her strong suit. When she discovered dietetics, a combination of two of […]