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UI Receives $1.8 Million NSF Grant to Aid Northern Idaho Elementary School Science Programs
MOSCOW, Idaho – David McIlroy, a University of Idaho physics professor, has been awarded a three-year, $1.8 million National Science Foundation grant that will benefit elementary school science programs in rural northern Idaho. John Davis of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction is a co-principal investigator on the project. The focus of the grant is to pair UI graduate students with elementary school science teachers to improve communication skills of graduate students, as well as to develop inquiry-based physical science classes. For more information click here.
UI Researchers Study Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria through $1.3 Million NIH Grant
MOSCOW – Antibiotics have had a major impact on improving human and animal health. But the benefits of an antibiotic can be short-lived. Bacteria have the ability to quickly develop a resistance to antibiotics that decreases the effectiveness of the medicine in treating infectious diseases. For more information, click here.
UI Lands $10.1 Million National Institutes of Health Grant To Continue Biomedical Research on Infectious Diseases
MOSCOW, Idaho – A $10.1 million renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow University of Idaho scientists to continue biomedical research focused on infectious diseases.
The five-year grant from the NIH Institutional Development Award program funds one of two UI Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence. This renewed center is devoted to the study of molecular and cellular basis of host-pathogen interactions. For more information, click here.
UI Creative Writing Professor to Receive Governor's Award
Robert Wrigley, acclaimed Idaho poet and University of Idaho creative writing director, will receive a 2004 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts Oct. 2 at the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa.
He is one of 16 to be honored, the only one in the literary arts (details are at www2.state.id.us/arts/governor.html). The Idaho Commission on the Arts established the biennial awards in 1970 to recognize extraordinary achievement and increase awareness of Idaho arts and artists. For more information, click here.
NSF Award Aids UI Diversity in Math, Computer Science
Underrepresented college students majoring in mathematics or computer science now may have greater financial assistance to earn a bachelor's degree at the University of Idaho.
The National Science Foundation has awarded the university $396,000 over four years to provide approximately 30 students $3,000 per year. The first year recipients were chosen from returning majors in computer science and mathematics on the basis of high academic achievement and financial need. They will continue to receive the scholarships for up to three years, if they maintain the requirements. For more information, click here.
UI MAINTAINS STANDING AMONG TOP DOCTORAL UNIVERSITIES IN U.S.
The UI’s standing among the top national, doctoral-granting universities in the country has been reconfirmed by new rankings from U.S. World & News Report magazine.
The weekly news magazine released its annual ranking of the country’s nearly 1,400 national/doctoral and regional/master’s degree granting universities and colleges this morning. The UI is ranked in the top category with national universities having the widest range of undergraduate and graduate majors.
Read the full news release at http://www.today.uidaho.edu/Details.aspx?ID=2728.
$16.1 Million NIH Grant Funds Expanded Biomedical Research Network at BSU, ISU and UI
The presidents of Idaho’s three public universities jointly announced Tuesday the largest single educational and research grant in state history to forge stronger partnerships among the state’s universities, colleges and biomedical research centers.
The $16.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health establishes the IDea Network for Biomedical Research Excellence. INBRE draws together nine Idaho higher education institutions and two research centers. For more information, click here.
UI's National Transportation Center to Receive $680,000
GrantLeaders of the University of Idaho's National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology have received confirmation that the center will receive a $680,000 award from the U. S. Department of Transportation to extend its operations for a seventh year as a University Transportation Center. For more information, click here.
UI Woods Named Idaho Veterinarian of the Year
Gordon Woods, the University of Idaho professor of animal and veterinary science who led the team that produced the world’s first equine clone in 2003, Friday was named Idaho’s Veterinarian of the Year.
The Idaho Veterinary Medical Association announced Woods’ selection during its annual meeting at Boise.
“I am honored to be included among the great group of people who have received this award before me,” Woods said. For more information, click here.
Kim Barnes wins State’s top award
By Jennifer K. Bauer
OF THE TRIBUNE
Idaho’s most prestigious literary award, state writer-in-residence, has once again gone to a northern Idahoan.
Author Kim Barnes of Moscow is the new writer-in-residence. The governor is to announce the award in a proclamation next month. For more information, click here.
Scientists Join Forces to Fight Invasive Species, Manage Declining Populations In UI’s New Research Center
Invasive species such as white pine blister rust, spotted knapweed and whirling disease in trout, as well as declining populations of plants and animals, are the focus of a new research center at the University of Idaho.
Area legislators, alumni, government agency representatives and business owners gathered at the UI White Pine Research Grove this morning for announcement of the new Center for Research on Invasive Species and Small Populations. UI scientists recently won a nearly $1 million grant from the Idaho Board of Education’s Higher Education Research Council to fund the new center. For more information, click here.
Kootenai Tribe funds project to trace decline, help rebuild Idaho freshwater cod numbers
 The chips are down for burbot, a freshwater cod, in northern Idaho’s Kootenai River.
University of Idaho aquaculture expert Ken Cain wants to learn how to raise burbot in captivity to help restore their fortunes through a project funded by the Kootenai Tribe of Idaho.
Cain’s team of researchers at the UI Aquaculture Research Institute and the Department of Fish and Wildlife received $45,000 from the tribe to begin developing spawning and feeding techniques for the fish. For more information, click here.
Jeffrey Young: Advanced Microwave Ferrite Research (AMFeR): Phase One
 A team of University of Idaho researchers headed by Dr. Jeffrey L. Young of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has received $1,250,000 from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to conduct research on the growth and development of ferrite thick films for microwave communication applications. For more information, click here.
UI College of Law Awarded $650,000 from Indian Land Tenure Foundation
The College of Law has won a two-year, $650,000 grant from the Indian Land Tenure Foundation to develop and implement an Indian estate-planning project on reservations in Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The project, developed by law Professors Douglas Nash and Dennis Colson, has two components. First, a program describing estate planning - how that process can be of value in managing property generally and real property in particular - will be developed, along with training materials. That program will be available for presentation to Indian tribes, groups and organizations. The second component of the project gives student externs from law schools in the three states funds to travel to reservation communities, meet with individual tribal members, provide them with information about estate planning, and upon request, draft a will for them. The students will work under the direct supervision of legal services attorneys. The Indian Land Tenure Foundation, based in Little Canada, Minn., is community organized and directed.
UI Stillinger Herbarium Attracts Botanists From Throughout Region for First-ever Herbaria Conference
Botanists, herbarium managers and conservation center directors from universities, Indian tribes and government agencies throughout the Pacific Northwest and Canada will gather at the UI May 21-23 for the first-ever Conference of Northwest Herbaria.
Organized by the UI Stillinger Herbarium and the UI Department of Biological Sciences, the conference will feature a variety of sessions on everything from contemporary issues facing herbaria to the unique flora of the Palouse Prairie.
The Stillinger Herbarium is the official state repository for Idaho plant specimens and the best representative collection of Idaho's flora in the world. Housed on the fourth floor of Life Sciences South on UI's Moscow campus, the collection consists of more than 125,000 vascular plant specimens, 15,000 bryophyte, 10,000 lichen and approximately 10,000 fungus specimens.
Get the complete story at http://www.today.uidaho.edu/details.aspx?id=2638&sctn=news.
UI Clean Snowmobile Clears New Path For Graduate
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Three years of competition with the Clean Snowmobile Challenge, many nights under the hood of the engine, finding technical solutions and building teams has to have an effect on a student one way or the other.
For Nathan Bradbury, this year's team leader for the University of Idaho's Clean Snowmobile Team and member for two years prior, it's made all the difference. He's developed from an automotive technician to a researcher in transportation engineering, who will go on next fall into a master's program in mechanical engineering. For more information, please click here.
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UI Chemical Engineering Students Take First Place at AIChE
Seven chemical engineering students take 1st place in both the poster competition and car performance at the AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Regional student conference in Seattle, hosted by University of Washington this past Saturday (April 24, 2004). This result also qualifies the team to compete in the national competition next November in Austin, TX at the AIChE Annual National Meeting. For more information, please click here.
UI Chemical Engineering Students Take Top Honors At International Design Competition
Two teams of University of Idaho chemical engineering students brought back three first-place awards and $7,500 prize money from the Waste- management Education Research Consortium competition in Las Cruces, N.M. April 3-9.
Get the complete story at http://www.today.uidaho.edu/details.asp?id=2578&sctn=news
For additional information on the Waste-management Education Research Consortium (WERC), click here.
Commercial Demand is Growing for a Water Treatment Process Developed through University of Idaho
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Greg Moller with Vandal-ION process
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The patent-pending Vandal-ION process developed by UI environmental chemist Greg Möller and his colleagues shows increasing promise as a cost-effective technology capable of meeting tough new regulations.
Pilot testing shows the process can remove phosphorus from wastewater, as well as arsenic, selenium and heavy metals. The potential applications include treating drinking water and cleaning municipal, industrial and mining wastewaters. For more information, please click here.
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UI, Iowa State U to Create National Bio-Fuel Education to Advance Environmentally
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UI has received a five-year, national USDA grant totaling $950,000 to create and distribute nationwide public education about biodiesel fuels made from oil crops,such as canola or mustard seed and reused vegetable oils.
To learn more, go to: http://www.today.uidaho.edu/details.asp?id=2396&sctn=news
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Third Equine Clone Born Healthy; Children’s contest will pick name
 The scientists who produced the world’s first clone born to the horse family won the trifecta
July 28, 2003 with the successful birth of a third cloned mule foal. 
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