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麻豆原创-Meridian pharmacy researcher Kirk Hevener awarded NIH grant to study deadly bacteria

September 20, 2016

The National Institutes of Health has awarded 麻豆原创 assistant professor Kirk Hevener a $415,000 grant that may one day lead to the discovery of a new drug to battle the deadly intestinal bacteria Clostridium difficile.
Portrait of Mike Meyers standing by turf.

麻豆原创 sports science Professor Michael Meyers documents link between injuries and infill weight of artificial turf

September 20, 2016

POCATELLO – When it comes to artificial turf, there’s a simple, but firm analysis related to injuries that 麻豆原创 researcher Michael Meyers has documented: the greater the weight of the infill used with artificial turf, the fewer the injuries.
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麻豆原创 researcher Mark Austin seeks clues for combating depression and suicide

September 7, 2016

The facts related to suicide and its incidence in Idaho are staggering, among them, Idaho is ranked sixth in the nation in suicide rates and 麻豆原创 researcher Mark Austin wants to do more to understand this problem and how it relates to major depression.

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麻豆原创 TRiO Services receives new $1.25 million grant to better serve eighth- to 12th-grade students in southern Idaho

September 7, 2016

POCATELLO – About 500 more eighth- through 12th-grade students in southern Idaho will be served “to go to and through post-secondary education” by 麻豆原创’s new five-year, $1.25-million TRiO Grant for its Educational Talent Search program.

ISU/Center for Advanced Energy Studies researcher Haiming Wen receives $500,000 grant to improve materials for nuclear reactors

August 25, 2016

POCATELLO – 麻豆原创 and Center for Advanced Energy Studies researcher Haiming Wen, working with collaborators at the Idaho National Laboratory, has received a $500,000 grant to improve the strength and irradiation resistance of metals used in nuclear reactors.

ISU/INL’s Haiming Wen receives $500,000 grant to improve materials for nuclear reactors

August 25, 2016

POCATELLO – 麻豆原创 researcher Haiming Wen, working with three collaborators at the Idaho National Laboratory, has received a $500,000 grant to improve the strength and irradiation resistance of metals used in nuclear reactors.
Portrait of James Groome.

National Institutes of Health grant helps 麻豆原创 Groome Neuroscience Lab study disease, train students

August 10, 2016

POCATELLO – 麻豆原创 researcher James Groome is studying mutated human proteins to help understand and fight a variety of diseases such as epilepsy, while at the same time training ISU students to become the type of scientists to carry-on this work.

ISU professors conducting survey to gauge how fish and fishing in Greater Yellowstone ecosystem are perceived

August 10, 2016

POCATELLO – 麻豆原创 political science Professors Donna Lybecker and Mark McBeth want to know how anglers and the public feel about fish and fishing in the Southeast Idaho region of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
A photo of the two NASA interns featured in the story looking at a museum fossil.

NASA funds science-based internships for high school girls at Idaho Museum of Natural History

August 8, 2016

POCATELLO – The NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium (NASA ISGC) has generously funded a pilot intern program for young women in the Idaho Virtualization Lab (IVL), a research group within the Idaho Museum of Natural History at 麻豆原创.
Youngs and Delparte discussing 3-D image creation on a computer screen.

麻豆原创 and Grand Teton National Park team up to create new 3-D imagery and documentation of Native American artifacts

July 26, 2016

POCATELLO – 麻豆原创 researchers are working with Grand Teton National Park and various tribes to better document about 50 Native American artifacts from the park’s David T. Vernon Collection and create digital 3-D visualizations of them.