Spring means we’re nearing the end of the school year – and various award banquets and receptions. We’re proud that so many CMCI participants received awards this year. 2019 College of Science Staff, Faculty, and Graduate Student Awards Nominations for the staff and faculty awards were made by members of the College of Science executive…
Congratulations to CMCI postdoc Aniruddha Belsare who will soon be joining the Boone and Crockett Quantitative Wildlife Center (QWC) in the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife at Michigan State University as a Research Associate. his work will focus on the development of quantitative tools to evaluate tne inform wildlife disease control and management, specifically chronic…
Where does a cell put it’s resources? CMCI participant and Department of Physics faculty member Andreas Vasdekis, and his research colleagues Hamdah Alanazi, Amrah Canul and Christopher Williams published a study in the journal Nature Communications. They introduce a new imaging technique to record how a single cell allocates its resources between the production of…
This article was written by Leigh Cooper, Science and Content Writer at University of Idaho Communications and Marketing. We’re excited that Dr. Bull is affiliated with the Center for Modeling Complex Interactions. MOSCOW, Idaho — Feb. 13, 2019 — National Academy of Sciences (NAS) member Jim Bull will join the University of Idaho faculty in fall 2019. He will be the first NAS member affiliated with an educational institution in Idaho,…
Several people reported the correct answer and students and postdocs were rewarded with chocolate at the CMCI Luncheon yesterday. The image was created by CMCI Postdoctoral Fellow Dharmesh Patel for the College of Science 2018 Photography and Graphic Arts Contest. Congratulations to CMCI student researcher Emmanuel Ijezie who submitted one of the top 5 images…
College of Science Dean Ginger Carney recently announced the recipient’s of this year’s Hill Undergraduate Research Fellowships. Madison Bergeman, who works with Professor Christine Parent, was one of eight recipients for her project, “Effects of sequential co-infection of viruses in Drosophila adult flies.” Additionally, CMCI-affiliated undergraduates Brandon Larsen and Nicole Recla were also each awarded…
Paving the Path University of Idaho educator went from being the first woman in her department to a distinguished professor and leader This article was written by Justyna Tomtas and published in the Lewiston Tribune on Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. Read the original article here. When Holly Wichman was an assistant professor at the University of…
The CMCI Working Group, Reproducibility in Sciences or SciRep for short, was recently highlighted in the Lewiston Tribune. The group is comprised of a marketer, a philosopher, a statistician and a computer scientist. They are looking for ways to improve traditional research methods by examining an emerging pattern that shows results from many scientific studies…
The College of Science held its 14th annual Student Research Exposition on Thursday, October 18. There were 44 entries on display representing three categories: Undergraduate Category, Graduate Category and Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Award. “All of our entries deserve praise,” stated Mark Nielsen, Associate Dean of the College of Science. “We’re very proud of…
Have you heard? College of Science researchers have been awarded nearly $18 million in new competitive grant funding for the 2018 fiscal year. The college has had it’s best year ever despite a very competitive national funding environment. Twelve million has been awarded just since January. We agree with Dean Ginger Carney – it IS a…