A $10,000 gift from the Qwest Foundation to the Idaho State University Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Education of the Deaf Department will benefit ISU speech and language clinics, and be a learning boon to students studying at the clinics.
ldquo;The donation from Qwest will allow ISU to purchase augmentative communication devices, specialized software, access switches, and other adaptive equipment, rdquo; said Beth Guryan, ISU assistant professor for Communication Science and Disorders and Education of the Deaf, who works with students at Idaho State University-Boise. Idaho State University will host Harris Smith, interim chair and head of the professional actor training program at the University of Nebraska ndash; Lincoln, to teach a workshop for ISU and community schools rsquo; in early January.
On Jan. 12, Smith will teach how to use rapiers and daggers and engage in unarmed combat to ISU Theatre and Dance students.
But they rsquo;re not doing it for free. The undergraduate students each received $1,000 toward tuition and the group received $3,700 for building materials from the Idaho Robotic Lunar Exploration Program in association with the NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium and NASA Ames Research Center. Their mission: to build a robot that can simulate digging a trench on the moon, lay a cable and cover the trench with material that will protect the cable from space radiation.
Pacific salmon and steelhead are ldquo;keystone rdquo; ecological wildlife species to the Pacific Northwest, where, according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources, more than 130 wildlife species depend on Pacific salmon for part of their diet. And that doesn rsquo;t count all the plants and microorganisms that depend on nutrients the return of salmon to waterways provides.
Pacific salmon can be considered a keystone species in other ways, such as how vital they are to the regional economy of Northwest commercial salmon fishing or to the local economy of a town like Riggins, Idaho, where sportfishing brings in tourists rsquo; dollars.
Idaho State University assistant professor of anthropology Dr. Benedict Colombi studies a third facet of how the salmon are a keystone species, in terms of the cultural impact the salmon have on various groups.
His studies thus far have primarily focused on Idaho rsquo;s Nez Perce Tribe and other indigenous groups in the Northwest, but he plans to expand his studies on much wider global scale to the world rsquo;s polar regions.
Several programming changes will take place on KISU-FM 91.1 radio on Monday, Dec. 18.
Program director Jamon Anderson said there will be a host change for the popular jazz program ldquo;Sweet Sounds, rdquo; which airs weekdays at 10 a.m.
The show will once again be hosted by Lisa Summers Hall, who hosted the show for several years before moving to evenings to host ldquo;The Fabulous Rhythm and Blues Review. rdquo; Hall replaces Molly McIsaac, an ISU freshman who can no longer host because of class schedules.
Hall rsquo;s move back to morning means ldquo;The Fabulous Rhythm and Blues Review, rdquo; which has been aired for the past four years each weeknight at 8 p.
m., will go on hiatus. In its place will be ldquo;Emancipated Audio, rdquo; a new show that has been hosted during the past several months at 9 p.
m. by Taylor Towsley.
After 26 years of service at Idaho State University, Margaret Phelps is retiring.She joined the University in 1980 as the dean rsquo;s secretary for the College of Health-Related Professions. The last 20 years have been spent as director for Workforce Training at the College of Technology. To recognize Margaret for her years of service, an open house is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.
m. on Wednesday, Dec. 13, in the Conference Room (#149) at the Roy F.
Christensen Building. Two longtime Idaho State University College of Business Professors, Drs. Lela ldquo;Kitty rdquo; Pumphrey and John Kilpatrick, will retire from their careers with the college this month at the end of the fall semester.
Originally planning to finish her teaching career at ISU, Pumphrey says the chance to be part of educating women in a Muslim country and experiencing the culture is very appealing.
ldquo;I love ISU, and teaching here has been a good experience for me, rdquo; she said.
ldquo;I would not leave to go to another university, this is just an opportunity to pursue my love of other cultures. rdquo;
Idaho State University professor emeritus of biology Dr.G. Wayne Minshall has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Minshall is ldquo;being honored for distinguished contributions to the field of stream ecology, particularly for stream ecosystem structure and function, and long-term effects of wildfires on stream ecosystems, rdquo; according to an AAAS press release.
Minshall will be officially honored at the AAAS rsquo;s annual meeting in February during the AAAS Fellows Forum.
ldquo;It is pretty exciting to receive this award, rdquo; Minshall said. ldquo;It is not something I expected or thought would ever take place.
It is a great honor: There are not that many in the state or the country that are given this kind of accolade.
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