CALS News Releases

June 27 Tammany Crop Tour Focuses on Cereals, Oilseeds, Stripe Rust and Budgets
Posted: Wednesday, May 9
LEWISTON – The annual Tammany Crop Tour sponsored by University of Idaho Extension is planned June 27 and will feature cereal and oilseed variety trials, Northwest fungicide and stripe rust management strategies and crop enterprise budgets. The tour will begin at 8 a.m. with participants meeting at the Henricksen farm at 2810 Powers Ave. in the Lewiston Orchards. Specific s...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Extension | Nez Perce County | Latah County
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HOIST Lab/Workshop/Project Facilitator Openings
Posted: Monday, April 23
HOIST (Helping Orient Indian Students and Teachers into STEM) is seeking University of Idaho faculty and graduate students to facilitate labs, projects, and workshops during the HOIST summer program in Moscow.
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Faculty and Staff Announcement
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Business Plan Team Takes Fifth at Rice Contest with New Idaho Potato Process
Posted: Wednesday, April 18
MOSCOW, Idaho – A University of Idaho food scientist’s invention that could promise healthier processed potato products helped a student business plan team finish fifth among more than 1,600 worldwide entries in the Rice University Business Plan Competition. University of Idaho students Gaylene Anderson and Jacob Pierson competed in the contest Rice University billed as the world’s richest. This...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Food Science | News Release | Food Science
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University of Idaho Recognizes Distinguished Professors
Posted: Monday, April 2
MOSCOW, Idaho – The University of Idaho announced today that Carolyn Hovde Bohach, professor of food science, and Holly Wichman, professor of biological sciences, have been selected to the rank of University Distinguished Professor. “Our faculty’s commitment to excellence is a key component of our students’ success,”said M. Duane Nellis, president. “These remarkable faculty members hav...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Science | Biological Sciences | Food Science | News Release | Office of the President | Provost | ibest | Copy President's Office for Backup | Office of the President | Office of the President Archive March 2012

Tours explore Idaho’s surprising diversity
Posted: Wednesday, March 14
Idaho may not have as much diversity among its residents as California and New York, but the University of Idaho Extension’s eight popular “Journey for Diversity” tours—hosted since 2005—continue to surprise participants with Idaho’s colorful past. The next tour Oct. 4-5 will explore diversity in the Twin Falls to Pocatello region. One tour “helped me teach students that Idaho not only...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Family and Consumer Sciences | Idaho Falls | Twin Falls | Extension
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Spring Break Tour Focuses on Agricultural Job Opportunities Across Idaho
Posted: Friday, March 9
MOSCOW, Idaho – Like so many other students, on Monday, March 12, a group of University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences students will head south for spring break. With destinations that include a plant that produces malt - an essential ingredient in beer - and a winery, the students’ objective for the 1,200-plus mile itinerary might resemble an epic college road trip. ...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences
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Boosting women’s strength in 6 weeks
Posted: Wednesday, March 7
Can strength training twice a week improve people’s health and daily abilities? Yes, believes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It set a goal for 30 percent of American adults in the U.S. to weight train twice a week to retain muscle mass and reduce fall-related injuries compared to adults who do not work with weights twice a week. A 2004 National Healt...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Agricultural and Life Sciences | Family and Consumer Sciences | Extension | Ada County
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Robots help University of Idaho dietetics students in North Idaho
Posted: Wednesday, March 7
Simulation robots that talk back are helping University of Idaho dietetics students gain experience with problems like cardiac care and renal failure. The novel approach to clinical education is proving its worth as the third group of dietetics students progresses through their clinical rotations in hospitals across southern Idaho and the Idaho Panhandle this spring. The robot exe...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Family and Consumer Sciences | Dietetics | Extension
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Encouraging healthy living through workshops, virtual world
Posted: Wednesday, March 7
More than half of Americans today suffer one or more chronic diseases that contribute to skyrocketing medical expenses for both families and governments. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that modifying just four behaviors could end most chronic diseases—eat healthier foods, do more physical activity, quit smoking, and trim alcohol use. University of Idaho Ex...
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Agricultural and Life Sciences | Family and Consumer Sciences | Extension | Ada County | Kootenai County
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