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The CWI Bookstore would like to welcome students, staff, and faculty back to campus with a Blowout event on Sept. 3.
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Students are benefitting from a valuable undergraduate research opportunity made possible thanks to the efforts of CWI’s Biology Club.
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CWI has consolidated efforts to house information for all student workshops in one location online.
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The CWI Bookstore is proud to announce it is now offering price matching for purchased and rented textbooks.
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VIDEO: A group with ties to CWI spent the summer at Lake Cascade, conducting research in conjunction with a pair of undergraduate programs.
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Graduates recently returned to CWI to give their input on what will become the Alumni Connection.
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CWI is happy to introduce Welcome Wednesday as the College’s new Welcome Week event.
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For Jessica Thomas the College of Western Idaho truly is the college of what if. The horticulture technology program student, who is steadily working to complete her associate degree, says she never pictured herself...
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The action was deep in the pack at CWI’s Professional Truck Driving night at the Meridian Speedway this weekend. The CWI Street Stock race was exciting with Marv Weaver dominating the race and claiming the win. CWI’s High School Tuners fought a hard race with pack leaders...
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CWI’s Street Team returns to campus this Wednesday for the Explore CWI event. The Street Team has been busy handing out hundreds of invitations to the community at all of the recent events and they are looking forward to seeing some familiar faces. With all of the conversations about...
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The College of Western Idaho’s President, Bert Glandon, threw the first pitch of the night with the Street Team pitching free gifts to the crowd throughout the night at the Boise Hawks game against Everett’s Aquasox. The Hawks provided some early excitement but failed to find...
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Designer babies..? Pet dinosaurs..? Most people would brush-off these ideas as mere science-fiction fantasies. But let’s explore the possibilities---Are these technologies actually achievable and teetering on the cusp of reality?
Even the most progressive...
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This Saturday (July 11), is the annual Bogus Basin star party, at the Nordic Lodge at Bogus Basin Ski Resort. The event commences at 7 p.m. with solar viewing (using CWI’s solar telescope amongst others) until around 9 p.m. In the darkening twilight, Venus and Jupiter will make...
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Street Teams lead off in perfect position at the ball park this week! Thursday will kick off a five-game home stand for the Boise Hawks against the Northwest League’s North Division leading Everett AquaSox with CWI’s President Bert Glandon throwing out the first pitch of the night!...
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The 2015 Boise Music Festival was hot, hot, hot with the best music Boise has seen since the River Festival line ups! It was triple digit heat but music lovers turned out by the thousands to enjoy the variety of music. CWI’s Street Teams were right in the middle of all the fun sharing...
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The number of high school students earning college credits at CWI continues to rise, including incredible growth at partnering alternative schools.
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CWI offices and buildings will be closed in observance of the holiday.
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The Meridian Dairy Days opened at the Speedway with CWI Night and the Horticulture Street Team was part of the action!
With temperatures rising, the carnival all set and Dairy Days ready to begin, the event kicked off with kid’s bike races followed by the evening's racing....