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![Biology 2: Experiential Learning in McCall](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/news_ct/image/bio.jpg?itok=4XzKCtNR×tamp=1571175632)
Learn about science while enjoying the beauty of Payette Lake, in McCall, this summer.
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College of Western Idaho’s (CWI) Biology 2 (Biodiversity & Evolution) class is going native! Join other adventurous students for a three week immersion experience studying the biodiversity and evolution of living organisms at the University of Idaho Field Campus (UIFC) in the beautiful...
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Students enrolled in Flex Lab science classes have the ability to change their scheduled lab time online, to a later time or a different day entirely.
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A Monarch butterfly—raised at College of Western Idaho from a caterpillar—is making history in the Pacific Northwest scientific community.
![Monarch Research Project at CWI Monarch Research Project at CWI](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/img_2797.1.jpg?itok=lqLvcbAN×tamp=1571176004)
Under CWI student Vance McFarland’s watchful eye, more than 50 Monarch Butterflies are ready for a long migration journey.
![Karen Strickler, a Parma resident and CWI biology instructor](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/news_ct/image/dscf5615a.jpg?itok=WaMl6nQU×tamp=1571176008)
On Oct. 1, CWI students and faculty joined a group of citizen scientists gathered at the confluence of the Snake and Boise Rivers to monitor water quality.
![2016 Summer Research Symposium at Boise State University 2016 Summer Research Symposium at Boise State University](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/image_c_-_img_1945.1.jpg?itok=QbnYEZ6f×tamp=1571176019)
Seven Biology students had the opportunity to spend their summer vacations in the field researching birds, butterflies, and freshwater mollusks.
![Osprey Research Project near Lake Cascade, Idaho Osprey Research Project near Lake Cascade, Idaho](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/img_9827.1.jpg?itok=VyvfhzqL×tamp=1571176021)
Three students and a CWI biology instructor had the opportunity to get up-close and very personal with osprey—all in the name of science.
![Monarch Butterfly Conservation Project at Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Monarch Butterfly Conservation Project at Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/monarch_img_9607_10.jpg?itok=99FYZMLH×tamp=1571176026)
Two CWI students spent their summer as part of a large-scale research effort to save Monarch butterflies from becoming endangered species.
![CWI Student and Scholarship Recipient Libna Luevanos CWI Student and Scholarship Recipient Libna Luevanos](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/img_8371.1.jpg?itok=_tdBc7rR×tamp=1571176287)
When Libna Luevanos graduated from Boise High School in 2014 she wasn’t sure what would happen next. Her parents wanted her to work. She wanted to learn. Always fascinated with science and the human body, she was exposed to forensics in high school and thought criminal justice may be a...
![CWI Student and Scholarship Recipient Andrew Barrios CWI Student and Scholarship Recipient Andrew Barrios](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/img_8335_x.jpg?itok=yt8rRLBp×tamp=1571176289)
CWI student Andrew Barrios admits he was once heading down the wrong path. Now he is a self-driven individual and has turned his life around.
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Dr. Michael Edgehouse, an associate professor at Lewis-Clark State College, will visit CWI’s Nampa Campus Academic Building on April 8.
![Student in a classroom](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/news_ct/image/idoteach_online.jpg?itok=IZasIcdh×tamp=1571176354)
This spring, 17 students from CWI are learning first-hand what it takes to be a teacher.
![CWI Student/Scholarship Recipient David Mpoyi CWI Student David Mpoyi, Biology-Healthcare](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/img_1749.1.jpg?itok=UpmY-0kC×tamp=1571176437)
Quiet and observative, David Mpoyi is on a mission. Raised to value hard work and the importance of being educated, the Biology-Healthcare program student works full time and attends the College of Western Idaho (CWI) full time. He is doing...
![CWI Student/Scholarship Recipient Laura Grout CWI Student Laura Grout, Biology-Healthcare](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/img_0204.12.jpg?itok=dyjJxrC6×tamp=1571176444)
For Laura Grout, going to college was always an option. Although it took her almost 20 years to enroll in the Biology-Healthcare program at the College of Western Idaho, she has never lost sight of becoming a formally-trained midwife. After years of...
![CWI Alumni Davianne Astley, 2015 CWI Alumni Davianne Astley, Biology-Healthcare, 2015](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/img_8015.1.jpg?itok=nWjn1w-o×tamp=1571176450)
Davianne Astley is proof that scholarships work. The College of Western Idaho (CWI) alumna says if it weren’t for a scholarship she received from the CWI Foundation, she would not be where she is today....
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Students are benefitting from a valuable undergraduate research opportunity made possible thanks to the efforts of CWI’s Biology Club.
![Osprey held by recent CWI graduate Tyrell Styhl](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/news_ct/image/osprey_online.jpg?itok=V4kKD3-N×tamp=1571176464)
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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