CWI News & Blogs
Current Search Criteria
- (-) Remove <span class="facet-title">Related Group:</span> Geosciences filter Related Group: Geosciences
Current search criteria - found 49 results
Search by Program, Career, or Skills
Filter News by
News Category
Related Group(s)
- (-) Remove Geosciences filter Geosciences
Search Results
On Feb. 27, CWI helped promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education at the event in McCall.
College of Western Idaho’s (CWI) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics programs are excited to introduce a new video blog series, Science is a Verb. CWI faculty share some of their favorite experiments, as well as tips and tricks for bringing science to life. In this episode,...
CWI's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics programs are excited to introduce a new video blog series, Science is a Verb.
Interested in saving the world? Want to help raise awareness on our campus and in our local community about sustainable living? Interested in learning more about sustainability yourself? Then this club is for you! Sustainability Club is a relatively new club at College of Western Idaho (CWI)....
The opportunities are sponsored by Idaho INBRE, which promotes undergraduate biomedical research.
In the Fall, a group of CWI Biology students evaluated their impact on the environment. One student saw the project as more than an assignment.
Three College of Western Idaho (CWI) Biology majors are already starting work in their chosen field. Jennifer Hines (Sophomore), Kassandra Townsend (Sophomore), and Tabor Hoxsey (Freshman) are working on a collaborative research project overseen by Assistant Professor of Biology, Steve Lysne....
On Saturday, Nov. 7, nine College of Western Idaho (CWI) students and their instructor, representing the Allied Health, Education, and Biology Departments, hosted two different workshops at CWI’s annual STEM Out! Into PTE event. This event was designed to ignite the curiosities of...
“Take two aspirin and call me in the morning” is saying that has been around for as long as we know, but let’s pause for a moment and consider what it would mean if we didn’t have access to drugs such as aspirin. Aspirin is used to treat pain, fever, inflammation,...
Yesterday, the internet exploded (as it does regularly) over an infographic about what a can of coke does to the human body after consumption. The original post was created by the website www.therenegadepharmacist.com. Unsurprisingly, fact...
If you are like me, you’ve probably seen the (relatively) new milk commercials that have the 5 point promise...which is why of course it is the best…and you should buy it. Now the claims may be true, but what they don’t tell you—It is also true of most of the milk...
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...
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...
CWI welcomed over 150 educators to the Micron Center for Professional Technical Education this week for the Treasure Valley I-STEM event.
It’s summer and if there ever was a season for science in Idaho, it’s summer! Most people think that science is only something that can be accomplished in the laboratory or under carefully guided field exercises. Did you know there are many different opportunities to participate in...
CWI’s Center for Invertebrate Science and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game are partnering to share information and review the conservation status of invertebrate animals in Idaho. It’s been almost a decade since natural resource managers took a hard look at the status of...
Every week, the data at Drought Monitor (http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu) are updated and I like to visit the site to learn how the country is doing, as far as drought is concerned. It helps me better understand the climate of the United States.
...
Tyrell Styhl, a sophomore natural resources major at the College of Western Idaho (CWI), claimed Best Paper Presentation for an Undergraduate Student at the 57th Annual Meeting & Symposium of the Idaho Academy of Science and Engineering last month in Boise. He won for his paper titled ...