 Science Update
Efforts to ensure that hatchery-reared sockeye salmon contribute to-rather than detract from-the fish's reproductive success appear to be paying off for endangered Redfish Lake sockeye salmon. UI graduate student Catherine Willard's work is essential.
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 Histroy/Diversity lessons
Through Other Eyes
From racial hatred of neo-Nazis, and militant activism of miners seeking fair pay, to a suffragist's quest to win women the right to vote, northern Idaho's history reflects the power of small groups to influence image and deed. UI Extension workshops on wheels explore Idaho's historic diversity in an effort to help today's leaders.
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 June 2006 tour includes Minidoka Internment Camp
Sign up soon to join the June 22 to 24, 2006 Journey for Diversity and Human Rights in southwestern Idaho.
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 May Hutton
Idahoans can credit May Arkwright Hutton, a cook who became a wealthy silver mine owner in Wallace, with helping women win the right to vote in 1896, making our state fourth in the union to do so.
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 Indian Boarding Schools
As a young girl, Rose Goddard attended a boarding school for Coeur d'Alene Indian girls that operated on the reservation at DeSmet from 1878 to 1974. She recalls her experiences.
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 Neo-Nazis
Realizing that the neo-Nazis in their midst represented a threat both to safety and the region's reputation turned citizens of Coeur d'Alene into activists.
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 Idaho Quiz
How much do you know about ethnic diversity in Idaho history? Take this quiz.
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 Que Rico!
The arts are the heart and soul of the world's cultures. That's why a curriculum team of extension educators from six states, coordinated Idaho's Janet Edwards, chose the arts to help K-8th grade youth explore cultural differences and similarities
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 Giddy-up at Fort Hall
4-H leader Danielle Gunn teaches Fort Hall kids the fine art of horse riding . and leadership.
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 Robbie Paul's Healing Journey
With one foot in the white and one in the Nez Perce worlds, Robbie Paul shares her triumphant journey through historic griefs to reconcile five generations of Nez Perce history and struggles.
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 Urban Horticulture
GROW: Idahoans old and young, rural and urban, green-thumbed or wanna-be's are knee-deep in questions about plants. UI's Steve Love is cultivating a coordinated statewide effort to help answer those gardening questions-and to develop Idaho-specific answers if they don't yet exist.
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 Student prothesis project
Working with orphans in China led to Chelan Pedrow's desire to create a prothesis for an orphan boy that could grow along with him.
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 145 years, Idaho weather
UI climatologists preserve Idaho's weather history, and make data accessible on the web.
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 Wheat Breeding
New research tools, improved wheat quality, and better communication between buyers and breeders rank high among improvements wheat breeder Bob Zemetra has seen during 20 years of wheat breeding at the University of Idaho.
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 Aberdeen fitness
At the UI Aberdeen Research and Extension Center staffers tackle fitness with pedometers and determination.
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 Student-athletes
CALS student-athletes shine in the NCAA limelight and in the classroom.
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 FCS Ritchie speaker
The UI School of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Margaret Ritchie Distinguished Speaker series when Virginia Vincenti from the University of Wyoming examined "How the Legacies of the Past Influence the Future."
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 Cummings center
A celebration at the Nancy M. Cummings Research Extension and Education Center became more festive in August with a surprise move by the Auen Foundation of Palm Desert, CA.
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 Meet Kim Nelson
Keeping classrooms filled with the best possible students is no simple challenge for Kim Nelson, new student recruitment coordinator for UI College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS).
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 Meet Mary Hasenoehrl
This life-long aggie, with a successful career in PR, sounds like a perfect fit for the UI College of Agricultural and Life Sciences development director.
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 BookShelf-Reporting Child Abuse
UI Extension's Linda Webb lead development of a new video on how to report child abuse. It is short and to-the-point, with a matter-of-fact tone, that clarifies exactly what volunteers should do when they suspect physical or sexual abuse or neglect.
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