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Letter from the Editor The American Dream is alive and well. If you don’t think so, just take a look at stories about our college’s multicultural scholarship winners. Read about students who started life as children of migrant farm workers and are now closing in on dreams to become veterinarians, environmental engineers, and microbiologists. The links below will take you to the articles. Intro Class of 08-09 Shebala Alcocer Peru Adventure The USDA provides scholarships every year to encourage a greater diversity of cultures in both U.S. agriculture and family and consumer sciences careers. John Hammel, John Foltz, and Rachel Halsey from our college have been very successful in writing grants totaling $540,000 since 1994 to fund scholarships that bring African American, Hispanic, Native American, Portuguese, and other students to campus. Cascade-UI adventure. Cascade is site of one of the most robust University of Idaho interdisciplinary programs in recent years. Bill Loftus details how UI Extension’s Barbara Bromley-Brody has worked to bring more help from campus to Cascade after that town’s Horizons poverty-fighting program primed residents to envision new possibilities for the town. Read more. Encouraged to reinvent their town and perhaps bring in more tourist dollars, Cascade residents have welcomed some 60 students and faculty from the UI College of Art and Architecture to help them consider what they could do with a 2.5-mile stretch of the Payette River and adjacent land in their town. Students are churning out plans and talking with residents. We expect exciting results. Read more. UI Extension & Boise Parks. UI Extension’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Program is partnering with Boise Parks and Recreation to bring nutritional information along with recreation and fun to refugee children in densely populated Boise apartments. Marlene Fritz describes excitement from this program Read more. Raising fish omega-3 levels. Fritz also details research at Hagerman Valley on plant foods for rainbow trout that are less taxing on the environment and that give fish the omega-3 oils and other nutrients they need. Read more. MARY ANN REESE, Editor mreese@uidaho.edu top