Magazine Archive - Programs & People
Winter 2013
What does the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln mean to us in Idaho today? This magazine issue revisits Lincoln’s dream for Idaho and all other states when he signed the Morrill Act in 1862, three years before he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The act created the University of Idaho, among others, with a college designated to help Idaho farmers feed our state and the nation. Other stories include edible weeds; diversity impacts of our faculty; no-knead wheat bread; ways new technologies help us connect with you.
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Winter 2012
Celebrate 100 years of 4-H in Idaho during all of 2012. Meet the UI Extension’s Juliet Marshall who helped save crops of southeastern Idaho wheat growers from stripe rust. Help monitor Idaho’s streams—become a water steward.
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Summer 2009
Wheat is Idaho’s second largest crop-revenue producer in 2008, after potatoes. Learn how researchers partner with growers to keep us competitive. Stretch your food dollars. Start a victory garden. Discourage wasps from your picnic.
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Winter 2011
How are budget cuts to the UI College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and UI Extension impacting Idaho’s biggest industry—agriculture—and Idaho’s citizens? Six stories consider this question.
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Winter 2010
Who uses Idaho water and where do they use it? Idaho water is the cover story of this issue with 10 pages devoted to ways UI CALS researchers are helping Idaho define and solve looming water issues.
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Winter 2008
The University of Idaho Extension has battled poverty in Idaho for more than 30 years. New programs help residents of small northern Idaho towns with high poverty rates seek ways to improve their economic options. Meet a UI alum who helps Peru's poorest Andean farmers improve their lives through marketing their ancient brand of potatoes.
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Winter 2009
Meet 10 new multicultural scholarship winners on campus. Their stories show the American Dream is alive and well. Tips on retiring well. Idaho's new caviar ventures.
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Summer 2008
2008 is the International Year of the Potato. We commemorate more than a century of effort by our scientists to help Idaho maintain it's premier potato growing status. 4-H's Robotics program. Why agricultural education remains big today in Idaho high schools.
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Summer 2007
Biofuels boom of Idaho
Alternative fruits, nuts
Trends in clothing, textiles, and design
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Winter 2005
CALS Faculty and Students
connect Idaho to the world.
Creating 21st Century Scientists (IGERT Fellows)
Helping Idaho Seniors Eat Well
Idaho's Wheat Advantage
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Summer 2005
Idaho's 21st Century Agriculture
AND how CALS scientists and educators help economically.
Undergraduate research results
Alum helps Indian nations conquer diabetes
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Summer 2004
Helping Idaho's small acreage growers
Mom and Dad Follow Kids to College: They all enroll in UI CALS
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