Monday, September 30, 2019
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Idaho State University will honor current faculty, alumni and supporters with awards during the half time of the 2019 Homecoming football game on Oct. 12 at Holt Arena. Recipients will also be recognized at the President’s Alumni Recognition Reception/Dinner running from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, in the ISU Pond Student Union Ballroom. Read more

Idaho State University has hired Kyle McGowan, a consultant with NAPA Group who served in executive development roles at Vanderbilt and Georgetown Universities, as vice president for University Advancement.
McGowan has more than 20 years of experience at universities working in the areas of strategic and campaign planning, development and alumni relations, management and operations, marketing, and communications and brand management. Read more

 Idaho State University’s Rupp Debate Society bested 20 British parliamentary debate teams at the 50th Northwest Trapper Forensic Tournament at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming.
Bengal debatersJunior Kaden Marchetti, Pocatello, and his partner freshman Joseph Tyler, Idaho Falls, convinced a three-judge panel that action is preferable to adaptation on the matter of global warming. Read more