[Vision2020] The UI Friday Letter for August 11, 2006

[Tom Hansen]

Copied and pasted below is the UI Friday Letter for August 11, 2006 from UI
President White.

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University of Idaho
Office of the President
Moscow, Idaho 83844-3151
Phone: 208-885-6365
Fax: 208-885-6558

The Friday Letter
A Newsletter for University of Idaho Alumni and Friends Aug. 11, 2006

Dear Friends,

One element of our new Strategic Action Plan calls for creating public,
private and community partnerships to undertake bold initiatives to promote
science, technology and their applications. That vision for the University
is being achieved by the announcement that Idaho has been selected to join
the prestigious Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P).
The I3P is a consortium of approximately two dozen leading national cyber
security institutions, including academic research centers, government
laboratories and non-profit organizations. Idaho joins other notable
universities such as Stanford, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne, Dartmouth and MIT, to work toward
identifying and addressing critical research problems in information
infrastructure protection and opening information channels among
researchers, policymakers and infrastructure operators. 

The University also received a continuation of its participation in a
scholarship for service program known as the national CyberCorps program,
funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF will fund the Idaho
program through 2009 with a grant for $824,965 that supports promising young
scholars intending to work on federal information assurance projects. 
Information assurance is the area of computer and network security that
includes database security, real-time control systems, and computer and
accounting forensics. CyberCorps fellowships are limited to U.S. citizens
who are graduate or undergraduate students studying computer science,
computer engineering or accounting. The scholars receive monthly stipends,
all tuition and fees, and living expenses. Details and application
information can be found at http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~sfs/. 

I am pleased for this wonderful national recognition of our high quality
academic and research programs, and for the continuation of an excellent
scholarship program. They speak to our passion for knowledge and discovery,
and enhance the University's high level of accomplishment and visibility.

Tim White
President

Here's the latest news from the University of Idaho:

University of Idaho is delivering higher education to the upper reaches of
the Idaho Panhandle beginning this fall. The College of Education is
introducing two advanced-degree programs in Sandpoint, a master of education
degree in educational leadership, available with or without principal
certification, and a master of education degree in curriculum and
instruction.

The Sandpoint School District evaluated a regional need and requested the
programs from the University of Idaho last spring. Russell Joki, interim
department chair of teacher education, wrote and presented a curriculum
proposal, and the school district accepted. Both degree programs are offered
in a hybrid, live and online format, with live courses to be delivered at
Sandpoint.

Idaho's largest biomedical education and research program has drawn 160
researchers and students to celebrate its fifth anniversary at its annual
meeting currently underway on the North Idaho College campus in Coeur
d'Alene. 

Carolyn Hovde Bohach, the University of Idaho microbiology professor who
leads the Idaho IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence, said the
program has influenced students, teachers and researchers statewide. The
conference is the culmination of a year of activity at Idaho's 10
educational institutions and the Boise VA Medical Center and Mountain States
Tumor and Medical Research Institute. Since its creation in 2001, the
network has drawn nearly $25 million in funding from the National Institutes
of Health and National Center for Research Resources.

Alumnus Earl Lillevig '58 is inspired by possibilities. Lillevig recently
contributed $50,000 to the James and Beulah Martin Scholarship Endowment. 
The 78-year-old Portland, Ore., resident recalled his own inspiration while
at Idaho. "Professors Jim Martin and Allen Janssen opened doors for me to a
successful future." Lillevig worked more than three decades in the Soil
Conservation Services, now the Natural Resource Conservation Service, which
took him to several ports around the world, including Vietnam. The James and
Beulah Martin Scholarship will be awarded to students pursuing degrees in
Biological and Agricultural Engineering within the College of Agricultural
and Life Sciences. To learn more this scholarship and how to give to the
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, contact Mary Hasenoehrl at
(208) 885-6681 or e-mail mhaseno at uidaho.edu.

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Take care, Moscow (you, too, Vandals).

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
UI '96

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