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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The Friday Letter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>A Newsletter for <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> Alumni and Friends July 30, 2004<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Here's the latest news at
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Idaho</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Leaders of UI's National
Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology have received confirmation
that the center will receive a $680,000 award from the U. S. Department of
Transportation to extend its operations for a seventh year as a University Transportation
Center. NIATT's success in the FY2002 limited competition made the research
center eligible for this FY 2004 federal appropriations funding. The grant
represents about one-third of the institute's yearly $2 million budget to
conduct research, to educate students and working engineers to meet future
transportation challenges, and to transfer new technologies and solutions to
the profession and society. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The federal appropriation
was sponsored by <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> Sen.
Michael Crapo, U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, U.S. Rep. Michael Simpson and U.S. Rep.
C. L. "Butch" Otter, and comes under the DOT's Research and Special
Programs Administration. NIATT, one of 26 university-based centers of
excellence established by U.S. DOT, advances technology and expertise in the many
transportation disciplines through education, research and technology transfer.
Today, more than 200 UI students, faculty and staff participate in one or more
parts of NIATT's program.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- UI's Electronic Green
Journal is celebrating a decade of existence with a special anniversary issue
featuring an article on corporate environmental reporting, a trio of poems and
nearly two dozen book reviews. The semi-annual publication was one of the first
e-journals available in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>It launched in the summer of
1994 through the UI Library. For a decade, the Electronic Green Journal has
provided peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, news and information concerning
international environmental topics. It is distributed online without charge
serving more than 800 worldwide subscribers and more than 30,000 Web visitors a
month.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- The UI education
specialist (Ed.S.) degree program in school psychology has been re-approved for
another five years by the National Association of School Psychologists. Joe
Prus, chair of NASP's Program Approval Board, recently notified Tom Fairchild,
UI program coordinator, of the re-approval as of Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2008.
NASP program approval indicates to professionals, prospective students and
graduates that the curriculum, field experiences and performance criteria meet
NASP standards for training and practice. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- Twenty-one professional
landscape architects from <st1:country-region w:st="on">Korea</st1:country-region>
were on the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
campus this week for a series of landscape architecture workshops focused on
golf course design techniques. The group visited a number of well-known golf
courses in the Northwest and played a round at the UI Golf Course. Ki Seong
Kim, president of Towmoon LTD in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Korea</st1:place></st1:country-region>, organized this UI trip for
his professional peers. He is a former UI Landscape Architecture Visiting
Scholar. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>- The <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Engineering</st1:PlaceName> has received the final
installment of a $50,000 grant from the Monsanto Fund for a CNC Bed Type
Milling Machine, which will be a component of the <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Idaho</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Water</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType>
in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Boise</st1:place></st1:City>. The
Monsanto Fund will be recognized by having the Monsanto name on the room that
will house the machine in the new building. The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Water</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> will be open to
provide educational services this fall. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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