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ECONOMY MINDED A Place of Jobs, Talent and Ideas

Game Changer Meet New AD Mark Coyle Art Appreciation Exhibitions Abound on Campus All in the Family Building a Legacy of Alums Dr. Mark Rudin Division of Research and Economic Development Bill Connors Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce in this issue 12 A new program aims to interest passionate science and math students in teaching careers.

20 Boise State’s art galleries offer a visual feast of mixed- media work from faculty, students, alumni and master artists. JOHN KELLY

The state-of-the-art Micron Business and Economics Building at the corner of Capitol Boulevard and 18 University Drive opens its doors for fall semester. departmentS in this issue FIRST WORD ...... 3 CAMPUS NEWS 4

SPORTS ...... 11

DISCOVERY ...... 12

ARTS 20

ALUMNI ...... 22

LAST PAGE 29 6 Family factors into many prospective students’ decisions to attend Boise State.

From local construction jobs for new buildings 10 to graduating the CEOs, Honors College student 14entrepreneurs and visionaries of the future, Drew Hopkins is the Boise State is a place of jobs, talent and first-ever recipient of ideas as it drives millions of dollars to the the generous Stimpson regional and state economies. Scholarship.

DID YOU KNOW? B I K IN G Boise State was named among the nation’s 11 top bicycle-friendly universities by the New Athletic League of American Bicyclists. The Silver Director Mark Award recognizes bike-friendly services such as the Cycle Learning Center, compressed Coyle is impressed air centers, bike barns, added bike paths with Boise State and bicycle parking areas, and valet bike both on and off the parking during major special events. field of play. FOCUS ON JOIN US BOISE STATEUNIVERSITY Campus Events

Fall 2012, Volume XXXVIII, No. 1 Aug. 24-Dec. 5 Published by the Office of Communications and Marketing for Alumni and Friends “Chapters from the History of the Book,” Exhibition of Rare Books and Objects from the Collection of David President: Dr. Bob Kustra and Nancy Leroy Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs: Dr. Martin Schimpf Oct. 2 Vice President for Finance and Administration: Stacy Pearson (MPA, ’85) Campus Read Speaker Sharon Vice President for Student Affairs: Dr. Lisa Harris Matola, Author of “The Last Flight Interim Vice President for University Advancement: Rosemary Reinhardt of the Scarlet Macaw” Vice President for Research and Economic Development: Dr. Mark Rudin Oct. 4 Vice President and General Counsel: Kevin Satterlee (BS, ’90) Distinguished Lecture Series, Cognitive Scientist Steven Pinker State Board of Education: Kenneth Edmunds, president; Don Soltman, vice president; Emma Atchley, secretary; Bill Goesling; Rod Lewis; Tom Luna, superintendent of Oct. 4-14 public instruction; Milford Terrell; and Richard Westerberg “The Importunity of Being Earnest or The Roles We Play,” Department Director of Communications and Marketing: Frank Zang of Theatre Arts production Editor: Kathleen Tuck, [email protected] Oct. 15-20 Staff writers: Mike Journee, Sherry Squires Homecoming Events Photography: John Kelly (BA, ’91), Carrie Quinney (BFA, ’02) Nov. 1 Editorial assistant: Heather Calkins Brandt Foundation Lecturer, Graphic design: Ann Hottinger (BFA, ’03) Constitutional Law Professor Richard A. Epstein Alumni news: Jennifer Wheeler, Sonja Carter Nov. 8-18 Student photography assistants: Chandelle Arner, Karl LeClair, Tyler Martin, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Amaura Mitchell, Kim Owens Department of Theatre Arts production Advertising sales: Contact Kathleen Tuck, (208) 426-3275 or [email protected]. Dec. 2 Annual Family Holiday Concert Publishing information: FOCUS magazine’s address is 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725-1030. Phone: (208) 426-1577. Diverse views are presented Dec. 21 and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of FOCUS or the official policies Winter Commencement of Boise State University. 2013 Address changes: Send changes (with address label if possible) to the Boise May 4 State Alumni Office, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725-1035 or by email Bronco Auction to [email protected]. If you receive duplicate copies of the magazine, please notify the Alumni Office at the above address. Friends of the university For details on additional entertainment who wish to receive FOCUS may do so by submitting their names and addresses events, visit the Morrison Center for the to the Alumni Office. Performing Arts at mc.boisestate.edu or Home page: FOCUS may be found online at Taco Bell Arena at tacobellarena.com http://news.boisestate.edu/focus-on-boise-state/.

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page 2 | focus | fall 2012 First Word Drew Hopkins was captain of his high school football team. He is a Dean’s List scholar in our civil engineering program. He has big ideas about how to help mankind and he acts on them. Drew is a perfect illustration of how there is no more pressing need at Boise State today than funding for scholarships. On page 10, you will read that without the generosity of Dottie Stimpson and the scholarship she funded last year in honor of her late husband, Ed, Drew may have given up on finishing his college degree. The scholarship is a fitting memorial to Ed Stimpson, a good friend of both Kathy and me, and a better person you could not find. Nor is Dottie’s decision to endow the scholarship surprising, as she is the embodiment of community involvement and action. For too many students, however, there is no benefactor, which is why we will soon launch with the Boise State Foundation a campaign to endow scholarships. In the coming months, you’ll be hearing much more about our efforts to overcome this challenge and I’m hopeful you’ll be inspired to join our fight to ensure that the best and most deserving students in the region become and remain Broncos. Universities across the nation, including Boise State, are facing unprecedented changes in the way they conduct the business of higher education. Declining funding from state coffers means the gifts of friends like Dottie Stimpson will become increasingly important to our students, faculty and academic programs. Increasingly, privately funded scholarships will mean the difference between many students attending on a full- or part-time basis – or, like Drew, attending at all. Each and every day, our focus is on ensuring that Boise State continues doing what it does best: providing a first-rate education so that our students become alumni who make a difference for Boise, our state, the nation and the world. I know you share that vision and will join us in making sure that tomorrow’s leaders have the tools they need to reach their greatest potential. — Dr. Bob Kustra, President

Graduate Lauren Horton and more than 1,400 fellow students celebrated their accomplishments in May during Boise State’s largest Commencement ceremony to date. JOHN KELLY Thro ug h Ou r L e ns

boise state university | focus | page 3 campus news Going Beyond PHOTO COURTESY OF HOSEI COURTESY UNIVERSITYPHOTO the Blue at Japan’s Hosei University By Frank Zang In 2004, when Boise State’s Tetsuya Ehara and Hosei University’s Hajime Kiyohara first talked of an exchange between their universities, they never imagined it would extend beyond students and academic programs.

However, a ceremony in June took it Although there won’t be any exchanges much further, marking the dedica- on the football field, the two universi- tion of a new blue football field at ties will continue trading knowledge on Hosei University in Kawasaki, Japan, business and athletics. Takashi Yaekura, near Tokyo – the first international the faculty adviser for Hosei’s football licensing of the playing surface as a program, will be a ‘faculty in residence’ Boise State trademark. this fall in Boise State’s College of Business and Economics. And a group “The exchange with Hosei University of health and sport students and faculty is emblematic of our expanding global from Hosei will be on campus for two outreach as a university and city,” says weeks for the Intensive English Program. Dr. Bob Kustra, Boise State president. “The relationship continues to blossom Hosei University is a comprehensive in several ways as the two universities university with 41,420 students on have developed an international friend- three campuses. Its school colors are ship and gained so much academically, blue and orange like Boise State and its athletically and culturally.” nickname is the Tomahawks. The universities have exchanged 65 Boise State’s iconic blue turf, originally students since an agreement was introduced in 1986, is a registered signed between Boise State and Hosei trademark of the university. While other in 2006. Boise State has sent about schools have special color projects for 35 local educators to visit schools in the end zone area, Boise State was the Tokyo, and a group of Japanese sports first to have the entire field produced medicine and health studies students in a special color. It is still the only and faculty members from Hosei visited non-green football field among NCAA Boise last fall. Division I FBS schools.

Campus Read Boise State has selected “The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman’s Fight to Save the World’s Most Beautiful Bird,” by Bruce Barcott, as the 2012-13 Campus Read book. Incoming first-year students received the book during their summer orientation sessions and it will be discussed in University Foundations courses this fall. Sharon Matola, the subject of the book, will give a free lecture at Boise State on Oct. 2. Barcott, an environmental journalist and a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow in nonfiction, will speak on March 5, 2013. page 4 | focus | fall 2012 Lincoln Townhouses Welcome Students

The new Lincoln Avenue Townhouses are officially open and providing a campus home for Boise State juniors and seniors. The $15.8 million complex lines both sides of Lincoln Avenue just south of the Lincoln Avenue Parking Garage, with 90 roomy four-bedroom, two- story townhouse-style units. Demand for on-campus housing at Boise State continues to grow, and this additional housing with 360 beds increases capacity by 18 percent, for a total of 2,630 beds. Boise State has six residence halls and a variety of suites/apartment complexes.

Two Faculty Named Distinguished Professors

Boise State University has honored two faculty members as Distinguished Professors. This title constitutes one of the highest honors that can be given to a faculty member at Boise State and is reserved for a small number who have made major contributions to their academic disciplines. This MÜLLNER year’s honorees are: Dr. Peter Müllner, materials science and engineering, who is among the leading researchers in the field of magnetic shape memory alloys, with funding in excess of $5 million from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Department of Defense and NASA. Dr. Marion Scheepers, mathematics, who has conducted research that has greatly influenced the field of set theory and is the founder of the mathematical discipline of selection principles. SCHEEPERS

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From left: Ryan Gregg, Niki Shaw Gregg, Kevin Gregg (holding a picture of Gerald Ryan), Kristi Christensen Tenny, June Ryan Gregg (holding a picture of Edward Gregg), Matthew Gregg and Kim Gregg Harrison. JOHN KELLY

and started a family, they also unwittingly Prune away its Bronco launched a Bronco dynasty. branches and Ryan “We always joke that without Boise State, I Gregg’s family tree wouldn’t exist,” Ryan says. That’s because in addition to his grandpar- would be little more ents, a great aunt and great uncle, his father, By Kathleen Tuck than a shrub. mother, stepmother, two aunts, an uncle (who also was involved with ASBSU) and a brother The president of the Associated Students of all attended, or currently attend, the school. Boise State University (ASBSU) hales from a large group of Boise State alumni, starting Gregg plans to graduate in 2014 with a degree with his grandparents June Ryan and Edward in political science; eventually he hopes to Gregg. The two met as students on the Boise become a high school teacher. His younger Junior College campus in the early 1960s. brother, Matthew, just finished his freshman year and wants to major in engineering. June, whose older siblings Kathleen and Gerald also attended BJC, was a cheerleader Surrounded by so much Bronco spirit who worked in the campus cafeteria. Edward throughout his growing-up years, Gregg was in the Coast Guard Reserve and working always knew that Boise State was an option. on a degree in welding. When they married But it wasn’t until he started looking at other page 6 | focus | fall 2012 colleges that he recognized the treasure right “People don’t always know or take advan- in his own backyard. tage of the resources and community that are available here,” she says. “Boise State has a great program with nationally recognized professors, and it’s just a mile from the state capitol,” he says. “Plus, my family is really important to me, and this way I could be close.” Family also factored into Carissa Wilcox’s decision to attend Boise State. Like Gregg, she comes from a multi-generational Boise State family. Her grandfather, Jim Fisher, came to BJC in 1957 and was a lineman on the national championship football team the next year under the direction of Coach Lyle Smith. The former superintendent of Garden Valley, New Plymouth and Payette schools spent

years as a teacher and school administrator Ca rrie Q uinney before retiring. But his dedication to education lives on through his children. Clockwise: Jim Fisher, Carissa Wilcox, Craig Fisher, Camille Wilcox, Kristopher Wilcox Three sons — Carissa’s dad, Craig, and uncles Kirk and Casey — attended Boise State, as do two of Carissa’s cousins on her mother’s side — Jake and Brad (Bud) Gross. Celebrating Wilcox has two children who are Craig earned two associate’s degrees, one in already involved with the university. Generations marketing in the ’90s and another in health Her youngest, Kristopher, is enrolled at of Broncos information management a decade later. the Boise State Children’s Center and Wilcox remembers that during her teenage her daughter, Camille, is a Children’s The Alumni Legacy years, he was heavily involved in student orga- Center alum. Scholarship encour- nizations, including Delta Epsilon Chi. ages a family tradition She hopes that someday they, too, will “It opened up a lot of opportunities for him,” be Broncos. of attending Boise she recalls, noting that his experiences influ- State University and “There are some really good minds here enced her own decision to be involved beyond helps to recruit the doing really great things,” she says. “It’s her coursework. best and brightest not just about football.” students. The four- Wilcox is a senior majoring in communication, Both Wilcox and Gregg encourage others with an emphasis in organizational and rela- year renewable schol- to take a closer look at the university. tional communication. In addition to working arship is available as a teaching assistant for communications “Boise State has been such a big part of to relatives of Boise faculty Jerald Catt-Oliason, she recently my life, and I really care about it,” Gregg State alumni. Read started a new job with the university’s Service- says. “I want other students to also have more on page 26. Learning program. a really meaningful experience here.”

Kustras Honored with Public Service Award The Frank Church Institute honored President Bob Kustra and his wife, Kathy, with the first-ever Frank and Bethine Church Award for Public Service. The award was given at a May 24 dinner benefiting the Frank Church Chair of Public Affairs at Boise State. Church, a former U.S. senator, is widely recognized as one of the great statesmen of the United States Senate during one of its most progressive eras. He is remembered as a foreign policy leader and as one of the nation’s early leading conservationists. “We are so grateful to have the Kustras continue their lives of service here in Idaho and for the tremendous impact they have made and continue to make at Boise State University,” says Bethine Church. Ca rrie Q uinney

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College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business and http://coas.boisestate.edu Economics, http://cobe. A team of Boise State scien- boisestate.edu tists and students and their The COBE Advisory Council collaborators at the University presented annual Faculty of Notre Dame and Univer- Awards to Dr. Paul Bahnson sité d’Abomey-Calavi in West for excellence in research and Africa received a grant for a Dr. Dwayne Barney for excel- Geoscientists Without Borders lence in teaching. The COBEAC project. The proposal, written is made up of business leaders by Dr. John Bradford, aims to who counsel COBE admin- address water quality needs in istration on a wide range of Cotonou, Benin, West Africa. strategic issues central to the J ohn K elly Also in geosciences, Dr. Matt college’s mission. Kohn was named a Distin- Economics major guished Lecturer by the Miner- George Fenton alogical Society of America delivered the (MSA). He will give lectures at student speech at Talk Show Looks universities around the world. spring Theatre Commencement and drew a Beyond the arts standing ovation from his faculty fellow graduates. Fenton, Printed Page members from Post Falls, has interned Fran for the Federal Reserve and “Reader’s Corner,” the popular talk Maxwell the U.S. Department of the show hosted by Boise State President and Michael Baltzell and their Treasury. He was a member of Bob Kustra, is celebrating the start students designed a new the Honors College and an home for Zoo Boise’s sloth award-winning member of the of its 10th year of weekly conversa- bear, Paji. The enclosure was national champion speech tions with some of today’s leading modeled after India’s famed and debate team, the Talkin’ thinkers about issues and ideas that “Blue City” of Jodhpur, which Broncos. is known for its many blue- help shape our world. painted homes. Originally titled “New Horizons in Education,” the 30-minute show debuted on Boise State Public Radio in fall 2003. Since then, Dr. Kustra has interviewed more than 350 newsmakers, authors, politicians and educators, including Nobel Prize laure- ates and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners Listen at 6 p.m. Fridays CNN’s Peter Bergen, investigative reporter or 11 a.m. Seymour Hersh, bestselling author Ann Sundays at few moments of book club to delve more Patchett, Holocaust survivor Samuel Pisar, KBSX a riveting drive- deeply into some of the titles political activist Gloria Steinem, baseball 91.5 FM. time interview. discussed on the air. legend Harmon Kellebrew, NPR broadcaster Scott Kustra and his team Listeners can download a Simon and Irish President Mary Robinson are just a few of researchers also write a free app for easy access of the well-known guests to appear on the show. twice-monthly Sunday column to past shows at https:// In 2011, the show’s name changed to “Reader’s Corner” for the Idaho Statesman play.google.com/store/ to reflect its focus on national authors and the connec- focusing on many of the books apps/details?id=bsu.podca- tions between readers and writers. In its current itera- featured on the show. For the stapps. Or simply log on to tion, Reader’s Corner continues to produce what many past year, the independent boisestatepublicradio.org/ listeners refer to as “driveway moments” — when the local bookstore Rediscovered programs/readers-corner for a car idles outside their destination as they catch the last Books has hosted a monthly link to archived programming. page 8 | focus | fall 2012 College Roundup

College of Education, Students in Dr. Tony Songer’s researchers in the Department and Sergio Romero. http://education.boise were Social Responsibility in of Radiologic Sciences Dr. Eric Lindquist is the new state.edu/ Construction Management conferred the top awards from director of the Public Policy This fall the College of class spent their spring break a national pool of 48 papers Center. In addition to special- Education welcomes the first in Belize, building a playground accepted for competitive ized projects funded by grants at Our Lady of Bella Vista review at the National Associa- candidates for a new online and contracts, the center Primary School. One highlight tion of Collegiate Educators doctorate in educational tech- develops research materials nology. About 20 candidates of the trip was a visit with in Radiologic Technology that are used by public offi- will examine the use of tech- Belize Zoo director Sharon conference in Las Vegas, cials throughout Idaho. nology for effective teaching Matola, the hero in Boise Nev. — first place: Patrick and learning in a dynamic, State’s 2012-2013 Campus Anderson, Michelle Phelps and global society. Read selection, “The Last Chris Schmierer; second place: Graduate College, Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: Hector Zamora, Olivas Otoniel http://gradcoll.boisestate.edu Elementary education One Woman’s Fight to Save the and Taylor Spriggel. A record number of graduate majors Shawntae Gardner World’s Most Beautiful Bird” degrees were awarded in and Sarah Chouinard this (see page 4). summer became the fifth and College of Social Sciences 2011-12 (660 master’s and sixth Boise State students to and Public Affairs, doctoral degrees). The be accepted into the presti- College of Health Sciences, http://sspa.boisestate.edu/ number of graduate degrees gious and ultra-competitive http://hs.boisestate.edu/ awarded annually has grown Dr. David Adler NASA institutes for pre- by 34 percent over the past Elmira has been service teachers. three years. The May 2012 Bakhshinyan, appointed Commencement was the a master of director of the university’s largest ever, with health Andrus Center for College of Engineering, more than 2,400 degrees science Public Policy. Since 1995, the http://coen.boisestate.edu/ awarded. student and Edmund S. Andrus Center has provided a A team Muskie graduate fellow, has forum for independent, The Graduate College has of engi- been accepted as the HIV/ non-partisan policy discus- admitted the first students to neering AIDS community care and sions on critical issues in three new doctoral programs: students prevention intern with the Idaho and the American West. Ed.D. in educational tech- won first nology, Ph.D. in biomolecular prestigious Global Health The Department of Sociology place overall in the advanced sciences, and Ph.D. in mate- Fellows Program II, a project has created the student- category of the 2012 SAE Aero of the Public Health Institute. rials science and engineering. centered Intermountain Social Design West competition in Bakhshinyan hopes to apply Research Lab to address March. Sixty-five teams from what she learns toward HIV/ pressing issues in the disci- around the world built and AIDS prevention efforts in her pline and the Boise community flew a remotely piloted aircraft native Armenia and through the fusion of research capable of carrying a high throughout the world. and teaching. The lab is the payload while meeting strict Two groups of student project of Drs. Arthur Scarritt competition specifications.

Boise State named three faculty Three members as 2012 University Faculty Foundation Scholars. The annual awards honor faculty Members members who have demonstrated REEDER NAPIER MILLER ongoing commitment, expertise Named and accomplishment in teaching, research/creative activity, or professionally related service. Foundation Awards are presented by the Office of the Provost together with the University Foundation. Dr. Heidi Reeder, associate professor of communication, is the recipient of the Teaching Award. Scholars Dr. Nancy Napier, professor of international business and director of the Centre for Creativity and Innovation, is the recipient of the Research/Creative Activity Award. Dr. Sondra Miller, assistant professor of civil engineering, is the recipient of the Service Award.

boise state university | focus | page 9 campus news A member of the Boise State Honors This is exactly what Dottie had in Scholarship College, a dean’s list student with high mind. After Ed’s death in 2009, she honors and a civically minded leader searched for a way to honor her Helps among his peers, Hopkins is exactly the husband’s character and long career kind of student Boise State wants. Yet, that included leading the General his need to rely on student loans and Aviation Manufacturers Associa- Engineering savings to pay for the ever-increasing tion, serving as the Federal Avia- costs of his college education was a tion Administration’s congressional Student very real threat to his earning a degree. liaison, and culminating as the U.S. ambassador to the International Civil Not anymore. Be a Bronco Aviation Organization. Earlier this year, Hopkins was named “I thought hard about what I could do By Mike Journee the inaugural recipient of the Edward to honor the kind of person Ed was – Stimpson Leadership Scholarship, a To his professors, an upstanding leader who related to College of Engineering award for juniors people in ways that made them like Drew Hopkins’ and seniors with an established record and respect him,” says Dottie, who potential was obvious of leadership. Without the $10,000 first got to know Boise in the early annual scholarship, Hopkins says he from the moment 1990s when Ed was a top executive might have given up on finishing school he walked onto the with Boise-based Morrison-Knudsen — not to mention his leadership of Company. It was during this time that Boise State campus projects through Boise State’s chapter she founded the City Club of Boise, two years ago. of Engineers without Borders (EWB). Idaho’s premier forum for contempo- But his ability “If not for this remark- rary affairs dialog. to hang in able scholarship, my The scholarship – only a portion of financial situation there and Dottie Stimpson’s generosity to Boise would be uncertain at graduate State – allows Hopkins to pursue best,” Hopkins wrote to his studies and his work with EWB. with a civil Dottie Stimpson, who Last spring he helped lead a group to engineering established the schol- Belize, where they built a playground arship in honor of her degree wasn’t and garden for a local school. He’s late husband. Hopkins’ as clear. currently raising money for a return trip mother died when he to help the school with water drainage was in high school and and building structure issues. his father’s income alone does not allow him to help with his “To me leadership is discovering who son’s college expenses. “Your gener- you are and how you relate to people,” osity is indispensible to my success as Hopkins says. “My volunteer work has a student and person.” given me a new perspective on the world around me that I would not have gotten otherwise. It opens the door to new experiences and helps you find your place in the world.”

Drew Hopkins, left, is the first recipient of a scholarship honoring the leadership and compassion of former U.S. Ambassador Ed Stimpson (pictured above).

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FOCUS on Boise State University magazine sat down with Coyle in his office at the Nicholson- Yanke Athletic Center and asked him about his transition to Boise State and his goals for the future of the athletic program.

Q: Coming from the Southeastern Conference, what did you know about Boise State? a: I spent seven years in the SEC, which is a top athletic conference, so of course I had heard a lot about Boise State and the success of the football program. I have since learned that there is a lot of success in all 19 of the school’s athletic programs. Boise State has experienced success with swimming and diving, men’s tennis, track and field, softball and more. We have a story to tell about Getting to Know all of our programs, and we need to use football to get that story across. Athletic Director Q: How can football be used to leverage the institution as a whole? Mark a: Athletics can be a positive window for the university, so we need to make sure this is a first-class endeavor. When football is on national television, it can be a four-hour commercial for Coyle the university. It is a reflection on the university and we take that responsibility very seriously. By Kathleen Tuck Q: What are your long-term goals? In the world of sports, a: To have a very successful broad-based program where each it’s all about making of our 450 student athletes has the chance to earn a degree the right call. For Mark and compete at a very high level. We need to continually Coyle, Boise State’s new invest in our students and in our programs. director of athletics, Q: What has impressed you so far about Boise State? that call was Boise State. a: The wonderful thing about Boise is the passion and excitement of the fan base here. Basketball was my first Coyle arrived in January from the introduction to the fan base, other than the Las Vegas bowl University of Kentucky in Lexington, where he was deputy director of game. And then in April, my kids were very excited by the athletics, charged with marketing, 17,000 fans who came to the spring football game. There is fundraising and the daily operations of unbelievable support here. the Wildcat basketball program. Q: Has anything surprised you? In his first visit to Boise State with a: I was pretty impressed when the president introduced his wife, Krystan, Coyle says he liked the student Greenspeed team at the spring address, the what he saw, including the new Micron group that raced the vegetable oil-powered vehicle. I Business and Economics Building that thought that was pretty cool. Also, it is so impressive to recently opened at the corner of Univer - have (former astronaut) Barbara Morgan working here. sity Drive and Capitol Boulevard. “There Her efforts to get kids interested in science, technology, is tremendous growth and transforma- engineering and math (STEM) areas and her summer tion happening here and we wanted to programs are impressive. be part of that.”

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By Mike Journee Ca rrie Q uinney

Dr. Louis Nadelson is spearheading a program to recruit talented science, technology, engineering and math students as teachers.

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New Program Entices STEM Majors Into Teaching Careers We all know that the best Louisiana State University, University of competitive 21st century economy. Houston and Florida State University. “This is a pipeline issue that includes the educators are passionate IDoTeach is the only replica of the Univer- development of a strong student under- about what they teach. sity of Texas program in the eight-state standing of science and math before Pacific Northwest and Northern Rocky Yet, for a number of college,” says Nadelson. “Without that Mountain region of the country. reasons, those who understanding, the pipeline begins to get most excited about “We’ve found that many students majoring leak and crumble.” in STEM are interested in teaching but do That perspective spurred the Micron the most technical of not pursue it as a career,” says Nadelson. Foundation’s investment in the program, “This program will help identify those subjects seldom consider according to Dee Mooney, the Micron students early in their academic careers so teaching as a career path. Foundation’s executive director. we can foster and support any interest in A new program at Boise State is expected teaching and hopefully guide these techni- “These future educators, with their solid to help change that. cally-minded students into teaching.” STEM backgrounds, will further bring hands-on and real-world applications into Called IDoTeach, the program is designed Surveys have shown the need for the classroom, sparking a passion in the to meet a desperate need for Idaho approximately 500 math teachers and next generation of scientists, engineers science and math teachers in coming 400 science teachers in Idaho in the near and mathematicians,” she says. years by recruiting a largely untapped term. That number is likely to increase pool of talented college students over time due to population growth, Through the IDoTeach program, under- majoring in STEM subjects (science, expanded academic requirements in class STEM majors who are interested technology, engineering and math) into these subjects, teacher retirement and in teaching will be trained and have secondary education careers. the increasingly technical nature of the opportunity to teach fundamental society in general. To meet that demand math and science lessons to elementary “This is a significant shift in the way we with qualified teachers, IDoTeach is and junior high school students. Those prepare math and science teachers,” says designed to attract the widest range interested in obtaining a teacher certifi- Dr. Louis Nadelson, a Boise State educa- of bright science, mathematics and cate may then apply for full enrollment tion professor who is part of the team computer science majors, prepare in the IDoTeach program, where they will spearheading creation of the IDoTeach them with an advanced field-intensive be able to pursue a degree in a STEM program at Boise State. curriculum, and retain them as teachers discipline and become certified as a With $300,000 in initial funding from the through support and ongoing profes- secondary teacher. Micron Foundation, IDoTeach will repli- sional development. “By creating this program in Idaho,” cate an innovative and highly successful But the issue goes much deeper than Nadelson says, “Boise State is being teacher preparation program created finding STEM-savvy teachers for today’s progressive and active in its approach to at the University of Texas at Austin. classrooms, Nadelson says. In the long- addressing this challenging problem, and The program has been duplicated at 29 term, it is about fostering a technically doing it with a program that is proven to universities around the country, including and scientifically literate society in a be successful.” University of California, Berkeley,

boise state university || focus || page 13 A place of Knowledge Economic Development Thrives at Boise State

By Sherry Squires

During good times and bad, Boise State University has provided a source of economic stability, and its people, places and partnerships continue to fuel the economic engine of tomorrow with new ideas and discoveries.

Picture this: an engineer, a health sciences professor and a business student gather to lend their perspective to the challenge of the day, how to design a more accurate, remote heart rate monitor — a question posed by a cardiologist in town. Multiple ideas for solutions are harvested. Engineering students go to work designing prototypes. Business faculty and graduate students assess a new product’s commercial feasibility. The university receives a patent, and industry gets a solution. “We are clearly in a knowledge-based economy, and we are embracing it,” says Dr. Mark Rudin, vice president for research and economic development. “We are marketing our technological advances for the benefit of society. But even more importantly, we are serving as a Petri dish, so to speak, for new ideas and new knowledge that is crucial for continued growth of the state’s economy. Economic development is happening across all disciplines and all across the Boise State campus.” page 14 | focus | fall 2012 Graduate students Jami Johnson and Yuliya Sagan, along with Dr. Kent Neupert with the Center for Entrepreneurship and technology transfer expert Mary Givens Andrews, help make up Boise State’s Innovation Team. a rrie quinney c

developing them and moving them ment in the College of Business and The Kitchen, along the path, and to do that you need Economics, and mechanical and different perspectives along the way, biomedical engineering researcher and the Crash especially industry’s input.” technology transfer fellow Dr. Michelle Business people, local inventors and Sabick, the ITeam has helped roll out Cart and entrepreneurs visit The Kitchen to toss the redesign of a medical crash cart around ideas with researchers. It also that is used in cardiac emergencies. ‘Valentine’ serves as a home base for Boise State’s The group also worked on an improved Innovation Team (ITeam), a five-member remote heart-rate monitor code named Conversations around discoveries are group of faculty and graduate students who “Project Valentine,” and “Project taking place in the venture lab known examine Boise State-generated inventions, Echo,” a modified transducer used for as “The Kitchen,” a newly opened space technology and ultrasounds. on the southwest corner of campus other intellectual The university dedicated to fostering cross-disciplinary property. Their holds patents thinking and problem solving. A joint charge is to assess on Valentine effort by the Office of University and the invention’s and Echo, and Industry Ventures and the Center for technological both were Entrepreneurship at Boise State, it was readiness, identify presented at inspired by a similar concept at Stan- any gaps between the Design ford University, and is bringing together existing status and for Medical innovators and entrepreneurs from industry expecta- Devices across campus and the community. tions, and evaluate national a rrie quinney c “It’s a place to convene and have the its market oppor- conference last discussions about the unique and tunities. Boise State students and faculty redesigned a April. medical crash cart used in cardiac emergencies. optimal commercialization path for With leader- “These teams various innovations,” says Mary Givens ship from Dr. are coming Andrews, director for the Office of Kent Neupert, together to University and Industry Ventures. “We’re director of the Center for Entrepre- address critical issues in a holistic advancing ideas, concepts and patents, neurship and professor of manage- way,” Rudin says.

boise state university | focus | page 15 both my engineering and business experience to define the technical features our engineers are working “We know that the capacity of the on and translate them into something U.S. economy to grow is dependant our sales team can talk about with on scientific innovation, but we don’t customers.” know exactly what the jobs of the Student success stories are not limited future will be,” Rudin says. “Our job is The to business and science fields. The to build capacity in our students, to fill arts also are thriving at Boise State their tool boxes with skills to meet the Student and in the surrounding community, and demands of a rapidly changing world.” students and graduates are contribu- Experience As an MBA student, David Rush was tors. A recent metal arts graduate part of an ITeam at Boise State before Inventions are headed out the door, but is working to establish a foundry in becoming product development Boise State’s students are undoubtedly Boise, and a Boise State filmmaker has manager for local start-up Cradlepoint. its finest conduits of knowledge to the produced award-winning films and is world. Experiences like Innovation Team “My job was to translate technical pioneering innovative techniques. spark their imaginations and prepare abstracts into something anyone “Enlightenment and the potential for them to work alongside professionals could read,” Rush says. “That is a job creation happens across all fields,” from a variety of fields. huge part of my job now, drawing on Rudin says.

Boise State made major contributions to the economy during the past few years Building with the construction of several major a Strong buildings on campus. The projects, including the Environ- mental Research Building, Lincoln

Economy john kelly Avenue Townhouses, phase two of the Lincoln Avenue Parking Garage, Arguinchona Basketball Complex, Transit Center at the Student Union, Aquatics Complex and the brand new Micron Business and Economics Building, created hundreds of jobs during a time when jobs were particularly scarce. Five of the projects were handled by ESI Construction; the Environmental Research Building alone accounted for roughly 8 percent of the company’s overall volume for 2009, while the Micron Business and Economics Building was about 12 percent of ESI’s 2011 volume. “Our work on the Boise State construction projects certainly helped contribute to our overall bottom line, and it boosted employee morale knowing that we were involved in such legacy projects for the university and the Boise community,” says ESI president and co-owner Neil Nelson. page 16 | focus | fall 2012 A Gem of a Program Boise State is heavily vested in a new state initiative to meet industry needs for more computer science graduates. The Idaho Global Entre- preneurial Mission (IGEM) was one of Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s top legislative priorities during the 2012 session. john kelly It recognizes that Idaho’s Boise State’s computer science, materials science and other research universities must have labs serve as a resource for industry and benefit student researchers like doctoral student Joshua Kane and undergraduate student Alyssa Bateman. strong partnerships with the private sector, and tion facilities that complement our existing that harnessing research Lab Strength research capabilities very nicely,” he says. and innovation created by the state’s academic Boise State’s commitment to relevant Nanosteel scientists spend time in the lab institutions is critical to research and its growing lab capacity also each month looking at how products are feed directly into the success of local performing and potential new developments. Idaho’s future. industry. Those types of partnerships are enticing for About $2 million was In 2001, Dr. Daniel Branagan was a staff developing industries and existing compa- appropriated by the nies looking to land in Idaho, says Boise scientist in the Materials Department at the Idaho State Legisla- INEEL and worked with Boise State business Metro Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Bill Connors. He often brings companies ture for IGEM grants. professor Dr. Sandy Gough to develop a busi- Boise State received ness plan for commercialization and spin-out to campus to show them the Department of $700,000 of that to hire of a new nanomaterials technology he devel- Computer Science, labs and other facilities. oped. He formed The NanoSteel Company “We are trying to position Boise as a center additional computer in 2002 and was doing some research and for innovation and entrepreneurship, and the science faculty. This development work in Ohio until Boise State work the university does is vital to attracting will enhance Boise developed its materials characterization companies here,” Connors says. “Good State’s capacity to capabilities and lab. things happen when the business community retain students and “We have found that the Boise State Center and higher education get together. Boise produce graduates for for Materials Characterization is an ideal State is rolling up its sleeves and doing the the work force. place with state-of-the-art characteriza- things that need to be done for economic development for Boise and Idaho.” “We’re aligned with industry and poised to The new Micron Business and Economics Building have an impact in this area with these addi- on the west end of campus opens to students this month. tional resources,” says “It is a building for the community, a place to collaborate, to expand Mary Givens Andrews, thinking and to generate new ideas,” says Dr. Patrick Shannon, dean Boise State’s director of of the College of Business and Economics. “But most importantly, the Office of University this building is a place for our students to learn.” and Industry Ventures. “It is critical that we The building: hire faculty to teach, Location: University Drive and Capitol Boulevard do research and recruit and mentor students for Size: Four-stories, 118,890 square feet this important area of Cost: $28.8 million building construction, funded with $12.5 million lead the economy.” john kelly gift from Micron and more than 1,000 additional private donors See more on pages 18-19. boise state university | focus | page 17 Open for Business The Micron Business and Economics Building on the corner of University Drive and Capitol Boulevard celebrated its dedication in August. The four-story, 118,890-square-foot building is designed to emphasize research and community collaboration along with student learning. It includes state-of-the art classrooms, a lecture hall, unique student work spaces, a financial technology classroom, financial trading room, productive spaces for research, a student commons area that includes food service, and a vibrant courtyard. PHOTOS BY JOHN KELLY BY PHOTOS

page 18 | focus | fall 2012 boise state university | focus | page 19 Visually Speaking Art Galleries

liberal arts gallery

hemingway gallery

for the Eyes

PHOTOS BY CARRIE BY QUINNEYPHOTOS By Sherry Squires

What do you get when you combine work of students, faculty members, alumni and master artists three-dimensional paper bouquets, from both near and far. The number of visitors to the galleries increases each year. photos of fertile Idaho fields and a Opening receptions often draw more than 300 attendees; more thread representation of identity, than 5,000 visitors take a peek at SUB gallery exhibitions. The motherhood, memories and dreams? galleries also partner a good deal with other local arts organiza- tions, businesses, artists and nonprofits, and serve as a bridge to A visual feast, and Boise State has the wider community for Boise State’s 700-plus art majors. been helping to set the table for art Recent offerings included “Cutting Edge: Contemporary Paper,” lovers in the Treasure Valley for that utilized cut paper as a primary medium; “Sustenance” an more than 40 years. exhibition about food by Idaho artists organized by the Visual Arts Center and the Treasure Valley Food Coalition; and “The The Visual Arts Center and the Student Union Gallery and other Discourse of Thread,” a solo mixed-media exhibition by under- art spaces offer a wide variety of exhibitions that feature the graduate student Julie McCreedy. page 20 | focus | fall 2012 arts Visually Speaking

Provide a Feast

student union gallery

“Great universities have great art, galleries and museums gallery and more spaces for artwork throughout the building. that can become a central place for community engagement, “The purpose of the Student Union Fine Art Exhibitions Program object-based and experiential learning and collaboration across is to display a variety of art media and provide challenging and disciplines,” says Kirsten Furlong, artist, faculty member and interesting work while encouraging an aesthetic understanding,” gallery director of the Visual Arts Center. “These are all goals says SUB fine arts manager Holly Gilchrist. for the Visual Arts Center.” Most of the art on display in the gallery spaces is for sale, and the So is moving into a single space in the future that is designed to Student Union Fine Arts program receives a 20 percent commission meet the needs and standards of professional visual art display on any work sold to assist the Student Union in purchasing other and preservation and further expand the gallery offerings. The work for the building’s permanent collection. Visual Arts Center currently is housed in the Liberal Arts Building and the Hemingway Western Studies Center All campus exhibitions and gallery receptions are free and open to the public. The Student Union Gallery displays a lot of student art but also exhibits the work of faculty, alumni and community artists. A recent Gallery schedules are available at http://artdept.boise remodel and expansion of the SUB included improvements to the state.edu/VAC/and http://finearts.boisestate.edu/.

boise state university | focus | page 21 alumni

Another Reason to Love Boise State

Susie Schumacher culminates in the Oct. 20 just finished her freshman the Distinguished Alumni loves Homecoming Homecoming football match- year. In addition to her family and Alumni Service Award week at Boise State. up between the Broncos and connections and academic recipients. the Rebels of the University of degrees, Schumacher has Well, she loves Boise Nevada, Las Vegas. season tickets for football and Initially it wasn’t clear to State. Home- basketball, and serves on the Schumacher how much her coming is “Homecoming is an Boise State Alumni Associa- time at Boise State would just the opportunity to show tion board of directors, where mean to her later in life, icing on what it means to be a she was president in 2007. but after she earned her the big Bronco,” says Schum- She also is on the College of master’s degree, she was acher (medical records Health Science’s Strategic increasingly drawn back Bronco science, ’85; health Initiative Board. to Boise State. Now her cake that information manage- involvement gives her the is her life. ment, ’00; health science, During Homecoming she opportunity to play a signifi- MS, ’05), a system revenue always has had a role to cant role in creating events “I think I really may bleed blue integrity officer at Saint play, whether judging the that bring her fellow alumni and orange,” says the three- Alphonsus Regional Medical campus decorating contest, back to their alma mater. degree alumna. Center in Boise. helping with the Bronco Bash tailgate party or organizing “It’s an opportunity for me to Rest assured that Schum- Being a Bronco is a topic she the alumni parade float. This give back to a university that acher will be in the thick of knows well. Her sister, Debbie year, she chairs the promotion means so very much to me,” things as Broncos from all Kaylor, also is an alum and and attendence committee she says. “For me Homecoming eras descend on the Boise now serves as director of Boise for the Presidential Alumni is a time to connect with State campus Oct. 15-20 for State’s Career Center. And Recognition Gala, a marquee alumni, friends and family. It’s Homecoming Week, which her niece, Sheri Schumacher, Homecoming event honoring an opportunity to come home.”

page 22 | focus | fall 2012 Homecoming Week 2012 Here’s a rundown of the big events you don’t want to miss: Wednesday, Oct. 17 Golden Grad Reunion – Members of the Class of 1962 are invited to celebrate the golden anniversary of their graduation from Boise Junior College at the Alumni Center (Corner of University Drive and Grant Street). All graduates from the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s through ’62 also are invited to attend. Events include a 2 p.m. campus tour, 6 p.m. no-host cocktail reception and 7 p.m. dinner. Please contact Donna Conner at (208) 426-1959 to register.

Friday, Oct. 19 Presidential Alumni Recognition Gala honoring four Distinguished Alumni for their work to bring honor and glory to Boise State through a record of outstanding accomplishments within their chosen profession. Three alumni also will be presented with the Alumni Service award for their dedicated volunteer services to the Alumni Association or Boise State. Events start at 6 p.m. in the Double R Ranch Room in the Stueckle Sky Center. The campus community, alumni, students and the general public are invited to attend. Tickets must be purchased in advance by calling the Alumni Associa- tion at (208) 426-1698 or registering online at alumni. boisestate.edu.

Distinguished Alumni honorees: • Mark Dunham (communication, BA, ’84) – former executive director, Idaho Association of General Contractors • Rob Perez (communication, ’79) – CEO, Western Capital Bank • Maryann Reese (nursing, BS, ’91) – president and CEO, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Belleville, Ill. • Mark Urness (business, BA, ’88) – president, mybullfrog.com

Alumni Service Award winners: • Pat Allaire (autotech art, ’79; construction management, ‘94) • Bobbie Allaire (instructional and performance technology, MS, ’94) • Eric Uhlenhoff (accountancy, ’86)

Saturday, Oct. 20 Homecoming Game Boise State Broncos vs. UNLV Rebels at 1:30 p.m. at Bronco Stadium.

boise state university | focus | page 23 page 24 alumni | focus | fall 2012 Walnut Creek, Calif. at Best&KriegerLLP in and waterlaw. Walston works egory ofnatural resources law America” for2012inthecat- recognized in“BestLawyers in &sciences,’56,was arts R the Idaho Botanical Garden in the IdahoBotanical Garden ing, ’82,isaboard memberof KIP BRY market - SON, BBA, Moonsmoke,” in2006. lished herstory, titled“Malawi Ministry ofHealth.Shepub- was adoptedby theMalawi system ofhealtheducationthat child survival “train-the-trainer” designed andimplementeda Africa. Sheandherteam villagersinMalawi, serving a two-year volunteer mission After retirement, sheaccepted public healthadministration. Idahofor12years in served BEE BIGGS-JARRELL, MPA, ’82, Village, Colo. Benson lives inGreenwood commissioner inFebruary. role ofSunBeltConference commissioner, acceptedthe Athletic Conference (WAC) education, ’75,former Western K animals from cruelty. 1 of3tohelpprotect Idaho founded thenonprofit Idaho ’74, English/liberal arts, VIRGINIA HEMINGWA conferences foreducators. for organizing annualhistory trict administrator responsible history and for his work as a dis- emplary mentorandteacherof Heller washonored asanex- Achievement inHumanities. Council Award forOutstanding received theIdaho Humanities social studiesprograms, forhistoryand supervisor tory, ’73,BoiseSchoolDistrict RUSSELL HELLER, BA,his- and yearbook staff. advised thestudentcouncil education andmath.Healso woodshop, sculpture, driver’s raphy, pottery, printmaking, painting, drawing, photog- High School.Claytontaught education—mostly withKuna ’81, retired after34years in education, art tion, ’73;MA, JIM CLA RICK ODE WALSTON , AA, ARL, BS,physical BENSON

CONNECTIONSTOUCH Y 1980s 1970s 1950s TON- educa , BA,art IN Y, BA, Global isacomplementary of the VSP Globalboard. VSP ’84, wasnamedvicechairman DR. AND School of Theology. degree from theInternational toward amasterofdivinity istry for28years andisworking Wash. Hunterhasbeeninmin- Baptist Church in Wenatchee, pastor ofthe Wenatchee Valley cation, ’84,wasnamedsenior DAVID HUNTER, BA,communi- market executive forthebank. the seniorcommercial banking the West inBoise.Houstonwas banking inIdahoforBankof vice president forcommercial ’84, waspromoted tosenior MARK HOUSTON finance, , BBA, Cairns, Australia. at JamesCookUniversity in fessor andAustralian Laureate Laurance is a distinguished pro- and fire ontheAmazon. tation, deforestation, hunting the effectsofhabitatfragmen- recognized forhisresearch on Environmental Scienceandwas the 2012HeinekenPrize for BS, biology, ’82,received WILLIAM F. LA Bank inBoise. relationship manageratUS Bryson isavicepresident and assecretary.Boise andserves Y LEE, BS,pre-med, URANCE, Louisiana State University. to TCU, Johnsoncoachedat Horned Frogs. Prior tomoving the Texas ChristianUniversity men’s basketballcoachfor education, ’86,isthenewhead TRENT, BS,physical JO HNSON American Revolution Vodka. and Skylinevineyards, and yards, CorusBrands/Sawtooth Cellar labelandfamilyvine- associated withthePintler in Caldwell. Pintlerhasbeen manager ofSt. Chapelle Winery tancy, ’84,isthenewgeneral BRAD PINTLE- accoun R, BBA, Optometric CenterinBoise. optical industry. Lee owns the products andsolutionsinthe providing benefits,services, group ofleadingcompanies ing officerforthehospitaland Alaska. Daviswaschiefoperat- Peninsula HospitalinSoldotna, executive officeroftheCentral finance, ’91,washired aschief ness economics,’91;BBA, RICHAD DAVIS busi- , BBA, 70 different sizes ofsheds. produces garages, shopsand based Idaho Woodsheds, which munication, ’91,owns Boise- BRADSHAW,BA,com- ALAN 1990s Service, basedin Service, Twin Falls. er/operator with Valley Food Idaho. Kyle is a McDonald’s own - McDonald HouseCharitiesof statewide board oftheRonald tancy, ’92,waselectedtothe DALERREN KY accoun- , BBA, Copernicus University. Media inEducationatNicolaus ofDidacticsand Department to workwiththefacultyof Torun, Poland, inSeptember Boise State, Ricewilltravel to of Educational Technology at the chairofDepartment award toPoland. Currently selected foraFulbright Scholar lum & instruction, ’06, has been technology, ’02;Ed.D.,curricu- education, ’91;MS,educational KERRY RICE,BA,elementary executive foralmost20years. has workedasahealthcare at EideBaillyLLP, aregional tancy, ’98,wasnamedapartner TRAVIS accoun- BURGESS,BBA, certified public accounting Clark also serves on the Boise law firm of Farley Alumni Calendar of Events and business advisory firm. Brunswick Technology Team, Oberrecht West Harwood Burgess joined the Boise Eide is co-advisor for the Science & Burke as an associate Bailly office in 1998. Club, and was an intervention attorney. He received his JD Fall 2012 assistants team coordinator. MARY KAYE JOHNSON, BA, in 2011 from Michigan State elementary education, ’94, University College of Law, August received the Certificate of 2000s where he graduated in the top Excellence at the 2012 Idaho 10 percent of his class. Friday, 31, Bronco Bash in East Lansing, BRET MOFFETT, MBA, ’00, Counseling Association is POWER Engineers’ new ALI SOHAIL ISHAQ, BA, political Mich. Visit alumni.boisestate.edu Conference. The poster pre- chief administrative officer. science, ’04, co-authored an sentation was titled “Defining Moffett manages day-to-day article, “Creating a Nationally for details Hope and Optimism: business operations for the Recognized Communications Implications for Counselors,” Boise-based engineering Capability,” which was published and was created by Johnson october consulting firm. in the Public Relations Society of and fellow Boise State America’s “Strategist” magazine. 15-20, Homecoming graduate students Becca SHAWN RECORDS, BA, Ishaq lives in Washington, D.C. Dickinson, Angela Dondero interdisciplinary studies, and Jenni Kimball. ’00, gave a lecture at Ball WADE STURGEON, BBA, accoun- Wednesday, 17, Golden Grad Reunion State University to share tancy, ’04, is the new chief execu- his experiences behind the tive officer/chief financial officer Friday, 19, Annual Presidential camera lens. His presenta- for Biggs-Gridley Memorial Hospital tion was titled, “My Favorite in Gridley, Calif. Sturgeon has been Recognition Gala Things: Some Things I’ve in the healthcare field since 1997 Made and Some Others that and has worked exclusively in rural Saturday, 20, Intercollegiate Knights I Wish I Had.” Records is a critical access hospitals. Alumni Chapter Reunion; Alumni teacher and photographer in BRETT HUGHES, BBA, manage- Portland, Ore. He followed ment, ’05, founder of Boise Premier Half-time Celebration the production of “Where Real Estate, has had his company the Wild Things Are,” then featured in the Idaho Statesman, november SHELBY RENO, BA, English/ published a book, “Owner of the Idaho Business Review and liberal arts, ’94, has been ap- this World,” with behind- other publications. Hughes has Saturday, 10, Bronco Bash in Honolulu, pointed director of marketing the-scenes pictures of the been in the industry since 2003 and communications of Two movie’s production. His son as a real estate professional and Hawaii. Details TBA. Men and a Truck, the largest played the lead role of Max investor. franchised moving company in the film. december in the U.S. She heads the KATIE MURDOCK, BS, political JAIME HARDING, BS, science, ’05, was hired as a , Bronco Bash in Reno, Nev. integrated marketing and physical education, ’01; BS, Saturday, 1 branding effort for the organi- Bonner County deputy pros- athletic training, ’01; MHS, ecutor. Murdock has experi- Details TBA. zation from its Lansing, Mich. health science/policy, ’06, ence practicing private law headquarters. Reno lives in joined the Central District and lives in Sandpoint. Grand Rapids, Mich. Health Department in Boise 2013 EILEEN BEATTY, BA, elemen- as the health promotion SEAN CROUCH, BA, English/ tary education, ’98, was named program manager in the divi- writing, ’07, was accepted MAY the American Council on sion of community health. into the master of fine arts Education’s (ACE) 2011 Adult Harding previously worked in creative writing graduate Learner of the Year. The annual the divisions of public health program at Oregon State Saturday, 4, Boise award is presented to adult and Medicaid for the Idaho University in Corvallis, State Auction learners who have benefited Department of Health and Ore. Crouch will teach from the use of ACE credit Welfare. English as a graduate assistant starting in Fall recommendations to earn a JIMMI NICOLE SOMMER, college degree or advance a ca- MPA, ’01, was promoted to 2012. reer. Beatty is a National Merit a one-year assignment in IAN LARSEN, AAS, Teacher at North Star Charter Washington, D.C., with the marketing/management School in Eagle. U.S. State Department’s GLENNA TOOMAN, BBA, Bureau of Intelligence and management, ’98, owner Research. Sommer just NNewew BBoaoarrdd MMembeemberrss of Memory Makers Event completed a two-year as- Planning in Boise, was named signment as vice consul in 2012 Business Woman of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. for Boise S tate the Year by the Boise and ANGELA DONDERO, BS, Southern Idaho Chapter of the psychology, ’03, received the Alumni Association National Association of Women Certificate of Excellence at Business Owners. Tooman also the 2012 Idaho Counseling The Boise State Alumni Association welcomes seven new volunteers to is the website administrator Association Conference. the board of directors. Directors nominated for three-year terms include for the Idaho Small Business The poster presentation, Ron Crouch, ’77, and Jim Kerns, ’82. Directors nominated for one-year Development Center. titled “Defining Hope and MANDY MCLEAN CLARK, Optimism: Implications for terms are Lisa Gardner, ’95, Jesse Harris, ’05, Jennifer Seamons, ’06 and BA, elementary educa- Counselors,” was created ’11, Richard Stacey, ’00, and Marty Tadman, ’07. tion, ’99; MS, educational by Johnson and fellow Boise technology, ’08, was named State graduate students This group joins 11 returning alumni board members. All were elected Teacher of the Year at Becca Dickinson, Mary Kaye during the annual member meeting/membership appreciation party held Memorial Elementary School Johnson and Jenni Kimball. May 18. For more information about becoming an alumni board member, in Brunswick, Ohio, where SLADE D. SOKOL, BS, politi- she teaches fifth grade. cal science, ’03, joined the visit alumni.boisestate.edu.

boise state university | focus | page 25 alumni accomplished under 40 The following Boise State graduates were recognized as Idaho Business Review 2012 Accomplished Under 40 honorees:

CAMERON ARIAL, MPA, ’08; JASON CORONADO, BBA, accoun- LANCE FENTON, BBA, accoun- BERNADETTE MADARIETA, BBA, graduate certificate, community tancy, ’95 tancy, ’03 accountancy, ’97 and regional planning, ’08 BRIAN COTTIER, BA, graphic TRAVIS HAWKES, BBA, manage- JARRED MCKENZIE, BBA, CODY BARNEY, BBA, finance, ’01; design, ’97 ment HR option, ’02 finance, ’06 BBA, accountancy, ’01 RACHAEL DAIGLE, BA, philoso- TRAVIS HIGGINS, BBA, manage- KRISTINE MITCHELL, MBA, ’08 ANNA BUSCHBACHER, BS, health phy, ’01; BA, English/writing, ’01 ment, ’01 WAYNE SLAUGHTER, MBA, ’08 promotion, ’03 TERENCE LONGHURST, MBA, ’11

tech, ’07, is an Air National NICK CUNNINGHAM, BA, BECCA DICKINSON, BA, psy- political races and govern- Guard Airman 1st Class and communication, ’08, won the chology, ’09; BA, elementary ment issues. Hurst worked graduated from basic mili- 2012 America’s Cup bobsled education, ’94, received the for Idahoreporter.com, where tary training at Lackland Air title in April in Lake Placid, Certificate of Excellence at he covered political news. Force Base in San Antonio, N.Y. Cunningham, a former the 2012 Idaho Counseling Texas. Boise State sprinter, is in his Association Conference. PETER LEAVELL, BA, his- first year of piloting bobsleds The poster presentation, 2010s tory, ’07, won the Christian and was a brakeman for the titled “Defining Hope and JEREMY AVERY, BA, com- Writers Guild’s 2011 two-man and four-man U.S. Optimism: Implications for munication, ’10, signed with Operation First Novel contest Olympic teams at the 2010 Counselors,” was created the Calgary Stampeders as for his manuscript, “Songs Winter Olympics. Cunningham by Johnson and fellow Boise HEIDI LOW, BA, political a running back. Avery was of Captivity.” The Meridian lives in Monterey, Calif. State graduate students science, 07, joined Boise’s a second-team All-Western resident received a cash , BA, Mary Kaye Johnson, Angela Ritter Public Relations as a CARLOS SORIANO Athletic Conference all-star in award and will have his book political science, ’08, was Dondero and Jenni Kimball. vice president. Low was the 2009 and played four years published. His historical appointed to the editorial chief lobbyist and director of DUSTIN HURST, BA, com- for the Boise State Bronco fiction novel is about Tad, a board for the Idaho Press- governmental relations for munication, ’09, joined football team. courageous child of slavery. Tribune. Soriano is a the American Cancer Society the staff of the Montana personal banker with Wells Action Network in Idaho. Watchdog in Helena where Fargo in Caldwell. he will focus on covering

Alumni Legacy scholarship Shines on New Br oncos Six new Broncos will join 10 other continuing under- graduates at Boise State in the fall thanks to the Boise State Alumni Association’s Alumni Legacy Scholarship program. The scholarship endowment, funded in part by alumni association membership dollars, provides four-year, renewable scholarships to relatives of Boise State alumni. Successful applicants must meet minimum GPA and test standards and submit an application and essay; the qualifying relative must be a current member of the Boise State Alumni Association. Alumni Legacy Scholar- ship applications are available starting in December and are due by Feb. 15 each year.

2012 Recipients: • Garth Cline, New Plymouth, son of Erik Cline, ’92 • Meagan Davis, Eagle, daughter of Gary Davis, ’86 • Kelsey Gere, Vancouver, Wash., son of Scott Gere, ’94 • Camille Ivins, Boise, daughter of Denele Ivins, ’84, and Nicholas Ivins, ’82 • Montana Marks, Fife, Wash., daughter of Julie Claiborne, ’81 • Valerie Strasser, Highland, Ill., daughter of Jacqueline Strasser, ’05 page 26 | focus | fall 2012 alumni TRAVIS GREENE, AS, science, ’10, participated in In Memory the 2012 Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Fall 2012 event, sponsored by the U.S. MARTHA ALLEN, AA, arts & sci- Olympic Committee, introduces ences, ’37; AA, arts & sciences, Paralympics and adaptive ‘40, Boise sports to wounded, ill or in- STEVEN “STEVE” APPLETON, jured service members. Greene BBA, management, ’82, Boise participates in several sports. LORNA BATE, BS, nursing, ’92, CORINNE HAASE, BSC, civil Meridian engineering, ’11; BS, mathematics, ’11, was hired as a graduate DONNA BEAUX, BFA, art educa- engineer for the Minot office tion, ’77, Madras, Ore. of Moore Engineering Inc. The JAY BEESON, BA, social science, company is a civil engineering ’92, New Meadows and land survey company with offices in West Fargo, Minot and DIANA BLANKS, BA, social sci- Fergus Falls, Minn. ence, ’75, Rochester, Minn. CODY HAFER, BA, social work, JANET BRADY, AS, nursing, ’83, ’11, was honored with the Caldwell Outstanding Alumni Award ROBERT BROWN, AA, arts & at the Boise State Student sciences, ’58, Boise Involvement & Leadership Center’s annual awards KEVIN BURKE, BS, psychology, banquet in April. Hafer was ’93, Centerville recognized for his work on the DONALD CALER, cert., recre- front lines of the Add the Words ational/small engine repair, ’88, campaign and his position as Boise Idaho’s statewide coordinator for the Day of Action on Jan. DONALD CALLENDER, alumnus 28, 2012. non-degreed, Boise MALCOLM HONG, MA, com- RICHARD CONNER, alumnus munication, ’11, was appointed non-degreed, Boise project manager for the Idaho RUBYLEE COURTNEY, DIP, arts Technology Council, headquar- & sciences, ’42, Dallas, Ore. tered in Boise. DONALD DALTON, BS, business BRITANY HURST, BA, history, economics, ’73, University ’11, is the office coordinator for Place, Wash. the Idaho Cattle Association, where she helps coordinate PATRICIA DAVIES, alumna non- legislative efforts. Hurst lives degreed, Boise in Boise. CHARLES DEL FAVA, BA, visual JANAE VORHES, BS, criminal art, ’84, Healdsburg, Calif. justice, ’11, works for the RUTH DONOHOE, BA, history, state of Idaho as an electronic monitoring specialist through ’74, Anchorage, Alaska the Idaho Department of GALEN DROWN, alumnus non- Correction. Prior to gradua- degreed, Boise tion, Vorhes participated in AMY DUNN, BS, biology, ’05; an internship with the sex physical education, ’09, Boise offender probation and parole unit in Boise. DALE DUVALL, cert., parts

New ATI board members & officers The Associated Taxpayers of Idaho elected the following Boise State alumni as 2012 board members and officers:

CAMERON ARIAL, MPA, ’08; graduate certificate, community and regional planning, ’08, board member GENE MARCHIORO, BBA, accountancy, ’89, chairman RANDALL NELSON, BBA, computer information systems, ’86, president CHRISTINE NIMS, BBA, accountancy, ’94, board member MIKE REYNOLDSON, BBA, marketing, ’90, immediate past chairman RON WILKS, BBA, accountancy, ’89, board member

boise state university | focus | page 27 alumni Cultural Exchange Several Boise State alumni attended a performance by Trey McIntyre Project in Hanoi, Vietnam, on May 16. As cultural ambassadors traveling with the help of a grant from the U.S. Department of State, TMP visited Hanoi, the Philippines, China and Korea. International business professor Nancy Napier, who featured TMP in her book “Insight: Encouraging Aha Moments for Organizational Success,” also was in Hanoi and able to attend the performance and visit with alumni. The Vietnam Alumni Chapter is led by Pham Quang Trung, ’95, president; Nguyen Trong Khang, ’99, and Ha Nguyen, ’97, vice presidents; and Dau Thuy Ha, ’99, treasurer. About 60 alumni live in the country.

counterperson, ’82, Garden ’78, Boise ANNA margaret JONES, accountancy, ’02, Meridian nursing, ’68, West Jordan, alumna non-degreed, Boise Utah City LYNN HAAKONSTAD, TC, DAVID PETERSEN, TC, practi- PHILIP DYE, BA, social work, water/environmental technol- OWEN KRAHN, BA, business, cal nursing, ’94, Twin Falls GEORGE YANSKEY, AA, arts ’73; MBA, ’77, Boise & sciences, ’56, Meridian ’80, Caldwell ogy, ’93, Boise DUANE PIERCE, alumnus REVA EDENS, AS, nursing, CYNTHIA HERRON, MA, LARRY LANNIGAN, DIP, arts & non-degreed, Parma sciences, ’57, Caldwell ’71, Parma education/curriculum & JOHN PILGRIM, cert., com- Faculty instruction, ’97, Boise MARYLOU FAGERSTEDT, JAMES LULOW, BBA, accoun- puter & peripheral services, & Staff alumna non-degreed; retired SHERI HIRAI, BS, nursing, tancy, ’85, Twin Falls ’77, Glens Ferry RUTHANN BENJAMIN, staff, telephone and network ’99, Boise MERLE MOORE, BS, biology, JOHN PRYOR, cert., automo- services, 1986-1999, Boise former teacher, Enterprise MARGARET HOWARD, ’82, McCall tive technology, ’80, Boise Application System, 2006- LORI FELGENHAUER, BA, alumna non-degreed, Boise PATRICK O’KEEFE¸ alumnus KRISTEN REED, BA, social 2007; emerita manager, Help elementary education, ’94, RICHARD HUTCHINS, alum- non-degreed, Parrish, Fla. work, ’99, Nampa Desk, 1992-2006, Boise Meridian nus non-degreed, Boise RAELOU OLSEN, BA, EARL ROSE¸DIP, arts & sci- ALFRED DUFTY, associate GORDON FORREY, BA, DAVID IMEL, MA, elementary elementary education, ’48, ences, ’50, Boise dean, Graduate College, elementary education, Mayfield, Utah 2008-2012; professor, biol- education, ’76, Yellow Pine DEBORAH SCHRECONGOST, ’77, Kuna ogy department, 1988-2008, JAMES JACKSON, MBA, VERONA OSBORN¸ BA, el- BA, social work, ’98, Boise Boise RHONDA GERLEMAN, BA, ementary education, ’70; AS, ’85, Eagle TONY SHANTIE, AS, nursing, elementary education, ’87, nursing, ’78, Emmett JEAN GALLAND, emeri- DAVID JOHNS, DIP, arts & ’97, Boise Lakewood, Colo. tus head mechanic, sciences, ’57, Idaho City SHAWN OVERALL¸BBA, JOHN GROW, BBA, finance, RICHARD SHAW¸ BA, history, Facilities, Operations and ’00, Boise Maintenance, 1972-1994, LAWRENCE “LARRY” Erin, Tenn. SMITH¸BA, English/liberal ARNES “ARNI” NICHOLSON- arts, ’83, Boise MAIS, Bookstore financial NEIL SMULL, alumnus non- technician, 2007-2012, Boise. degreed, Boise ELAINE ROCKNE, emeritus ELDEN STOKES, BBA, eco- faculty, Department of nomics, ’11, Meridian Health Science, 1968-1986, Boise ALBERT TARP¸ BA, general business, ’70, Phoenix, Ariz. ANDREW SCHOEDINGER, emeritus professor/chair, ROBERT TAYLOR, BA, history, Department of Philosophy, ’84; BA, political science, ’84; MA, education, curriculum & 1972-2008, Boise instruction, ’98, Meridian MELVIN SHELTON, emeritus NORMAN TOWNE, alumnus professor and director of non-degreed, Meridian bands, Department of Music, 1968-1992, Boise LOIS WHEELER, AA, arts & sciences, ’44, Boise WILLIAM WARBERG, emeritus professor, College GARY WHITE, alumnus non- of Business, 1977-1994, degreed, Nampa Portland, Ore. SAMANTHA WILMOTH, AS, page 28 | focus | fall 2012 last page Pass ng the Torch building blocks to success Matthew Broomhead, ’95 One of my favorite campus That experience played a memories was one of my huge role in developing first. I was in the bookstore my affinity for Boise before classes started. I State. To be involved was lost, which must have in creating a positive been pretty obvious because experience for students a fellow student asked if I was awesome, and needed help. Not only did that feeling has carried she assist me in finding the over to influence my Matthew, ’95, and Krista, ’95, Broomhead are chapter president and book I was looking for, she involvement with the secretary for the Boise State Puget Sound Alumni Chapter. also helped me get involved Puget Sound Alumni communication has been professional and personal on campus by asking me to Chapter. I’ve been working paramount — whether development. join her Student Programs with the chapter since 2003 written or spoken. The Board committee. As a result, and am now the chapter My advice to students is education I received at Boise I spent three wonderful years president. to make the most of your State has been critical to as a volunteer and comedy time by getting involved on In every job I’ve held my success. While I didn’t coordinator with the student- campus in whatever way is since graduating with a see it at the time, all of the run organization that provides comfortable to you. If you do B.A. in communication writing and public speaking free campus programming and that, you’re guaranteed to (with an emphasis in assignments were essential events for students. have a positive experience. training and development), building blocks to my

New and returning students were welcomed to new student orientation at the Student Union Building Looking Back in August 1988. This fall marks Boise State’s 80th anniversary. Boise Junior College opened its doors to 78 students and 15 faculty on Sept. 6, 1932, in St. Margaret’s Hall in downtown Boise.

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