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BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY FALL 2003, VOL. XXIX, NO. 1 FOCUS 14 42 EX-BRONCOS 6 TACKLE NFL Broncos line up on 28 QUICK seven NFL teams. STUDY HEALTHY New Boise State DIRECTIONS president Bob Kustra 6 16 Medical research grows hits the ground in labs all over campus. running. AUTHOR, ABOUT THIS ISSUE: AUTHOR From research on preventing skin cancer to Anyone can play 42 molecular level studies of Alzheimer’s disease, 9 Idaho Authors! card health-related research has emerged as a new IDAHO’S TOP game. WOMAN area of excellence at Boise State University. OF STEEL Starting on Page 28, this issue of FOCUS looks at PROFESSOR Wine and welding ideas being generated in Boise State labs with Beloved teacher Alicia 18 make for unique potential to impact human health. Professors and Garza earns top honor. gallery. students are collaborating with regional medical NASA centers, conducting joint projects with universi- RESEARCH ties in Idaho and around the country, and win- Grad students study ning multidisciplinary grants from top-tier fund- volcano and faults. ing agencies. (Cover photo of biology professor Julia Oxford by John Kelly. Photo below of biology professor Cheryl Jorcyk and her student research team, also by Kelly.)

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Research drives university’s transformation

his issue of FOCUS, while highlighting areas of emphasis. Current health-related research, speaks volumes plans include a Ph.D. in com- about the ongoing transformation under puter and electrical engineer- way on the Boise campus. Long heralded ing, a Ph.D. in public adminis- as an institution devoted to classroom tration, and a master’s in teaching, Boise State now seeks to add urban and regional planning. another dimension to its mission — that Building more and higher of a metropolitan research university of quality graduate programs distinction. will enhance our quest for During the days when Boise was in its early stages of academic success in at least growth, it was sufficient for Boise Junior College and later two ways. First, it will serve TBoise State University to play the role of the traditional the needs of our employer comprehensive university with a strong teaching mission partners who must have and a very limited research role. knowledgeable workers on the cutting edge of their disci- But as the Boise economy morphed into a dynamic mar- plines. Second, it will strengthen Boise State’s hand in ketplace of ideas and products — especially with its highly recruiting the very best faculty in the marketplace of teach- sophisticated technology sector — and the city became a ing and ideas. Most of the nation’s brightest graduate stu- major metropolitan region, it was inevitable that the city’s dents studying for their places in the professorate of tomor- university would need to make the transition to a metropoli- row are interested in universities that offer opportunities tan research university. for research and opportunities to teach in graduate pro- In the pages that follow, you will learn more about the grams. Boise State must do both if it is to be a world-class discovery process at Boise State, especially with regard to partner to a world-class Boise economy. how our faculty and students are researching and solving Both the research agenda and the development of new some of health sciences’ most challenging issues. graduate programs are very costly items in the university’s It is far from a complete picture, given the flurry of budget. At the core of such ambitious goals must be a state research activity springing up across the campus. willing to provide the investment for the university to suc- Of course, we remain committed to our goal of recruiting ceed in its mission, a mission that will in turn bring enor- and supporting faculty who love to teach and work directly mous benefit to the city of Boise and state of Idaho. with students in the classroom. Our reputation in this area But it will also take aggressive leadership on the part of is well deserved and a fact of life on the Boise State campus. the university. First, it will take a commitment from the What may not be so well known are the individual and col- president, which I have made, to search for external funding lective efforts of our faculty in our colleges and departments from individual and corporate donors, foundations and the to expand their disciplines’ frontiers of knowledge and con- federal government. tribute to the advancement of learning and discovery in our Second, it will require the initiative of our administrators classrooms and laboratories. and faculty to develop sound and ambitious proposals for As you can see from FOCUS’ reports on biomedical research and graduate program support. research at Boise State, we are especially committed to Finally, it will take the generosity of Boise State alumni research that has practical application. It is not research for and community and corporate partners to respond to our research’s sake. need for support. This university cannot keep pace with the In order to meet the needs of the community we serve, economy of the region unless all of those who care about its we must also couple our research efforts with additional success contribute to the effort. graduate programs. Our students must have the opportunity It is a privilege to serve as president of Boise State at such to specialize, as graduate programs require, as they refine an exciting time. their knowledge and prepare for advanced careers in their — Bob Kustra, President

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Micron Technology chips in with Construction projects change $2 million gift for engineering look of Boise State campuses hanks to a $2 million gift from the Micron Technology Foundation, Boise State’s College he landscapes of Boise new campus, freeing up space at T State’s main campus and its the Canyon County Center on of Engineering continues to expand its engi- T neering education programs. Canyon County site are in Nampa-Caldwell Boulevard for store for major changes in the expanding applied technology pro- The Micron Foundation pledged $2 million over coming months. grams. four years to start a materials science and engineer- With construction of its first The 38,000-square-foot TECENTER ing bachelor’s degree program at Boise State, which academic building now under way became the first building on the the university plans to have up and running by fall of and the official opening of the Boise State-West campus when it 2004. The Technology and Entrepreneurial opened earlier this summer. The announcement of Center (TECenter), the Boise State- business incubator for technology the donation was West campus has begun to take start-ups and early stage compa- made at an on- shape. At the same time, two major nies provides office space, individ- campus press student housing construction proj- ual consulting, support services,

AREQUINNEY CARRIE conference in ects have sprouted up on the main help with funding and other September. campus along University Drive and resources. The TECenter is operat- “We applaud the Boise River. ed by Boise State’s Idaho Small From left: Boise State’s Bob Boise State’s University officials and other Business Development Center. Kustra and Cheryl Schrader dignitaries broke ground on the Other projects under way leadership in with Micron Technology’s Mark Boise State-West ACADEMIC BUILD- include: Durcan and Karen Vauk. expanding its ING in August. It is being con- Construction of a new student engineering education programs,” says Mark Durcan, structed on the 150-acre campus APARTMENT COMPLEX and new RESI- vice president of research and development for north of the Idaho Center off Can- DENCE HALL is on schedule. The Micron Technology. “Having a quality program avail- Ada Road in Nampa. When com- first apartment building will be able enables Boise State students and faculty to par- pleted in December 2004, the finished and available to students ticipate at the forefront of technology.” 65,600-square-foot building will in March. The last apartment Close ties between the regional economy and the have class- building and microelectronics industry have led to the demand for rooms, science residence hall a materials science program, as demonstrated by hir- laboratories, are scheduled ing needs of local employers and expressed interest student servic- for completion from engineering students, notes Boise State es offices, a in July. President Bob Kustra. branch library, Housing rental a bookstore income will “This generous donation from the Micron and more. pay for the Technology Foundation will further enhance the The new project. College of Engineering’s and regional industry’s campus is Phase two of prominent roles in the field of microelectronics,” says being the PARKING

Kustra. designed to JOHN KELLY STRUCTURE “Boise State’s ongoing relationship with Micron meet the was opened has helped propel the College of Engineering into the needs of a this summer. national spotlight, with several recent national growing number of students in The $4 million addition added 618 awards and honors recognizing excellent research by Canyon County and beyond. The spaces on four levels and connects students and faculty.” number of students enrolled in to phase one of the parking garage. “Developments in materials impact nearly every academic programs at the current The expansion will be paid for aspect of modern life and every academic discipline,” Canyon County Center in Nampa with parking revenue. says Cheryl Schrader, dean of the College of doubled between 1999 and 2003. The CHILDREN’S CENTER celebrat- More than 1,800 students enrolled ed completion of a 4,600-square- Engineering. “This grant is of great benefit as we this fall. foot addition to the center with an continue to enhance our engineering experience at When the new building is com- open house in November. The Boise State University, and it is yet another mile- pleted, all Canyon County academ- addition adds four classrooms to stone in community engagement.” ic programs will be moved to the accommodate 40 more infants and 4 FOCUS FALL 2003 CAMPUS NEWS

Enrollment tops 18,000 despite budget cutbacks oise State continued its recent growth B spurt this fall, becoming the first university in Idaho to surpass the 18,000-student enrollment mark. The university’s 2003 fall enrollment of 18,447 students is a 4 percent increase over last fall’s total of 17,714. Despite budget cutbacks, the fall ’03 number marks the eighth con- secutive fall semester in which the size of the student body has increased. Mark Wheeler, dean of enrollment services, says the higher admissions standards recently adopted by the university set this year’s enrollment apart. “Because of higher admission standards, the university did not admit more students than last year,” he says. “Instead, the 4 percent growth is due primarily to increased numbers of juniors and seniors returning from last year.” In fact, higher admissions standards for students applying for fall 2003 resulted in more than 500 students being denied degree-seeking admission — 250 more students than the previous year. Even tougher standards slated to go into effect in fall 2004 are expected to increase that number by an additional 200 students. Wheeler says research supports the fact that the higher standards increase the likelihood of JOHN KELLY new student success, thus aiding in retention. In addition to the enrollment increase, students are taking heavier class loads. This is reflected in toddlers in the day The second phase of the university’s parking struc- care program. It was ture, completed in August, provides an attractive the increase in full-time students by 5.5 percent gateway to the campus for motorists on University to 13,450. Furthermore, full-time graduate enroll- funded by $600,000 Drive. The addition is one of several current or in private donations. recently completed construction projects. At left, ment is up 7.3 percent and enrollment at the Construction of a part of the student housing complex project is due Canyon County Center experienced a 7.7 percent BUS TURNOUT LANE on for completion in the spring of 2004. jump. University Drive is To meet this need, the university added more complete and work on bus shelters early October the State Board of than 30 new sections of core and major service are under way. The project is being Education gave the university ten- classes this fall. funded with federal transportation tative approval to study the feasi- Adding new classes also means finding faculty dollars that Idaho’s congressional bility of a 65,000-square-foot inter- to teach them — a difficult task in light of a delegation helped Boise State active learning center next to the budget $3 million short of two years ago. But secure. Multipurpose Classroom Building Provost Daryl Jones says the university is doing its The turnout lane will help and a student services center. best to keep up with demand. remove bus traffic from University Two other planned feasibility Drive while passengers are loading studies will look at safety and “For the time being, we are filling vacancies and unloading, improving traffic health-related improvements to created by retirement and departures,” he says, flow. Bronco Stadium and the planning “and we would hope to create some new faculty Other long-range construction and design of an environmental positions in the future, should funding become plans are under consideration. In science and policy center. available.” FOCUS FALL 2003 5 CAMPUS NEWS Kustra jumps right in, gets to BY LARRY BURKE Presidential installation oise State’s newest Bronco has good grasp of what the challenges and to highlight 30th B joined the herd with the energy of opportunities are and asks very penetrat- a spirited colt and the aggressive- ing questions. He is very attuned to the anniversary celebration ness of a protective stallion. synergy between the business communi- To wit: After ty and the university. Boise State will host a dual cele- only four He gets that connec- bration in February featuring the months on the tion, and that’s what installation of President Bob Kustra job, President we need.” on Feb. 27 and observing its 30th Bob Kustra has Adds Steve Ahrens, anniversary as a university with a received director of the Idaho week of events and activities. approval to Association of Founded in 1932 as a junior col- begin a feasibil- Commerce and lege, Boise State became a four-year ity study to Industry: “Dr. Kustra school in 1965, moved into the state construct a hit the ground running higher education system in 1969, new classroom at 100 miles an hour. and became a university in February building and a He envisions Boise 1974. Several university-related events student servic- State as an urban will lead up to the installation and es center as research institution, anniversary celebration, and campus well as for a which holds wonderful and community members are invited luxury opportunities for Boise to join in. suite/press box and Idaho. His vision Feb. 21 — Service Saturday, where addition to for Boise State is participants tackle three to four Bronco dramatically different community service projects through- Stadium. In than the college’s past out Boise. Sponsored and coordinat- addition, he QUINNEY CARRIE history and points a ed by the Volunteer Services Board. has issued a clear direction for ele- Feb. 21 — The International Food, bold invitation vating Boise State to a Song and Dance Festival, an evening to Idaho State Boise State’s new president has made the rounds new role in Idaho of performances and ethnic food to locate its as a public speaker on behalf of the university. higher education.” from around the world. This annual health science In his early visits event is sponsored by the programs in a new building on Boise and speeches, Kustra has delivered a International Student Association. State’s campus. So much for the “get- pointed message that touts the value of Feb. 26 — The 15th annual acquainted” phase that marks the initial Boise State, yet also outlines the issues Leadership Quest, sponsored by months of most college presidents. facing the school as it continues to expe- Student Union and Activities and the Not that Kustra hasn’t been doing rience a booming demand for its servic- LEADS program. plenty of that, too. His car’s odometer es. And he doesn’t back away from talk- Feb. 27 —Presidential installation. Feb. 27 —Third annual Women was spinning at top speed over the sum- ing about some of the toughest Making History Reception, recogniz- mer as he crisscrossed the state to build challenges facing Idaho’s higher educa- ing 25 outstanding women. relationships with his new tion system: equity funding for Boise Sponsored by the Boise State constituencies. State, low faculty salaries and a dwin- Women’s Center. Find someone to listen and he was dling share of the state revenue pie. Feb. 28 — Step Afrika, an African there, from individual visits with key “I’m really anxious to speak on these American dance program. Sponsored decision-makers to speeches to Boise’s issues and see if we can get some support by Student Programs Board. major civic organizations and meetings under the dome,” says Kustra. “The chal- Also that week, the Student Union with the media. Kustra’s people skills lenge is to develop a statewide focus on Gallery will feature the National and speaking abilities have already Boise State as the institution of promise Women’s Juried Art Show in obser- earned him favorable reviews, including when it comes to growth and develop- vance of Women’s History Month in those from directors of two of Idaho’s ment. What the state’s political leadership March. largest business organizations and its business community have to For a detailed listing of what’s hap- “He is an amazingly quick study,” says understand is that Boise State, by virtue pening on campus, visit entertain- Nancy Vannorsdel, director of the Boise of being embedded in this growing metro- ment.boisestate.edu. Metro Chamber of Commerce. “He has a politan region, is the future of this state.

6 FOCUS FALL 2003 CAMPUS NEWS work at new job Radio show offers new horizons “It is going to experience substantial growth N ew President Bob Kustra is getting the word out in several ways and development and is going to be a premier — including on the airwaves of NPR News 91, the university’s metropolitan research university. How quickly National Public Radio-affiliated station. it becomes that depends on how much the Starting in August, NPR News 91 began airing New Horizons in political leadership in this state wants to stand Education, a 30-minute interview show hosted by Kustra. Aired each up front and square to advocate for this institu- Friday at 3:30 p.m. (Mountain Time), New Horizons features guests tion.” from a variety of backgrounds and areas of expertise. Kustra’s academic agenda has focused on Kustra’s guests have included newsmakers, dignitaries, authors Boise State’s transition into an “urban research university” that utilizes its metropolitan setting and educators discussing important issues of the day. “The goal is more effectively than it has in the past. A new high-quality, interesting radio,” says Kustra. “But the most important Institute for Urban and Regional Planning is outcome, I hope, will be to showcase Boise State in yet another an early reflection of that concept. A master’s venue as a metropolitan research university of distinction, and to degree program in regional and urban plan- enhance our reputational currency.” ning is soon to follow. Kustra is an experienced broadcaster, having hosted his own pro- “This new research thrust draws connections gram at Eastern Kentucky University, where he previously served as to every part of the community and draws president. Prior to that, he declined an offer to host an afternoon those connections back to every discipline,” talk show on WLS in Chicago, where he was serving as Illinois’ lieu- says Kustra. “In every college you are going to tenant governor. have some application of the general principle, “At NPR News 91, we had been talking about a local talk program which is to connect this university with every aspect of this community. for some time,” says program director Jim East. “But finding the right “We need to provide more incentives for host kept us from going forward. After Dr. Kustra was named presi- research and build more graduate programs. dent of BSU, we were delighted when he agreed to continue what he We need to hire more faculty who have teach- had done at Eastern Kentucky. He’s an excellent communicator and ing and research agendas and develop an exec- provides a lively forum for the people and issues that impact utive MBA [program]. Idahoans.” “And we must reconcile the need for the NPR News 91 is a service of Boise State Radio and Boise State. It is Treasure Valley to educate students of all abili- heard on KBSX, 91.5 FM Boise; KBSY, 88.5 FM Burley; KBSJ, 91.3 FM ties and aptitudes while at the same time carv- Jackpot, Nev.; and KBSQ, 90.7 FM McCall. ing out a place for Boise State to be a research Additional information about New Horizons in Education is available university with higher academic standards,” he online at radio.boisestate.edu/ stations/npr/NewHorizons.asp. continues. “Those two just don’t go together. Everybody on this campus knows it and every- —Bob Evancho body would like to come up with a solution. Of course, the solution requires money; it requires political will and some leadership.” And what are the new president’s first impressions? “There’s a very positive feeling on the campus about this particular moment in Boise State’s future,” says Kustra. “Of course, everybody is feeling the effects of no salary increases going into our third year. On the other hand, they realize there is no way that can change unless we mobilize in some fashion — find a way to tell Boise State’s story even more effectively — find a way to connect the campus to this city and state in more effective ways. “No matter where I turn, I find a willingness

for people to jump in.” JOHN KELLY Bob Kustra interviews Boise State FOCUS FALL 2003 7 alum and novelist Everardo Torrez. CAMPUS NEWS

TWO ‘IDAHO REVIEW’ STORIES WIN Campaign benefits scholarships PRESTIGIOUS O.HENRY AWARDS he Boise State University Foundation made the announce- Two short stories in The Idaho Review, an annual T Foundation will announce ment at a press conference held on collection of fiction and poetry published by Boise plans for a comprehensive fund-rais- campus. State’s creative writing program, have been selecting campaign for student scholar- “The initial contribution to this ed for reprint in the 2003 edition of Prize Stories: The O.Henry Awards. ships later this fall. campaign from the BIF will be a Publication in Prize Stories is considered one of The Campaign for Students will major step in our efforts to raise the highest honors in literary publishing. seek to enhance the university’s additional funds for scholarships,” The selected stories are “Kissing” by veteran opportunities to attract, retain, says Richard A. Smith, Boise State's Montana writer William Kittredge and “Bleed Blue reward and encourage the best stu- vice president for university in Indonesia” by newcomer Adam Desnoyers. dents by providing more scholar- advancement. ships, and will allow donors to give “This gift will benefit many Boise SHALLAT BOOK WINS TWO AWARDS to a variety of scholarship cate- State students for years to come. We Secrets of the Magic Valley and Hagerman’s gories. are most grateful to the BIF for its Remarkable Horse, a book edited by Boise State his- A $1.5 million financial donation generosity.” tory professor Todd Shallat, received the Idaho from the Boise Industrial Founded in 1958, the BIF is a Book Award and was also named a finalist in the Independent Foundation in June was the lead gift group of Boise-area business and Publishers 2003 Book Awards earlier for the campaign. Members of the civic leaders dedicated to the this summer. BIF, an economic development asso- growth, development and prosperity Published by Black Canyon ciation, university officials and of industry and commerce in Boise Communications in Boise, the book members of the Boise State and the surrounding area. is a richly illustrated account of the Magic Valley’s flourishing past. ‘Father of biodiversity’ to speak in April EXTENDED STUDIES CLAIMS iologist E.O. Wilson (right), arguably one of REGIONAL MARKETING AWARD Bthe most important thinkers of the 20th Boise State’s Division of Extended Studies was century and often called the “father of biodiver- awarded the 2003 Gary Award for Marketing Ideas sity,” will speak April 14, 2004, at Boise State as for its summer programs print marketing materials. The winning materials were produced by Extended part of the Distinguished Lecture Series. Studies graphic designer Julie Erb. Wilson’s address is at 7 p.m. in the Student The award is given annually by the Western Union Jordan Ballroom and is free. Association of Summer Session Administrators for A Harvard professor for four decades, Wilson excellence in print marketing. This marks the third award Extended Studies and has written 20 books, won two Pulitzer Prizes Erb have received from WASSA. In 2002, they were and numerous other awards, and discovered first runner-up for “Best Catalog Cover” and in hundreds of new species. Among his many 2000 took first place in the “Best Use of Theme” accomplishments is the discovery that ants communicate through pher- category for the class catalog. emones. He is most famous for the publication in 1975 of Sociobiology: FINANCE STUDENTS FARE WELL IN The New Synthesis, which advanced evolutionary thinking and described INVESTMENT COMPETITION social behavior from ants to humans. The student-funded Distinguished Lecture Series brings to campus speakers who have had a significant A team of College of Business and Economics finance students, under the direction of market- impact in politics, ing and finance professor Keith Harvey, earned On campus … the arts or the a 27.7 percent return from Sept.1, 2002, sciences. The through Aug. 31, 2003, on an initial invest- most recent ment of $50,000, according to D.A. Davidson Walter Mondale, former Vice President & Co. speaker was Boise State placed third out of 18 Church Institute/Andrus Center Conference: “Freedom and Michael schools that participated in the D.A. Secrecy: Trading Liberty for Security,” Oct. 2, 2003 Cunningham, Davidson investment project. The “If ours is a government by the people the Pulitzer company contributed $50,000 Prize-winning about eight years ago to Boise State and for the people, as Lincoln said and and 17 other schools. The company I believe, then the highest priority has to be author of The keeps track of rates of return earned Hours. by the schools and publishes it annually. placed on public information.” 8 FOCUS FALL 2003 CAMPUS NEWS

Garza is ‘soul food’ Conferences for those she teaches abound at BSU Professor oise State continues to OF THE B host numerous academic BY JANELLE BROWN and cultural conferences. The annual Martin Luther King Jr./Idaho Human Rights Year Celebration, scheduled for Jan. 19-24, 2004, will open t’s impossible to sit in Alicia Garza’s classroom and not the spring semester’s slate of feel energized. As students settle into their chairs in her conferences and cultural pro- IIntroduction to Hispanic Literature class, Garza moves grams. around the room, chatting easily in Spanish and flash- The theme of the 2004 ing a warm smile. MLK conference will be “She’s a wonderful teacher. She’s vibrant and she can be “Different and the Same: very funny,” says student Melissa King, as she pulls out the Today, Tomorrow, Forever.” A rough draft of an essay she’s working on. Adds student keynote speaker has yet to be Holli Storey, “She has a lot of energy.” selected. Moments later, Garza tells students to move into pairs to Conferences recently held edit essays. One student literally catapults over a desk to at or sponsored by Boise claim the prized spot of working with Garza. “I need all the JOHN KELLY State included: help I can get,” he says with a sheepish grin. • “Freedom & Secrecy: A professor of Spanish at Boise State since 1996, Garza Trading Liberty for Security,” routinely receives accolades for the excellence of her teach- sponsored by the Frank ing. Her expertise in Latin American and Chicano culture and literature has enabled her to Church Institute, Andrus develop new courses in the department of modern languages and literatures. Center and The Idaho “Teaching is highly satisfying for me, “ says Garza, who grew up speaking Spanish at home Statesman. Keynote speakers and first learned English from watching TV. “It’s a privilege to teach.” included Washington Post For her outstanding teaching, Garza has been named the Carnegie Foundation’s Idaho columnist David Broder, for- Professor of the Year for 2003. She’ll join winning professors from other states in mid- mer U.S. Vice President November for an official ceremony and reception on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Walter Mondale (Page 8) and “I’m speechless. I can’t believe it. This is the highlight of my career,” says Garza. former U.S. Sen. Slade The public is invited to a reception for Garza at 5-7 p.m. on Dec. 2 in the Lookout Room of Gorton. the Student Union Building. Boise State President Bob Kustra and other dignitaries will offi- • The 19th meeting of the cially present Garza with the teaching award. American Conference for Irish Garza may have been surprised at her selection, but those who know her say she is richly Studies/West, presented by deserving of the award. “She shows genuine respect and consideration for all students, whatev- the Office of the Consul er their linguistic capacity, whatever their opinion,” wrote Teresa Boucher, chair of the depart- General of Ireland and Boise ment of modern languages and literatures in a letter supporting Garza’s nomination. State. Garza has the ability to deal with sensitive issues such as gender, race and unequal social sta- • The 15th annual tus that are part of her course literature in a way that never belittles students, according to a let- STD/AIDS Conference, ter from former student Iris Rocha. “Her mastery of the subject matter and constant enthusiasm “Integrating Efforts: has [encouraged] many students to get involved in the community,” Rocha wrote. Prevention, Care and The daughter of migrant farmworkers whose formal education ended at grade school, Garza Education,” presented by the is a powerful role model, say students and colleagues. “For Chicanos and Chicanas, she is soul Idaho Department of food because she shares her experiences and they are similar to those of her students,” wrote Education and Idaho Health one student in a course evaluation. and Welfare STD/AIDS pro- Garza earned a Ph.D. in Hispanic literature from the University of Arizona. She credits her gram. family with instilling in her the importance of an education and encouraging her dreams. She • The Idaho Archaeological received the 2002 Distinguished Teaching Award from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Society’s 30th annual confer- 1998 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Associated Students of Boise State. ence, sponsored by Boise Garza is the eighth Boise State professor overall to win the prestigious Professor of the Year State and the Idaho State award. Past recipients include Todd Shallat, history; John Freemuth, political science; Russell Historic Preservation Office. Centanni, biology; Pam Gehrke, nursing; Stephanie Witt, political science; Greg Raymond, political science; and Tom Trusky, English, who won three times. FOCUS FALL 2003 9 CAMPUS NEWS

From history to mystery, authors have it covered Scholarship honors fallen firefighters RED, WHITE, AND DEAD AHSAHTA PRESS vides a deeper understand- By Lonnie Willis Forbidden City, a first ing of women and the dis- memorial scholarship estab- A born-again minister, a book of poetry by Peggy tribution of A lished by Boise State will private investigator, a Hamilton of Pompano power. honor two students who lost their woman in Beach, Fla., was published Published by the lives this summer while battling a danger, a for- in September by Boise University wildfire near Salmon. The scholar- mer bouncer State’s Ahsahta Press (124 of New ship is designed to preserve their and a punk pages, $14.95, trade paper). with an atti- Hamilton Mexico memory and recognize their bravery. tude join is the cur- Press and In late July the university estab- together to rent recipi- edited by BSU history pro- lished the Jeff Allen and Shane form an ent of the fessor Schackel, the book is Heath Memorial Scholarship. The intriguing mystery Florida arranged around five pair died from a combination of novel from Boise State Individual themes: politics and burns and asphyxiation July 22 while emeritus professor of Artist power; women and mobili- battling a wildland fire in the English Willis. Red, White, Fellowship ty; staying on the land; Salmon-Challis National Forest. and Dead, set in Boise, is in Literature for poetry. uncovering women’s voic- The Allen-Heath Scholarship will available through Vista es; and reshaping cultural provide financial assistance to stu- Book Gallery and Book and LEST WE BE DAMNED: images and ideas. Game in Boise, at PRACTICAL INNOVATION AND dents in Boise State’s fire service WATER FOR THE ANASAZI technology program. The Boise State www.Amazon.com and at LIVED EXPERIENCE AMONG Edited by Todd Shallat University Foundation announced www.1stbooks.com (194 CATHOLICS IN PROTESTANT pages, $14.95, paperback). ENGLAND, 1559-1642 Written by Colorado civil that it would provide $1,500 in seed In addition to publishing By Lisa McClain engineer Kenneth Wright, money for the endowed scholarship works of short fiction Sixth in a series by the book fund in honor of the two. Willis has published sever- Routledge Press looking at summarizes Allen, 23, of Salmon, and Heath, al scholarly articles on religion in history, society his research 22, of Melba, were both senior busi- American writers. and culture, Lest We Be team’s ness majors. Damned (273 pages, eight-year “Boise State is deeply saddened NARCO $65, hardback) explores study of by the loss of these two fine young By Everardo Torrez how ordinary Catholics how the men,” said President Bob Kustra in Boise State dealt with Protestant prehistoric July. “Although I did not have the alumnus and reforms in England. In American Indians might have engineered a system opportunity to meet them, I am told Boise resi- the absence of Catholic capable of gathering both young men were exemplary dent. Torrez churches, priests and enough water in that arid students and fine citizens. It is our (MA, com- sacraments, BSU history munication, ’02) turned his professor McClain explores land to sustain their socie- hope that this endowed scholarship master’s thesis into a novel how Catholics, fearful over ty. Edited by Boise State in their honor will help preserve (Arte Publico Press, 192 their chances at salvation, history professor Todd their memory, remember their pages, $12.95, paperback) made innovatory changes Shallat, the book (81 pages, courageous work and help train that describes the complex- to religious rituals, identity $15, paperback) is a richly other young firefighters.” ities of the illicit drug and community. illustrated collaboration Administered by the Selland trade on the U.S.-Mexican between the Public Works College of Applied Technology, Boise border (see Page 7). WESTERN WOMEN’S LIVES: Historical Society and the State’s fire service technology pro- Torrez is a grand prize CONTINUITY AND CHANGE College of Social Sciences gram is an associate degree program winner of the University IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY and Public Affairs at Boise with courses delivered through local of Alaska-Fairbanks Press Edited by Sandra K. Schackel State, which houses the PWHS editorial offices fire departments. Fiction Contest and The 16 essays in and publishes the Public Donations to the Jeff Allen and received honorable men- Western Women’s Lives (448 pages, $22.95, hard- Works History newsletter. Shane Heath Memorial Scholarship tion in the Edward Moses Fiction Contest at the back) address how western The book is available can be made by contacting the Boise University of Southern women experienced life in online at www.apwa.net/ State Foundation at (208) 426-3276. California. the 20th century and pro- bookstore. 10 FOCUS FALL 2003 11 FOCUS FALL 2003 FOCUS FALL received the award

ft Ta after its students posted dramatic gains on the Idaho Reading Indicator. State was acknowl- Boise edged for its partnership with Taft. University stu- class- Taft’s dents work in rooms as student teachers. Department of Education as a No Child Left Behind- School. Blue Ribbon recently honored by the U.S.

CAMPUS NEWS CAMPUS awards Boise State construction management State Boise “Evolution of The paper was titled College of Education was State’s Boise Stacy Pearson, Boise State’s associate State’s Boise Stacy Pearson, international The IMA is the leading ’95) has been at Boise Pearson (MPA, dean of the College Schrader, Cheryl Schrader received the award for a isualization Technology in Construction: Technology isualization CM PROF WINS AWARD WINS CM PROF COLLEGE OF ED RECOGNIZED COUNCIL NAMES PEARSON NAMES COUNCIL YEAR EXEC OF FINANCIAL SCHRADER HONORED professor Borinara Park earned the Best Paper award at the International Systems in Conference on Information Engineering and Construction earlier this year. recognized for its part in an award won which was Elementary, Taft by Boise’s vice president for finance and adminis- for finance and vice president named a 2003 Financial tration, was by the Pacific Year of the Executive the Institute of Northwest Council of Management Accountants. corporate account- trade association for ing and finance professionals. Twenty- from around the one financial executives this year as finan- nation were honored cial leaders. and currently over- State for eight years financial operations. sees the university’s of Engineering, was awarded an at an Award Exemplary Course Project Web-based international conference on learning. Systems and graduate-level Linear Control course she developed last year as an electrical engineering professor at the Antonio. San at Texas University of V Current Practices and Future Their Genuine Role.” Implications, and book is a profound, electrified exchange

Pulitzer Prize-winning author “A Oct. 9, 2003 Boise State University Distinguished Lecture Series State University Distinguished Lecture Boise between the writer and the reader. I take my I take the writer and the reader. between Since fiscal 1996, Boise State has 1996, Boise Since fiscal readers very seriously.” readers very the development of subsurface sensors, evaluations of student drinking, biomechanics and nanotechnology studies. interdiscipli- is Much of this research nary in nature, and involves collabora- State faculty from tions among Boise different academic fields, Owens says. nearly tripled the amount of grants and the amount of nearly tripled funding from external awards received sources. faculty are conduct- State Boise in areas ranging ing funded research studies to and cancer Alzheimer’s from Dollar Amount of Projects Awarded of Projects Amount Dollar On campus … Michael Cunningham

oise State was awarded a record State was awarded oise for externally spon- $22 million

oise State will hold its third winter Commencement at 10 a.m.State will hold oise on Friday, Dec. with President Bob Kustra officiating the event for the The Pavilion 19, in inter Commencement scheduled for Dec.inter Commencement 19

The $22 million includes grants from The $22 million includes and excited about are pleased “We In 2001, Boise State officials decided to host a winter graduation ceremony In 2001, Boise Commencement, the This winter’s ith Boise State’s enrollment now more than 18,000, the hope is that two cere- enrollment State’s ith Boise sored research grants and programs dur- grants sored research officials year, ing the past fiscal year. announced earlier this of the National Institutes Health, the National the Science Foundation, Environmental Protection the U.S. Agency, and Department of Defense many other agencies to fund a broad range of projects and relat- research State, ed programs at Boise says John Owens, the uni- for vice president versity’s research. Many of the awards are for are projects that multi-year research and beyond. continuing in fiscal 2004 the continuing growth in external fund- State,” at Boise ing for research says Owens. (See Page 28.)

first time. last December’s Approximately 500 students participated in August and December 2003 more Commencement, and an estimated 20 percent winter ceremony. graduates are expected to apply for participation in this year’s years. because of capacity crowds at the May Commencement over the past few W monies each year will ease overcrowding. 72nd overall, will university’s include the presentation of the State’s Silver Medallion, Boise highest honor. ceremony will The include two large screens that will show the graduates accepting their degrees so that those sitting farther away will be able to see individual graduates up close. W B Researchers garner $22 million garner Researchers B CAMPUS NEWS

SELLAND STUDENT CAPTURES GOLD MEDAL AT SKILLSUSA Darren Jenks, a student in the Selland Newsmakers College of Applied Technology, took the gold medal in the Internet working division at the SkillsUSA Championships A sampling of Boise State faculty and staff in the news: this past summer. Research by JEFFREY WILHELM, English, on the literacy gap between boys and Two other Boise State students fin- girls was cited in a story in the Washington Post. ished high at the national competition. Bret Rachwitz took second in collision DR. UWE REISCHL, director of the Boise State Center for Health Policy, was inter- repair technology and Darren Stevens viewed by a reporter for a story about adult immunizations in Vibrant Life online was third in electronics technology. magazine. JIM WEATHERBY, public policy and administration, was quoted in the Casper STUDENT FINISHES SECOND (Wyo.) Star Tribune on Sen. Larry Craig’s dispute with the U.S. Air Force. He and IN NATIONAL COMPETITION BILL JAROCKI, Environmental Finance Center, were also quoted in a Knight Ridder Boise State student Ryan Edwards story that received extensive national play. The story ran in dozens of newspapers placed second in international competition in entrepreneurship at the 2003 including the Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer and Delta Epsilon Chi International Career Wichita Eagle. Development Conference earlier this CHARLOTTE TWIGHT, economics, was quoted in a Cybercast News Service story year. Edwards received $500 from the about how Americans underestimate how much tax they pay when the money is Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for his second-place finish. withheld from their paychecks. Twight was also quoted in a national story on Fox Another Boise State student, Crystal News about the legality of the government gathering consumer information. Roundy, placed in the top 10 for her A survey on the U.S. bald eagle population published by Boise State scientists performance in retail management. and the U.S. Geological Survey was the subject of an Associated Press story that HR STUDENTS TAKE THIRD IN ran in Newsday and other publications across the U.S. and Canada. NATIONAL COMPETITION TOM TRUSKY, English, was quoted in the latest issue of the Canadian news mag- A team of Boise State human azine Maclean’s. The issue focused on Canada's first female director in an exclusive resource management students tied for excerpt from the book The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema. third place in the Human Resource CRAIG HEMMENS, criminal justice administration, was quoted in a story in the Collegiate National Competition earlier Cleveland Plain Dealer on the ethics of ties between a former parole chief and an this year. Adam Scheerer, Paul Cheney and Sara McClarin competed in a attorney. Jeopardy!-style competition. The Society Brain injury research by PENNIE SEIBERT, psychology, was featured in a story for Human Resource Management spon- that ran in the Idaho Statesman, Idaho Press-Tribune, Salt Lake Tribune and Provo Daily sored the contest. Herald. ENGINEERING GRADUATE MICHELLE SABICK, mechanical engineering, and research collaborator DR. KEVIN HONORED FOR PAPER SHEA were interviewed in a television news story about Boise State’s new biome- Nate Stutzke (B.S. electrical engi- chanics lab.The story by KTVB was distributed nationally and ran in many states neering, ’03) recently earned second including Colorado, California, Alabama, Missouri and Maryland. place in the Region 6 finals of the A radio interview by KIDO’s Deb Coursen with Boise State nursing professor Institute of Electronic and Electrical VIVIAN SCHRADER aired on 20 radio stations from Spokane to Rexburg. The

Engineers student paper contest.awards Region 6 has more than 6,000 On campus … interview was about how, members. in light of a growing Stutzke’s paper was titled national nursing short- “Testing, Stressing and Modeling David Broder age, nursing students of Simple Integrated Circuit ‘Washington Post’ political columnist Building Blocks on IC Chips.” On have launched a cam- his way to the regional finals, Church Institute/Andrus Center Conference: “Freedom paign to thank and Stutzke also won first place among and Secrecy: Trading Liberty for Security,” Oct. 2, 2003 encourage clinical sites students from six other institu- that provide them with tions. Stutzke’s achievement gives “We are sacrificing freedom [since 9/11]. Boise State electrical engineering hands-on training. students the best results in Region There is no question of that.” 6 over the last three years. 12 FOCUS FALL 2003 CAMPUS NEWS

Art students create Brubeck headlines 7th annual capitol ornaments Gene Harris Jazz Festival he eyes of the nation will turn toward Idaho T when the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree is dedicat- he seventh annual Boise Parris has performed all over ed this holiday season. Cut from a forest in the State University Gene the world with her own groups, as Emmett Ranger District, the tree will be the first T Harris Jazz Festival will be well as with from Idaho and will feature 5,000 orna- held April 1-3, 2004, and feature some of ments handcrafted by Idaho residents. About 80 smaller trees from across the legendary pianist Dave Brubeck jazz’s great- state will adorn offices in the House, and vocalists Ernie Andrews and est legends Senate and other government buildings Rebecca Parris as headliners. including as a gift from the people of Idaho. Tickets for the festival will go on Dizzy To help Idahoans, especially students in grades K- sale in December. Gillespie, 12, craft the ornaments, Boise State art education Brubeck (right) will be featured Buddy Rich, majors worked with state Department of Education officials to design attractive, regionally with his quartet and the Boise Woody inspired ornaments that students can Philharmonic during “Gene’s Jazz Herman, easily recreate in the classroom. Party” on Saturday evening, April Terry Gibbs, Three of the ornaments, created by 3, at the Bank of America Centre. David “Fathead” Newman and Sheila Boester, Brian Schreiner and The 82-year-old jazz icon has Norman Simmons. Lance Waters, are featured on the offi- received countless awards includ- Andrews and Parris will be part cial Web site for the capitol holiday tree (www.capitolholidaytree2003.org/ ing a Jazz Master’s award, a of “Singin’ and Swingin’” on Friday Ornament/ornamentsamples.htm) along with Grammy Lifetime Achievement evening, April 2, at the Bank of detailed lesson plans and ideas for incorporating the Award, induction into the Down America Centre. Other featured ornament-making into school curriculum. Beat Hall of Fame, a Star on the artists include Llew Matthews, Heather Hanlon, a Boise State art professor, says Hollywood Walk of Fame, six hon- Andy Martin, the Boise State Big the students have been working on field testing orary doctorates from American Band and the Riverside Jazz ornaments for two years, using the Pentagon tree as a prototype. The stu- universities and two from Orchestra. dents looked at how the ornaments stood European institutions along with The annual festival brings jazz up against the weather, whether they induction into the Jazz Hall of musicians to Boise for three were large enough to be seen at a dis- Fame. nights of concerts and two days tance (9 to 12 inches minimum) and how Andrews performed and record- of student clinics and competi- easy it was for students to reproduce the designs. ed with Harris and the Philip tions. For the first time, the 2004 Peggy Wenner, fine arts/humanities specialist for the Idaho Department of Education, invited Boise Morris Superband. He also worked festival will feature clinics for ele- State to participate, and research was funded by the with Harry James, and recorded mentary school children. Idaho Commission on the Arts. Not only did orna- with Cannonball Adderley, Benny For more information visit ments need to be large and withstand the weather, Carter and Ray Brown. www.geneharris.org. they also needed to use recycled and/or inexpensive materials, preferably from Idaho products. “Over two years we’ve had a total of about 40 art education majors in K-12 art methods classes who’ve Boise State earns ranking created, developed and designed ornaments, at almost no expense,” Hanlon says. Even a hand-tooled Boise State was again ranked in the second tier saddle ornament, which looks like leather but is group (out of four tiers) among master’s universities made from an inexpensive foam product, ended up in the West in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2004 costing less than $20 for an entire 22-student class. college rankings. Other creative ideas were ornaments made from tied flies and plastic cottage cheese container lids cov- The College of Engineering again made the list of ered with foil and adorned with Idaho scenes. top undergraduate programs whose highest degree “These were all very easy and very Idaho,” says is a bachelor’s or master’s. This year Boise State Hanlon. “There are some wonderful ideas.” The tree will be cut in early November and will was 49th. Excluding private universities and mili- travel through Idaho communities before adorning tary colleges, the Boise State engineering school the capitol in Washington, D.C. ranked 15th overall in its category. FOCUS FALL 2003 13 SPORTS Boise State officials joined supporters Rich and Patsy Fedrizzi to break ground on the Fedrizzi Fitness Center Annex. The Fedrizzis donated $500,000 toward the expansion of the Bronco weight room. The expansion will add 3,300 square feet to the Simplot Center for Athletic Excellence, bringing the total size of the weight room to over 10,000 square feet. Pictured are, from left, gymnastics coach Sam Sandmire, football coach Dan Hawkins, President Bob Kustra, Rich Fedrizzi, Patsy Fedrizzi and Athletic Director Gene Bleymaier. AREQUINNEY CARRIE

Former Boise State football stars tackle new careers in the NFL CORKY TREWIN/SEATTLESEAHAWKS

f the number of current NFL play- being drafted in the seventh round I ers a college football program has following the 2000 season. produced is any indication of its • MATT HILL has seen starting duty recent success, Boise State is doing as offensive tackle for Seattle this year. quite well. Seven former Broncos are Hill is in his second year after being currently on active NFL rosters. drafted in the fifth round by the • Defensive end KIMO VON Seahawks after the 2001 season. OELHOFFEN of the Pittsburgh Steelers is • Denver tight end JEB PUTZIER is the elder statesman of ex-Broncos in also in his second NFL season. He was the pros. The 32-year-old native of drafted by the Broncos in the sixth Hawaii was drafted in the sixth round round following the ’01 season. A former quarterback at Grangeville by Cincinnati after the 1993 season. • Strong safety QUINTIN MIKELL, last High School, Matt Hill now toils as • BRYAN JOHNSON is in his third year year’s WAC Defensive Player of the an offensive tackle for the NFL’s as a backup fullback and special teams Year, is in his rookie season with the Seattle Seahawks. player with Washington. He was signed Philadelphia Eagles. by the Redskins after the 1999 season. • Running back BROCK FORSEY, the • Kansas City free safety SHAUNARD 2002 WAC Offensive Player of the Year, HARTS returned an interception for a is in his first season with Chicago. He touchdown earlier this season. He is in was drafted in the fifth round by the his third season with the Chiefs after Bears. CARRIE QUINNEY

Boise State’s new basketball floor in The Pavilion was unveiled earlier this fall and the surface was christened in October with an NBA exhibi- tion game between the Utah Jazz and New York Knicks.

14 FOCUS FALL 2003 SPORTS Student-athletes repeat as No. 1 or the second straight year, Boise State F student-athletes have an award-winning graduation rate. Women hoopsters Boise State was make the grade ranked No. 1 among The BSU women’s bas- the NCAA’s Division 1 ketball team tied for schools in the cate- 16th place in the gory “Institutions Women’s Basketball with the highest stu- Coaches Association dent-athlete gradua- 2002-03 Academic Top tion rates above the 25 Team Honor Roll for average of the stu- NCAA Division 1. dent body” with a plus-33 percent rate The awards recognize in the 2003 USA the nation’s highest TODAY-NCAA team grade-point aver- Academic ages for the 2002-03 Achievement Awards. season based upon nom- Last year Boise inations submitted by State led all NCAA WBCA-member coaches. 1-A schools in the Boise State’s women same category with were tied with a plus-36 percent Creighton University for rate. 16th with team GPAs of Fifteen different 3.315. Boise State was categories comprise one of 25 programs rec- the academic ognized from more than achievement awards. 320 NCAA Division 1 Boise State is one squads. The Broncos of only two schools were also the top- to win an award for ranked team from the the second straight Western Athletic year and was ranked Conference. fifth in the same category when the first awards were presented in 2001. Along with the national recognition, Boise State and the other 14 winning schools will each receive $20,000 to use however they choose. Last year’s award, which was $25,000, was used to upgrade computers in Boise State’s Peterson-Preco Learning Center. When compared to Boise State’s student- athletes, the lower graduation rate of the overall student body is fairly typical of a metropolitan university in which a significant amount of its population is in the “non-traditional” category, i.e. students who do not come right out of high school and have families and jobs. FOCUS FALL 2003 15 DISCOVERY

IDAHO CENTER FOR THE BOOK UNVEILS IDAHO AUTHORS! CARD GAME

Success is in the cards for new game

hat Idaho author created Tarzan the ape man books”). and once served as a Parma city councilman? Featuring 11 writers who were born or main- What Nobel Prize winner had a cat named tained residences in Idaho, the card game is Boise? What filmmaker was also noted for her played much like the original Authors. Book critically acclaimed novel Abandoned Trails? titles from the authors’ works are listed on sets The answers to these (Edgar Rice Burroughs, of four cards, and players attempt to match up WErnest Hemingway and Nell Shipman) and the most sets, or “books.” In addition to the other questions are found in a new version of authors mentioned above, the cards feature BY KATHLEEN CRAVEN the classic card game Authors, updated and Glenn Balch, Carol Ryrie Brink, Vardis Fisher, customized for the Gem State. Idaho Authors! Mary Hallock Foote, Grace Jordan, Ezra Pound, was created by the Idaho Center for the Book E.E. “Doc” Smith and James Stevens. (ICB), an affiliate of the Library of Congress The idea for the game was suggested by ICB housed at Boise State. Cards sell for $9.95 a set board member Cort Conley, and enthusiastical- and are available at the Boise State Bookstore, ly adopted by Tom Trusky, a Boise State www.boisestatebooks.com (click on “general English professor and ICB director. “As soon as Conley asked AREQUINNEY CARRIE what I thought of an Idaho Authors game, I knew we had an Oscar winner,” Trusky says. Trusky felt certain that adults of a certain age would recall with fondness the original Authors game, and that their children would also enjoy playing along. In the process, both would learn something. But envisioning the game was the easy part; making it

Tom Trusky, center, sneaks a peek at his opponent Megan Mortensen’s cards in a game of Idaho Authors! DISCOVERY happen was a lesson in resource- “In selecting titles, we sought to BOISE STATE STUDENTS fulness. Not only did Trusky include works generally held to be DOMINATE BRIN AWARDS immerse himself in research on excellent literature and works Boise State students Sorcha Cusack (first Idaho authors and their works which showcased the Gem State,” place), Alexander Ide (tied for second) and — with the assistance of Trusky says. “Often, Ryan Medeck (honorable mention) dominated Western literature expert and I’m delighted to the graduate student division of a poster con- fellow Boise State English pro- report, test at a conference of the statewide fessor Jim Maguire, historian selected Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) held in August. Mary Reed and University of titles met The students, who are pursuing master’s Idaho archivist Terry both crite- degrees in biology, are conducting BRIN spon- Abraham — he also had to ria.” sored cancer studies and other biomedical- learn a few lessons in man- He even related projects. They competed against Ph.D. ufacturing. made some and master’s students at discoveryother universities and “It’s been a great, if discoveries were judged on 10-minute PowerPoint presen- arduous, adventure,” along the way. tations of their research. Trusky says. “Seldom are “My greatest Boise State also had a strong showing in the undergraduate poster contest, with English professors fretting find was proba- Amanda Hibberd winning second and Judy about how playing cards are man- bly discovering Wayne receiving honorable mention. ufactured. Who makes them? Tarzan author Edgar Rice Where? I was at a loss when Burroughs’ Minidoka,” he says. STUDENTS AWARDED quizzed, ‘Would you like that deck “It’s a colorful, cockeyed, Western INRA FELLOWSHIPS poker-sized or bridge-sized, sir?’” American Grimm’s fairy tale fan- Two Boise State students have received fel- Being resourceful, he managed tasy, a perfect saga to keep parents lowships worth up to $35,000 annually from to find several manufacturers awake while they read to their the Inland Northwest Research Alliance (INRA) through an Internet search, even- children.” to join in a multi-disciplinary, multi-institu- tually opting for a company His one regret in the choice of tional doctoral program in five western states. named Carta Mundi, an interna- authors is that he couldn’t include Marc Buursink and Carlyle Miller, both Ph.D. tional firm with offices in noted Idaho novelist William C. students in Boise State’s geophysics program, will join with doctoral students at universities Tennessee. Anderson, author of BAT-21. in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Alaska and But before the cards could be Anderson, a Boise State alumnus, Washington in the Subsurface Science printed, the authors needed to be died this past summer as the Research Institute (SSRI). The SSRI uses mod- chosen. Authors were selected cards were being printed. ern distance delivery techniques to bring class- according to several criteria. First, Boise State designer Kathy room instruction and seminars in real time to they must have ties to Idaho. Robinson created the colored ren- doctoral students at member universities Second, they had to be deceased. derings of the artists used on the across the Northwest. Finally, they must have written at cards. Each card is backed by the The only program of its type in the country, the SSRI fellowships are equivalent to National least four significant works of wallpaper pattern from the child- Science Foundation fellowships. The fellow- poetry or fiction. hood home of poet Ezra Pound. ships include a $25,000 annual stipend and full payment of tuition and fees. A sampling of Idaho Authors! trivia Boisean Glenn Balch’s (1902-1989) book Indian Paint was made into a feature BSU RECEIVES NSF GRANT film starring Jay Silverheels (who played Tonto in The Lone Ranger) and Johnny The National Science Foundation has award- Crawford (from the TV series Rifleman). ed Boise State $300,000 in a major research Carol Ryrie Brink (1895-1981) based the heroine of her Newbery Medal-win- infrastructure grant to fund the development ning novel Caddie Woodlawn on her grandmother’s pioneer experiences. of a Beowulf computer cluster on campus. Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was a city councilman in Parma before A Beowulf cluster is a type of supercomput- writing Tarzan of the Apes. er that is constructed from standard personal Vardis Fisher (1895-1968) penned the novel that inspired the Robert Redford computer components. Students and faculty film Jeremiah Johnson. will be involved in the fabrication, develop- Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938) is best known today as the central character ment and use of the cluster, which is designed to solve intensive problems in diverse fields in Wallace Stegner’s prize-winning novel Angle of Repose. that include atmospheric and ocean fluid Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) wrote much of his novel For Whom the Bell dynamics, seismology, electromagnetics, neu- Tolls in Sun Valley. ral networks, hydrology, mathematics, physics Ezra Pound (1895-1972), one of the 20th century’s most controversial poets, and engineering. was an admirer of the Italian dictator Mussolini. FOCUS FALL 2003 17 DISCOVERY

GRADUATE STUDENTS RECEIVE NASA FELLOWSHIPS Exploring Southwest Idaho’s geologic past

BY JANELLE BROWN

wo Boise State been extensively studied, University gradu- because in most locations, ate students are such as the ocean, they conducting geo- erode very quickly,” says logical studies in Brand, who plans to eventu- Tsouthwestern Idaho after ally pursue a Ph.D. in vol- receiving prestigious fellow- canology. “Sinker Butte is ships from the NASA Idaho unusual in the fact that it is Space Grant Consortium. well preserved. This is Brittany Brand, (right) a because the lake under master’s student in geology, which it erupted dried out and Gregg Beukelman, a and vanished soon after the Ph.D. student in geophysics, eruption ended. This kept each received one-year the deposits from eroding $6,000 fellowships as part away so quickly.” of a statewide program to Beukelman’s project fund research endeavors involves using remote sens- involving space, aeronautics ing data to identify fault or other areas of research characteristics on the interest for NASA. Western Snake River Plain, “These new fellowships KELLY JOHN which stretches across are a sign of the growth and southwestern Idaho from quality of our research pro- Glenns Ferry west to grams at Boise State,” says Clyde J. studying the rock layers in order to Ontario., Ore. Northrup, chair of the university’s document the volcano’s eruptive By studying the satellite-generated geosciences department. “We’re excit- sequences. maps, Beukelman can help recon- ed and pleased that our students were Brand’s project has the potential struct the plain’s geologic history and selected for these awards.” for cosmic applications. “The Sinker identify faults that were created in Brand’s project involves studying an Butte volcano is very similar to vol- the past 10,000 years and are thus extinct volcano called Sinker Butte canism on Mars, which may have also considered to have the potential for near Swan Falls Dam in southwestern involved interactions with water,” further activity. Idaho. says Brand. “By using remote sensing, The studies will provide new infor- One million years ago, Sinker Butte it should be possible to correlate the mation about the potential for earth- was an active “hydrovolcano” that data we’ve collected here with similar quakes in southwestern Idaho, an erupted with terrific force from locations on Mars.” area of interest for NASA. “The beneath a shallow lake. The lake even- The scope of Brand’s project only Western Snake River Plain is poorly tually disappeared and the Snake involves characterizing the Sinker understood due to the fact there’s River eroded the layers of rock from Butte site, but she’s excited that the very little geologic information about the eruptions until a near-perfect research could have much broader it,” says Beukelman. “We still have a cross section was exposed. Brand is applications. “Hydrovolcanoes haven’t lot to learn.” 18 FOCUS FALL 2003 DISCOVERY

NEW FAA CENTER PARTNERS Bahruth BOISE STATE, MIT, STANFORD Boise State will partner with the

PHOTOS ROBERT BAHRUTH/GRAPHIC BOB M Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford discovery shares research University, five other research universities and 18 corporations in a new Federal Aviation CDIARMID with Cuban academics Administration (FAA) research center. The FAA’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence for Aircraft Noise and Aviation uba may lie only 90 miles embraced me,” says Bahruth, who Emissions Mitigation was created to identify C off the coastline of the is fluent in Spanish. “I never felt solutions for existing and anticipated aircraft United States, but for like an outsider.” noise and emissions-related problems. American citizens, it remains a Bahruth says he was impressed Boise State electrical engineering professor Joe Hartman and mechanical engineering pro- world apart. A trade embargo by the intellectual curiosity and fessor Paul Dawson are the Boise State investi- imposed by the U.S. in 1962 has academic preparation of profes- gators for the Center of Excellence. Their expe- kept the land of Fidel Castro off- sors and graduate students at rience on existing EPA grants — Hartman on limits to U.S. investments and Havana University. The admira- chemical sensing technology and Dawson on most commercial travel. For tion was apparently mutual; air quality modeling — helped them to suc- American academics, the embargo Bahruth was invited to be a pre- ceed in the highly competitive selection process for this new center. has resulted in fewer opportuni- senter at a second conference at The other five research universities are ties for cultural or professional the university in November. Florida International, Penn State, Purdue, exchanges with their counterparts Bahruth also visited Guatemala, Central Florida and Missouri–Rolla. at Cuba’s universities and colleges. where he made a presentation at Boise State education professor San Carlos National University, PARKE, BSU AWARDED PATENT Robert Bahruth counts himself visited a school for children with A design for a transistor that could dramati- fortunate to be among educators special needs in San Lucas and cally reduce power requirements in a wide who have had the opportunity to worked with the native range of electronic applications, including wire- less communication devices, was awarded a visit Cuba and discuss his Cakchiquel peoples in a small U.S. patent. Boise State electrical engineering research. An internationally recog- remote village. professor Stephen A. Parke is the transistor’s nized expert in applied linguistics Bahruth says his experiences inventor and BSU is the patent holder. and cultural pedagogy, Bahruth highlighted the progress each The transistor is characterized by a visited La Universidad de la country is making in education. In “Damascene” double gate, which is named after Habana (Havana University) in the San Lucas school in the ancient Middle Eastern art form from Damascus where fine grooves are etched into July, where he spoke to professors Guatemala, Bahruth encountered a stone and inlaid with gold or other precious and graduate students at a confer- holistic approach to teaching that metals. In the transistor design, metal is inlaid ence of the university’s Centro de effectively addressed each child’s into etched grooves in the semiconductor Estudios Sobre Estados Unidos learning styles and individual wafer. (Center for United States Studies) needs. In Cuba, Bahruth encoun- on his approach to critical think- tered a culture that values educa- ASSOCIATION NAMES HONTS ing and bilingual education. tion and that boasts one of the Charles Honts, a psychology professor who is Bahruth gave his presentation highest literacy rates (96 percent) also a national expert on polygraph testing, was named president-elect of the Rocky at the invitation of the Ernesto in Latin America. Mountain Psychological Association and will Galarza Center for Chicano Bahruth says his visits to preside during the 2005-06 academic year. Studies at the University of Guatemala and Cuba will enrich In addition to his polygraph research, Honts’ California at Riverside. The only both his classroom instruction at work involves scientific credibility assessment non-Hispanic invited to present at Boise State and his research with adults and children, specifically the psy- the conference, Bahruth said he efforts. He’s looking forward to chophysiological detection of deception. Other interests include quantitative methods, jury wondered at first how we would going back. behavior, and the area of psychology and the be received. “They totally — Janelle Brown law.

FOCUS FALL 2003 19 JOHN KELLY COLLAGE Left to right: Lonna Gray, Thomas Chandler, John Culbreth, Wally Smith, Jeff Sadler and Tony Roark. Deep thinkers ponder Aristotle’s ideas

ristotle is alive and well and continuing traditional student in Roark’s philosophy class, to provoke thoughtful discussion in approached him with the idea. A Boise. Under the direction of founders “Several years ago it became evident to me BY KATHLEEN CRAVEN Tony Roark, a Boise State philosophy professor, that there were major holes in my education,” and Jeff Sadler, a local investment adviser, five Sadler says. “The question then was what to do men and one woman meet monthly as the about it? I could read on my own, but that Aristotelian Society of Boise. The group mem- would not be as productive as having someone bers meet in one another’s homes to discuss to discuss ideas with.” the age-old question of the good life, or how a Having formed the Boise Chamber Music person ought to live in order to find true hap- Society several years earlier, he had the experi- piness. ence to organize a formal group; after recruit- “It’s like a book club, only we don’t follow a ing a few like-minded members, the society list of great books,” Roark says. “Quite far from officially began meeting about two years ago. that. We’re interested in working through vari- Considering all the world’s great classical ous classical works and trying to understand thinkers, why does Aristotle get top billing them and extract some relevance for today.” above Plato, Cicero or even Sophocles? Books have ranged from classics by Aristotle “Historically, he is the first thinker to con- and Plato to Pope John Paul’s encyclical, Fides et template the world in his society,” says Sadler. ratio, which deals with the relationship “If you’re going to study a subject or field, you between faith and reason. To qualify for study, want to have a foundation. In the Western his- a book must touch on the nature of human torical framework, that’s Aristotle.” beings, the nature of reality or the nature of Roark is quick to point out that every theory knowledge. or school of thought the group discusses is “I know some of these texts quite well,” loosely based on Aristotelian theory, even if the Roark says. “I teach them and work with them actual books were written by someone else. extensively in my own research. But it’s very “Aristotle is really my ‘guy,’” he says. “He did it refreshing to talk to non-academics about all — biology, astronomy, ethics, political the- them. ory. That’s the model for the group.” “We academics tend to be rather narrow, you So far, the two men say the society has been know, so when I hear smart people from other very successful, sparking a number of thought- walks of life discussing these texts I become ful discussions. aware of elements and nuances that I hadn’t “We’re all having a lot of fun,”Sadler says. noticed before. I think my teaching has really “Educators spend so much effort on trying to benefited from the variety of viewpoints.” devise a sugar coating to the pill. But that’s The society was formed when Sadler, a non- unnecessary; learning is its own reward.” 20 FOCUS FALL 2003 2121 FOCUS FALL 2003 2003 FOCUS FALL FOCUS FALL

DISCOVERY discovery OMIC-LEVEL RESEARCH OMIC-LEVEL The new lab will also include scientific Boise State is the recipient of a State Boise The new lab will focus on an area of Scientific equipment that will be pur- Boise State received a $338,000 State received a Boise in Idaho, will be The EMR, the only one by scientists and The EMR will be used The powerful new tool detects unpaired ashington State, the University of Utah State, ashington MURDOCK GRANT AIDS NEW MOLECULAR LAB NSFADVANCE GRANT WILL AT equipment acquired as part of the Infrastructure Biomedical Research pro- Network (BRIN) and other research grams. $327,500 grant from the M.J.$327,500 Murdock that will fund the acquisi- Trust Charitable tion of biomedical equipment for a new Molecular Interactions Laboratory. involving proteomics, biomedical research which builds on the knowledge gained from the Human Genome Project. The lab will study proteins — large molecules that are built according to directions encoded in the DNA — and their interactions with other molecules in a living organism. National Science Foundation grant to Science Foundation National Magnetic advanced Electronic acquire an (EMR) spectrometer. Resonance in the housed in a new lab and will be par- Science/Nursing Building working to ticularly useful to scientists materials or develop new semiconductor including research, conducting biomedical Alzheimer’s and studies involving cancer disease. State and by research students at Boise Affairs Veterans collaborators at the the Mountain Regional Medical Center, Technology, Institute, Micron Tumor States State, the University of Idaho, Idaho W of and several institutions in other regions including the Massachusetts the country, Institute and Auburn of Technology University. electrons and provides data that can be analyzed to understand the electronic state of the atom or species containing the unpaired electron, the nature of its bonding and its interactions with its immediate surroundings. chased with the new Murdock grant include light scattering equipment and an analytical ultracentrifuge to characterize proteins and their complexes, and a microcalorimeter that measures heat and energy associated with molecular processes. — Kathleen Craven learn more, visit

“The new software is even more is even “The new software Along with his associates and stu- Along with his associates a program that The result was The program took a quantum leap “There are federal requirements The national model of the pro- it flexible enough made “We’ve The program has benefited the To www.epa.gov/OGWDW/dwa/e- sansurvey.html. makers in a makers more immediate and timely manner, says. Keith dent assistants, to worked Keith satisfy that would software develop Idaho state requirements. to enter all their technicians allowed data into a PDA, return to and then load that the office to automatically information into a database. for a asked the EPA when forward national model. that states must meet in reporting on sanitary surveys,” By says. Keith incorporating national standards into the new programming, states ability to link with the now have federal databases without having to enter additional information. rolled out in New England gram was there, From in early October. the EFC will work Boise State’s and EPA with other states to provide software and training. that states can meet their own as federal requirements as well requirements,”“It can be says. Keith needs.” state’s molded to fit each First, ways. EFC in two the addition- been a financial al contracts have plus for both itself and Boise State. Second, has brought the program the center, and its programs, both regional and national attention. than the orig- efficient and powerful inal,”“The new national says. Jarocki standard is coming out of our work.” ost of us enjoy a refreshing ost of us enjoy without ever glass of water about its having to worry

What used to entail a trip back to What used to entail a trip back says a EFC director Bill Jarocki program,The PDA at a unveiled “I built the first electronic form in By inputting data into a handheld Utilizing personal digital assistant Utilizing personal digital haracteristics of local water systems haracteristics of local water to state and federal standards. to state and federal standards. the office to complete a 40-page written report can now be done instantly in the field. several addresses sanitary survey concerns,physical as whether a such water system can continue to deliver line breaks,if a water if operators are licensed and certified, if test records are accurate, and whether or to not the system is producing water standard. while in March national convention stage,still in its developmental grew from an inspection report the Boise sys- for water State EFC developed EFC Alaska. Boise State’s tems in encompasses Region 10, which includes areas in the northwestern United States. an Excel spreadsheet, allowed which Alaska to collect informa- officials in tion through their laptops,” says Keith,Michael an EFC project asso- asked,“Jarocki ciate. not devel- ‘Why laptop technolo- op handheld versus gy?’ version where the PDA so that’s came into play.” while still in the field,PDA informa- greater integrity and tion will have decision to key will be available purity. Researchers at the Researchers purity. Center (EFC) Environmental Finance are University housed at Boise State to make new technology developing to. have never sure you technology,(PDA) the Electronic (E2S2) Survey Enhanced Sanitary to more quickly allows technicians compare the physical and effectively c assure pure water assure technology helps Environmental M DISCOVERY

RATE AMONG TEENS IS ALARMING Communication key to suicide prevention

BY KATHLEEN CRAVEN

magine an epidemic on such a Cindy Clark, nursing, find these statis- Part of the problem, he says, is grand scale that it strikes someone tics alarming enough that they have society’s take on mental illness. Ievery 42 seconds and kills one per- dedicated years to research and com- “There’s a stigma about any issue con- son every 18 minutes. It’s more preva- munity action to help put interven- cerning mental health,” he says. “If a lent than homicide and though it tion programs in place. pancreas is not functioning, you go to preys on all ages, it strikes adoles- Wollheim has worked with the the hospital. But a mental illness is cents at an alarming rate. Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline, seen as a moral weakness.” Sound like science fiction? It’s not. which fields calls from across Idaho, Because of that, people often wait It’s suicide, and it’s the second leading for 11 years. In the time that he has until they reach a crisis point, or a cause of death among teens and been involved in training volunteers situation that overwhelms their abili- young adults in Idaho. The state ranks to staff the hotline, somewhere ty to cope, before they’ll seek help. seventh in the nation for suicides per between 250 and 300 volunteers have “Crisis intervention can offer people capita, and second in the nation been trained and countless people a secure, anonymous venue to explore among teens. And consider this: for have called for help. their feelings, name them, talk about every completed suicide, between six But Wollheim says that’s not how it makes them feel. Sometimes and 20 friends, relatives or peers are enough. “It’s a big issue. There are a this is easier to do with a stranger directly affected by the death. lot of resources for a traffic accident, than anyone else.” Boise State University professors a homicide or even heart disease, but To help, Wollheim was instrumental Peter Wollheim, communication, and not for suicide.” in developing a certified crisis worker

22 FOCUS FALL 2003 DISCOVERY program that is unique to Boise State. So far, two graduates are ready to take the exam for Do you know the future certification. Several others are working on their 500 hours of evaluated crisis prevention students of Boise State? work. Getting information for Clark, who is a psychiatric nurse and an ado- them about Admission lescent and family therapist, has spent years is as easy as: researching why kids attempt suicide and ways to prevent it. Call “Since 1960, we’ve seen a 360 percent Call increase in suicides,” she says. “Some studies (208) 426-1820 or toll-free at show that many teens who consider suicide 1-800-824-7017, option 4 will confide their intention to a friend before they will an adult. This is important information. It means that we need to design preven- ClickClick tion strategies that target peers and teach www.boisestate.edu kids what to do if a friend talks about suicide.” Write But those strategies often go against the [email protected] current trend of keeping suicides quiet and Or trying to sweep them under the rug. Talking New Student Information Center about suicide, the theory goes, only encour- 1910 University Dr ages more of it. Boise, ID 83725 But Clark disagrees. “Many kids won’t dis- close their intentions to an adult, so the friend needs to know how to handle it,” she says. Her research reveals why some kids attempt and complete suicide, what methods are commonly used, and the financial and human costs associated with suicide. Her data was presented at Idaho’s first statewide suicide prevention conference in November 2001, which was attended by people from all walks of life. That first meeting was followed by a second in 2002, helping to launch an official Idaho suicide prevention plan, which will be unveiled at the Suicide Prevention Action Network (SPAN) conference in Boise in November 2003. According to the National Suicide Help Center, “Suicide is not so much the desire to die as it is the fear of living.” Clark and Wollheim hope Idaho’s prevention plan will make a real difference in the lives of Idahoans as they move toward a more meaningful life. Hotline 1-800-564-2120 www.boisestate.edu/suicideprevention

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State Board approves health-related centers Two new Boise State centers were approved by the State Board of Education last summer. The Center for Orthopaedic and Biomechanics Research will be based in the College of Engineering and will encompass programs already in progress or planned by professors and students from mechanical engineering, kinesiology, biology, radiologic sciences and respiratory therapy, in partnership with area physicians and other health-care providers. Center researchers, students and surgeons will have a state-of-the art lab in which to study mechanisms of sports injuries, gait abnormalities and applications of medical imaging technology. Kinesiology professor Ron Pfeiffer and mechanical engineering professor Michelle Sabick direct the center. The State Board also approved the establishment of a Center of Excellence for Environmental Health and Safety (CEEHS) at Boise State University. The mission of this center will be to enhance public health and safety through technical assistance, consultation and educational outreach. CEEHS will be housed in the College of Health Sciences and immediate administrative support will be provided by the Center for Health Policy. Occupational safety program helps businesses In conjunction with the new Center of Excellence for Environmental Health and Safety (CEEHS), Boise State’s existing Occupational Safety and Health Consultation (OSHCon) program will move under the aus- pices of the College of Health Sciences. OSHCon provides confidential consulting services free of charge to small businesses to identify and correct safety and health hazards. Workplace hazards can result in serious injuries to employees and significant costs to employers in Idaho’s small businesses. In 2002- 03, more than 300 small businesses — including hair salons, painting contractors, radiator shops, piercing and tattoo shops, cabinet manufacturers others — have benefited from health and safety advice offered by the OSHCon program. For information call 208-426-3283, or visit http://www2.boisestate.edu/oshconsult. 24 FOCUS FALL 2003 DISCOVERY

FOCUS FALL 2003 25 OISE STATE UNIVERSITY needs your support. Our students ar Bbright, determined and brimming with potential. But financial lim keep many from devoting their full attention to a college education. A study shows 77 percent of Boise State students work off camp compared to 34 percent nationally. The study also reports that the ma son Boise State students cite for not taking full-time academic loads i need to work many hours. The cost of higher education continues to rise. Even at Boise State, th affordable of Idaho’s universities, the total annual cost of attendance (i ing living expenses, fe books, etc.) is estimate almost $12,000 for Ida dents and $18,000 for idents. Help Boise Sta dents succeed by cont to the Campaign for Students. Below are can earmark your con The Boise State Unive donors’ requests; howe without restrictions (G allows the university th needs. For information on ho TUDENTS our professional devel e-mail at bsufound S SCHO Thanks to the Boise In designed to significant dramatically and state the Campaign for Stud ship categories: ■ GENERAL SCH Gifting to the Ge the flexibility to assist ■ HONORS COLL These four-year re fees plus the option o College residence, fo To learn more, visit ■ COLLEGIATE IN foundation.boisestate.edu These awards cov strate leadership in B of community involve The Boise State University Foundation was established in 1964 as a non- ■ BOISE STATE O profit corporation devoted entirely to the benefit of Boise State University. Its These four-year re purpose is to provide private support for the university from individuals, busi- minority and underre

AMPAIGN FOR nesses, corporations, foundations and other sources. The Foundation is also resources to access hi charged with the management of gifts to the university and the distribution and financial need ar of those gifts as designated by the donors. The Boise State Foundation is recognized as a tax-exempt organization under 501(c)(3) of the Internal

26 FOCUS C FALL Revenue Code. 2003 re SCHOLARSHIPS mitations A recent MAKE A DIFFERENCE pus , Whitney Parker ain rea- Boise, Idaho s the Senior political science major (international relations emphasis) he most includ- “The scholarships that have been awarded to me es, have given me an opportunity to concentrate ed at more on my education by decreasing the amount aho resi- of time I need to spend working. Scholarships nonres- have also given me a sense of accomplishment ate stu- and appreciation for the work I've done in school. The outstanding tributing faculty and low tuition make Boise State a great r value, but the scholarships offered to me make an several scholarship categories for which you education here a true bargain.” tributions. Micheal Adcox, M.D. ersity Foundation will gladly accommodate Boise, Idaho ever, the most valuable scholarship comes 1981 pre-med graduate General Scholarships – Unrestricted). This “The scholarships I received at Boise State were he greatest flexibility when addressing student instrumental in my ability to afford a college education. Without such financial assistance — made possible by the ow or where to donate, please contact one of generosity of many people — my entry into medical school and the opment officers at 208 426-3276 or by medical profession would have been considerably more difficult.” [email protected]. OLARSHIPS ndustrial Foundation’s outstanding lead gift of $1.5 million, Boise State University has kicked off a scholarship fund-raising drive ly raise support for the best and brightest Boise State students. These great students need your help — enrollment is increasing assistance has leveled off. Please consider investing in Boise State students by participating in the Campaign for Students. Gifts to dents may qualify for matching funds from the Boise Industrial Foundation and may be designated to any of the following scholar-

OLARSHIPS – UNRESTRICTED ■ DIAMOND SCHOLARSHIPS neral Scholarships category provides Boise State These four-year renewable scholarships cover full Boise State t students in a variety of situations. fees for many of Idaho’s bright high school seniors. LEGE SCHOLARSHIPS ■ GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS enewable scholarships cover full institutional Graduate fellowships, which normally include an annual stipend of room and board in Driscoll Hall, the Honors and full tuition and fees, are awarded for one year with possibility of r students of outstanding academic ability. renewal. NVOLVEMENT SCHOLARSHIPS ■ ROBERT R. LEE CATEGORY B ver partial to full fees for students who demon- PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP MATCH oise State activities or who have a strong record By choosing to match the state’s award of a $500 Promise ement. Scholarship, donors make possible Promise Scholarships worth up to OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS $1,000 per year to encourage Idaho high school seniors to enroll at Boise State University. enewable scholarships cover full fees for epresented students who lack the financial igher education. Students’ academic potential re both considered.

FOCUS FALL 2003 27 Ron Pfeiffer and Michelle Sabick, co-directors of the Center for Orthopaedic and Biomechanics Research, monitor a jump by youth soccer player Camille Cooper. 28 FOCUS FALL 2003 BIOMED

BY PATRICIA PYKE LEAP of LEARNING Health-related research takes off at Boise State

eady. Set. Go!” says Boise State mechanical engineering professor Michelle Sabick. In the brand-new Intermountain Orthopaedics Biomechanics Research Lab in the College of Engineering, 10-year-old soccer player Camille ‘‘RCooper swings her arms exuberantly as she leaps high into the air and lands with a decisive, flat-footed thud. Her motions are captured by high-speed cameras at 250 frames per second and transmitted to a computer system to create a three-dimensional, animated image of her leap. Sabick and Boise State kinesiology professor Ron Pfeiffer monitor the experiment, part of a series of studies aimed at analyzing the biomechanical factors that affect how forces are transmitted through bones and joints and at determining if kids can be trained to jump or run differently to avoid injuries. AREQUINNEY CARRIE

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“That was perfect,” Sabick says and edge “The equipment that we use is chology, shows the computer screen to Cooper, unique the same as some of the equipment that’s from one of dozens of Boise-area youth soc- anywhere. physics cer players who have volunteered as There used to create video games ….” to mate- research subjects. doesn’t — Michelle Sabick rials sci- “The equipment (display shown seem to be ence below) that we use is the same as any other research group, certainly in work together on major medical some of North American labs, that is actively issues, hoping to see some substantive the pursuing that line of inquiry.” results. equip- It’s not only the biomechanics “I think in the future, great development researchers who are breaking into the ments in scientific areas will come at that’s major leagues of medical research at the interfaces of these disciplines,” used to Boise State. Biomedical and health- says Martin Schimpf, a Boise State create related research has taken off in the chemistry professor and associate video past five years and comprises a signifi- dean of the College of Arts and games cant portion of Boise State’s total Sciences. “I think Boise State has a and also research grants, which amounted to strong interdisciplinary research com- to create $22 million for externally funded munity in which everyone knows each animated grants and programs in fiscal year other and there’s a lot of collaboration movies like Toy Story,” Sabick explains. 2003 (see Page 11). going on all over campus.” Boise State’s new Center for While the research projects vary For example, biology professor Julia Orthopaedic and Biomechanics greatly in scope and direction, they Oxford has joined forces with electri- Research, which was approved by the share many similarities. Instead of cal engineering professor Bill State Board of Education in June, will competing head to head with major Knowlton to use an atomic force help BSU scientists edge further into research institutions, Boise State microscope, commonly used for imag- the national spotlight in the highly departments have built research clout ing atomic or molecular level struc- competitive field of knee injury by successfully leveraging their assets tures in semiconductor devices, for a research. By focusing on an area that — collaborating with other research medical research application. A hasn’t been extensively studied — pre- institutions and universities, address- $234,000 grant from the venting injuries of the knee’s anterior ing issues that bigger research centers National Science cruciate ligament (ACL) in youth ath- may overlook, capitalizing on Boise Foundation enabled letes — researchers are finding suc- State’s location in Idaho’s capital city, the university to cess. and procuring grants to obtain new upgrade the micro- “In research, you have to find your equipment that allow them to head scope in 2001. niche,” says Pfeiffer. “Our research in out in pioneering directions. “With the atomic force the area of ACL injuries, particularly An entrepreneurial spirit is emerg- microscope, they’re getting wonderful in children, is to the best of our knowl- ing as researchers from nursing to psy- pictures of collagen molecules,” says

Medical research from A to Z Here’s a small sampling of some of the health-related research clines. Funding: Mountain States Tumor and Medical Research Institute (MSTMRI), National Institutes of Health BRIN program, projects at Boise State: NIH, Research Corp.

LCOHOLISM Henry Charlier, chemistry, studies enzymes A — ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE — Troy Rohn, biology, investigates involved in alcohol metabolism. How alcohol is metabolized may be whether a small protein, Beta Amyloid, is the trigger that causes an important determinant in the development of alcoholism and fetal critical brain cells called neurons to self destruct as part of a alcohol syndrome. He also works with the Veterans Affairs Medical process called apoptosis. Apoptosis is widely believed to be what Center (VA) to study the role enzymes may play in causing heart causes the destruction of neurons in Alzheimer’s victims. He damage in patients using chemotherapeutic drugs called anthracy- collaborates with researchers at University of California-Irvine. 30 FOCUS FALL 2003 BIOMED Biomedical researchers Oxford. She studies the molecular benefit from $9.89 million grant Quality, not quantity, is the focus level function of collagen in tissues of this small cadre of scientists A new high-speed, fiber-based telecommuni- such as bone, cartilage and the vit- cations system, funded with a $9.89 million who emphasize well-chosen areas reous humor in the eye. Defects in grant from the National Institutes of Health, of inquiry in which they can make collagen processes can result in will provide Boise State’s biomedical researchers scholarly contributions and publish degenerative conditions such as with powerful new tools to access the latest in peer reviewed science journals. osteoarthritis or thickening of the research studies via the Internet and collabo- When it comes to biomedical vitreous humor leading to a rate in real time with their counterparts in six research, another factor in Boise detached retina. Western states. State’s favor is its location. “We’re The new NIH grant funds the formation of a Understanding the processes, in the metropolitan area of Idaho, telecommunications network for biomedical says Oxford, could potentially researchers in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and we are in close proximity to enable scientists to intervene and Alaska, Hawaii and Nevada. Called Lariat, the several hospitals that have active prevent those conditions. After all, network will enable scientists and educators to research programs that are focused this research isn’t merely an aca- take advantage of the wealth of remote on human health,” says Oxford. demic endeavor; its ultimate goal research resources, collaborations, and expertise From applied research on hospi- is to fight disease and improve that are routinely available to scientists in tal practices to molecular level human health. more populated areas of the country. studies of disease processes, Boise Boise State biology professor Julia Oxford, Like the ACL researchers, biolo- State professors and students are who coordinates the university’s Biomedical gy professor Cheryl Jorcyk says she Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN), says collaborating with area medical too has carved out a niche by the NIH grant brings many benefits to Boise centers and health-care providers. researching a cell factor that, for State’s growing biomedical research community, (See “Medical Research from A-Z,” now, seems below the radar of including the ability to access such technology below.) major medical labs. In collabora- sites as the San Diego Supercomputing Center. Boise State’s location in the tion with Dr. Randy Ryan at the In addition, the new system will make commu- medical hub of Idaho has created Veterans Affairs Medical Center, nication much easier by enabling researchers at numerous research opportunities different institutions to meet “face to face” in she’s studying the effects of a cell even though Boise State’s primary virtual meetings in real time. factor, Oncostatin M, on breast The Lariat project is led by biomedical role and mission is not in the field cancer tumor progression and researchers at Montana State University and of health sciences. That’s Idaho metastasis. the University of Washington. The network is State University’s role. Boise State’s “It’s not a super famous cell fac- expected to take two to three years to com- primary academic emphases desig- tor, so the competition isn’t as plete and is intended to be a model for future nated by the State Board of great,” she says. “We’re not going to projects elsewhere. Education are business and eco- compete with major cancer centers nomics, engineering, social sci- … [that] have entire buildings with 100 “We know we’re competitive, we ences, public affairs, performing arts professors dedicated to one topic; here know we’re doing a good job here. and teacher preparation. we have only one person [in the biolo- Everybody here is a competitive However, Boise State’s strengths in gy department] working on cancer. researcher.” medical research areas, from basic sci-

Funding: National Institute for Aging, American Federation for Aging BRAIN INJURIES — Pennie Seibert, psychology, examines stroke Research. and other traumatic brain injuries, looking for ways to continually improve outcomes and support systems for patients. She collaborates ANTICANCER AGENTS — Don Warner, chemistry, studies a class of with the Idaho Neurological Institute at Saint Alphonsus Regional anticancer agents (aziridinomitosenes) that fight cancer by binding Medical Center. to DNA. Specifically, he wants to understand the order of events required for DNA interactions. Funding: MSTMRI, NIH-BRIN. BRONCHIAL CONSTRICTION — Lonny Ashworth, respiratory care, and Nirmal Charan, chief of pulmonary/critical care medicine at the ASTHMA — Denise Wingett, biology, studies how a regulatory pro- VA Medical Center, evaluate the effect of bronchial blood flow on air- tein expressed on the surface of T cells contributes to the develop- way resistance and the delivery of aerosolized medications used to ment and progression of asthma. Funding: VA, MSTMRI. treat bronchoconstriction. FOCUS FALL 2003 31 BIOMED Team seeks ‘cure’ for knee injuries ence to public policy, do not interfere hink of it as you would an inoc- including ACL [anterior cruciate liga- with Idaho State’s mission of health ulation to prevent a disease. ment] tears,” says Shea. science education, says James Girvan, T The “medication” that With help from the Idaho Sports dean of the College of Health Sciences Intermountain Orthopaedics surgeon Medicine Institute and funding from at Boise State. “I happen to think that the more Kevin Shea and Boise State kinesiology the Saint Alphonsus Orthopaedic universities do research, the more all professor Ron Pfeiffer would like to Institute, the research team designed of Idaho will benefit,” he says. “I don’t administer to youth sports partici- a program of strengthening, controlled see Boise State as stepping on any toes pants is a training program to immu- jumping maneuvers and stretching in the area of research because we nize them against severe and debilitat- exercises to see if they could reduce have many very qualified, very inter- ing knee injuries. kids’ injury rates. The program is called ested, dynamic individuals [at all Shea and Pfeiffer haven’t succeeded KLIP — knee ligament injury preven- Idaho institutions] who have not only yet, but their efforts have earned tion. a capacity but a willingness to study in them an invitation to present their Because non-contact injuries often these areas.” research, and that of BSU graduate occur when kids are running and make Girvan points out that collabora- students Sara Grandstand and Dana quick direction changes, scientists tions among Idaho’s three universities Roberts (MS, exercise and sports stud- have postulated that improving specif- have brought opportunities that one ies, ’03), in March 2004 at the ic motor skills through an intervention individual university might not have American Orthopaedic Society for program would reduce the injury rate. been able to obtain on its own. Sports Medicine (AOSSM) conference From Twin Falls to Boise, 112 high One successful effort joining Idaho’s in San Francisco. That elite invitation school girls volleyball, soccer and bas- sister universities began in 2001 with places them at the forefront of knee ketball teams participated and were the National Institutes of Health injury prevention research. assigned to one of two groups — Biomedical Research Infrastructure “What we’re seeing clinically is a those that did the KLIP program and Network (BRIN), a program to boost growing number of children and ado- those that did not. research at Idaho universities. BRIN lescents with serious knee injuries, Girls teams were chosen as subjects funded the three universities in a shared $6 million grant focusing on medical genomics, the practical appli- investigator and research professor of bled, growing from $4.2 million to cation of the Human Genome Project. biology Michael Laskowski. “Everyone $11.7 million. Idaho’s rate of growth This October, a proposal for another has eliminated their parochial interest for NIH funding is among the highest $12.5 million, five-year grant was sub- and just works for the common good.” in the nation. mitted. Idaho institutions have also experi- Boise State has also gained stature “The camaraderie and partnership enced dramatic growth in major NIH as an up-and-coming competitor for that’s developed among researchers at grants and contracts. Between fiscal other major grants. Both private and the three universities is unprecedent- 2000 and fiscal 2002, awards to public funding sources enabled the ed,” says University of Idaho principal Idaho’s universities more than dou- College of Arts and Sciences to acquire

CELL GENETICS — Cheryl Jorcyk, biology, investigates the function CULTURAL ISSUES — Sharon Stoffels and Pam Springer, nursing, of a cellular factor, Oncostatin M (OSM), produced by certain cells of and Eric Landrum, psychology, explore elements related to cultural the human immune system, and the role it may play in breast cancer competency while developing a tool to measure cultural sensitivity in progression and metastasis. Her lab also conducts genetic experi- nurses. Funding: U.S. Department of Health Resources and Services ments using mammary and prostate cell lines from different stages of Administration through the La Buena Salud project. cancer progression. She collaborates with VA. Funding: MSTMRI. THE ECONOMICS OF ORGAN TRANSPLANTS — R. Larry Reynolds, CHEMOTHERAPY — Susan Shadle, chemistry, studies molecular level economics, and Dwayne Barney, marketing and finance, authored sev- causes of cardiotoxic (heart damage) side effects in a class of eral articles on the economics of organ transplants that are frequently chemotherapeutic drugs called anthracyclines. She collaborates with cited. Reynolds has also published several articles on health care the VA. Funding: NIH, MSTMRI. expenditures and the institutional structure of health economics. 32 FOCUS FALL 2003 BIOMED

He also says that developing bio- Intermountain Orthopaedics medical research infrastructure is a surgeon Kevin Shea discusses knee injury research at a relatively new task at Boise State since recent biomechanics lab the university’s primary role and mis- open house while fellow sion has historically been in areas in physicians Alex which external funding has been Homaechevarria (left) and Steven E. Roser look on. scarce. Boise State’s lean infrastructure

ONKELLY JOHN means researchers often wash their own test tubes, order their own sup- plies, run their own equipment, pay because female athletes suffer ACL KLIP program. We were the first their bills and manage bookkeeping tears at a rate five to eight times research group that found that an records on multiple grants, all with greater than males, Shea says. The rea- intervention program didn’t…reduce minimal administrative and technical sons for the higher injury rate are the incidence of ACL injury.” staff support. Those tasks come in somewhat of a mystery and could The Boise State study was more sci- addition to hefty teaching loads and involve numerous physiological fac- entifically rigorous than any done so other research responsibilities such as tors. Another study aimed at under- far, says Pfeiffer, hence the top tier preparing manuscripts, writing grants standing this gender difference is recognition by the AOSSM. and traveling to conferences in order under way in the new Boise State The researchers are planning to fine- to exchange ideas with other scientists. Center for Orthopaedics and tune the training program and try The researchers “who are here are Biomechanics Research. again. “I’d love to be able to have the under a strain, and they’re doing a After two years, says Pfeiffer, “we cure for ACL injuries,” says Pfeiffer. magnificent job, but at some point found that there wasn’t a statistical Even Jonas Salk probably didn’t suc- they’re going to need additional sup- difference in the incidence of ACL ceed on the first try. port,” says Jones. “If the state will injuries at the schools that did our —Patricia Pyke make that investment, we can repay it many fold. We can turn around and multiply every dollar they invest key research equipment this fall. An National Science Foundation grant. here.” analytical ultracentrifuge to character- (See stories, Page 21.) Pfeiffer, a 24-year veteran at Boise ize individual molecules was funded “As Boise State evolves into a State, is representative of the many as part of a $327,500 grant from the research institution that pursues more researchers who wholeheartedly enjoy private M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust; external funding, we need to build teaching and research. “One of the and an electron magnetic resonance infrastructure and support that are things we take pride in is we are spectrometer, with plans for use by currently lacking,” says Daryl Jones, always providing students the oppor- scientists from MIT to Washington Boise State’s provost and vice presi- tunity to be involved with the State, was funded by a $338,000 dent for academic affairs. research,” he says.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH — Dale Stephenson, environmental survey of seat-belt use and attitudes for the Office of Highway Safety health, probes health effects associated with transient exposure to of the Idaho Transportation Department. high concentrations of particulate matter and carbon monoxide in the U.S./Mexico border region. He collaborates with University of HEALTH POLICY — Sarah E. Toevs, health science, and Bonnie Lind, Utah, Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy. Center for Health Policy, completed A Statewide Evaluation of Change in Funding: EPA. Youth Asset Awareness in Idaho. Funding: Association of Idaho Cities.

HEALTH POLICY — Center for Health Policy researcher Helen MENTAL HEALTH/CODEPENDENCY — Daniel Harkness, social work, Stroebel led a three-year evaluation of the state’s Millennium Tobacco studies how codependent attitude and behavior affect the relation- Cessation, services provided to seven health districts in Idaho. ship between parental substance abuse and offspring medical and Bonnie Lind, the center’s assistant director, conducted a statewide psychological problems. FOCUS FALL 2003 33 BIOMED Parents’ influence can shield kids from

He prefaces further remarks by say- oise State psychology professor a psychology professor in Tennessee, ing, “Please don’t think I’m anti-teach- B Rob Turrisi still remembers the originally recruited Turrisi for the proj- ing. I love to teach, but you can only day he became dedicated to ect. Hillhouse had done the basic do so many things in a 24-hour time skin cancer prevention research. It was research on prevention and Turrisi had period. And unfortunately, research, the same day he realized that at least experience in parent and child commu- certainly in these areas of inquiry, three of his son’s 19 first-grade class- nication. All they needed now was a demands huge amounts of time to mates were likely to develop skin can- cancer expert, so they went after one plan, implement and do something cer sometime during their lifetimes. of the best. with the results.” That number seemed unfairly high, “June Robinson is an M.D. at Loyola Even so, the biomedical researchers and it bothered him. and an expert in the field of cancer across campus seem remarkably “Despite it being the most curable prevention and treatment,”Turrisi upbeat, and their goals are nothing if form of cancer, it is also the riskiest,” says. “She’s it.”Although Robinson orig- not lofty. Jump-starting a biotech he says. “It’s inally declined the invitation industry in the Treasure Valley is their the cancer to join the team, after read- ambition. most likely to ing through the background “The medical area is a hot area of spread to material Turrisi sent her she research right now,” says Sabick. “It’s other organs, called to say she was in. reasonably well funded and it would and it’s only In 1999, the American be a good diversification for [the uni- curable if it’s Cancer Society funded the versity] as well as for the economy of diagnosed trio’s three-year study to the valley.” early. The more track the efficacy of parent- In terms of economic development, I talked to child communication in skin health-related industry is a driving people, the cancer prevention. Over the force, says Girvan. “Health care takes

more I realized KELLY JOHN course of that study, the about 15 percent of [U.S gross domes- they didn’t group talked with 600 fami- tic product] and also employs about 15 percent of our work force,” not includ- know that. I lies with children in grades ing additional amounts for research felt this was one thing I could actually four through six in Boise and in and public health expenditures, he help prevent.” Johnson City, Tenn. Parents were given says, citing statistics from a national And thus was born a crusade to edu- prevention materials to read and share policy conference held at Boise State cate parents and children about the with their kids, then asked about their in September. dangers of tanning, the importance of own and their kids’ behaviors. Like electronics companies 30 years sun screen and the need to get regular “We looked at sunburns, how often ago, perhaps medical industry vision- checkups from a dermatologist. people intentionally tanned in order to aries will find a fertile environment to Joel Hillhouse, a friend of Turrisi’s look good, the severity of the burns grow in Boise’s biomedical research from graduate school days who is now they received and about tanning ver- climate.

MICRO-BLADES FOR OPHTHALMIC SCALPEL — Jeff Jessing, electrical PAIN MANAGEMENT — Cynthia Clark, nursing, and senior nursing engineering, evaluates micro-machined silicon processing techniques leadership students, in conjunction with the Rural Connection, study to form ultra-sharp, durable micro-surgical blades for LASIK and and establish practice guidelines for effective pain management in cataract surgery. He collaborates with physicians at Doheny Retina addicted and recovering clients. Institute at the University of Southern California. PATIENT CARE — Ingrid Brudenell and Judy Farnsworth, nursing, MUSCLE ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY — Elisa Barney Smith, electrical conduct evidence-based research of clinical practices, such as the engineering, and Michelle Sabick, mechanical engineering, are work- effectiveness of patient care practices to reduce pressure ulcers and ing with students to develop software to analyze electromyographic falls, through a joint appointment at St. Luke’s Regional Medical (EMG or muscle electrical activity) data from muscles. Center.

34 FOCUS FALL 2003 BIOMED skin cancer risk sus risks,” Turrisi says. “What we found Conference tackles business of health care is that parents are very effective as s the rising cost of health care director. change agents in this age group.” A makes it more difficult for The national experts shared that “Our generation used to go out and Idaho businesses to provide the business of health care has bake in the sun,”Turrisi says, noting coverage for their employees, more reached a crossroads. that a golden look has long been per- employees — and their families — “We can’t afford business as usual ceived as healthy, when it’s actually a end up with reduced benefits or unaf- as we go forward,” says Len Nichols, visual sign of danger. “There was a per- fordable premiums. The unemployed vice president, Center for Studying face staggering premiums. That has Health System Change, and principal ception that if you got a base tan, you meant a growing number of Idahoans research associate for the Health wouldn’t burn. But in reality it’s just a are going without health- Policy Center of the Urban slow form of baking and it damages care coverage. • 18,000 people die Institute in Washington, D.C. cells.” While it carries a heavy each year because Nichols noted that the cost By educating parents about the dan- personal cost to them, it they do not have of health care has outpaced also is a major burden for health insurance. increases in income for the gers of sun exposure, Turrisi and his fel- • 40 percent of low researchers found that parents were taxpayers and the economy. bankruptcies past 25 years, and has grown not only willing to share the informa- Boise State University nationwide are a at double-digit rates for the tion with their kids, they actually tackled the business side of result of no health past three years. And because health care by sponsoring insurance. the United States lacks a changed their offsprings’ behavior, thus “Financing Health Care in • The economy comprehensive plan for incurs an estimated lowering their risk. Idaho and America: A Look health-care coverage, The next step is to find an effective $65 billion to $130 Forward,” earlier this fall. billion in costs a Elliot Wicks, a consultant way to disseminate their findings The conference featured year because of the with Health Management nationally on a large-scale basis. Outlets three national experts who uninsured. Associates Inc., and project include Web sites and brochures or addressed the economics of manager of Covering other printed information that will be Idaho’s medically uninsured. America, Economic and Social given to parents by dermatologists and Boise State’s College of Business Research Institute in Washington, primary care physicians. and Economics partnered with the D.C., said the problem is multifaceted. Idaho State Planning Grant on the The uninsured often do not get care “There will be a big marketing cam- Uninsured (ISPG), other Idaho state when they need it, and therefore are paign to make this literature a part of colleges and universities and local at risk of not catching serious prob- every annual checkup,”Turrisi says. chambers of commerce in nine Idaho lems before they develop, often do not Study results have been published in communities to sponsor the confer- get the best care available when they the Journal of Behavioral Medicine and in ence, which was simulcast to audi- do get sick, and stand to lose their Cancer, the journal of the National ences at seven other colleges and uni- savings and their homes if a serious Cancer Institute. versities across the state. illness strikes. — Kathleen Craven “We partnered with business For more information, visit schools because this is a business www.idahouninsured.org. issue,” says Michael Wilson, ISPG —Sherry Squires

RADIATION TREATMENT DOSAGE — Amit Jain, computer science, THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPINE MODELING — Joe Guarino and Steve conducts research to convert a program used to compute dosage of Tennyson, mechanical engineering, create three-dimensional models radiation for cancer patients to a Linux computer cluster to improve of pediatric skeletal structures, primarily vertebrae to help surgeons running speed by a factor of six or more. He collaborates with MD plan complicated surgeries. They collaborate with Shriner’s Hospital, Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. Intermountain Orthopaedics.

RURAL HEALTH — Barbara Bradley, a health science graduate stu- ZEOLITE SAFETY — Dale Stephenson, environmental health, studies dent working with health science professor Sarah E. Toevs, studies the solubility of mordenite, used in kitty litter and other common rural health clinics in Idaho. They collaborate with Idaho Office of products. Analyzing the mineral’s solubility in simulated lung fluid Rural Health. Funding: Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, will help determine its effect on human health. He works with the Office of Rural Health. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Funding: NIH. FOCUS FALL 2003 35 BIOMED

As global connectedness brings new health challenges to Idaho, how should Idaho policy makers prepare and respond? To answer that question, FOCUS writer Bob your McDiarmid sat down with Dr. Uwe Reischl (above), o health director of the Center for T Health Policy at Boise State. Reischl, a medical doctor hat do you see as the primary role who also holds Ph.D.s in of The Center for Health Policy at WBoise State? occupational medicine and environmental health sci- There are three primary goals of any educational institution: educating students, research and community service. The ence, is a former adviser to College of Health Sciences has five unique educational units, the World Health which concentrate on educating students. The Center for Health Policy (CHP) assists these educational units in conduct- Organization. Following are ing research as well as providing local, state and national deci- edited excerpts from the sion makers with evidence-based information, so that they can create sound health policy. We want to be able to relate to very interview. The complete scientific issues and questions the community may have. interview is available at CHP also provides administrative oversight for the Center of Excellence for Environmental Health and Safety (CEEHS) as news.boisestate.edu/focus/ fall03/reischl.htm.

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well as the Occupational Safety be prepared to be exposed to those kinds of microorgan- and Health Consultation isms. Program (OSHCon). These two organizations within [BSU’s o if someone did come off a plane here College of] Health Sciences work in Idaho with a communicable disease directly with the community on Ssuch as SARS, how prepared do you health issues. OSHCon works think Idaho is to face such a pandemic? with small businesses in the Treasure Valley and (CEEHS) with large businesses and It’s hard to say. Is any community ready for that kind corporations. of event? Probably not.We don’t know how well we are prepared until we are actually exposed to it. We think we hat are some examples of ways are prepared, but we might not be. the center has accomplished its If someone were to come in with a communicable dis- Wgoals? ease like SARS, would we be able to identify it? One of the key issues in dealing with diseases of that type is We have evaluated the effectiveness of various health that the medical community might not always recognize organizations and interventions that have made a differ- the symptoms of the disease soon enough. Many dis- ence in improving the health in regional areas. We pro- eases have the same preliminary symptoms. The com- vide solid information to decide whether current policies mon cold, for example, has the same preliminary symp- are effective, and if they are not, we can provide reasons toms as SARS. why [they] are not working. I think that the No. 1 diagnostic tool for situations like this is to ask the patient about his/her medical history. It o you think Idahoans adequately is important that physicians learn to ask proactive global understand the need for immuniza- questions. They need to consider the global nature of Dtion? their patients [if a] patient might have been in Asia or Latin America. Idaho is a rural state and access to health care is not And they need to be educated on the disease risks in what it might be in other states or nations. Many feel those parts of the world. [Physicians] should ask [patients that once you are immunized you are immunized for if they’ve] traveled or been in contact with someone who life. Flu vaccinations are very important particularly for has traveled to [such] areas. They should ask you about elderly or those with compromised immune systems. insect bites. However the medical establishment doesn’t Common flu can be devastating for these groups. think to ask these questions until a pattern has been One of my major concerns is that people in Idaho established. learn to consider themselves part of the global village. The second part of this is: How are we able to contact We need to be aware of diseases that don’t exist here but people who may have contracted a disease? How can we do exist when you travel — diseases, say in Central reach them once we have identified where they are locat- America, Asia [where] a person traveling to those areas ed? Is quarantine necessary? For SARS it would be. might bring back diseases. A visitor might bring with What does it mean to be ready? Can you contain it? Can him the disease vectors from those countries so we you stop it quickly? That would mean yes, the communi- might be exposed to new diseases. We are not living in ty was ready. But it might not be possible to react any Idaho alone; we are living in the world and we need to faster.

FOCUS FALL 2003 37 PHILANTHROPY Donor Notes Anonymous donors, $1,000 to the Frank Church Institute, $1,000 to the Nursing Enrichment Program, $10,000 to the President Support Fund, and $500,000 to the Alumni Center building fund. American Production & Inventory Control Society of the Treasure Valley, $1,500 to the scholarship in its name. Association of Government Accountants, $1,000 to the

PHOTO COURTESY EGGERS FAMILY Associated Governmental Accountants Scholarship. Bechtel BWXT Idaho LLC, $22,500 to the Business Mountain named after Eggers Administration Account and $1,125 to the Idaho Engineering Science Camp. mountain in Greenland (background, center) now bears Lee Bernasconi, $1,000 to the Bernasconi Family A the name of the late Sandra Eggers. Eggers, curriculum coordinator Scholarship. Mary Birch, $1,000 to the Glenn Balch Award for Writers. for Boise State’s Asia University America program at the time of her death in Boise, $1,500 to the Boise Cascade Minority Scholarship. 1997, perished in a mountain climbing accident on the Matterhorn. But her climb- Boise Industrial Foundation, $1 million to the BIF Scholarship Endowment and $500,000 to the BIF ing partner Martin Hood, who survived that mishap, has not forgotten his friend. Administrative/Match Endowment. Earlier this year, Hood was part of the first party to ascend the then-unnamed Boise Rotary Foundation Inc., $2,550 to the Bob and peak in the Watkins Mountain Range on Greenland’s east coast. The naming of a Marjorie Gibb Memorial Scholarship. Dorothy Jedlick Broyles, $41,332 to the nursing endow- mountain is traditionally given to its first climber. Thus Hood named the peak ment in her name. Mount Eggers in honor of Eggers and reported the ascent to the appropriate Central Paving Co. Inc., $3,000 to the Micron Challenge- Engineering Building. authorities, who will eventually record it on the maps. Cooper Norman CPAs, $2,000 to the College of Business Eggers, a lifelong outdoors adventurer, directed the English programs for visit- and Economics account in its name. Dave and Jean Croft, $5,000 to the Victoria Croft ing Japanese students who came to Boise State from Asia University. Memorial Fund. Her family established the Sandra Eggers International Scholarship with the Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation, $210,000 to the general scholarship in its name and $60,000 to the BSU Foundation to honor her contributions to international education and her nursing scholarship in its name. spirit of adventure. Mount Eggers will now honor that same spirit. Barbara and Robert Dargatz, $1,000 to the Dargatz Student Teaching Fund. Deloitte & Touche LLP, $1,000 to the Foundation names new accounting department administration account. Dave and Vicki Ewy, $5,000 to the development directors Ruth V. Ewy English Scholarship. Executive Women International, $3,252 he Boise State University Foundation has hired to the scholarship in its name. T three new development directors to help raise Ric and Kathleen Gale, $1,000 to the College of Business and Economics funds for Boise State’s colleges and programs. Alumni Scholarship. GC Strategic Advocacy Inc., $1,000 to Fredrika (Rika) Clement (near right) and Richard the Frank Church Institute. Stanwood joined Boise State July 1. Jennifer Neil CARRIE QUINNEY John and June Hechinger, $1,000 to the Frank Church Institute. came on board Oct. 13. Holland & Hart, $1,456 to the Clement works to advance the College of Business Northwest Venture Championship. Human Resources Association of the and Economics, the College of Education and the College of Social Sciences and Treasure Valley, $2,000 to the David Isem Memorial Public Affairs. Most recently, she served as executive director of the Discovery Scholarship and $2,000 to the Renda Sullivan Memorial Scholarship. Center of Idaho for five years, and formerly was development director with the Idaho Community Foundation, $1,880 to the Donovan Danforth Museum of Art in Farmington, Mass., senior development officer at & Evelyn Grable Applied Technology Scholarship. Institute of Management Accountants, $1,500 to the Brandeis University, associate director of development at the University of Institute of Management Accountants. Intermountain Gas Co., $2,000 to the scholarship in its Wyoming and development officer at Stanford University. name. Stanwood works with the Alumni Association and the athletics department. Intermountain Surgery Center, $3,000 to the Biomedical/Sports Research Account. He has served as development director for the Idaho Youth Ranch for the past ISBA NCSA, $1,500 to the marketing department adminis- five years and has participated in several national workshops, conferences and trative account. J R Simplot Co., $1,000 to the Frank Church Institute. seminars. J.A. & Kathryn Albertson Foundation, $180,000 to the Neil is the development director for the College of Health Sciences and the 2003 Creating High Performance Schools program. Henry and Charlotte Kimelman, $1,000 to the Frank College of Arts and Sciences. She previously served as a major gift officer and as Church Institute. the director of planned giving at the U.S. Naval Academy for eight years. Most Timothy and Mary Beth LaMott, $1,000 to the business administration account. recently, she worked for the Annapolis, Md.-based Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Langroise Foundation, $2,549 to the William H. and Gladys E. Langroise Scholarship. a supporter of environmental issues. She is also a member of the Association of Terry and Jennifer McEntee, $1,000 to the Micron Fundraising Professionals and the National Committee on Planned Giving. Challenge-Engineering Building. Micron Technology, Inc., $400,000 to the Boise State materials science and engineering bachelor’s degree 38 FOCUS FALL 2003 PHILANTHROPY

program, $24,000 to the Micron Scholars in Engineering, $3,000 to the Idaho Engineering Science Camp, $10,950 to the Micron Scholars in Production Operation Management, and $16,700 to the Micron Transducers Teaching Lab. Michael and JoAnn Moore, $1,000 to the Frank Church Institute. Harry W. Morrison Foundation, $200,000 to the Micron Challenge-Engineering Building. Vera Morrow, $3,000 to the Sara Evelyn Morrow Nursing Scholarship Fund. Walter Morrow, $5,000 to the Sara Evelyn Morrow Endowed Nursing Scholarship. MRI Center of Idaho, $2,021 to the MRI student scholarship. John F. Nagel Foundation Inc., $62,464 to the scholarship in its name. Dale and Kathy Nagy, $5,000, to the scholarship in her name. Harvey and Margo Neef, $29,651 to the Harvey Neef Maneline Dance Fund. Donald and Doli Obee, $3,000 to the biology scholarship in their name. OELA Student Organization, $1,200 to the OELA Scholarship. Wendell and Myrtle Phillips, $5,000 to the scholarship in their names. James and Marilyn Pulliam, $1,200 to the unrestricted fund. Ross Medical Foundation, $3,000 to the Gordon Ross Medical Foundation Scholarship. Timothy and Jill Schlindwein, $1,095 to the Schlindwein Student Investment Account. Shepler’s, $1,000 to the OctoberWest Administrative Account. Stern Family Foundation Inc., $1,000 to the Frank Church Institute. John Stevenson, $1,000 to the Frank Church Institute. S.C. Taylor, $3,000 to the Frank Church Institute. United Way of Treasure Valley, $1,700 to the unrestricted fund. Dennis and Deva Ward, $5,000 to the Hallett Business Endowment No. 4. Betty Weston, $1,250 to the Glenn Balch Scholarship for Writers. David and Margaret Wilkins, $7,000 to the Quaternary Studies Research Fund. Charles & JoAnne Wilson, $10,000 to the President Support Fund-BSU.

FOCUS FALL 2003 39 ALUMNOTES $500,000 gift helps building campaign he Boise State Alumni Association recently T received an anonymous $500,000 donation — the capstone gift to the three-year Boise State

FRANCIS DELAPENA Alumni Center campaign. “This [Alumni Center] is a great addition to campus and stands in tribute to the generosity of Boise State’s many loyal alumni and friends who made the dream of [this] center possible,” says Alumni Association executive director Lee Denker. “In particular, we need to thank this generous anonymous donor for helping to finalize a successful campaign.” The Alumni Center, which opened in April 2001, has become a gathering place for university activities and has fostered a stronger sense of community among students, alumni and friends of the university. KRISTA ADAMS Located at 1173 Grant St. across from Bronco Stadium, the Alumni Center is dec- orated with Bronco memorabilia and com- fortable furnishings, making it a prime site for campus functions of all kinds. With a theme of “Orange You Proud to Be a Bronco,” orange was the color of choice during Homecoming activities earlier this Alums: check The REC fall. Top, President Bob Kustra and his emember campus recreation life as a stu- wife, Kathy, in the Homecoming parade. R dent at Boise State? It may have left a bit Above, students from Organizacion de to be desired. Welcome to Boise State in 2003, Estudiantes Latino-Americanos show their Bronco pride. Left, Student Alumni with the addition of the 86,000-square-foot stu- Association adviser Casandra Sipes and student recreation center, better known as The REC. FRANCIS DELAPENA dent Logan Freeman, behind wheel, unveil Boise State alumni and their spouses/partners SAA’s new “Spirit Cart” during the parade. don’t have to miss out on this outstanding facili- ty just because their college days are over. The REC invites alumni to stay connected to the Association offers new credit card program Boise State community while maintaining a he Boise State Alumni Association is pleased to offer alumni, students healthy, active lifestyle with a REC membership. T and friends of the university a new credit card program through Opened in August 2002, the $12 million facili- MBNA America. The program offers highly competitive rates and distinc- ty offers a wide variety of fitness and recreation- tive credit card designs. al opportunities for its members. Programs and Every time you use your card to make a purchase, you support the Boise facilities include group exercise classes, cardio State Alumni Association — at no additional cost to you. Funds generated and strength training equipment, free weights, support programs and activities for alumni and friends. racquetball, rock climbing and many others. “Alumni are always looking for innovative ways to support Boise State Boise State’s Outdoors Program, which offers and this offers them yet another,” says alumni director Lee Denker. courses and rents outdoor equipment, is also The partnership with MBNA America is new in 2003 after a six-year located in The REC. agreement with a different credit card provider. Alumni with credit cards A three-court gymnasium is open for pick-up from the old Boise State program are encouraged to switch to the new pro- basketball or volleyball. gram through MBNA America. Free trial passes are available. Call For more information, visit alumni.boisestate.edu or call the Alumni (208) 426-5641 for more information or visit Office at (208) 426-1698. www.boisestate.edu/recreation. 40 FOCUS FALL 2003 ALUMNOTES Association experiences growth Alumni Association f the first quarter of this year is any indication, alumni are prouder than ever to be Calendar of I part of Boise State. A record number of alumni joined the Alumni Association during the first three months of the fiscal year. Events

According to membership director Christine Lukas, ’02, membership growth equals November calendar greater resources for the association’s tradition of build- 15 — BroncoBash Tailgate Party, Alumni ing programs on campus, in the community and beyond Center, 11 a.m. UTEP vs. Boise State Idaho. “Without question, the value of a Boise State kickoff at 1:05 p.m. degree continues to increase as more and more alumni 19 — Board of directors meeting, Alumni and friends support the university through alumni mem- Center, 4 p.m. berships,” Lukas says. 21 — BSU at Fresno State BroncoBash, 3 p.m., Ramada Inn-University, Lukas adds that it is difficult to identify one specific 324 E. Shaw Avenue, Fresno, reason for the increase in membership. Instead, she points to a number of factors 3-5 p.m., kickoff at 6 p.m. (PT), $15 including record-breaking student enrollment numbers, national exposure through pp for alumni members, $20 pp for athletics, the excitement of President Bob Kustra’s arrival, and a greater appreciation non-members for the impact that Boise State has on the economic well-being of the state of Idaho. 29 — BroncoBash Tailgate Party, Alumni “Alumni are also telling us that they appreciate the work their Alumni Association is Center, 11 a.m., Nevada vs. Boise State kickoff at 1:05 p.m. doing to help foster a sense of community on campus through quality programming,” Lukas adds. In particular, she says, are the association’s expanded Homecoming December reunion activities, an emphasis on connecting alumni with their colleges and depart- 4-8 — Alumni tour to Honolulu, Hawaii ments, a growing chapter program, and greater collaboration with students to grow 5 — Boise State at Hawaii Poolside Pep pride, loyalty and tradition. Rally, 5 p.m., Outrigger Reef Hotel Courtyard, $20 pp for alumni mem- One area that the Alumni Association continues to expand is its member benefits. bers, $25 pp for non-members Currently, members receive discounts to select athletic events, discounts on apparel at 19 — Winter Graduation Celebration, the BroncoShop, discounts to Alumni Association events and more. A complete list of Bronco Gym member benefits is available at alumni.boisestate.edu. For additional information about the Alumni Association’s membership program, January 14 — Boise State Day at the Legislature, contact Lukas at [email protected] or (208) 426-1284. State Capitol Building 15 — Alumni Awards Nomination dead- SAA wins national award line arely a year after its inception, the Boise State Student Alumni BAssociation (SAA) received national recognition earlier this year when it was named a 2003 Outstanding Organization at the national Decorate your Christmas conference of the Association of Student Advancement Programs. tree with the “Spirit of the Boise State SAA president Sheri Muncy and SAA adviser Casandra Broncos” holiday orna- Sipes accepted the award at the conference, which was held in ment. The ornament is a Nashville, Tenn. quality keepsake crafted in The SAA, comprised of about 17 students and growing steadily, brass featuring the image promotes school pride, loyalty and tradition among the student popu- of the popular statue in lation. Under the leadership of 2002-03 president Dawn DiFuria, the front of the Business Building. SAA worked to build a sense of community among students and fos- The three-dimensional, limited-edition orna- ter traditions and lifelong pride on campus. ment is offered to members of the Alumni “Considering that there are more than 360 universities and colleges Association for $15 or non-members for $20. across the nation involved with similar programs, we are extremely proud and flattered that Boise State’s students were identified by their Measuring approximately 3 inches in diameter, it peers as the best,” says alumni director Lee Denker. comes in an attractive gift box. All proceeds ben- In May, the SAA was named Boise State University’s Outstanding efit the Alumni Association Student Scholarship Organization of the Year at the Associated Students of Boise State fund. University recognition dinner. To reserve your ornament, call (208) 426-1698 Any Boise State student is welcome to participate in the SAA. Call or visit alumni.boisestate.edu. the Alumni Association office at (208) 426-1698 for more information. FOCUS FALL 2003 41 42 FOCUS FALL 2003 T BA art, (BFA, whileanornatechandelier adornstheceiling.IreneDeely tures, of warm tea. Track lighting illuminatessteelandbronzesculp- Alum opensuniquegallery comfort andcreativity. sheis thesociablehostinthischamber of door astheyleave, ting. Greetingpeopleasthey enterandwalking themtothe viding peoplewiththechance toenjoy artinacomfortableset- center. nowdisplayed in theEagle Albertson’s shopping near theirnest, two eagles Deelycompleted “Commitment,” sculpture. In1999, the jobofprovidinggrowingEaglecommunitywith apublic butalsorecommendedherfor duced Deelytometalsculpture, whonotonlyintro- ied withnow-retiredprofessor Al Kober, shestud- art andgraduatedfromBoiseState. At theuniversity, taught England, studiedartinBristol, community artprogram, rorist attacks. ing StatueofLibertyreflectsDeely’s reactiontotheSept.11ter- Thelargesculptureofakickbox- whimsical “Liberty: Let’s Roll.” such asDeely’s relaxing ontheweekend whileenjoying art, environment hereisconducive tounwindingafterwork or artist welds anewcreationfrombehindglasspartition. The patronscanwatch sparksflyasthe area. Sittingatthewinebar, andacozyseating sculptures andotherartobjectsondisplay, welded thegallery includesasmallclothingboutique, wine bar, 3604ChindenBlvd.inGardenCity. Inadditiontothe Gallery, and uniquefashionwithart.” g v immersedincon- sitsatthewinebarshewelded herself, Idaho, ley”Deely(above) says. “I wanted aspacethatblendedwine allery,” ersation withafellowartist. Deely notesthatherfavorite partofowning agallery ispro- Deelyhadstarted a Prior toopeninghergallery lastJune, Deely’s visionledtothebirthof Woman ofSteel Art “I setouttocreateanatmospheredifferentfromany otherart ALUMNOTES tains andclay-redfloor. Itsmellslike sweet spicesinacup opencur- accentedwithplushfurniture, he placeisinviting, ’ profile ownerofwhatmaybe themostuniquegallery in 99),

— Angela Jones— Angela CARRIE QUINNEY CARRIE w regionalandnational local, w 20 years. Hoopeshasalso he taughtformorethan where of artatBoiseState, former associateprofessor and BoiseState.Heisa from theCollegeofIdaho received hisarttraining September. Hoopes N w ’57, eral artsandsciences, HOOPES, GAYE L. 50s SAME ADDRESS. NEWS SERVICES AT THE CONTACT THE OFFICEOF “ TURE STORY INOUR WOULD MAKE A GOODFEA- KNOW SOMEONEWHO YOU IF UIN ADDITION, [email protected] 83725, OR SEND E-MAIL TO VERSITY DRIVE,BOISE,ID A BOISE STATE ALUMNI LETTERS TO THE YOUR SEND MATIONPOSSIBLE. AS INFOR- MUCH “INTOUCH” OUR POLICYIS TO PRINT AS American Bankers also serves onthe Ore. Aldape Baker City, CEO ofPioneerBank in he served aspresidentand Syringa Bank.Previously, Aldape isthepresidentof community bankers. Association toleadIdaho’s ed by theIdahoBankers was elect- ’73, accounting, ALDAPE, JERRY F. Wash. Issaquah, er atProvidencePoint in assistant propertymanag- isthe ’71, social science, MCGEE, MICHAEL F. w wrestlingand ball, ers onBoiseState’s foot- mouth guardsfortheplay- helped providecustom has a Caldwell dentist, Croft, more thanadecade, university community. For exemplary servicetothe consistently provided honor alumniwhohave This award was createdto State AlumniAssociation. presented by theBoise Alumni Service Awards, one ofthefirstever received ’67, med studies, DAVID CROFT, H. 60s ALUMNOTES”SECTION, ALUMNOTES”SECTION, SSOCIATION, 1910UNI- ampa Art Guildin atercolor shows. as theguestartistfor on numerousawards in omen’s basketball teams. A pre- BA, A gen- AA, BBA, BA, y andaCYSA Economics, of Businessand er forBoiseState’s College N cer fortheIdaho Army retired chief warrant offi- CORP in2001.Heisa Extra Mile Award forIDA- also received theCEO’s Outstanding alumni.Gale Business andEconomics of BoiseState’s Collegeof recently recognizedasone Idaho Power Co. andwas regulatory affairsfor is thevicepresidentof ’81, MBA, ’75, marketing, GALE, R. JOHN “RIC” Rupert. Minico MiddleSchool in tion teacher atEast contained specialeduca- Larson works asaself- Olympics Idahoteam. the MinicoSpudsSpecial program coordinatorfor students andasthelocal with specialeducation y tion andsupportofarea her outstandingcontribu- Asset Builder Award for Cassia HealthCoalitions recipient oftheMini- was the ’74, education, (LARSON), DEBORAH ROUNDY five years. ature publishedinthelast historical non-fictionliter- nautical orastronautical tion tothefieldofaero- the bestoriginalcontribu- book recognizes Millbrooke’s Astronautics.award The Aeronautics and American Instituteof Literature Award fromthe Aerospace History the 2003Gardner-Lasser received ’73, history, BA, MILLBROOKE, ANNE M. Wash. Burien, Highline HighSchool in leadership teacher for activities coordinatorand and Economicsoutstand- State’s CollegeofBusiness recognized asone ofBoise Shop andwas recently Aircraft andBoisePilot is theownerofSP ’76, aviation management, PATRICK, SCOTT W. McGEE, (HOWARD) JENELL L. Medical Center. Alphonsus Regional board ofdirectorsforSt. Bankers Councilandthe Association Community outh soccercoach. outh throughherwork toa ur,anadvis- ational Guard, A viation History F,at 7,isthe ’73, art, BFA, A elementary BA, BBA, BBA, as ALUMNOTES

ing alumni. Patrick has branch manager and has been a licensed pilot for risen through the compa- 35 years and has logged ny becoming senior rela- over 22,000 hours of flight tionship manager and sen- time. He is a member of ior vice president. the Idaho Aeronautics Hickman is a past presi- Advisory Board and volun- dent of the Boise State teers for both Wilderness Alumni Association and Within Reach and also earned a degree from Meridian High wrestling. the Pacific Coast Banking School. ROBERT P. CARLILE, BBA, accounting, ’77, is the partner in charge for Assurance Practice at 80s KPMG in Seattle and was recently recognized as one JOHN MARK BARSNESS, of Boise State’s College of AS, marketing-mid man- Business and Economics agement, ’80, has been in Carry The Pride With You! outstanding alumni. Idaho Law Enforcement Carry The Pride With You! Carlile is an advisory since 1983, and a sergeant board member for the with the Boise Airport Seattle University Police for the past eight Entrepreneurship Center, a years. Barsness is also a member of the private pilot and received ALEX LABEAU Accountancy Advisory his rating as a paraglide Board for the College of pilot last year. Business at Boise State, • 1991 BA Communication and a former chairman of JOY BELLE MCLEAN, BA, • 2000 MPA Public Administration Idaho Business Week. communication/English, ’80, is direc- • Government Affairs Director MARSHALL G. MOST, tor of lawyer Idaho Association of Realtors BA, communication, discipline ’77, MA, curriculum and chief dis- • Boise State Alumni Association and instruction, ’86, is ciplinary a professor of com- counsel in Lifetime Member munication at Boise the state of State, and coach for Washington. the university’s In 2003, her speech and debate staff of 15 team. He most recent- lawyers and ly received one of the McLean 20 parapro- “I am involved because I first ever Alumni fessionals want to give back to a Service Awards, presented disbarred a record number University that provided by the Boise State Alumni of lawyers. Association. The award me with an excellent honors alumni who have WILEY JOEL DOBBS, BA, education for both my consistently provided social science, BS, physical undergrad and graduate exemplary service to the education, ’82, is the inter- university community. degrees. I want to make im principal for O’Leary sure Boise State remains Most has guided Boise Junior High School in State’s forensics team to Twin Falls. Dobbs also one of the best national prominence. The holds a master’s degree education opportunities team earned a third place through Albertson College for students in the West national finish in April at of Idaho and an education and do my part to help the Pi Kappa Delta specialist degree from the National Collegiate University of Idaho. expand those Forensics tournament. opportunities.” WILLIAM F. LAURANCE, BS, — Alex LaBeau JOEL S. HICKMAN, BBA, biology, ’82, has been marketing, ’79, was named named a Fellow of the president of Key Bank’s American Association for Idaho district. Hickman the Advancement of has 23 years of experience Science for “distinguished in banking in Idaho and contributions to the serves as senior vice presi- understanding of the dent and sales manager at impacts of intensive land McDonald Financial uses such as habitat frag- Group, Key Bank’s private mentation, fires and log- banking, trust ging on and investment tropical services divi- ecosys- sion. Hickman tems.” JoinJoin UsUs Today!Today! has spent his Laurance entire career in earned a Idaho. He joined Ph.D. from alumni.boisestate.edualumni.boisestate.edu Key Bank in UC-Berkeley 1987 as a Laurance and is the FOCUS FALL 2003 43 44 FOCUS FALL 2003 W political messages Griffin helpsshape Christine Griffin(BS,sociology, be shapedbytheworkofBoise State alumna Canyon County CenterinNampa. ter ofDennisGriffin,director ofBoise State’s candidates weworkforstand for.” Ibelieveinwhatthe “Iliketheenergy. says. the two. 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After receivingher struction officemanage- than seven years ofcon- insurance salesandmore ness andestateplanning, includes 10years ofbusi- McClain’s experience Republic Mortgage. loan officerforPacific isanew ’85, ioral option, behav- management, BBA, (JONES)MCCLAIN, LISA D. cer forFirst BankofIdaho. Mortgage andaloanoffi- and WellsFargo Home with First SecurityBank and mortgage loanofficer Kinowas an AVP recently, with West OneBank.Most ence includesseveral years previous bankingexperi- office inKetchum. Kino’s er forthenewDLEvans vice presidentandmanag- was appointed ’85, finance, KINO, JAMES “JIM” University. degree fromGonzaga Zamora earnedalaw ating fromBoiseState, gradu- PLLC.After Daniels, the firmLeMasterand elected toownershipof was ’83, management, ZAMORA, DOMINIC J. W High School inRichland, and counselorforHanford interim deanofstudents BELL, DEBORAH (MONTGOMERY) P Research Institutein the Smithsonian Tropical He isastaffscientistat author ofseveral books. anama. ash. 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Healsoserved as efferson Junior High lebl fiil and olleyball official, arkinson Wealth rln,Ore..Established ortland, rauma Recovery in reatment of Abuse and T& T’s WirelessServices ational andRegional indermere RealEstate’s S physical edu- BS, S physical BS, S physi- BS, BS, SCHOELER, GEORGE BERNARD than $2million. ing the Air Force more sav- through negotiations, for 12militaryprojects has helpedreducethecost v more than$6millionin Balkans by coordinating at five basesinthe supported 5,000soldiers he police. While inBosnia, for basefirefightersand $1.1 millioninupgrades surveillance projectsand $2.5 millionforbase-wide has salvaged morethan Sackett During histenure, mand level awards. received sixmajorcom- hisunit While atKadena, the KadenabaseinJapan. officer. Heisstationedat Contracting fieldgrade 2002 Outstanding w Contracting Squadronand commands the18th the U.S. Air Force. He isamajorin ’89, tration, criminal justiceadminis- ANDREW SACKETT, University ofIdaho. master’s degreefromthe 2001. Shraderearnedhis principal from1998to as Parma HighSchool ease inPeru. icant causeoffebriledis- group rickettsia isasignif- ing thatspottedfever instrumental indetermin- ry system.Shoelerwas Defense research laborato- within theDepartmentof mology research program the mostproductive ento- population. Schoeler led public healthofthelocal region andtoimprove the the South American States forcesdeployed to protection forUnited studies toenhancehealth entomological research Schoeler conducted sor, ogy departmentsupervi- While servingasentomol- Peru. Lima, Detachment, Medical Research Center ing serviceatNaval for two years ofoutstand- Meritorious ServiceMedal received the mander, a Navy lieutenantcom- Services of America. coordinator forFood isthenew marketing ’90, DOMENY, (SPITTLE) MICKI A. 90s arious contracts. 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Domeny worked the last tion, ’91, MFA, art, ’01, is a six years for KTRV televi- featured artist at the sion, first as the Fox Kids Hispanic Cultural Center Club director for two of Idaho. Gomez is a visual years, then as an account artist and adjunct art pro- executive for the last four. fessor at Boise State. She Domeny also worked four has earned two master’s years as the marketing degrees from Boise State director for the Eighth and a bachelor’s from Pan Street Marketplace. She American University in has volunteered on local Edinburg, Texas. Her work committees, such as the has been selected for Downtown Boise regional, national, and Association where she international exhibitions. chaired the entertainment Gomez has received committee for Alive After numerous awards for her Five, and Opera Idaho. work, including one from the distinguished art critic, MARIA DELROSARIO Lucy Lippard. The ALVARADO-PARKER, BA, ele- Hispanic Research Center mentary education/bilin- at Arizona State gual, ’91, is the new coor- University recently select- dinator for the Boise State ed five of her oil paintings Cultural Center. She previ- for inclusion in a two-vol- ously was a program assis- ume book on art titled tant and interim coordina- Contemporary Chicana tor for the center. The cen- and Chicano Art: Artists, ter provides a safe atmos- Works, Culture, and phere in which students Education. are able to create relationships on campus and DWAYNE ALLEN NEWKIRK, make the adjustment to BBA, management, ’92, is university life. She will the human resources direc- work with Boise State’s 13 tor for Swift & Co. and ethnic student organiza- was recently recognized as tions in planning commu- one of Boise State’s nity awareness events. College of Business and Economics Outstanding ALMA GOMEZ, MA, educa- alumni. Newkirk received

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his professional certifica- Valor in a separate ceremo- relations, marketing, and of Idaho City Clerks, the Army from 1989-1993, tion in human resources in ny in Washington, D.C. project management. Treasurers and Finance and attended college class- 1993. He is a member of Bloxham joined the DEA Burgess’ new role involves Officers. es at night while stationed Canyon County Job in 1998 and is currently consulting, research and in Texas. He has also Service Employer’s assigned to the Los content development. He MACADE K. STEYER, BBA, earned a master’s in educa- Council, Idaho Industrial Angeles Mobile will be involved in the marketing, ’94, joined the tion administration from Liaison Group, a volunteer Enforcement Team’s development of training staff of Lawyers Title of University of Idaho. for Nampa Neighborhood Group No. 1. for one of the local imag- Treasure Valley as an Housing, and a coach for ing and printing groups. escrow coordinator. GRETCHEN LEIGH BOLTON youth baseball and soccer. VALERIE NICOLE CHARLES, Burgess also attended the HABERMAN, BA, communi- BBA, management, ’93, has College of Southern Idaho, JAMES VINCENT FOUDY, cation, ’95, has joined KIM PHILIPPS, MPA, ’92, joined Elam and Burke, Chaminade University of BA, elementary education, Windermere Real Estate as was recently named direc- P.A. as an associate. Honolulu and Idaho State ’95, is the new principal of a sales associate. She was tor of marketing and Charles earned her juris University, and is a former McCall-Donnelly School previously the director of development for Idaho doctorate degree from Top Ten Scholar at Boise District’s two elementary human resources for Public Television. In her New Jersey’s Seton Hall State University. schools. This position will McDonald’s/Darmady new position, Philipps, a University School of Law be his first year-round Enterprises in the Treasure Boise resident, is in charge in 1999. Her practice LISA RAE (FRY) DRESDNER, administrator job. Valley. Haberman is a of the promotional and emphasizes business trans- MA, English, ’94, recently Previously, he was a sum- member of the Bronco fund-raising efforts for the actions, business forma- completed her doctorate mer school principal in the Athletic Association. state of Idaho’s three pub- tion, municipal law, real degree with distinction in Boise schools for six years. lic television stations. estate and estate planning. English at Loyola In Boise, he managed all STACEY HOLLENBAUGH, BA, Philipps served as associ- University in Chicago. She summer elementary pro- writing, ’95, is a project ate director of develop- ARGUS CALVIN VILLINES, was the Loyola Graduate grams except extended manager and consultant ment for Boise State for 16 BBA, management, ’93, is a School 2001 recipient of special education. Foudy for Axiom Creative years before joining Idaho technical recruiter for the President’s Medallion also was responsible for Consulting Inc. She has Public Television. Chipton Ross Inc. in Los Award. Dresdner also reporting on the Idaho worked as a project man- Angeles. He recently com- attended Albertson College Reading Indicator pro- ager in high-tech consult- DUSTIN THOMAS pleted his one-year HR of Idaho and the grams, and oversaw the ing and non-profit in the BLOXHAM, BA, criminal MGT Certification from University of Utah. remedial education of Treasure Valley specializ- justice administration, ’93, Irvine. 2,000 students who need- ing in the creation of help- was awarded the Federal DIANE B. GEMPLER, BBA, ed to improve their read- systems, Web content, and Bar Association’s “Medal CLINTON W. BURGESS, BA, management, entrepre- ing scores. He taught at Web sites. of Valor” for bravery and English, ’94, joined Axiom neurial emphasis, ’94, is Garfield Elementary courage under fire. He was Creative Consulting Inc. as the new city clerk for School, then transferred to JOY MARIE MCLAIN, BS, also awarded the Drug a high-tech consultant. Ammon, Idaho. She was William Howard Taft health, ’95, is a project Enforcement Burgess has nearly 20 formerly city clerk and Elementary, where he biologist for Maxim Administration’s years of experience in treasurer in Ririe. Gempler taught fifth and sixth Technologies. She is Administrative Badge of technical writing, public is active in the Association grades. Foudy served in responsible for managing

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environmental and natural justice administration, ’96, resources studies with is the personal aide to Vice emphasis on Idaho trans- President Dick Cheney. Lifetime Members — Each portation projects. McLain Earlier, McCormack month more and more alumni choose to was previously an environ- worked for the Idaho mental specialist for Power Republican Party and also carry Boise State with them for life. Listed Engineers. with Dirk Kempthorne, from his time as a senator below in order of graduation date are MARGARET D. SANKEY, BA, to his first two years as history, ’95, MA, history, governor of Idaho. In alumni and friends who purchased lifetime ’97, is an assistant profes- 2000, McCormack signed memberships in the Alumni Association during May-Aug. 2003. Join them sor of history at Minnesota on to manage the cam- State University. She paign for then 4th District and many others in becoming a lifetime member. Join online at teaches 19th and 20th judge Daniel Eismann, Century European history. who was campaigning for alumni.boisestate.edu or call (208) 426-1284. Sankey was awarded the the Supreme Court. NACBS Love Prize for her Jean Vandenburg, Boise, ’49 Cindy Jones, Jerome, ’95 STEVE C. WILSON, BBA, article, “Elite Culture and Richard Vandenburg, Boise, ’49 Alsy Cory, Boise, ’96 the Decline of Scottish finance, ’96, is the new Jacobitism.” general manager for the Linda Stivers, Boise, ’67 Joshua Cory, Boise, ’97 Best Western Coeur Gary Stivers, Boise, ’70 Kristin Harmon, Boise, ’97 JOSEPH “JOE” JACOBY, BA, d’Alene Inn & Conference Robert T. Francis, Long Beach, Calif., ’73 Brian Seppa, Boise, ’97, ’02 theatre arts, ’96, is the new Center. In addition to the John Schaffer, Alexandria, Va., ’73 Libby Clary, Seattle, ’00 instructor of theater at 122-room roadside inn, he Ronald Stratton, Boise, ’73 Judy Harris, Buhl, ’00 North Idaho College in will also have responsibili- Coeur d’Alene. Previously, ty for the company’s Scott Harmon, Boise, ’75 G. Michael Pea, Urbandale, Iowa ’01 he was an adjunct speech restaurant, the Beachouse. Kathleen W. Gurnsey, Boise, ’76 Roy Hansen, Boise, ’02 instructor and guest artist Prior, Wilson served as the Jerron R. Moore, Boise, ’79 Robert J. Horton, Boise, ’02 inaugural director of the with the theatre arts Tray E. Ailshie, Santa Ana, Calif., ’80 Leonard B . Jenkins, Boise, ’02 department at NIC. As the Idaho Travel Council, only full-time theater director of sales for The James M. Telford, Meridian, ’81 Anisa Pea, Urbandale, Iowa, ’02 instructor, Jacoby has the Coeur d’Alene Resort, and Nancy Dunn, Gooding, ’85 Robert J. Horton, Boise, ’03 added responsibility of manager of both the Inn Kevin W. Hawkinson, Wellesley, Mass., Steve Kubinski, Boise running the department and the Resort. ’85 Patricia A. Sawyer, Reno, Nev. along with teaching class- Dave Christian, Boise, ’88 Kenneth D. Stamper es. KIM K. ZEMAN, BBA, accounting, ’96, was hired Ty Jones, Jerome, ’88 Patrick Hoff, Portland BRIAN VAUGHAN as assistant vice president Alex LaBeau, Boise, ’91, ’00 Karen Stratton, Boise MCCORMACK, BA, criminal and controller for Idaho

FOCUS FALL 2003 47 ALUMNOTES CALL FOR NOMINATIONS! Banking Co. She exams and health monitor- Distinguished Alumni Award Do you know Boise State is responsible ing for diabetics, and the The Alumni Association will select up to four alumni who are worthy of for administer- University of Utah John Distinguished Alumni Award winners who bring ing the overall Moran Eye Center, where recognition for career accom- accounting his emphasis was in con- honor and glory to Boise State based on a record activities and tact lenses. He also of outstanding accomplishments in their chosen plishments or service to Boise directives of worked at the Eye profession. Presented at the Distinguished Alumni State? You are invited to sub- the bank. Foundation, a referral clin- & Top Ten Scholars Banquet on April 23, 2004. ic where he was actively mit a nomination. See TAMA LYNN involved in the treatment Alumni Service Award details, left. (LAMM) SELEKOF, of glaucoma. The Alumni Association will select up to two Alumni BS, geology, ’98, Service Award winners whose extraordinary interest in the joined the professional TERI K. JONES, BS, sociolo- real estate staff of Idaho university, demonstrated through dedicated volunteer service, gy, ’99, is a third-year law Properties GMAC Real student at the University serve as an inspiration to the campus community. Presented at the Alumni Estate. of Idaho. Jones recently Association Annual Meeting, May 5, 2004. landed a position with the SEAN STANLEY, BBA, com- Twin Falls County Public Requirements for both awards: puter information systems, Defender’s office, where 1. Nominee must have received a degree from Boise Junior College, Boise State ’98, was hired as systems she will be dealing with College, or Boise State University. 2. Recipients must attend the ceremony to administrator for the Lee drug-related cases. receive their award. 3. Nominations must be submitted no later than January Pesky Learning Center. 15, 2004. He previously worked for Albertson’s Inc. Your nomination should include a letter describing the nominee’s qualifica- providing technical sup- 00s tions for the award. Also include the following: Nominee’s name and class port for their computer year; category (Alumni Service Award or Distinguished Alumni Award); systems. JOHN C. MENDIOLA, BBA, occupation/job title; address; home and work phone. finance, ’00, was promoted ESTER CEJA, BS, political to district manager of Nominators should include their own name, address and phone numbers(s). science, ’99, MPA, ’03, is Home Federal Savings. He the new statewide cam- will oversee a portion of Deadline: January 15, 2004 paign director for The Send information to: Alumni Awards Committee, 1910 University Drive, Boise, the institution’s 15 branch Snake River Alliance. Ceja locations. Before his pro- ID 83725-1035 or nominate online at alumni.boisestate.edu. will be responsible for motion, Mendiola was the general outreach and cam- manager of the Jerome in- More information: Call the Alumni Association at (208) 426-1698 or visit paign coordination and alumni.boisestate.edu for further information. store location. In addition will advocate for responsi- to his management duties, ble cleanup of nuclear Mendiola is Home waste at the Idaho Federal’s mortgage loan National Engineering and officer for Jerome. Environmental Laboratory Mendiola also holds an in eastern Idaho. While at associate degree in Boise State, Ceja participat- accounting from the ed in the Idaho College of Southern Idaho. Progressive Student Alliance, Boise State DENAY D. MOLES, BBA, Environmental, Education general business and Diversity Club and the management, ’00, was Organizacion de appointed president and Estudiantes Latino- CEO of Idadiv Credit Americanos. Prior to join- Union. Moles has been ing the Alliance, Ceja with Idadiv for 23 years worked as a program asso- and served as assistant ciate for the manager for the past 15 Environmental Protection years. She graduated from Agency’s Region 10 envi- the Western Cuna ronmental finance center, Management School was a wildland firefighter before attending Boise for the U.S. Forest Service State. She is also president and a volunteer for the of the Idaho Credit Union Girl Scouts. League’s southwest chapter. ADAM CASEY DAYLEY, BS, health science, ’99, is the IRMA NAVA, BBA, interna- new optometrist for the tional business, ’00, was Eye Clinic of Orofino. promoted to marketing After graduating from coordinator for Project Boise State, Dayley attend- Mutual Telephone. Nava ed Pacific University has been with the compa- College of Optometry ny for two years as a cus- where he graduated with tomer service representa- distinction and received tive. the David J. Kerko Low Vision Award. Dayley has MARIA LOUISE BRACCI, worked for the Salt Lake BFA, graphic design, ’01, Veterans Affairs Medical has joined Cole/Associates Center, where he focused Architects. She will be on comprehensive vision responsible for all of the 48 FOCUS FALL 2003 ALUMNOTES

firm’s marketing and 2nd Battalion, 13th Health’ sections, and the MADELEINE MARIE and then became a princi- general office management. Infantry Regiment at Fort weekly ‘Real Estate BRADFORD and Corey pal, first at Monroe, then Jackson, S.C. Showcase.’ Drewes (Melba) May 31. Campus and Highlands ROBERTO GAYTAN JR., BFA, and retired from graphic design, ’01, is a fea- JAMES “JAMIE”ALAN LANG, JASON CUSHING, AAS, CURTIS LAYNE OSBORNE Roosevelt. Beaver served tured artist at the Hispanic JR., AAS, drafting drafting technology, ’03, and MEGAN IRENE as president of the Boise Cultural Center of Idaho. He technology, ’02, has joined joined W&H Pacific’s land SORVAAG (Susanville, State Alumni Association is a graphic artist for the the staff of Leavitt & development team as an Calif.) May 31. in 1988 and also was an Idaho Department of Associates Engineers Inc. AutoCad technician. active member of the Reclamation. In his spare He will be working as a ANNE HIRSCHFELD and Bronco Athletic time, he creates artwork on draftsman under the ERIC BRIAN HACKETT, BSC, Lance Rieber (Sun Valley) Association. canvas, cars, T-shirts and in direction of a professional civil engineering, ’03, has May 24. print. land surveyor and will be joined the firm of Doherty JUDY D. (BRAY) BEHLER, responsible for drafting & Associates Inc. He will LEVI T. WIMER and Jenny BS, physical education, ’78, STEPHEN R. GREEN, BBA, plats and records of sur- be assisting the firm with Carey (Boise) July 4. died in Lewiston of com- finance, ’01, was promoted veys. Lang is currently general roadway, utility, plications from multiple to the position of finance working on the final plat traffic control and airport sclerosis. She was 46. manager for Minor’s for the Cobblefield designs. Deaths Behler was born in R.V. and Marina Inc. in Crossing Subdivision in Pocatello and graduated Nampa. Meridian and the as-built with honors from plans for Roosevelt Weddings BOB BEAVER, MA, Blackfoot High School in LINDA LEE KUHSE, AAS, Park Subdivision in elementary education, ’72, 1974. After graduating small engine repair, ’01, has Nampa. died May 10 after a brief with honors from BSU, she established her own repair JENNIFER RENEE POWELL illness. He was 69. Beaver went on to earn a master’s business, Clear Creek Small SUZANNE L. WALTER, BBA, and Aaron Whitacre was born in Seligman, degree from Oregon State. Engine, in east Boise County. marketing, ’02, was hired McSween Hill (Newport Mont., and moved to Boise Behler taught seventh and as an account coordinator Beach, Calif.) March 23. in 1935. After graduation eighth grade science and FRANK LEE BERNAS, BS, for Oliver Russell, an inte- from Boise High, Beaver coached girls’ basketball criminal justice administra- grated marketing services LINDSAY BATIE and Adam joined the Navy Sea Bees and volleyball at Prairie tion, ’02, has graduated from firm. Blank (Caldwell) May 22. and served four years, pri- Middle School from 1979 basic combat training at Fort marily in Japan building to 1986. Jackson, S.C. Bernas received LINDA COOK, BA, English, TRAVIS PAUL BURROWS airfields. While at Boise a high Basic Rifle ’03, is a copy editor for the and CHRISI LEE WARHURST State he was president of NEIL W. BROOKS, BS, physi- Marksmanship score and Idaho Press-Tribune. She (Nigril, Jamaica) May 22. the campus veteran’s cal education, ’70, died was awarded a Superior will be the primary coordi- group, and the Esquire June 10 in Boise. Brooks Performance nator for three sections of NICHOLE WASSMUTH and club. Beaver taught sixth was born in Emmett and certificate. He is a petroleum the newspaper: the month- Tim Kinzer (Ferdinand, grade at Owyhee was a four-year letter win- specialist assigned to the ly ‘Your Home’ and ‘Your Idaho) May 24. Elementary for three years ner at Emmett High

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School. After graduation, Pacific Telephone in 1978, he served four years in the she moved from California U.S. Air Force and later to Eagle and enrolled as a earned a bachelor’s degree full-time student at Boise from Boise State. Brooks State. Haley ran for a became a coordinator for seat on the Eagle City Boise Community Schools, Council in 1979 as a class and a physical education project and won. Four specialist and coach for years later, Haley became the Boise School District. the first woman to serve He retired from education as mayor of Eagle. In 1993 in 1988. Haley, who served as a Navy recruiter during DELORES FLAMING, AS, World War II, was nursing, ’84, died in Dallas appointed to the Idaho on June 10. She was born Veterans Affairs in Frazier, Mont. and Commission. moved to southwest Idaho in 1959. Flaming decided DARRELL LEE JOHNSON, to continue her education CC, applied technology, in 1982 and enrolled at ’79, died in Boise on May Boise State. She graduated 19 from a heart attack. at the top of her nursing Johnson was born in class two years later. In Oakland, Calif., but lived 1985, she moved to in Boise most of his life. Baytown, Texas, and He graduated from Borah worked for Gulf Coast High School and contin- Hospital until her retire- ued his education at ment in 1998. Boise State. Johnson served in the U.S. Navy LUCILLE (GRUBB) from 1975 to 1976, and TRACADAS, BA, English, later worked as a surgical ’73, MA, English, ’82, BA, technician. theatre arts, ’90, died of complications from RANDALL J. KATH, BBA, Alzheimer’s disease on management, ’89, died at May 25 in Ontario, Ore. age 46 in Scottsdale, Ariz. She was 85. A Nebraska Kath was born in native, she earned a schol- Davenport, Iowa, and arship to attend the moved to Phoenix in 1972. University of Wyoming He graduated from and Pasadena Playhouse. Paradise Valley High Tracadas continued her School in 1975 and later education at Boise State relocated to Idaho where where she earned two he attended Boise State. bachelor’s degrees and a After graduation, Kath master’s degree. Tracadas worked as a police officer worked as a runway model with the Homedale Police in Phoenix, as an actor Department and then with with the Pasadena the Nampa Police Playhouse in Pasadena, Department. He made a Calif., and was also a career change in 1989 and member of the Society of moved to Arizona, then Mayflower Descendants. Washington where he worked in the insurance JACK BRUCE HALBERT, BA, field until his death. history, ’70, died July 17 in Clay Center, Kan. He was ELSIE MAY (RASMUSSEN) 63. Halbert graduated LARUE, CC, practical nurs- from Payette High School ing, ’77, died in Nampa on in 1958. He enlisted in the June 16. She was 78. Army after graduation and LaRue was born in served from 1961-1963. Jarrahdale, West Australia, After graduation from and moved to the United Boise State, Halbert taught States in 1946. She farmed briefly, then held various for many years before relo- management positions. He cating to Boise in the early moved to Clay Center in 1950s. She was working as 1981 and managed the a nurse’s aide before she Short Stop No. 1 for 22 decided to continue her years. education at Boise State University. After gradua- CAROL DILLON HALEY, BA, tion, LaRue worked for St. communication, ’80, died Alphonsus Regional in Meridian from compli- Medical Center, Boise cations related to Valley Sunset Nursing Alzheimer’s disease. She Home and Boise Valley was 83. After retiring from Convalescent Center. 50 FOCUS FALL 2003 ALUMNOTES

TRONNIE K. (OLSON) International correspon- LOSEKE, AS, secretarial, dent. ’81, BS, psychology, ’82, died June 8 in Cascade MARC RUSSELL SMITH, BS, after a battle with breast criminal justice, ’81, died cancer. Loseke, a Cascade Sept. 27 in a Boise motor- native, began work with cycle accident. He was the U.S. Forest Service as a born in Richland, Wash., seasonal employee in and grew up in Benton 1978. After graduation, she City, Wash., where he began her full-time career attended school until his with the Forest Service in family moved to New McCall, and continued Jersey in 1968. Smith grad- working there until her uated from Cedar Ridge death. High School in New Jersey then returned to the On Sept. 27 a bus carrying Pacific Northwest to 22 members of the Boise attend Boise State. He took State University debate a break from his education team was involved in an and joined the Army in accident on Interstate 84 1977, serving as a ranger near Mountain Home. and helicopter navigator The driver of the bus, with the Air Cavalry. He STEVEN MCNUTT of Boise, attained the rank of ser- was killed and several geant and was honorably members of the debate discharged in 1981 with a team were injured. McNutt Parachutist Badge, Ranger was an employee of Tab and Expert Interwest Systems. The Qualification Badge. Smith students involved in the served as a Canyon County crash were treated and sheriff for four years. He released. later completed his education at Boise State and had ERNEST RAYMOND worked for the university MEDLEY, AAS, electronic for the last 16 years as a technology, ’85, died of technical support special- complications from Fabry ist, then telephone systems on June 17 in Arvada, engineer. Colo. He was 67. Medley grew up in Weiser, CHERA SOMMER, a four- Emmett and McCall. After year starter on the Boise high school, he enlisted in State volleyball team and a the U.S. Air Force. Medley captain on the 2002 earned his Boise State squad, died in an automo- degree after retiring from bile accident June 22 while the military in 1983. After driving from Los Angeles graduation, he began his to her hometown of Seal civil service career as an Beach, Calif. She ranked electronics tech for the fifth in all-time career Pacific Missile Test Center assists and seventh in all- in Point Magu, Calif. He time assists per game. As a was promoted to electron- student she completed ics mechanic in the elec- internships with the KIVI tronic prototype branch, sports department and later became an electronic with The Boise Weekly. She tech supervisor and then planned to return to Boise was assigned to the com- State this fall to finish her munication and data link bachelor’s degree in mar- division at Laguna Peak, keting. She graduated Calif. Throughout his from Los Alamitos High career, Medley received School in California in many high performance 1999. ratings and numerous military awards. JONNA L. STEPHENSON, BA, economics, ’73, ROSALYN O. BARRY died Aug. 16 in Scotts- ROBERTSON died May 30 dale, Ariz., after a short in Sonora, Calif., after a illness. Stephenson was long battle with born in Idaho but lived Parkinson’s disease. She on the east coast for a was 71. Robertson taught few years before returning journalism at Boise State to her home state. She before moving to was employed by Ore-Ida California in 1980. Foods in the Logistics Previously, she had Department for more than worked for various news- 3 years. In 1985, she papers in Idaho and also moved to Scottsdale, was a United Press Ariz., and started a new FOCUS FALL 2003 51 ALUMNOTES

career in interior design. education, a KRISTINA A. VAUGHN, BBA, position administrative services, he held ’88, died in Boise on Aug. for 10 10. Vaughn was born in years. Germany and moved to He also Idaho while still a child. served She graduated from Borah as the High School in 1981. univer- Wallace Vaughn worked for the sity’s Idaho Business Review for acting 11 years and also worked a executive vice president number of years as a spon- from 1977-78. Upon his sor of the Soap Box Derby retirement from Boise racers. She later took a State in 1978, he was supervisory position with awarded a Silver the Ada County Recorder’s Medallion, the universi- Office, and worked there ty’s highest honor. until her death. LAURIE JEAN WILSON, Former education dean BBA, administrative serv- GERALD R. WALLACE died ices, ’82, passed away on Sept. 26 in Boise. His edu- April 25 in Gilbert, Ariz. cation included undergrad- She was 45. Wilson was uate work at then College born in Boise and gradu- of Idaho, a master’s in ated from Meridian High American history from School in 1976. After her UC-Berkeley in 1944 and a Boise State graduation doctorate from University she worked at Micron of Oregon in 1956. Wallace and Zilog before moving taught and was a principal to San Jose, Calif. She in the Boise School District continued working in the before serving in superin- computer industry and tendent positions in later moved to Gilbert, Pocatello, Corvallis, Ore., Ariz. where she worked and New Jersey. In 1968, as an operations analysis he came to Boise State to manager for Motorola become the first dean of until her death.

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