[Vision2020] The UI Friday Letter

[Tom Hansen]

The Friday Letter

A Newsletter for University of Idaho Alumni and Friends July 30, 2004

 

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

 

- Leaders of UI's National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology
have received confirmation that the center will receive a $680,000 award
from the U. S. Department of Transportation to extend its operations for a
seventh year as a University Transportation Center. NIATT's success in the
FY2002 limited competition made the research center eligible for this FY
2004 federal appropriations funding. The grant represents about one-third of
the institute's yearly $2 million budget to conduct research, to educate
students and working engineers to meet future transportation challenges, and
to transfer new technologies and solutions to the profession and society. 

 

The federal appropriation was sponsored by U.S. Sen. Michael Crapo, U.S.
Sen. Larry Craig, U.S. Rep. Michael Simpson and U.S. Rep. C. L. "Butch"
Otter, and comes under the DOT's Research and Special Programs
Administration.  NIATT, one of 26 university-based centers of excellence
established by U.S. DOT, advances technology and expertise in the many
transportation disciplines through education, research and technology
transfer. Today, more than 200 UI students, faculty and staff participate in
one or more parts of NIATT's program.

 

- UI's Electronic Green Journal is celebrating a decade of existence with a
special anniversary issue featuring an article on corporate environmental
reporting, a trio of poems and nearly two dozen book reviews. The
semi-annual publication was one of the first e-journals available in the
United States. 

It launched in the summer of 1994 through the UI Library. For a decade, the
Electronic Green Journal has provided peer-reviewed articles, book reviews,
news and information concerning international environmental topics. It is
distributed online without charge serving more than 800 worldwide
subscribers and more than 30,000 Web visitors a month.

 

- The UI education specialist (Ed.S.) degree program in school psychology
has been re-approved for another five years by the National Association of
School Psychologists. Joe Prus, chair of NASP's Program Approval Board,
recently notified Tom Fairchild, UI program coordinator, of the re-approval
as of Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2008. NASP program approval indicates to
professionals, prospective students and graduates that the curriculum, field
experiences and performance criteria meet NASP standards for training and
practice. 

 

- Twenty-one professional landscape architects from Korea were on the Moscow
campus this week for a series of landscape architecture workshops focused on
golf course design techniques. The group visited a number of well-known golf
courses in the Northwest and played a round at the UI Golf Course. Ki Seong
Kim, president of Towmoon LTD in Korea, organized this UI trip for his
professional peers. He is a former UI Landscape Architecture Visiting
Scholar. 

 

- The College of Engineering has received the final installment of a $50,000
grant from the Monsanto Fund for a CNC Bed Type Milling Machine, which will
be a component of the Idaho Water Center in Boise. The Monsanto Fund will be
recognized by having the Monsanto name on the room that will house the
machine in the new building. The Idaho Water Center will be open to provide
educational services this fall.  

 

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