News on University of Idaho

Idaho farm sales decrease 17 percent in 2009

2010-02-23T00:06:14Z

<div id="subtitle">Idaho farm sales decrease 17 percent in 2009, with livestock sales taking a big hit</div><div><p>Idaho farmers sold $5.4 billion worth of products in 2009, down 17 percent from the year before. That's the largest single-year decline in more than 40 years.</p><p>The University of Idaho released the report on Wednesday</...

Idaho univ. prof cleared of scientific misconduct

2010-02-23T01:08:12Z

<div id="subtitle">UI professor cleared of 'scientific misconduct' in sheep comments after 7-month investigation</div><div><p>The University of Idaho said it found no evidence that a sheep researcher committed scientific misconduct when she told a federal court and the state Legislature there was no proof wild bighorns die after catching lung diseases from domestic sheep....

Judge agrees to new ruling in UI benefits lawsuit

2010-02-23T12:36:20Z

<div id="subtitle">University of Idaho retirees who lost lawsuit over early retirement benefits get new ruling</div><div><p>A judge agreed Monday to reconsider a decision last month to throw out a lawsuit brought by 268 former University of Idaho employees who claimed their early retirement benefits were unfairly reduced.</p><p>But Second Distr...

Study: Idaho dairy counties weathering recession

2010-02-24T13:41:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Industry-funded Idaho univ study: Recession in dairy counties not as bad as other rural areas</div><div><p>The communities found in the heart of the Idaho dairy industry are, amid falling milk prices, weathering the recession better than other rural regions of the state, a new industry-funded University of Idaho...

Inventor sues 3 Northwest universities over patent

2010-02-25T11:57:07Z

<div id="subtitle">Canadian inventor sues Idaho, Washington, Oregon universities over yellow mustard seed patent</div><div><p>Three Pacific Northwest universities face a federal lawsuit that accuses them of using, withou...

Veterinary researcher who cloned mule dies

2010-02-25T16:48:47Z

<div><p>Gordon Woods, a veterinary scientist who helped create Idaho Gem, the world's first cloned mule, has died. He was 57.</p><p>Woods passed away unexpectedly Thursday, said Dell Rae Moellenberg, a spokeswoman at Colorado State University in Fort Collins,

Giant Palouse Earthworm

2009-07-11T19:00:21Z

In this photo made Tuesday, July 7, 2009, Joanna Blaszczak, left, a student at Cornell University, and Shan Xu, a graduate student from Chengdu, China, check the depth of a research hole as they work on finding and cataloging worm spe...

Palin switched colleges 6 times in 6 years

2010-02-28T16:09:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Republican vice presidential nominee Palin changes colleges 6 times in 6 years</div><div><p>Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin seems to have switched colleges at least six times in six years, including two stints at the University of Idaho before graduating from there in 1987.<...