Students change up Winter Break traditions
Three ways students plan to find normalcy in a holiday season hit by COVID-19.

With Winter Break just around the corner, University of Idaho students have been making plans for how they are going to be spending their vacation. Students have planned to spend time with their families […]

Life Update
Architecture is more than buildings
An architecture studio course designs a post-pandemic future

Students come to the University of Idaho in search of a degree but find more as they get closer to graduation. In a senior architecture design course, students don’t just learn about buildings, but they learn a perspective about being a human being.

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OPINION: Ignoring our call to action
Kootenai County refusing their civic duty every day of this pandemic

Since June, Moscow’s mayor and local officials have had an ordinance requiring face masks in public. Just a little over an hour away, where I live and go to school at the University of Idaho satellite campus, is the lake and resort town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Here and in the surrounding cities of Rathdrum, Post Falls, Hayden, and others there has been little to no mask requirements, except for the few chain businesses and corporations requiring them nationwide.

University of Idaho researchers model COVID-19 across the state
"What's happening right now was absolutely predictable, and was predicted," a UI associate professor said.

An assortment of mathematicians, modelers and sociologists at University of Idaho have been working since the spring to predict the spread of COVID-19 in rural communities. The Idaho Pandemic Modeling Group, part of UI’s Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation, makes models based on local data. The group has been working for supplemental funding attached to IMCI’s current National Institutes of Health grant.

News update
Wrapping up Fall 2020: a brief breakdown
Staff statewide will be able to work from home, if feasible, from Fall Break until January 8.

Gov. Brad Little’s decision to move Idaho back into a modified Stage 2 of Idaho Rebounds has no impact on University of Idaho’s final week of in-person classes, according to […]