Incubators and R&D

Growing interest in developing academic research capacity, eroding state support for higher education and federal R&D budgets barely keeping pace with inflation, let alone absorbing the growing percentage dedicated to Congressional earmarks, are some of the reasons.

"Our faculty is simply incredible, competing successfully with the nation’s best researchers and providing superb education on campus," said MSU President Geoff Gamble.

"This connects Boise State to the international science community in a direct way," Northrup said. "Our students benefit greatly from opportunities to develop a global perspective."

Bose is developing nano-scale ceramic materials to make bone and dental implants more acceptable to the human body.

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"I think it is an incredible opportunity," Waite said. "There are competitive efforts going on to approach this problem in different ways, but I think this one is elegant, very flexible and very powerful."

Researchers are beginning to understand plants so precisely that they no longer need transgenics to achieve traits like drought resistance, durability, or increased nutritional value.

"Native Americans are capable of being really good scientists," she said. "I think this is really neat because things that hit the news about Native Americans are about crime and how we do poorly in school. This helps build a bridge between culture and science."

Hadlow was one of the first scientists in the world to study what are now known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or TSEs, when in 1958 as a young veterinary pathologist in Hamilton, he was sent to the Agricultural Research Council Field Station in Compton, England, to study a degenerative disease of goats and sheep known as scrapie.