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Like many high-tech firms, nextScan plans new offerings for new markets. Unlike many high-tech firms, the Meridian-based company (www.nextscan.com) thrives on working with old technology: microfilm. The manufacturing that nextScan does is not a good candidate for outsourcing overseas, partly ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has awarded $264,150 to Idaho State University’s College of Science and Engineering and its College of Technology for student scholarships during the 2010-11 academic year. ISU’s Nuclear Education Scholarship Program will receive $172,150 for eight ...

Businesses and individuals increased their donations to the Boise Public Schools Education Foundation by 10 percent last year. The foundation awards money to schools and educational staff to improve education in the district, which is Idaho’s second-largest after Meridian. This ...

North Idaho College is offering a series of free online classes to the unemployed this summer. The NIC Workforce Training Center is working with a St. Paul, Minn. company called Growth Strategies, Inc., to offer the online classes on topics ...

Stevens-Henager College by year’s end aims to have two to three small-footprint education centers opened in Idaho, said Shane Reeder, regional director based at the Boise campus. “We are exploring ways to deliver education in smaller communities,” he said. The ...

Seventy scientists from Europe and North America are gathering June 23-26 in Pocatello for a Health Physics Society Professional development school at Idaho State University. Health physics professionals study the impact of radiation on the body. ISU has not been ...

Concordia University is expected to break ground on the construction of a new law school complex in downtown Boise this week. Boise Mayor Dave Bieter is scheduled to speak at Tuesday’s ceremony. The Portland, Ore., school closed last month on ...

Lowell Scott Middle School student Gaia Kutkuhn says she was the only girl in her seventh-grade science class last year who actually wanted to dissect a frog. Kutkuhn found plenty of company at Chip Camp, a summer experience put on ...

Applications to Idaho’s only law school rose 18 percent in 2010, a far greater increase than the national average. Students submitted 859 completed applications to the University of Idaho’s College of Law, Dean Don Burnett said, compared to last year’s ...

Stevens-Henager College Nampa Satellite is planned in a 15,000-square-foot space north of Interstate 84 near Karcher and Midland roads. The college will occupy a building in Treasure Valley Crossing. The Stevens-Henager College Boise Campus, which anchors a large building at ...