Banks is just the third student from The College of Idaho to receive a Goldwater in the past two decades, joining Derek Erstad (2007) and Dannen Dale Wright (2014).
Heggland’s 23-year career as a cell biology professor and researcher will end later this month. She’s retiring at the end of the school year and she calls the SRC one of her proudest achievements, but it’s hardly the only one.
Hammoud sent one of his friends back to the car to retrieve his EMT bag while others called 9-1-1, and Hammoud snapped into action to help the injured man.
The Wilderness First Responder certification course is offered annually on the College’s campus during spring break and is open to the students, staff, faculty and the public.