Ten years ago, Bob got the idea to rebuild one of the many historic hot springs on the Middle Fork. After a decade of planning and lobbying, he gained approval from the powers that be and his idea became reality in March. We were a part of it.
Fernando Barrios, Roxi Morales Velazco, and Maria Esther Manzanares will travel to Tantoyuca, Mexico, in June to complete their project, “Colaborando con Parteras: The Importance of Midwives and Recording of Indigenous Knowledge.”
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.
