BOISE, Idaho, July 29 -- Boise State University issued the following news release:
Nearly 540 students, faculty and staff from colleges and universities across Idaho gathered at Boise State on July 15-16 for the Idaho Conference on Undergraduate Research (ICUR), a celebration of undergraduate scholarship across academic disciplines.
This year's conference opened under the theme "Courage and Curiosity," a nod to the seen and unseen moments in a research journey. As Jim Fredricksen, director of the Undergraduate Research and Mentoring Institute, told students: courage in research often looks ordinary - submitting an abstract, admitting what you don't yet know, standing next to a poster and saying, "Here's what I'm working on and here's what...