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Spring 2021 Issue: Blueprint for the Future

Focus

With a new strategic plan, new athletic leadership, and determination to minimize the effects of a worldwide pandemic on student success,  Boise State is poised to enter an era of innovation, strong  partnerships, and inclusion.

Broncos persevered through a year of pandemic with their usual grit and quick thinking.

We are resilient

“Our faculty have always been committed to providing students high-quality learning opportunities in the classroom, lab, studio, and field. Despite unprecedented challenges over the past year, faculty rose to the occasion to meet the academic and safety needs of our students.”

— Tony Roark, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs

“During the pandemic, things have changed week-by-week, day-by-day and minute-by-minute. I’m proud of everyone for doing everything they can to support our student-athletes and make sure they have an outstanding experience.”

— Jeramiah Dickey, executive director of athletics

A culture of innovation

Bronco Gap Year: A different kind of academic space
Blue Collar: Avalos, Dickey and the dawn of a new era for Boise State Athletics
“My child is a (insert dog breed)”: Researching the phenomenon of pet-parenting
Finger foods: Art student meshes heritage and humor
Bronco Corps: Paid internships benefit students and community
Bronco culture sustains them: Refugee students at Boise State
The Boise State/Norco pipeline
Photo by Priscilla Grover

Please Touch the art!

The Keith and Catherine Stein Luminary in the Center for the Visual Arts will be many things when it opens to the public in the fall of 2021. First, a digital museum with 90 feet of touchscreen where visitors can zoom in on high-resolution images of art from around the world.

The Keith and Catherine Stein Luminary

“Forget the boundaries of websites,” said Lisa Hunt, interim director.

If you want to see, simultaneously, each of the 34 paintings made by the Dutch artist Vermeer for example, you can in the Stein Luminary.

The immersive, interactive space will offer panoramic views, both augmented and virtual reality environments. Interdisciplinary collaborations have begun there already. Students in the College of Innovation and Design’s Games Interactive Media and Mobile program are creating guided educational activities for visiting school groups. Another team is working with an original music score, creating digital imagery that will correspond to the notes, and transform the Luminary into a true box of light.

Closed captions are provided in the video as well as a text transcript.

Video Transcript: Inside the Luminary
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Inside the Luminary

Alumni in Action

Art for sport’s sake: Bronco grad’s thriving sportswear company
Graduate rises through the ranks of the National Park Service
There’s no school like SnowSchool
The Bronco business connection: From design, to robots, to wine
Alumnus gives back by supporting genetic research
Boise State Alumni Association

Congratulations Graduates!

You join a family of 100,000 fellow alumni living in Idaho and beyond.

Keep your Bronco ties strong.

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Campus News

New technology teaches one of the oldest skills
Boise State Model United Nations program receives $500,000 gift
Greening the blue: Experiments in ‘Eco-Turf’
The vulnerability of vanilla
Cataloging the drowned towns of the American West

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