In April 2024, Daniel Fologea’s summer was up in the air. Fologea, a professor of physics at Boise State, had been running a summer research program for local high school students, undergraduates and graduate students since 2012. But this year, there was no funding to support those young research assistants.
When summer started two months later, Fologea’s lab was overflowing with 24 student researchers. All thanks to a meeting with local donor Chris Honcik, organized by Melanie Bannister of the University Foundation.
“He gets so excited that the listeners also get excited,” Honcik said of his first tour through Fologea’s lab. “Who wouldn’t be? He’s working on cures for cancer and a rapid test for heart attack victims. These are big, important topics.”
Continue reading the article and to learn more about Dr. Fologea’s lab.