Idaho Harvester

Posted on September 2, 2019

Last week, we learned about milling mineral ore. This week, we’ll look at what happens after minerals have been milled. [Read More]

Posted on August 30, 2019

These mostly unidentified Flowery Friday watercolors were painted by former University of Idaho Faculty Sara Annette Bowman. Bowman served as Professor of Drawing (later Free Hand and Industrial Drawing) from some of the earliest days for the University. Starting in 1893, she taught drawing along with other art media until... [Read More]

Posted on August 28, 2019

Our current exhibit, A Book’s Nature: Artist Books by Peter and Donna Thomas, has incredible works of art on display. Unfortunately, such a display only allows for one or two pages of most books to be seen. Throughout the run of the exhibit, we will post some pictures from inside... [Read More]

Posted on August 26, 2019

Last week, we learned about extracting raw mineral ore. This week, we’ll learn about the process of milling, which is the first of two steps required to take raw mineral ore and turn it into a usable product (the second of which is smelting, which we’ll explore next week!) [Read More]

Posted on August 23, 2019

For this Flowery Friday we were flipping through L. Bruggeman’s Tropical Plants and Their Cultivation. There were so many beautiful plates of flowers to choose, but Hymenocallis littoralis kept catching our attention. [Read More]

Posted on August 21, 2019

Rush week at Beta Theta Pi house [02] [Read More]

Posted on August 20, 2019

Happy #TroutTuesday! The Idaho state fish is the Cutthroat trout and there’s still plenty of season left to hit the water and catch some BIG fish! [Read More]

Posted on August 19, 2019

Last week, we learned about the dangers posed to an underground metal miner. This week, we’ll focus on the process of mineral extraction, which is what mining is all about! Extracting raw materials from the Earth supports much of our economic and social infrastructure (smartphones, for example, are made of... [Read More]

Posted on August 19, 2019

It turns out that August 19th is National Aviation Day, but also National Photography Day. Rather than celebrate these individually, we thought we would combine the two and celebrate National Aviation Photography Day. How do you do this, you may ask? Aerial Photographs!!! [Read More]