Another time honored tradition of University of Idaho Homecoming is the annual serpentine. Taking place Friday October 19, led by the Sound of Idaho Marching Band, this year the Serpentine will wind through Old Greek and New Greek Rows, to the VandalStore, along Sixth Street, through the residence halls and...
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Give, Vandals, Give!
![Students giving blood at the Red Cross Blood Drive [03]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/pg2/pg21970.jpg)
Conducting a blood drive on the University of Idaho campus during Homecoming week is a tradition of nearly 70 years, a true representation of this year’s theme of As We Were, As We Are. Here, a student rolls up his sleeve to donate in 1952.
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Welcome home, Vandals!
The University of Idaho celebrates Homecoming 2018 this week with a theme of As We Were As We Are. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives shares an As We Were moment with this photo of the prize winning float from the 1962 Homecoming Parade.
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Librarians are students, too!
Librarians attend a conference at the University of Idaho in 1958. We are always looking for ways to provide the best service to our patrons and new ideas are shared at professional workshops and conferences like this.
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WWI Speaker
Radioactive Trees
For our next #weirdlywednesday post, we’re showing evidence of the Atomic Age research of introducing radioisotopes to trees in the hope of studying how individual trees behave physiologically and how their absorption, translocation, and similar metabolic processes work. Field studies were conducted to study pole blight, a disease of western...
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Go Vandals!
The University of Idaho Vandals travel to Pocatello this weekend to take on cross state and Big Sky Conference rivals the Idaho State Bengals. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives showcases football program covers from three previous meetings between the Vandals and Bengals in 1962, 1965 and 1967.The...
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Attention, Class!
![College of Education. University of Idaho. Student teacher in classroom. [227-5]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/campus/thumbs/campus01770_th.jpg)
Happy World Teachers’ Day to all University of Idaho College of Education alumni as well as current students pursuing a degree in education.
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Halloween Ice Cream
![Ice cream laboratory section, Dairy Science. University of Idaho. [205-17]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/campus/thumbs/campus00979_th.jpg)
Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year, so for each Wednesday in October we will post a photo on the wonderfully weird side! Was it just me or is this every child’s dream to go to college and work in an ice cream laboratory? I wonder if they are brewing...
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The Tiger Hotel
Mine to Mine
![Tiger Hotel [01]](https://objects.lib.uidaho.edu/barstock/barstock1919.jpg)
The Tiger Hotel, located in Burke, Idaho, seven miles from Wallace, was a three story frame hotel with 150 rooms. It was built over the South Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River, and the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks ran through the lobby. The hotel’s only purpose was to provide food...
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