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Three Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµÍø (CWI) Biology majors are already starting work in their chosen field. Jennifer Hines (Sophomore), Kassandra Townsend (Sophomore), and Tabor Hoxsey (Freshman) are working on a collaborative research project overseen by Assistant Professor of Biology, Steve Lysne....

Growing up, Heather Griffin never imagined she would be working from a mobile office while saving lives. And yet that is exactly what she does. A paramedic with , she travels from Oregon to Utah and all points in between. Dispatched to...

Rachel Zeleny, a graduate of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµÍøâ€™s (CWI) Education departments is one of the Treasure Valley’s newest K-12 educators. After obtaining her associate degree in Elementary Education from CWI, she transferred to Boise State University, where she earned a bachelor...

Caldwell native Katie Kelly has a dream of impacting people’s lives. In order to help others one day, the 17 year old high school senior is starting by helping herself.
In the spring, Kelly will graduate from Vallivue High School. At the same time, she will earn an associate degree...

Mallory O'Mahony is passionate about education. As a child development educator, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµÍø (CWI) alum is learning first-hand how impactful a positive learning experience can be.Â
O'Mahony works in a Child Development Center for the Department of Defense in...

Without a doubt, Amber Shoopman has done a little bit of everything. Once quiet and very reserved, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµÍø (CWI) alumnae now spends her time interacting with a variety of people and presenting at conferences in large cities. Although she has come a long way from where she...

A CWI Foundation scholarship is helping Terry Black pursue his dream of becoming a teacher.

Horticulture student, Jacqueline Correnti, is honoring the memory of a former classmate through a CWI Foundation scholarship.

It took a while, but Ken Silvers is finally on a career path that he says makes a difference. After delivering medical supplies to a number of Treasure Valley clinics and hospitals for nearly a decade, Ken decided it was time to do something else. After saving enough money to pay for the classes...

Ever since Karee Wilson was a little girl, she wanted to be a nurse. Born into a family of people who have chosen health care as a profession, becoming a nurse was a natural step. Things were going according to plan, but then life took her a little off track. She found out she was going to...

Quiet and observative, David Mpoyi is on a mission. Raised to value hard work and the importance of being educated, the Biology-Healthcare program student works full time and attends the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµÍø (CWI) full time. He is doing...

When Morgan Harris completed high school, it wasn’t a question of whether she would attend college or not—it was simply a matter of where. Between being homeschooled and attending a private school in Garden City, she graduated with a 3.8 grade point average. Being an athlete with...

For Laura Grout, going to college was always an option. Although it took her almost 20 years to enroll in the Biology-Healthcare program at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµÍø, she has never lost sight of becoming a formally-trained midwife. After years of...

When Jose Nava started his studies at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµÍø (CWI), he had no idea an accounting class assignment would lead him to an office with a view along the interstate in Nampa. Today he is doing a job he enjoys in a profession he loves. It’s a far cry from where he once was,...

For Jessica Thomas the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµÍø truly is the college of what if. The horticulture technology program student, who is steadily working to complete her associate degree, says she never pictured herself...

Students from CWI’s advanced EMT course participated in a staged, intoxicated driving demonstration at Kuna High School.

Tyrell Styhl, a sophomore natural resources major at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµÍø (CWI), claimed Best Paper Presentation for an Undergraduate Student at the 57th Annual Meeting & Symposium of the Idaho Academy of Science and Engineering last month in Boise. He won for his paper titled ...

When Russ Keely stepped on CWI’s campus the summer semester of 2009, he was homeless, unemployed, couldn’t drive, divorced, dealing with sobriety, on probation, and penniless. “I was scared to flipping death when I stepped on campus. I wasn’t only unemployed, I was...