Moscow, Idaho – February 9, 2022 – The Idaho Science and Technology Policy Fellowship (ISTPF) is proud to announce a $ 482,888 multi-year award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The ISTPF is a non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan, non-partisan The program received its first team members in August 2020 and the second batch in August 2021.
ISTPF has partnered with three Idaho Public Research Universities – Boys State University, Idaho State University and Idaho University – as the lead partner of the James A and Louise McKeller Center for Public Policy Studies.
Funding from the Moore Foundation expands the scope of ISTPF, supporting ISTP partners in the legislature. These ISTP partners will spend a year together with the LEDO, led by the Idaho Legislative Service Office (LSO), to answer legislative questions in order to conduct in-depth research on public policy topics.
Providing scientists, social scientists, and engineers with experience in policy research, the ISTPF develops future leaders who will assist the government and the policy-making process.
“Idaho is one of the few states that has a one-year science and technology partnership program. The expansion of the ISTPF by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will enable the Legislative Service to provide additional research resources. Paul Healy, Deputy Director of the Outreach Office.
Idaho It is one of nine states that received funding assistance from the California Science and Technology Council, the Moore Foundation and the Simon Foundation in 2017. Since then, the ISTPF has received funding from businesses, foundations, governments, Idaho Public Research Universities, and private donors. .
For more information on the Moore Foundation, visit Moore.org and follow @MooreFound.
See uidaho.edu/istpf to learn more about ISTPF
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Katherine Hems
Director, James A. and Louise McLurre Center for Public Policy Studies
University of Idaho
208-364-4549
katherinehimes@uidaho.edu