GEMS SPRING ’23

NO. 1

Year when the global robotic manufacturing systems market is expected to double, spurring the 2022 creation of U of I’s Center for Intelligent Industrial Robotics.

$55 MILLION

U.S. Department of Agriculture funding to support climate-smart agricultural practices.

3.5% Increase in undergraduate enrollment over last spring.

U of I ranked Top Value in the West for public universities for the third consecutive year by U.S. News and World Report and No. 2 nationally.

1,000+

Idaho health care workers earned behavioral health continuing education credits since 2018 through ECHO Idaho. See page 15.

$1.4 MILLION

Over$20 MILLION

Secured by U of I since 2001 in federal cybersecurity scholarships, supporting 110 students who graduated from the program prepared for top jobs in the industry.

$299,985

Amount U of I researchers received to study the effects of wildfire smoke exposure in dairy cattle.

3,500

Students enrolled from rural Idaho communities.

86

165

Apple varieties raised at U of I’s Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center.

12,000

Vandal Bars

Memorial trees and groves in the U of I Arboretum and Botanical Garden.

sold within the first two months of the candy’s release by the Vandal-owned Idaho Candy Company.

One quadrillion: 1,000,000,000,000,000 Number of calculations per second made by the U of I-managed Falcon Supercomputer, one of the fastest in the U.S.