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Boise State News May 24, 2021 Jack Marr The 2021 spring conference for the Consortium of Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE) was co-hosted by Boise State’s College of Business and Economics and the University of Wyoming’s College of Business. Led by Jack Marr, clinical assistant professor at Boise State, and University of Wyoming College of Business Dean David Sprott, the theme of this year’s conference was “Rethinking Global Capitalism: A View from the Mountain West.” The event was originally planned to be held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, as a halfway p...
MURRAY — Heather Olsen said she grew up admiring her older sister, who has worked as a nurse for over a decade. So when the COVID-19 pandemic reached Utah and the rest of the country last year, she couldn't shake the image of her sister from her mind as she came across updates on the coronavirus. "Basically, when I watched the news I saw all the health care workers. I saw her," Olsen said, reflecting on the earliest days of the pandemic. "Just how tired they were, exhausted. And I remembered all the times she came home exhausted." As the pandemic lingered, Olsen, who is a Utah artist, wante...
A note from the editor By: Sharon Fisher February 26, 2021 Comments Off on A note from the editor Sharon Fisher One of the things we joke about here is how “development” can mean two different things, depending on what you’re talking about. It could mean either constructing a building, developing technology such as software. This week, “development” means both. On the building side, this week we’re covering the Idaho Building Owners and Managers Association symposium. Like most events these days, it was largely virtual, but it also featured (socially distanced) vendor bo...
Dozens of local business leaders signed on to a letter to Boise and Idaho’s political leaders decrying recent vandalism at the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial. An unidentified person or group placed nine stickers on the memorial with a swastika and the words “we are everywhere” sometime between late December 7th and early December 8th. The stickers were promptly removed, and community members quickly showed up to place flowers, signs saying “love is everywhere” and other materials near the statue of Frank at the center of the memorial. “This kind of attack has no place in o...