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This week’s Idaho State Coaches Show, broadcast live from Union Tap Room in downtown Pocatello, features in-depth conversations with Brandon Stephens, Associate Athletic Director for Sports Performance and Wellness, and Bengals head football coach Cody Hawkins.

For decades, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has taken the lead in negotiating and administering systemwide music licensing agreements on behalf of public media. On October 29, CPB announced that it had reached new three-year agreements with the five major performing rights organizations, ensuring continued music use across public media platforms through December 31, 2027.

On today’s episode, Madison speaks with Dr. EJ Zita, an Idaho farmer, rancher, and a PhD energy physicist, to talk about Bannock County’s renewable energy ban and the new Southeast Idaho Energy and Property Alliance. For more information, she suggests going to www.SEIEPA.com. From there, you can email your questions to info@seiepa.org, find information on public meetings and the Bannock County Solar Energy Ordinance.

This episode of the Bengal Business Radio Show features Interim Dean Dr. Alex Bolinger in conversation with Presley Arrowood, Director of Marketing and Communications and MBA student at Idaho State University’s College of Business.

ISU’s Dr. Mary Lou Dunzik-Gouger and current undergraduate nuclear engineering/ mechanical engineering student Angela Trejo talk about ISU research that is molding the U.S. energy future. They tell us how students work side-by-side with ISU faculty to better understand how ISU’s research nuclear reactor is answering questions to guide the design of the next generation of advanced reactors.

Students and community members gathered outside the Bannock County Courthouse on Oct. 18 to join the nationwide ‘No Kings’ movement, calling for democratic accountability and equality through peaceful protest and student activism.

This week's Idaho State Coaches Show features a homecoming week episode highlighting both softball and football programs. Head coach Andrew Rich discusses the fall softball schedule, impacted by rainouts, and the competitive seven-game intrasquad series with all games decided by one run. The episode concludes with football head coach Cody Hawkins reflecting on the team’s mindset during homecoming and the strategic value of the season’s second bye week before facing ranked opponents.

I’m excited to have my colleague and co-director Jenna McLean in studio to preview the upcoming Commercial Music Big Band fall concert, Friday October 24th at 7:30 in Jensen Concert Hall

This month on ISU Impact, Dean Kandi Turley-Ames sits down with Tim May of Direct Communications and ISU communications major Derek Hansen to discuss the university’s growing esports program. They explore how student-athletes are making their mark nationally and what the creation of a new on-campus esports arena means for the future of ISU.

On today’s episode, Madison speaks with Brad Johnson, the Regenerative Agriculture Senior Advisor of the Nature Conservancy, to talk about the Nature Conservancy’s contribution to the new Minico High School farm management program.