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DJ Eric Rhodes ’04 returned to the University of Idaho campus for 2024 Homecoming. During his time on campus, Rhodes was a guest speaker in two of Professor Glenn Mosley’s classes and visited the KUOI radio station.\r

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Okay, but can we talk about the retro Vandal gear for a minute? ❤️🔥 #VandalSpiritFriday #RetroDay #College
A brush with fate led a Vandal to a thriving mural career. 🖌️🎨 Mikaela Herrick '23, @mikaelasartgallery, found success as an artist before she accepted the title as her profession. As a teenager in Kooskia, Herrick painted a picture of a moose that was displayed in the office of an Idaho legislator. Other paintings hung in businesses around the Clearwater Valley where she graduated from high school as a three-sport athlete before earning academic and general scholarships to attend U of I. Although she planned to earn a business degree as a Vandal, she flunked her first business exam — a failure that changed Herrick’s degree path. It was the brush with fate that gave her a new perspective. “Since I had my education paid for, I thought I may as well study something I like,” she said. Now, as a muralist who paints the sides of barns, bars, boathouses, galleries and grain bins, often with the Vandal logo, Herrick has traveled all over the state displaying her love of U of I and the Vandal community with her art. “I loved my time at U of I and if I had not failed that first exam, I might have a completely different career,” she said. Herrick, who now lives in Coeur d’Alene, earned a bachelor’s degree in studio art and design with an emphases in ceramics, painting and graphic design. After graduating in 2023, she fell into a job that many naysayers ascribe as the obvious outcome of an art degree: She worked as a barista. But her love of art kept calling. “I got contracts to paint the side of houses and buildings and knew I couldn’t keep asking for weeks off from work each time I got another project, so I had to make a decision,” she said. She hung out a shingle: Artist for hire. It has turned into a sustainable career. One large scale project, part of her senior capstone, included painting a mural on the Prichard gallery along Highway 95 in downtown Moscow. There's also a farmhouse in Duboise, grain silos along Highway 26 near Gooding, a mural in Nez Perce, a boat house on Lake Coeur d'Alene and the side of a business in Moscow.
Plot twist: the classroom has 100+ students… and they moo. 🐄. Meet Camille Rives, Animal and Veterinary Science: Dairy Option major. She’s getting hands-on experience @uidairycenter , just minutes from the Moscow campus, helping care for 100+ milking cows while learning how high-quality dairy operations run. In @uicals AVS: Dairy Option, students study animal nutrition, reproduction, physiology and farm management and apply it in real-world settings every day. ✌️
Then and now: 1985/2025 📸 Students on campus, photo courtesy of the @uofilibrary archives. #UIdaho #ThenAndNow
A Vandal in Scotland - Paige's story. @vandalsabroad has over 300 programs across 45 countries, including one that is perfect for you. ✈️💛 Did you study abroad? Tell us where in the comments. #StudyAbroadDay #EducationAbroad #govandals #uidaho #travel
Can you cartwheel? 🤸‍♀️ Rainey Roecker walks with pre-vet major Annie Bailey to class and chats about life as a student.
Which of these photos decribes how you are feeling this #VandalSpiritFriday? 🤘📣🙌
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