May 20 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Anne Wallace Allen The Idaho Statesman, Boise

Boise State University will receive $41,000 a year for the next three years to manage the construction of small wind turbines at up to a dozen rural Idaho schools.

Boise State was named one of six Wind Application Centers in the United States through a U.S. Department of Energy program.

The purpose of the program is to educate rural students and communities about wind energy. The program will use Boise State engineering students for the wind energy project development.

The schools haven't been chosen yet. The university already has wind power research underway.

Last year, Boise State installed a wind turbine at Skyline High School in Idaho Falls.