Easy-to-spell names
To find students, faculty, or staff at the University of Idaho, type a name into the search box, and press Search. If you don't know the full name of the person you're searching for, you can just type in their last name. All searching is case-insensitive. That means that a search for Dr. Anderson returns the same results as a search for dr. anderson.

Complex names like Bialostocki
If you're not sure how to spell the last name of the person you're looking for, you can search with a question mark.

For example, a search like balostocky will return 0 results, but a search like balostocky? (with a question mark at the end) will return the Bialostockis since their name sounds like what you typed in. So sound it out if you don't know how to spell it, but you can only use a ? with last names.

Other examples

Why Advanced Search?
Because Advanced Search allows you to be more specific about who you're searching for. Sometimes the Simple Search returns too many results or doesn't allow the flexibility you might need. You can also return more results per page with the Advanced Search.

Search by email address.
Sometimes it's handy to do a reverse lookup to find someone when you only have their email address.

Specify a last name with more than one part.
The Simple Search has trouble with last names that have spaces in them. For example, names like von Braun and von Wandruszka confuse the Simple Search into thinking that von is the person's first name. To circumvent the problem, you should use the Advanced Search to find those people.