From Montana to Mali: Students Present Research at Conference
Helping an African village get water; revealing Montana's problems with childhood
obesity; basic research into gene expression and the history of America's post-WWII
merchant fleet were just a few of the projects Montana State University students
presented Tuesday at the school's annual Undergraduate Scholars Conference.
Civil engineering student Stacey Hellekson of Billings has been researching
a rainwater harvesting system for a village in the African country of Mali.
The village has one water source for its 575 inhabitants, a well that is a 10-minute
walk from town. Hellekson is working on creating a way for the villagers to harvest
rainfall from their rooftops into cisterns that would supplement the well.
By Evelyn Boswell and Tracy Ellig, MSU News Service
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