Elouise Cobell received an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College, joining other 2011 recipients President George H.W. Bush, comedian Conan O'Brien, actress Ruby Dee and New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. The Browning resident led a 15-year class-action lawsuit against the federal government that resulted in a $3.4 billion settlement approved by Congress late last year. Cobell and the other plaintiffs sued the government for mismanaging the royalties of hundreds of thousands of individual Native American landowners.
M&M Spring 2009 > Standing Strong

Katie Jacobs, producer of the House, M.D. television series, will adapt and direct a feature film version of MSU grad Kevin Connolly's book Double Take. Famed film director John Sayles is working with Jacobs on the adaptation of the book.
M&M Fall 2007 > People are curious

Sam Kavanagh finished third in an Individual Time Trial at a Para-cycling Road World Cup race held in quebec in July, his first podium in a World Cup event. Kavanagh, the MSU graduate who lost a leg in an avalanche near Bozeman in 2006, also placed sixth in the road race, earning some points for his U.s. team. The trip to the race came two days after Kavanagh and his wife, Sara, brought home their newborn son, Nolan, to join big sister Amelia.
M&M Spring 2011 > No limbitations

• MSU paleontologists excavate dinosaur clutches in China
• MSU Potato Lab looks to new colorful spuds, home gardeners to boost seed potato industry
• Montana State University makes strong showing in 2012 Peace Corps college rankings