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MSU in the Media
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Photo: Courtesy of the Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway
Courtesy of Jack Horner
Photo: Courtesy of MSU Thermal Biology
Photo: Jay Thane
Photo: Carol Flaherty
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Pat Druckenmiller, earth sciences, was featured in a National Geographic story about a pliosaur, a large sea creature from the dinosaur-era found by a crew from the University of Oslo. Druckenmiller, a specialist in prehistoric seagoing reptiles, assisted.
Jack Horner, paleontology, and crews from MSU and Mongolia found more than 67 dinosaur fossils in one week at a Gobi Desert site. The discovery, which included a flock of parrot-like dinosaurs called Psittacosaurus, was the subject of stories in Discover.
Trevor Douglas, chemistry, and Mark Young, plant sciences and plant pathology, were the subject of several national news articles. Their work with heat-loving viruses in Yellowstone National Park was featured in the debut episode of a possible new PBS series, "Wired Science." Douglas' and Young's work in another area -- the use of an engineered form of ferritin, a cage-like iron storage protein, to synthesize and deliver iron oxide nanoparticles to tumors -- was published in the journal Nature.
A study by Scott Creel, ecology, and John Winnie, Jr. on bull-headedness of bull elk, or the proclivity of bull elk to eat rather than watch for wolves and other predators, was published in Animal Behavior and was also the subject of a column in USA Today.
Philip Stewart, CBE, and his research into chitosan, a compound found in crab shells that seems to protect against the build-up of biofilm in medical procedures, was featured in HealthDay News and Science Daily. A similar story was printed in The Oregonian and the online PhysOrg.com News.
Rob Maher, electrical engineering, has invented a precision sound-tracing device to find a bullet's pathway. A story written by Tracy Ellig, of the MSU News Service, about the device's applications to detect snipers inspired a story in Discovery Reports.
Norm Weeden, plant sciences and plant pathology, co-authored a study that tracked down the gene first identified by Austrian monk Gregor Mendel that makes peas green. The story was featured in Scientific American.
Entomology studesnts raise parasitic wasps that attack wheat stem sawfly in a project coordinated by Dave Weaver. He and his students were featured in Science Daily.
For more MSU in the Media, visit http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/msuinmedia.php.
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