MSU work set to launch June 26 on NASA mission
June 18, 2013 -- By Evelyn Boswell, MSU News Service
MSU faculty and students who worked on a NASA solar mission are counting down the days when their work will head into space. The public is invited to join them at a free event to watch the launch.
Photo: Artist’s concept of the IRIS satellite in orbit. (Image courtesy of NASA).
Seven MSU grads receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
June 11, 2013 -- MSU News Service
Seven MSU graduates who plan to attend graduate school and conduct research have received NSF fellowships. Hometowns of Montana recipients are Bozeman, Butte, Great Falls, Helena, Kalispell and Pony.
Photo: MSU alumni receive NSF Research Graduate Fellowships.
New superintendent, plant pathologist appointed for Eastern Ag Research Center
June 10, 2013 -- MSU News Service
Hans Schneider, currently living in the Netherlands, has been appointed superintendent and plant pathologist at the Eastern Agricultural Research Center in Sidney.
Photo: Hans Schneider, new superintendent and plant pathologist at the Eastern Agricultural Research Center in Sidney, is shown (speaking at right) discussing management of Rhizoctonia root rot with Dutch growers. (Photo courtesy of Barry Jacobsen).
Discover magazine features pioneering Antarctic research involving MSU
June 10, 2013 -- MSU News Service
A massive U.S. expedition that involves current and former Montana State University scientists is featured in the July/August issue of Discover magazine. Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /export/home/ocpa/public_html/news/feeds/tto/news-feed.php on line 179
MSU grad part of NASA mission scheduled to launch from Sweden
June 5, 2013 -- MSU News Service
An MSU graduate who used to fly experiments high above Montana is now in Sweden to monitor a high-altitude balloon that is scheduled to launch in the next day or two and fly five or six days over the North Pole.
Photo: Courtney Peck is in Sweden for the launch of a huge balloon that’s part of a NASA solar mission. Behind Peck is the Sunrise II instrument (white with black solar panels) that the balloon will carry high into the sky. The solar panels power all the systems on the telescope. (Photo courtesy of the Montana Space Grant Consortium).
MSU team wins grant to study informal science education in Yellowstone region, Altai Republic
June 3, 2013 -- Anne Cantrell, MSU News Service
The $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will enable MSU to partner with a university in the Altai Republic to study how indigenous peoples' language use supports science education.
Photo: A Montana State University research team has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how indigenous peoples’ native language use in two similar yet distinct parts of the world supports environmental science learning. The collaborative research project will focus on the Yellowstone region of the western United States and the Altai Republic of south-central Russia. Members of the team, pictured here from left to right, are: Christine Rogers Stanton, Shane Doyle, Jason Baldes, Michael Brody, Cliff Montagne and Art Bangert. MSU photo by Kelly Gorham.
MSU to begin search for new Vice President for Research, Creativity and Technology Transfer
May 31, 2013 -- MSU News Service
An 18-member committee has been formed to conduct the national search. Martha Potvin, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, is the search committee's chair. Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /export/home/ocpa/public_html/news/feeds/tto/news-feed.php on line 179
Camper appointed MSU's interim vice president for research, creativity and technology transfer
May 30, 2013 -- MSU News Service
Longtime MSU faculty member and administrator Anne Camper will assume the position of interim vice president for research, creativity and technology transfer at MSU on July 1.
Photo: Longtime MSU faculty member and administrator Anne Camper will assume the position of interim vice president for research, creativity and technology transfer at MSU on July 1. MSU photo by Kelly Gorham.
MSU physicist, Einstein expert wins $500,000 award from National Science Foundation
May 22, 2013 -- By Evelyn Boswell, MSU News Service
An MSU physicist who recently led Bozeman in celebrating Einstein has now won a five-year $500,000 Young Investigator CAREER Award from the NSF.
Photo: Nico Yunes, an assistant professor of physics at Montana State University, has won a prestigious Young Investigator CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. (MSU photo by Kelly Gorham).
MSU vice president accepts position at the University of North Texas
May 20, 2013 -- MSU News Service
Thomas McCoy, Montana State University's vice president for research, creativity and technology transfer, has been named the vice president for research and economic development at the University of North Texas in Denton.
Photo: Thomas McCoy, Montana State University's vice president for research, creativity and technology transfer, has been named the vice president for research and economic development at the University of North Texas in Denton. MSU photo by Kelly Gorham.
MSU scientists develop potential new treatment for autoimmune diseases
May 13, 2013 -- MSU News Service
Scientists at Montana State University have developed a therapeutic that has potential as a biological drug or probiotic food product to combat many of the more than 80 autoimmune disorders that affect some 23.5 million people in the United States. Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /export/home/ocpa/public_html/news/feeds/tto/news-feed.php on line 179
MSU College of Agriculture has new wheat variety available for licensing
May 13, 2013 -- MSU News Service
Montana State University researchers have produced a new line of hard white winter wheat that offers an alternative to hard red winter wheat while maintaining desired properties of most popular red winter wheat varieties currently grown in Montana. Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 0 in /export/home/ocpa/public_html/news/feeds/tto/news-feed.php on line 179
Mark Young named Fellow in American Academy of Microbiology
May 6, 2013 -- MSU News Service
MSU microbiologist Mark Young has been named a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology.
Photo: Mark Young will be recognized May 21 as a new Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology. (MSU file photo).
MSU microbiologist earns doctorate studying microbes of Yellowstone and Hanford, Wash.
May 3, 2013 -- By Sepp Jannotta, MSU News Service
Kara De Leon, who graduates from Montana State University on Saturday with a doctorate in microbiology, conducted research that put her on the front lines of a push to understand and harness the microorganisms known to researchers as biofilm.
Photo: Microbiology doctoral student Kara De Leon, who graduates from Montana State University on Saturday, prepares a soil sample for transport in the laboratory of associate professor Matthew Fields. (MSU photo by Kelly Gorham).
MSU finishes strong year of scholarship wins with Rhodes, Udall, Goldwaters, Marshall and more
May 2, 2013 -- MSU News Service
After a year during which a stunning number of MSU students won major national scholarships and fellowships, the university learned this week it is once again the school of choice for many of the state's best and brightest students.
Photo: Twenty-five MSU students were honored recently for being named winners and finalists of major national scholarships and fellowships. Included in the group were four Goldwater scholars, as well as Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright and Udall scholars. The honored students are pictured here with MSU President Waded Cruzado, MSU Provost Martha Potvin and Ilse-Mari Lee, director of the University Honors Program. MSU photo by Kelly Gorham.
Strong ties between fly fishers lead to MSU, Belize collaboration
April 29, 2013 -- By Evelyn Boswell, MSU News Service
Strong connections between fly fishers in southwest Montana and Central America have led to new research at Montana State University. The project is focused on conch that live in the Caribbean Sea.
Photo: The conch industry in Belize supports about 2,800 fishermen. One of them is shown here placing a conch in his boat. (Photo courtesy of Alex Anderson).
Rocket science leads to major fellowship for MSU grad student
April 24, 2013 -- By Evelyn Boswell, MSU News Service
An MSU graduate student who studies the chemical reactions that occur when rockets return to Earth has won a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
Photo: MSU graduate student Vanessa Murray recently won a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, which gives her a $30,000 stipend for each of three years, up to $1,000 a year for medical insurance and pays her MSU tuition for three years. (MSU photo by Sepp Jannotta).
MSU historian wins Guggenheim Fellowship to conduct global study on asbestos poisoning
April 12, 2013 -- By Evelyn Boswell, MSU News Service
Brett Walker, a Regents' Professor of History at MSU, has won a $48,000 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Photo: Brett Walker is one of 175 scholars, artists and scientists across the nation to win a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. (MSU photo by Kelly Gorham).
New book focuses on Yellowstone's changing ecology, management
March 19, 2013 -- MSU News Service
\"Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition,\" a new book that focuses on the changing ecology and management approaches in Yellowstone National Park,\" involved several MSU faculty members and alumni.
Photo: More than 30 contributors, including several MSU faculty members and alumni, were involved in this new book about changes in Yellowstone National Park.
Biologists on skis seek wolverines in remote Mongolia
March 12, 2013 -- By Evelyn Boswell, MSU News Service
A team of wildlife biologists will soon ski 400 miles through northern Mongolia, searching for signs of wolverines in the rugged, frigid mountains of the Darhad region. Related lesson plans are available for teachers, and everyone can follow the expedition online.
Photo: MSU alumnus Gregg Treinish, shown here in the Andes, will soon search for wolverines in Mongolia. (Photo by Deia Schlosberg).
