MSU biofilms research helps set standards for everday research
Montana State University scientist Darla Goeres knows that there is more than one way to grow a biofilm, a fact that she uses to make sure that when a product claims it kills "99 percent" of bacteria, it really does the job.
(8/08)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=6139
Students in certificate program achieve 100 percent acceptance into med school
Blythe Belzer, who completed MSU's post-baccalaureate pre-medical certificate program, will attend the University of Washington School of Medicine. (5/08)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=5916
MSU joins Mali villagers in fight against malaria
Montana State University students and faculty returned to west Africa this month to join villagers who want to eradicate malaria. A $462,000 grant from the USDA-CSREES Higher Education Challenge Grant Program allowed five MSU students, two MSU faculty members, a Helena school teacher and a student at Chief Dull Knife College to spend two weeks in Mali as part of an on-going partnership with the village of Sanambele, said grant recipient and MSU entomologist Florence Dunkel. (3/08)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=5702
Students raise $30,000 in one night for clean water in Kenya
A group of Montana State University students doing humanitarian work in Kenya surprised themselves recently by raising $30,000 in one evening.
Engineers Without Borders at MSU held its first annual "Clean Water for Kenya Jubilee" on Friday, Feb. 29, at the Emerson Cultural Center. The event featured silent and live auctions as well as a cash call, where attendees made public donations of support in an auction-like format.
(3/08)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=5701
Rural women needed for chronic illness study
The Women to Women Project, a support network for rural women with chronic illness, is seeking women to participate in a study group forming in September 2008.
The College of Nursing at Montana State University is in its 12th year of this program, which enhances rural women's ability to manage their chronic condition and assesses its effect on their quality of life. (3/08)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=5693
MSU chemical engineering student chooses different path
MSU chemical engineering student Katie Hoyt spent last summer in Washington D.C. on a Morris K. Udall Native American Congressional Internship. A member of the Tlingit Tribe of Alaska, Hoyt hopes to use her background in science and engineering to work on environmental problems. (12/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=5416
Program on business management for farm and ranch women set in Montana
A nationally recognized program designed to empower farm and ranch women to become better business managers, operators and partners in agriculture, will be coming to Montana this winter.
Programs are scheduled in Baker, Bozeman, Culbertson, Dillon, Glasgow, Great Falls, Havre, Lewistown, Miles City, Rapelje, Scobey, Shelby and Sidney.
(11/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=5403
MSU student film looks at women's role in Kenya
Montana State University graduate film student Jaime Jelenchick spent five weeks in Kenya filming the efforts of MSU students to bring clean drinking water to schoolchildren in the western part of that country. (10/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=5273
Pilot program will aid community and economic development
A new partnership will provide communities in Gallatin, Park, and Meagher Counties improved access to the economic and community development resources available from Montana State University Extension. The program is a pilot project from MSU Extension and the Northern Rocky Mountain Resource Conservation and Development Corporation. The two groups have hired Sarah Hamlen as Extension area economic development coordinator. She will work with other partners to deliver educational programs and develop new projects that aid communities in reaching their economic and community development goals and objectives.
(9/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=5120
Zabinski receives AAUW Education Foundation Fellowship
A plant ecologist, Cathy Zabinski teaches and conducts research in restoration ecology and belowground plant ecology. Her research sites include industrially disturbed sites, high elevation areas affected by recreation, and thermal areas in Yellowstone National Park. The potential for resource sharing between plants via a common fungal network has an impact on the way researchers study plant communities.
Cathy is using her fellowship at the Centre d'Ecologie Evolutive et Fonctionelle, in Montpellier, France while on sabbatical from MSU. (9/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=5120
Melody Zajdel named associate dean for MSU's College of Letters and Science
Zajdel, who has served as interim associate dean of the college for the past year, is a member of the English department faculty. She has worked on several program and curriculum initiatives in the university, including the University Honors Program, the Women's Studies minor, the Women's Center, Reinventing the CORE, and the WEEA project. She has served as a member of MSU's Faculty Council, Faculty Affairs Committee, University Promotion and Tenure Committee, Presidential Scholars Selection Committee and other faculty/student affairs committees.
(7/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4976
Mann to speak at "Mother Earth" ceremony in Washington in July
Henrietta Mann, a Cheyenne tribal elder and administrator at Montana State University, will be the opening speaker for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian's "Mother Earth" ceremony set for Saturday, July 7. The event is being held in collaboration with Al Gore's "Live Earth" concert to be held that day.
(7/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4958
Burke named Dean of Students
Katherine (Kate) Burke, acting senior associate dean of the College at Dartmouth, has been named MSU's Dean of Students. Burke will begin her duties in the fall of 2008 but will be on campus for several activities throughout the year, including orientation, move-in day and freshman convocation. (7/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4978&pid=2
Outstanding senior gravitates to hospitals, volunteer work
Madeline Turner became a scrub technician and helped deliver babies at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital. During her summers, she volunteered at hospitals in Costa Rica, Panama and the African country of Malawi. (5/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4871
World opens for accidental Spanish student
Taking Spanish on a whim opened a new world for Montana State University student Claire Wing of Helena. Wing was recently named Student of the Month by the Bozeman chapter of Rotary International. (5/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4856
Ski bum detour leads to doctoral degree
Whitehall native Jennifer Brown has distinguished herself in the field of magnetic resonance microscopy at Montana State University, where she will finish her doctorate this fall. (5/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4703
Billie Brown manages a half-dozen roles
The soon-to-be nursing graduate at Montana State University has balanced work, school and family throughout a bachelor's of science degree from Jamestown College in North Dakota, a master's in science education from MSU Northern, and now her nursing education.
(3/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4847
Cook named marketing specialist
Lee Cook has been hired as a marketing specialist for Montana State University's Office of Communications and Public Affairs. (3/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4703
Girls can learn about science and math careers at April 14 MSU conference
Don't be surprised if you send your daughter to Montana State University's Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference and she comes home testing your hot tub for scum. Or digging for archaeological artifacts in your backyard. Or talking about her career opportunities in science and math.
(3/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4727
Student plans career in Native American health
Montana State University computer science student Sha Brady recently attended a course on Native American public health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, Md. (3/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4666
MSU Students, faculty try grasshopper stir fry, cricket tacos
Montana State University Florence Dunkel recently introduced Montana State University students and faculty to the idea of eating insects. The entomology professor and instructor for "Insects and Human Societies" started the four-hour dining experience by having participants taste and compare 20 kinds of honey. (3/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4616
Would be teacher fired up about new plans
Karly Krausz trains year-round so she can fight wildfires during the summer. She has dug trenches, trekked through the Missouri breaks and climbed rugged, steep terrain. Those experiences, though brutal at times, were enough to make her abandon the idea of becoming a school teacher and switch to a hot new career where fire is the focus, said the MSU senior from Lewistown.
(2/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4561
International student completes Herculean load before returning home
Gokce Adsiz did the near impossible by completing 27 hours in one semester at MSU recently. The international exchange student from Turkey wanted to complete her degree at MSU before returning home. Adsiz earned a 3.6 GPA for the semester, which was completed in her third language.
(1/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4354
McFadzen receives certificate in distance ed
Mary McFadzen recently earned a professional development certificate in distance education from University of Wisconsin at Madison. McFadzen is the education program coordinator for the Center for Invasive Plant Management at Montana State University. She is developing online training modules for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and annually coordinates a six-week online workshop for vegetation managers throughout the United States.
(1/07)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4364
A Native American's Experience
Cinnamon Spear, an aspiring physical scientist who has worked summers with Mark Burr and his lab, leaves the reservation and goes east to the Ivy Leagues - for herself and the folks back home. This article about Cinnamon's educational experience was written by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and gives voice to what Cinnamon and others from the reservations are really challenged by and the grit it requires to step out and take new directions. (12/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/wrt/CinnamonSpear.pdf
Clark appointed to national committee
Janet Clark, Director of the Center for Invasive Plant Management at MSU, has been appointed by U.S. Secretary of the Interior to serve a three-year term on the Invasive Species Advisotry Committee of the National Invasive Species Council in Washington, DC. (11/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4279
Gender Gap
Full-time female teachers at Montana State University earn less than male counterparts. (10/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/wrt/GendergapChronicle.pdf
Math, science and girls
MSU computer science professors Rafal Angryk and Anne DeFrance received a $75,000 National Science Foundation grant for a project that might lead to a more gender-balanced workforce in computer science and related fields. The pair plan to encourage 14- and 15-year-old girls to study more science and math through two, week-long, summer workshops. The first workshop will be in June 2007. Students who attend will program robots, among other fun activities. Local professional women who work in computer science or related fields will mentor the girls during the workshops and the following two school years. The project could lead to identifying effective methods for increasing the number of women who pursue computer science or closely related fields. (10/06)
Marjorie Brown appointed Director of Affirmative Action
Marj Brown, who worked as a training and compliance officer in the Affirmative Action Office for 16 years, has been appointed the office's new director. She replaces Corky Bush who accepted a position at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia in August. (10/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4123
MSU technologist wins national award
Renee Arens, a laboratory animal technologist at MSU's Animal Resources Center won a 2006 Animal Technician Travel Award from Lab Products, Inc. (10/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4125
Rupp is National President
Gretchen Rupp, director of the Montana University
System Water Center based at MSU, is currently serving
as president of the National Institutes for Water Resources. (9/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=4015
The Women's Center receives grant for domestic
violence project
The Virginia Law Foundation has provided a grant of $5,000
to The Women's Center for a project to develop informational
aids for victims of domestic violence who are functionally
illiterate. (8/06)
-http://www.thewomenscenter.org/content.asp?contentid=347
Montana wins $1.2 million to improve Native
American schools
MSU education professors Joanne Erickson and Bill Ruff
have designed a course to train aspiring school administrators
wishing to work at schools on and near the state's Indian
reservations. (8/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3936
Awards made for Whirling Disease Studies
Billie Kerans at MSU has received two grants to carry
out a statewide study in Montana of patterns in whirling
disease risk and salmonid population response, and to
study whirling disease as it relates to Yellowstone cutthroat
trout in Yellowstone National Park and variations in the
aquatic worm, Tubifex tubifex. (6/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3796
From the Reservation to the Research Lab
Cinnamon Spear may be the first teenager from an Indian
reservation in Montana who ever tried to sneak into a
summer science program at a university. (6/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/wrt/Spear.html
Agre-Kippenhan named dean of MSU School of
Arts and Architecture
Susan Agre-Kippenhan, chairman of the art department at
Portland State University who has a background in both
fine art and graphic design, has been named as the dean
of the College of Arts and Architecture at Montana State
University. She will begin her duties at MSU on August
7. (6/06)
-http://www.hhmi.org/news/06012006a.html
MSU student shared experiences in Indonesia
Montana State University sophomore, Katie Baldwin, whose
grant from the MSU Office of Research and Creativity made
possible a three-week visit to Yogajakarta, Indonesia,
presented a program about Indonesia and her work there
on girls' education. (5/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/wrt/Indonesia.html
MSU College of Nursing graduates first Bozeman
upper division class
Montana State University's College of Nursing graduated
160 students with Bachelor of Science degrees this spring,
and 16 of those are a close-knit group that was able to
stay in Bozeman through upper division education. (5/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3705
MSU dean accepts presidency at Plymouth State
University
Sara Jayne Steen, dean of the College of Letters and Science
at Montana State University since 2003, has been named
president of Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.
(4/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3647
Students honored with MSU Women of Achievement
Awards
Fourteen seniors at Montana State University were recently
honored with Women of Achievement awards at the Herstory
Reception sponsored by the MSU Women's Center and the
MSU Alumni Association. The awards honor the students'
hard work, compassion and activism. (4/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3688
French labor protests tied to immigration
Recent unrest that has nearly paralyzed France is related
to the country's treatment of its immigrant communities,
according to Ada Giusti, an associate professor of French
at Montana State University (4/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3584
Fraudbuster: MSU prof at forefront of anti-fraud
education
MSU accounting professor Bonita Peterson Kramer has developed
a national reputation for the scholarly study of fraud,
a crime that can victimize businesses and organizations
of any size and any location. (2/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3422
MSU professor helps Pakistan prepare for
controversial trade talks
Political Science professor Linda Young helped prepare
Pakistani agricultural officials for recent World Trade
Organization meeetings. (1/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3240
Kristin Juliar hired to direct health education
and rural health
Juliar has begun as director for the Montana Area Health
Education Center and Montana Office of Rural Health at
Montana State University. She plans to focus on providing
high-quality information and sevices that help Montana
communities and healthcare providers. (1/06)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3193
Prof provides a framework for studying violence
in student reading
The portrayal of violence -- in movies, the evening news
and literary classics -- should be studied just as plot,
character and other elements of literature are studied,
says Montana State University education professor Judi
Franzak. (12/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3175
Research on Montana T. rex makes
Discover magazine's list of year's top science
An announcement by Mary Schweitzer, formerly of Montana
State University and now at North Carolina State University,
of the discovery of soft tissues preserved in thigh bones
of a dinosaur found by a Museum of the Rockies crew is
the year's sixth most important scientific story, according
to Discover magazine. (12/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3155
Education professor explores social issues
in children's literature
Joyce Herbeck said literature is a great way for parents
and teachers to teach children about social responsibility.
Herbeck is working with graduate student Kathleen Byrne
to contact Bozeman teachers about whether and how they
address social issues in their curricula. (12/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1134056163.html
MSU student judges started young, kept going
Senior Lacey Hunter and Heidi Arlian have been judging
livestock for many years already. They are full time students
expecting to graduate Fall 2006, and spend time traveling
all over the U.S. with MSU's traveling Livestock Judging
Team to pit their abilities against other college students
on the national circuit. (10/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1128890748.html
College of Business opens Bracken Business
Communication Center
Linda Adams directs the new Bracken Business Communication
Center in Reid Hall. The center, open to any students
taking business courses, opened September 6. (9/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=2660
Weinert named Carter-Flect professor
Clarann Weinert, SC, PhD, RN,FAAN, a professor in the
MSU-Bozeman College of Nursing, has been named the 2005
Carter-Fleck Professor at the University of New Mexico
College of Nursing. This professorship enables the college
to rotate visiting specialists and to broaden the scope
of its current offerings in areas where it is not feasible
to have a permanent faculty. Weinert will visit Albuquerque
several times throughout the year to provide instruction,
consultation and research services in the area of rural
nursing and rural nursing science for nursing students
and faculty. (9/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/msutoday/nwview.php?article=2682&pid=2
MSU student wins Fulbright to make film about
Soviet Union nuclear test site
Anne Devereux, graduate student in MSU's Science and Natural
History Filmmaking program, has won a Fulbright to make
a documentary film in Kazakhstan about a former Soviet
atomic testing site and the effects of nuclear proliferation.
(8/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2560
Hard work and science degree lead to dream
job on reservation
Patricia Sioux Ramos achieved her dreams of a science
degree at MSU, then a week later landed her dream job
working in environmental quality for the Northern Cheyenne
Tribe. (7/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2539
Microbes of Yellowstone detailed in new book
by MSU researcher
"Seen and Unseen: Discovering the Microbes of Yellowstone,"
a new book by Kathy Sheehan, reveals unique and newly
discovered microbes through photographs and natural history
details. Sheehan is a research associate in Microbiology
and the Thermal Biology Institute. She explains that the
microbial world in Yellowstone is something of a new frontier
for scientists. (7/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2538
Student-doctor team wages war on wounds
Ellen Swogger of Miles City, is a senior in chemical and
biological engineering. Her work is already leading to
different treatments for diabetics. (6/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1118163453.html
Buffy Sainte Marie to lecture June 16 at
MSU's Museum of the Rockies
Buffy Sainte Marie, an Academy Award-winning songwriter,
Native American folk music star and activist will speak
about Indian education at 7 p.m., Thursday, June 16 in
the Hager Auditorium. She has spent decades developing
and fostering education for Native American Students grounded
in history and culture. (5/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2449
Brown selected for NEH Institute in Peru
and Bolivia
Alanna Kathleen Brown, professor of English, will spend
five weeks in Peru studying native cultures on a National
Endowment for the Humanities program. (5/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2448
Blackfeet teachers' work displayed at the
Smithsonian
The Smithsonian honors Blackfeet Head Start educators
Julia Schildt, Carol Bird and Ethyl Grant by displaying
their Blackfeet language and cultural curriculum material
in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the
American Indian in Washington, D.C. (5/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2444
Tiffany Kniepkamp decided to be a doctor
at age four
Now in her third year at MSU, Kniepkamp intends to attend
medical school after graduating from MSU with two degrees,
in cell biology and neuroscience and one in biochemistry.
(5/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1116790908.html
MSU ag econ study says voluntary labeling
increased prices
Former MSU student Kristin Kiesel and MSU economist Dave
Buschena studied the impact of voluntary labeling related
to biotechnology issues on retail purchases of a food
using regional and national sales data. (5/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2435
Montana pharmacies survey shows power of
seniors shopping
Adrienne Ohler, MSU economics masters student, studied
prescription drug pricing in 13 Montana communities. She
found communities with a higher percentage of senior citizens
charged lower prices. (5/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2412
Students gather oral histories of Montana
women
Mary Murphy created an oral history class project in her
research seminar in women's studies. Nineteen MSU undergraduate
students interviewed Montana women of their memories of
first impressions of husbands, childhood memories, memories
of their mothers, and chores they did as children. (4/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2383
Jones turns her eclectic focus to nursing
MSU Nursing junior Ann Brandom Jones will bring a lot
of experience to the job when she becomes a nurse next
year. She has been in the Peace Corps, worked in Nepal,
is a certified EMT, has done undergraduate research in
women's health, and more. (4/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1114696809.html
MSU's Christensen aids students and community
with taxing issues
Anne Christensen is the director of the MSU College of
Business Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, which
has the double-pronged goal of providing free tax preparation
services for people making less than $35,000 while giving
aspiring accountants practice in their demanding profession.
This year, the MSU VITA program helped prepare federal
and state tax returns for more than 250 individuals. (4/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2317
Helena politics create drama, controversy
for student regent
Student regent Kala French, junior at MSU, has learned
that in public life, nearly anything can become news.
She has seen the controversy surrounding her appointment
as student regent, caused by Gov. Judy Martz appointing
her an unprecedented three-year term. (4/05)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2321
Helena student wins MSU's 44th Goldwater
Scholarship
Bridgid Crowley, biochemistry major, has received the
prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for undergraduate
excellence in math, science and engineering. She has been
working in Trevor Douglas' laboratory since her freshman
year. Their work deals with hollow protein cages that
have the potential for carrying cancer drugs to specific
tumors.
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1112224046.html
Messengers program aides Crow women's cancer
outreach
Alma Knows His Gun McCormick leads 22 Crow women trained
in cancer outreach. They dispense information and encouragement
to other Crow women about cervical cancer in a manner
both comforting and traditional. Suzanne Christopher,
PI of this American Cancer Society grant, trains the Messengers.
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1111536079.html
Broken leg changes MSU student's career path
Katie Newell of Roundup, Montana aspires to medical school
and said her experiences in a research lab should help
get her there.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2214
MSU graduate coordinates international engineering
affair
Meredith Short, 2002 graduate of Montana State University's
College of Engineering, packed her bags in January for
Sunbury, England and a yearlong assignment with BP to
head an international engineering education program.
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1109092996.html
Director of University Honors Program retires
Victoria O'Donnell, who has served
as director of the MSU Honors Program for 12 years, has
retired. Mike Miles, associate director, has been appointed
interim director.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2140
Schmalzbauer studies new type of family straddling
national borders
Leah Schmalzbauer, MSU professor of
sociology, found that pressures of immigrating to the
U.S. to escape poverty are transforming traditional family
patterns of Honduran migrants.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2150
MSU junior from Stevensville selected for
National FFA Alumni Council
Amanda Cloud, 2003-2004 president of
Montana FFA and 2004 national officer candidate for Montana,
was selected to serve on the Council. Her goals are to
learn new things from fellow council members.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2153
Anne Camper, Center for Biofilm Engineering, was named to the Water Science and Technology Board Committee on Public Water Supply Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks, organized by the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science and Engineering. The committee's duties over the next two years will be to investigate public health risks that may be associated with drinking water distribution systems.
Montana values help launch Callahan's career
in finance
Alexis Callahan, junior in MSU's College
of Business, has an intense desire to succeed, is self-motivated,
and loves to compete.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2077
MSU advisor helps students consider health
options
MSU's new health professions advisor
Jane Cary helps students figure out where their personality
and skills would fit in the mosaic of health professions
and to help them add to their skill mix by choosing additional
classes wisely.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2037
Accomplished Muslim students are a PLUS
on MSU campus
Sanaa Kiddi, Houssna Jabir and Shaden
Alamleh are three of ten international students who are
enrolled at MSU on highly competitive Partnerships For
Learning –Undergraduate Studies Program, PLUS Scholarships.
They are participating in an exclusive U.S. State Department
scholarship program for Muslim students that intends to
bridge the U.S. and Arab worlds.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2038
Erin Lynch works to involve students in elections
Erin Lynch, senior in elementary education,
is a doer. Her activities range from food drives, voter
registration, service projects, debate planning, managing
Cat Cab, and more.
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1098919504.html
Cheeseburger ambassador Lacey Lingohr spreads
the word
Lacey Lingohr, animal science major
at MSU, visited Ridge View Elementary recently with a
giant cheeseburger pillow to show the nutrition information
a cheeseburger and a piece of fruit contain.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=2003
Katy Sparks' heavy class load still leaves
time for extras
Sparks is an agricultural business
major from Plevna, Montana who is taking 22 credits this
semester to also gain a minor in English when she graduates
next spring. She spent spring semester at a South Australia
university and is learning Spanish.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1980
MSU student studies architecture, language
and literature in Germany
Senior Veronica Schreibeis from Laramie,
WY received an $8,000 fellowship from the German Academic
Exchange Service to study abroad in Tuebingen, Germany
this year. She is working on two undergraduate degrees
(environmental design and German) and a graduate degree
in architecture. (10/04)
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1097674951.html
Plumb joins College of Engineering as director
of strategic projects
Carolyn Plumb will assist the College
of Engineering in managing strategic initiatives, including
faculty development and both curricular and program assessment.
(10/04)
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1902
Peru was an eye-opener for MSU dietetics
student
Anna Muldown spent five weeks in a
small village in Peru observing a clinical nutrition education
program and doing a community research program.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1830
Gaines works to restore ancient fish and
monastery in Mongolia
Betsy Gaines Quammen was a University
fundraiser. She is now executive director of The Tributary
Fund, which is launching a program to raise funds to save
the mystical fish of Mongolia and to rebuild an ancient
monastery.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1835
MSU civil engineering student hopes to design
roller coasters
Keely Obert loves roller coasters so
much that she hopes to create her own, after graduating
from college. (8/04)
-http://www.helenair.com/articles/2004/08/16/top/a01081604_01.txt
First-year medical student is joint author
on major paper
Pam Fry Durling has worked on research
in Charles Paden's laboratory that may lead to a new approach
to treating brain trauma. Her work suggests that treatment
after a brain injury needs to take into account how the
brain reacts to that trauma over time.
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1090267397.html
"A wizard at recipes" tailors them
for special needs
Bettie Stanislao has worked with nutrition
for a long time. She is a dietitian who is intimately
aware of the connection between food and health. Her current
work has been developing recipes for gluten-free crops.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1818
MSU student researcher tracks wildlife on
U.S. Highway 93
Graduate student Whisper Maillet is
spending her summer documenting wildlife tracks through
sand beds through the Flathead Indian Reservation.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1802
Fungi expert Cathy Cripps talks about morel
hunting
This has been an exceptional year for
mushrooms in Montana. Cripps offers suggestions on hunting
them.
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http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1789
MSU students travel to Japan for business
internships
Kapri Malesich is spending her summer
internship studying Japanese business practices and culture.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1783
Nursing student Alyssa Pearson already has
five years' experience
Great Falls native Alyssa Pearson just
graduated from MSU with her nursing degree, but she has
been working at Benefis Hospital in Great Falls for close
to five years.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1746
Oudshoorn named to MSU planning position
Jo Oudshoorn, a strategic planning
expert from Australia, has been appointed as the director
of planning and coordination for MSU's Division of Administration
and Finance. In addition to strategic planning, she will
coordinate the MSU system's administration information
services, and direct MSU's "To Improve Productivity"
program.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1726
Elizabeth Galli-Noble named Asst Director
of MT Water Center
Galli-Noble will manage two national
research/outreach programs, the Wild Fish Habitat Initiative,
the Whirling Disease Initiative, and more.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1634
MSU students forego spring break to volunteer
Through MSU's Office for Community
Involvement's BreaksAway program six MSU students volunteered
over spring break at a large inner-city daycare in Kansas
City, Mo. -http://www.montana.edu/news/1080599380.html
Undergraduate Katie Conner has article
published in journal
Conner, a senior majoring in English
literature, has had a paper that she has written on themes
of the opera "La Boheme" in three popular movies
accepted by The Journal of Popular Film and Television.
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1079032323.html
MSU nutrition study needs women volunteers
Women who are post-menopausal and have
Type II Diabetes are being recruited to better understand
the effect of soy protein on heart disease risk factors.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1567
Grandparents raising grandchildren face challenges
Sandra Bailey, MSU Extension specialist,
is working to help Montana grandparents by developing
a statewide partnership of agencies that can provide information
and resources, support groups, and continuing training
and facilitation.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1559
Antarctic researcher uses popsicles to reach
high school students
Graduate student Jill Mikucki loves
science and wants to encourage women to pursue careers
in science. She designed an experiment to who high school
students that some organisms thrive in cold temperatures.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1524
MSU freshman named to two national 4-H posts
Political science freshman Amber King
has been named one of two executive directors of the National
4-H Youth Directions Council and one of t youth trustees
on the 45-member National 4-H Council Board of Trustees.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1529
New director of
development for MSU College of Letters and Science
Kathleen Langenheim has been selected
as the new full-time development officer for MSU's College
of Letters and Science, following spending the past 10
years as director of development in the College of Business.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1513
Retired Japanese professor now an MSU graduate
student
Yasuko Idei, a 71-year-old Japanese
grandmother, brings a global perspective to her Native
American Studies classes.
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1077577087.html
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at MSU
Female high school students who are
interested in MSU's College of Engineering are invited
to attend "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day"
activities at MSU on February 26. RSVP by Feb. 19.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1503
MSU artist creates manga, Japanese comic
book art
Art student Jessica Moffett became enamored with
manga's startlingly dramatic black-and-white line drawings
back in junior high. Now she draws Japanese style comics
adding elements of science fiction or basing the stories
and dialogue on her Navajo culture and history.
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1075240474.html
MSU filmmaker Cindy Stillwell Slamdances
again
Wheat cutting and sheep shearing are the subjects
of Stillwell's latest film accepted for screening at the
esteemed Slamdance Film Festival this weekend in Park
City, Utah.
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1074202324.html
Designing MSU student sees world with successful
perspective
Onawa Linden is a senior from Helena majoring
in graphics design at MSU who painted windows during the
holidays. She is also December's MSU Rotary Student of
the Month, manager/designer of SUB-Graphics, founder and
president of the new MSU Grafix Club, and helps community
service organizations.
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http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1429
Historian Joan Hoff is national commentator
and MSU adjunct
Hoff has returned to Montana and now lives in
Big Sky, but also has an apartment in New York City. She
teaches, is a writer, and often travels to speak or research
books.
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1070315112.html
MSU scientist Betsey Pitts coauthors paper
in journal Nature
Phil Stewart, Betsey Pitts and others discover that genetics
play a role in bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
-http://www.montana.edu/news/1069270175.html
McKamey named dean and director of Museum
of the Rockies
Sheldon McKamey, assistant Director of the Museum of the
Rockies since 1998, has been named the museum’s
dean and director beginning January 1, 2004. She replaces
Marilyn Wessel, who retired March 2003.
-http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1344
Connie Larson shows women how to succeed
She was a single mom with three kids working at MSU, and
now is a corporate research nutritionist.
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http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1340
Cellist finds that baby deepens her music
career
Ilse-Mari Lee's young daughter inspired her to write "Sonatina
for Violoncello and Piano" which was performed at
MSU last week.
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http://www.montana.edu/news/1067473313.html
Outstanding General Studies Freshman Seminar
Instructor
Dawn Silva has taught the freshman seminar courses five
semesters and has received an award as outstanding instructor
for the 2002-2003 academic year.
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http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1320
Cloud leads Montana FFA Association
Now a sophomore at MSU, Amanda Cloud has become the president
of the Montana FFA Association. Her major is agricultural
education.
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http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1290
Roller coaster fan wants to design them for
a living
Keely Obert, freshman and Presidential Scholar at MSU,
loves roller coasters. She now wants to become a structural
engineer and design them.
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http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1283
Noll named director of MSU's General Studies
program
Mary Noll has been serving as interim director of General
Studies for more than three years and now has been appointed
to the position on a permanent basis.
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http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1278
MSU to lead regional partnership on carbon
sequestration
The Department of Energy has awarded MSU a $1.6 million
grant to lead a partnership aimed at reducing greenhouse
gas emissions. Dr. Susan Capalbo, professor of agricultural
economics, will lead this partnership in identifying the
most suitable ways of sequestering greenhouse gases in
the northern Rockies.
-
http://www.montana.edu/commserv/csnews/nwview.php?article=1270
Clinical Nurse Specialist degree now available
The College of Nursing at Montana State University-Bozeman
is now offering a Clinical Nurse Specialist program for
advanced nursing education.
-
http://www.montana.edu/news/1063995092.html
Ronan student helps Crow women through research
Jana Smith helps girls with their basketball skills, but
more importantly, she is working with her advisor, Suzanne
Christopher, to prevent cervical cancer on the Crow Indian
Reservation.
-
http://www.montana.edu/news/1062706834.html
Ballantyne named interim dean of MSU College
of Nursing
Jean Ballantyne has served for 12 years as campus director
of MSU College of Nursing's Billing's campus, and now
has been appointed interim dean of the MSU College of
Nursing. She replaces Lea Acord who left for Marquette
University in Milwaukee, Wis.
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http://www.montana.edu/news/1059501407.html