Montana spectrUM Science Experience
transports hands-on science for kids of all ages around Montana. These fun and engaging exhibits and activities have themes like Motion or Weather. We load these exhibits and activities into a trailer and drive them out to communities like Crow Agency.
Big Horn County News Article — Released June 4, 2009
A Montana State University graduate student whose research has the potential to make a difference in how light is harvested for alternative energy applications has won a $90,000 Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
John Old Elk's work with some small animals has helped him make some big discoveries about brain chemistry and himself during his first year at Montana State University.
MSU News Service Article — Released December 15, 2008
It took an 8-year-old Jon Thomas a year and a half to rebuild the bicycle he took apart at age 7, but the process kindled in him a passion for hangers, handlebars and hubs that fuels his career today.
Now a full-time mechanic at the Bicycle Hangar and part-time educator at spectrUM, Thomas is trying to impart his love of cycle science to kids through spectrUM's weeklong summer day camp, Wonder Wheels: The Science of Cycling.
Missoulian Article — Posted July 17, 2008
Montana Apprenticeship Program
MAP is a six-week camp designed to Native American high school student what it is like to work in science and math at a university level.
Montana NSF EPSCoR along with the Thermal Biology Institute co-sponsored the Research Coordination Network Conference held in Yellowstone National Park
Regents Professor of Geosciences William Woessner is the 2008 recipient of the John Hem Award for Excellence in Science and Engineering, presented to only one person nationally each year by the Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers Division of the National Ground Water Association. The award recognizes "a significant, recent scientific or engineering contribution to the understanding of ground water."
Suta Calling Last Arrowtop and Lindsay Cumming, Dr. Robin Saha's (Envorinment Studies), two graduate students presented their data, "the federal government has not established exposure guidelines for "mycotoxins," the sort of poisons emitted by mold.
Dr. Elizabeth Crone, a 2001-2004 Montana NSF EPSCoR new faculty hire, recently received a Fulbright Scholarship
at the University of Helsinki in Finland.
UM News Service Article Released — November 16, 2007
A two-day workshop including presentations on the programs from the major NSF directorates and opportunities for informal conversations with NSF program managers.
The first photosynthesizing extremophile bacterium from the Acidobacteria phylum has been discovered in Yellowstone Park due to research conducted, in part, at the MSU Thermal Biology Institute.
UM-Missoula undergraduate researcher Ashley Warren credits her faculty mentor for her recent award; Ashley has won a summer scholarship to perform research at MSU-Bozeman.
An MSU chemistry major, supported by Montana NSF EPSCoR, Luke Oltrogge of Absarokee, wins not only the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship but other scholarships and honors as well.
MSU News Service Article — Released March 28, 2007