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Broader Impacts and Engagement: Project research is integrated with internal and external engagement, networking, and training programs, including but not limited to:

  • Tribal college engagement
  • Diversity, inclusion, and belonging
  • Sensing for Science: Road show, museum exhibit, K-12 activities, lecture series.
  • Small Town STEM: Outreach program for rural K-12 students, citizens, and teacher training
  • Montana STEM Exchange: Outreach network connecting educators and organizations across MT
  • Montana Girls STEM Collaborative: programming and network to advance girls in STEM
  • Native Research Network: training and networking opportunities for Native American researchers at tribal colleges
  • CREWS Professional Development Certificate Programs: trainings and educational modules for project participants and working professionals
  • Institutional Collaborations for Innovation and Commercialization (IC2): commercialization networking and training program
  • Site working groups: Connecting CREWS science to local stakeholders 

Broader Engagement Team:

  • Aaron Thomas (UM) - Indigenous Research and STEM Outreach (IRSE)
  • Susan Kelly (MSU) - EMPOWER
  • Jakki Mohr (UM) - IC2 Commercialization Program
  • Suzi Taylor (MSU) - Science Math Resource Center
  • Madison Boone (MSU) - Science Math Resource Center
  • Jessie Herbert-Meny (UM) - spectrUM
  • Nathalie Wolfram (UM) - Broader Impacts Group
  • Todd Kipfer (MSU) - Montana NSF EPSCoR
  • Michelle Terwilliger (UM) - Montana NSF EPSCoR