Montana State University announced a philanthropic gift of $101 million for its College of Nursing from Mark and Robyn Jones, founders of Goosehead Insurance as they seek to help address access to health care for rural and frontier communities. It is the largest single donation given to a nursing program and will provide funding for new facili...
MSU Receives $3 Million From U.S. Department Of Energy
The mineral pyrite more may hold the keys to a domestic-based future in renewable energy and the Department of Energy, in collaboration with Senators Jon Tester and Steve Daines, has awarded Montana State University Associate Professor Eric Boyd more than $3.3 million in funding to better extract the mineral pyrite. The next step is to use the...
Montana Wildlife Crossing Gets National Attention
Research done at Montana State University was recently featured in the New York Times. MSU’s Western Transportation Institute and their work on wildlife crossing structures was highlighted for its role in reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions in Montana and improving wildlife migration. Senior Research Ecologist Marcel Huijser on the national i...
MSU Researchers Discover COVID-19 Variant
Researchers at Montana State University discovered a variant that originated in Bozeman early in the pandemic. According to the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, among 55 samples five had the same mutation, namely a change in the virus’s genome, which was significant enough to signal a variant. Some variants have made headlines across the globe for eas...
Microplastics Found In Yellowstone
Research has shown microplastics have invaded the Yellowstone ecosystem showing up in the aquatic food chain and in the stomachs of lake and cutthroat trout. On Voices of Montana Wednesday, Haley Glassic, a PHD candidate at Montana State University and a scientist with the Montana Cooperative Fisheries Research Unit explained how dangerous thi...
New Study Finds Yellowstone National Park Increasing In Temperature
According to tree ring data collected by University of Idaho scientist Karen Heeter, the summer of 2016 in Yellowstone National Park was one of the hottest in the last 1,250 years. The Billings Gazette reports Montana State University Paleoecologist Cathy Whitlock has warned, without significant changes to human carbon emissions, the Greater Y...
Department of Natural Resources Looking To Expand Forestry Program
The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation wants to more than double the number of acres it touches under its forestry program this year. The goal calls for treatment which is a forestry term referring to logging thinning and prescribed burning on 25,000 acres this year compared to the 11,000 acres completed last year. About ...
Montana Fish Wildlife And Parks Prep New Wolf Population Outlines
Montana’s wildlife managers are not expected to propose specific population targets for wolves as they implement a new law mandating a reduction in the state’s wolf numbers, but the Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Commission will take up FWP’s draft rules during its June meeting. The body will hear from the public, adopt or amend agency recomm...
NorthWestern Energy Announces New Laurel Power Plant
NorthWestern Energy will build a $250 million 175-megawatt gas fired power plant in Laurel as part of a plan to add 325 megawatts of dispatchable power to its Montana portfolio. It will include a 50-megawatt battery storage project and a five-year agreement to buy 100 megawatts of hydropower. Montana State University College students as part o...
MSU Scientist Featured On BBC Program
Tracy Stone-Manning served as a senior aide to Senator Jon Tester before becoming former Governor Steve Bullock’s chief of staff. According to several Washington D.C. sources the senior advisor to the National Wildlife Federation may be President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Montana State University plant patho...