Anne James

MISSOULA –  At the University of Montana, 2,520 students made the fall semester 2018 Dean’s List or President’s 4.0 List. To qualify, students must be undergraduates, earn a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher and receive grades of A or B in at least nine credits…

MISSOULA – Dr. Julie Wolter, a University of Montana professor and chair of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, recently was named a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association during the national organization’s annual convention in Boston w…

West Glacier, MT – Glacier National Park will waive its entrance fee on five days in 2019.
Note: This announcement was made before the start of the current federal government shutdown, which is affecting the National Park Service.
The five entrance fee-free days for 2019 will be:

Monday, January …

MISSOULA – In addition to serving as the University of Montana’s 19th president, Seth Bodnar now also holds the title of major in the Montana Army National Guard.
Bodnar was sworn into the Montana Army National Guard by Maj. Gen. Matthew Quinn at Fort Harrison near Helena on Jan…

BOZEMAN –  Researchers at Montana State University are leading a collaborative grant across the four-state Northern Great Plains and Pacific Northwest regions with a multi-pronged attack on what is said to be the chief hardship in organic farming – perennial weeds...

BOZEMAN — Like turning lemons into lemonade, a Montana State University research team hopes to turn the radiation of outer space into a cybersecurity tool that could protect sensitive data transmitted by satellites.
Backed by a $275,000 grant from NASA, the team will design, build and test a device t…

BOZEMAN — Building on a long tradition, a Montana State University researcher has been selected to lead the world's largest organization dedicated to the study of insects.
Bob Peterson, professor in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences in MSU's Co…

BOZEMAN — Research conducted at Montana State University shows that microbes in the human gut play an important role in protecting against arsenic toxicity, a problem that affects an estimated 200 million people who are exposed to arsenic through contaminated drinking water...

MISSOULA – Tropical forests are one of the largest natural sources of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O), and a tiny insect may play a big role in how those emissions are spread out across the landscape.
In a new study published this month in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, University of Mo…

Seminar topics will include paraquat safety, herbicide resistance, pulse marketing, and crop rotations.
BOZEMAN -- Montana State University Extension will host a free, annual cropping seminar series January 7-11 in Fort Benton, Stanford, Havre, Chester, Shelby, Cut Bank, Conrad, Choteau, and Great Fa…

HELENA, Mont. – Montana is preparing for the 2020 Census, and the U.S. Census Bureau is beginning to hire for dozens of jobs by this summer and hundreds of jobs in 2020.
“I can’t overstate how important the 2020 Census is for Montana,” said Lt
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MSU’s Peggy Lamb delivers support to Hi-Line agriculture
-by Jenny Lavey, MSU News Service
There are 17,811 square miles combined in Hill, Blaine, Chouteau, Liberty and Phillips counties. When driving those miles, the windshield splits into two colors: Montana’s Big Sky…