Montana State University


Montana State University, Bozeman (MSU) is one of the campuses of the Montana University System. MSU was founded in 1893 and funded as a land-grant university. Today, MSU is ranked with a high level of research activity. MSU's student body is comprised of approximately 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students. MSU is noted for research in alternative fuel sources, biology, soil science, engineering and agriculture.

Address

P.O. Box 172630
Bozeman, MT 59717-2630

News Office

Email

cconover [at] montana [dot] edu

Phone

(406) 994-4571

Fax

(406) 994-6822

Contact




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Beer Here

Biology / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking beer is a simple act, but making beer is not. It starts out with genetics and tens of thousands of barley varieties and ends with a clear ambrosia that belies the time, effort and technology that ...


Study explores violent world of raptors

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A journey that started with a box of bird feet carried three Montana State University graduate students into the gruesome world of raptors and led to their findings being published in a prominent journal.


Engineer designs micro-endoscope to seek out early signs of cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Traditional endoscopes provide a peek inside patients' bodies. Now, a University of Florida engineering researcher is designing ones capable of a full inspection.


Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealed

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals and which also shields ...


New analyses of dinosaur growth may wipe out one-third of species

Bye bye 'Hogwarts dinosaur'? New analyses of dinosaur growth may wipe out one-third of species

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed dinosaur, one of them named three years ago - with great ...


T.rex

Researchers claim a third of dinosaurs might never have existed

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ten-year study by US paleontologists suggests that up to a third of dinosaur fossils may have been incorrectly identified as new species, when they are actually juveniles of species ...


NIU will use robotic submarine to explore melting occurring below Antarctic ice

NIU will use robotic submarine to explore melting occurring below Antarctic ice

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Northern Illinois University geologists are helping to lead a multi-million-dollar, five-year investigation of melting near the base of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) using a 24-foot-long ...


Springtime Sheep Grazing Helps Control Leafy Spurge

Springtime Sheep Grazing Helps Control Leafy Spurge

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using sheep to control leafy spurge works best if it's done in the spring every year, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study.


Was mighty T.rex 'Sue' felled by a lowly parasite?

Was mighty T.rex 'Sue' felled by a lowly parasite?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When pondering the demise of a famous dinosaur such as 'Sue,' the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex whose fossilized remains are a star attraction of the Field Museum in Chicago, it is hard to avo ...


Study looks at turning manure into revenues

Study looks at turning manure into revenues

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Livestock manure isn't often thought of as a value-added product, but researchers at Montana State University and MSU Extension are trying to change that.


Study finds one-time herbicide use decreased native plants, may have increased invasive plants

Study finds one-time herbicide use decreased native plants, may have increased invasive plants

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Matt Rinella, faculty in Animal and Range Science at Montana State University and an ecologist at the Fort Keogh Agricultural Experiment Station in Miles City, recently published the results ...


Free online activity explains MESSENGER spacecraft's Mercury flyby on Sept. 29

Free online activity explains MESSENGER spacecraft's Mercury flyby on Sept. 29

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will fly past the planet Mercury on Sept. 29, and a free online simulator created by staff at Montana State University's Burns Technology Center helps explain how ...


MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission

MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere.


University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers reveal ocean acidification at Station ALOHA

Researchers reveal ocean acidification at Station ALOHA

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The burning of fossil fuels has released tremendous amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, significantly impacting global climate. Were it not for the absorption of CO2 by ...


National ads urged enthusiastic consumers to visit copper mines

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Today's tourists may stop by the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont., to see how large-scale mining resulted in a Superfund site, but Americans in the 1950s had different reasons for visiting the mine, says Montana State University ...