Montana State University faculty, staff, students and programs are highlighted in the following stories that have appeared in national and international media:

• MSU plant scientist Gary Strobel will be featured in a segment on The History Channel’s one-hour program “Modern Marvels: Mold and Fungus” for his work finding medicinally important fungi within plants has led to cancer-fighting compounds, antibiotics and other bioactive compounds leading to dozens of patents. The program is scheduled to air at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, and 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20. Producer Melissa Fuller said viewers should check their local television listings, however, since air times may vary on certain satellite providers. The show will also re-air at other times. For other stories on Strobel's work see:Exotic research leads MSU student to Ecuador, discoveries, April 22, 2008; Researcher’s and students work provides break-through view of science, Oct. 19, 2006; Phillips capitalizes on research, creates jobs, June 23, 2006; Studentlivin’@msu: Trip to Madagascar inspires, tires, Oct. 14, 2004; Exotic fungi lure MSU student away from Columbus, Fort Peck for the summer, June 17, 2003.

• Marcel Huijser, a research ecologist for MSU’s Western Transportation Institute, was quoted in Popular Mechanics on-line for his work on reducing collisions between animals and automobiles. Huijser is using “the nation’s de facto proving ground for a new generation of animal-detection systems, aimed at alerting oncoming cars to would-be roadkill before it ends up in their headlights (sometimes literally),” according to the article. To read more, see: High-tech equipment may help reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions, Sept. 11, 2006; MSU researchers to make comprehensive national study of wildlife-vehicle collisions, July 3, 2006.

• MSU's Facilities Condition Inventory program was profiled in the September issue of Facilities Manager Magazine as a winner of the APPA Effective and Innovative Practices Award. To read more about the program and the award, click here.

• MSU College of Business interim dean, Dan Moshavi did an interview on salary transparency with a news service that syndicates content to TV news station web sites. The interview ran in various markets across the US including Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Jacksonville, Mississippi. There are websites where employees can look at salary breakdowns for their position based on geography or experience. Salary.com and Payscale.com and others offer salary numbers from more than 10,000 companies. Moshavi gave his thoughts about salary transparency. His comments can be found at the following websites: WCVBTV/Boston; NBC10.COM/Philadelphia; News4Jax.com/Jacksonville, Fla.

• Electrical engineering professors Kevin Repasky and Joseph Shaw were mentioned in Laser Focus World Magazine for winning a $750,000 grant from NASA in their work to study the earth’s atmosphere with lasers.

• MSU Alum Kevin Connolly was profiled in The Washington Post on July 3. Born without legs, Connolly traveled the world in 2007 and took pictures of people reacting to him. To read more about Connolly see “People are Curious” in the fall issue of Mountains and Minds. 

• Terry Beaubois, architecture, director of MSU's Creative Research Lab, and his use of alternative Web-based software and alternative universes such as Second Life, Google Earth/SketchUp and CAD, were featured in the January issue of Architectural Record. Read the article...
• Trevor Douglas (chemistry) and Mark Young (Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology) led investigators in the use of an engineered form of ferritin, a cage-like iron storage protein, to both synthesize and deliver iron oxide nanoparticles to tumors. Their findings, reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, were subsequently published in the journal Nature and Nanowerk News.
• Douglas and Young 's work with heat-loving viruses in Yellowstone was also featured in the debut episode of a potential new PBS series, "Wired Science." A story about the series was found in the Deseret News. Read the article...
• Tom Brokaw came to MSU's homecoming parade to assess the senatorial race between Jon Tester and Conrad Burns. This is his report that ran on NBC news. Read the article...
• An editorial written by William P. Halford, veterinary molecular biology, in Future Virology proposed that genetic engineering of live strains of herpes simplex virus (HSV) can be used to obtain safe and effective vaccines that confer life-long immunity against genital herpes and other diseases caused by HSV. Several other publications linked to it including News-Medical.net. Read the article...
• MSU researchers Michael White and Jay Radke, both veterinary molecular biology, achieved a rare publishing trifecta when articles about their research into the workings of Toxoplasma gondii and toxoplasmosis were published in three major scientific journals. Nature published a paper Dec. 20 in its advanced online version. Science published a paper on Dec. 15 and PLoS Pathogens on Oct. 27. White and Radke and collaborators from Stanford and Washington University in St. Louis detailed the molecular interactions between the parasite and host directly that regulate the severity of a disease that affects everyone from babies to AIDS patients.
  Other publications carrying the story included Science Daily and New West and publications as far away as MedIndia and Australia's Medical News Today.
• Norm Weeden, plant sciences and plant pathology, co-authored a study that tracked down the gene first identified bu Austrian monk Gregor Mendel that makes peas green. The story was featured in the Scientific American, Newsday and the Indianapolis Star.
• Tim Ford, microbiology, was the source of a Reuters story about the threat of rust in drinking water. Read the article...
• Rob Maher, electrical engineering, has invented a precision sound-tracing device to find a bullet's pathway. A story written by Tracy Ellig, of the MSU News Service, about the device's applications to detect snipers inspired a story in Discovery Reports. Read the article...
• A study by Scott Creel (ecology) and John Winnie, Jr.'s study on bull-headedness of bull elk, or the proclivity of bull elk to eat rather than watch for wolves and other predators, was published in Animal Behavior and was also the subject of a column in USA Today. Read the article...
• Creel and Chuck Schwartz, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, were also interviewed in a story about hibernation written by the Billings Gazette's Mike Stark. It ran in several regional papers including the Casper Star Tribune and the Bismarck Tribune.
• Andrew Hansen, ecology, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about growth in Montana and the pressures that native Montanans feel when wealthy people from out-of-state move in and increase property values. Read the article...
• Jerry Calvert, political science, was quoted in an analysis of Gov. Brian Schweitzer that appeared in the Denver Post. He also was quoted in a Lost Angeles Times story about Jon Tester's win over Conrad Burns. Read the article...
• Dave Weaver, entomology, and his work raising parasitic wasps that attack wheat stem sawfly, was featured in Science Daily. Read the article...
• Marcel Huijser and the work of the Western Transportation Institute to keep animals and motorists apart was the subject of an article in the November issue of Better Roads magazine. Read the article...
• Jack Horner, paleontology, Museum of the Rockies, was the graduation speaker for Penn State, advising graduates to follow their passion: Read the article...
• Sandy Gagnon's (animal range science) advice on how to winter-keep horses was featured on TheHorse.com. Read the article...
• An MSU story about Gokce Adsiz, an exchange student from Istanbul who completed 27 course hours her final semester at MSU with a 3.6 grade point average, ran in Turkish New York, a large website for Turkish-Americans. Read the article...

• Pat Druckenmiller, Museum of the Rockies, was featured in a National Geographic story about the discovery of a pliosaur, a large sea creature from the dinosaur-era found by a crew from the University of Oslo. Druckenmiller, a specialist in seagoing dinosaurs, assisted. Read the article...
• Jack Horner and crews from MSU and Mongolia found more than 67 dinosaur fossils in one week at a Gobi Desert site. The discovery, which included a flock of parrot-like dinosaurs called Psittacosaurus, was the subject of stories in Discover, LiveScience.com and Australia's Cosmos magazine.
• Marcel Huijser, Western Transportation Institute, was the principal source in a USA Today story on sensor systems that detect wildlife on highways. Huijser was also featured in a story in the MIT Technology Review. Other news outlets that wrote stories on the system included physorg.com and a Romanian Science and Technology site.
• The Center for Biofilm Engineering's recent $2.9 million grant to research slow-healing wounds was featured in a story in Medical News Today.
• Philip Stewart, CBE, and his research into chitosan, a compound found in crab shells that seems to protect against the build-up of biofilm in medical procedures, was featured in HealthDay News and Science Daily. A similar story was printed in The Oregonian and the online PhysOrg.com News.
• Greg Johnson, entomology, was featured in a Toronto Daily News story about West Nile virus. Read the article...
• Tim Ford, microbiology, was featured in a Miami Herald story on the quality of tap water compared to bottled water. Read the article...
• A commentary, from the Egyptian point of view, on the 11 missing students from an exchange between MSU and Mansoura University appeared in Egypt Today. Newsday also did a follow-up story recently.

• The MSU Museum of the Rockies' research in the fossil-rich beds of Montana's Hell Creek formation were featured in a CNN piece on "Dinosaur Detectives." Read the article...
• MSU newswriter Tracy Ellig's story about John Mandell's wind energy research was published in several online science magazines including PhysOrg.com Online and sister publications Renewable Energy Access and InTech.
• A story written by Evelyn Boswell, MSU news, about the search for rare beetles in South Africa by Mike Ivie was published in South Africa's Kruger Park Times. Read the article...
• MSU was mentioned prominently in a national business journal article selecting of Bozeman as the "micropolis" having the best quality of life in the country. See http://www.bizjournals.com/specials/slideshow/12.html and http://www.bizjournals.com/specials/pages/21.html. That selection resulted in an MSNBC story and a mention at the end of Seattle Times editorial writer Lance Dickey's column about a cross-country road trip with his daughter.
• The 11 Egyptian exchange students who went AWOL from an MSU summer program netted hundreds of stories in outlets across the country and throughout the world. A sampling includes the Egyptian perspective in Al-Ahram Weekly, a humorous column in the Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch, and a variety of stories that ran across the country including the Chicago Tribune and even the People's Daily in Beijing, China. Many television news outlets picked it up ranging from Fox News to CNN.

• The work of three MSU architecture students who won top awards in Architectural Record's Hurricane Katrina housing prototype contest was featured in the magazine's June issue. Michelle Jellison, a grad student, and the designing team of Mark Stankey and John Kucharski, recent grads, composed two of the magazine's five winning student teams selected from 544 entries. See the designs...
• Mary Schweitzer, MSU grad, and her discovery of blood vessels and cell structures in a Montana T-rex bone, were profiled in the May issue of Smithsonian magazine. The issue mentions Schweitzer's long-time connection to MSU and the Museum of the Rockies. Read the article...
• Byoung Cho, architecture, and his philosophy on Montana agricultural architecture, was profiled in the April issue of Dwell magazine. Read the article...
• Greg Johnson's, animal and range science, research to find native fish compatible with ponds created in the coal bed methane process, was featured in a story in the Rocky Mountain News. Read the article...
• Jim Mitchell, director of MSU's student health services, was quoted in a Chronicle of Higher Education story on the trend of colleges billing students' private insurance accounts for medical services rendered. Read the article...
• A press release written by MSU news writer Tracy Ellig, "80 below and loving it," about the College of Engineering's new cold lab and the work of scientists Ed Adams, engineering, and John Priscu, microbiology, appeared in the sister publications of Physorg.com, Astrobiology.com and SpaceRef.com
• MSU news writer Evelyn Boswell's story about a quest for rare beetles undertaken by Mike Ivie, entomology, as well as grad student Ian Foley and recent grad Vince Martinson, was featured on UPI and Yuba.net
• Thomas McMahon, fish and wildlife/ecology, and a study he co-authored with scientists from the University of Adelaide and the Oregon Department of Game and Fish about lake trout in Yellowstone Lake, was the subject of a story in the Jackson Hole News. Read the article...
• Joan Hoff, history, and an authority on presidential politics, was quoted in a Foxnews.com story about President Bush's trip to Graceland with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Kuizumi. Read the article...
• Lisa Graumlich, Big Sky Institute and ecology, was quoted in a NewWest.com article about climate change in the West that was picked up by several newspapers, including SunValleyOnline. Read the article...
• An Associated Press story about two former MSU athletes charged in the death of Jason Wright ran in many national media outlets including: ESPN and Forbes and the UK's Guardian Unlimited
• President Geoff Gamble's prompt response to the arrests received a flattering commentary by Inside Higher Ed's Scott Jaschik, the dean of higher education writers. Read the article...

• The work of Mark Young, plant sciences and plant pathology, and Trevor Douglas, chemistry, was featured prominently in the cover story of the May 20 journal, Science, that focused on viruses. A perspective written by Young and Douglas about looking at viruses in new ways was also included in the prestigious journal. Read an excerpt of the perspective...
  
  For those of you who read French, here is an excerpt about Young and Douglas' work from the French newspaper Le Figaro. Read the article...
  
  Also, the pharmaceutical trade journal PharmaLive reported that SpeciGen, a biotechnology company with locations in Corvallis, Mont., and California, has signed an agreement with Young and Douglas to collaborate on empty virus protein cages with possible applications in the diagnosis and treatment of such illnesses as cancer and heart disease. Read the article...
• The huge T-rex skull recently exhibited at the Museum of the Rockies that is larger than the skull of Sue, a T-rex skull housed at Chicago's Field Museum, was featured in the Chicago Sun Times recently. The article includes an interview with Jack Horner. Read the article...
• John Priscu, microbiology, was featured in an April 20 article in Nature about the linking of lakes deep under the ice in Antarctica. Read the article...
• The hiring of Sara Jayne Steen, Letter and Sciences, as the new president of Plymouth State University in New Hampshire and its mention of MSU, ran in many New England newspapers, including the Manchester (NH) Union Leader and the Boston Globe.
• Karen Zulkowski, nursing's Billings campus, will use high-frequency, high-resolution ultrasound imaging to study improved clinical detection of pressure ulcer risk and development, the manufacturer of the equipment announced in the journal Genetic Engineering News. Read the article...
• Northern California's Yubanet.com featured an MSU press release, written by Evelyn Boswell of the MSU News Service, about an MSU research project studying how coal-bed methane development affects fish. Read the article...

• Gary Strobel's, plant sciences/plant pathology, discovery of the fungus Muscador, which kills a variety of pests, was featured in a CNET story about microbes used as biopesticides. Read the article...
• Jim Story, Western Agricultural Research Center, was quoted in a story about the inter-relationships between spotted knapweed, the gall fly used as a biocontrol, and a surge in the population of mice. The story ran in several national and international publications, including the New York Times. You can find it free and in its entirety in The Halifax (CA) Chronicle. Read the article...
• John Priscu, land resources and environmental sciences, was one of several scientists mentioned in a Knight-Ridder feature about scientists studying extreme spots on earth that may reveal clues about Mars. It ran in the Portsmouth, N.H. Herald. Read the article...
• Jack Horner, paleontology, and his research into the physical attributes of the T. Rex were included in a story on recent paleontological discoveries published in the Toronto Star. Read the article...
• The tragic death of MSU alumn Doug Coombs, a pioneer in extreme skiing, in a ski accident in France mentioned MSU. It ran in several international and national publications, including the New York Times, The LA Times, and Outside Online.
• Gary Brester, ag econ, was quoted in an Associated Press story about the effect of controls on Mad Cow Disease. The story ran nationally, including in the Wichita Eagle. Read the article...
• Ferdinand Johns, architecture, and fifth-year architecture student Allison Orr were recognized on the Interior Design Association's Web site for winning an American Institute of Architecture's urban design award for a master plan of the Rocky Boy's Reservation. Read the article...
• The work of of Trevor Douglas, chemistry, and Mark Young, plant sciences plant pathology, involving nanoscale protein cages was featured in nanotechnology news.com. Their findings were originally published in the journal Chemistry & Biology. Read the article...

• The University of California's Web site featured a story about research into what may be the smallest Triceratops, done in cooperation with MSU's Jack Horner. Read the article...
• Horner was also quoted in a Discovery Channel story about his presentation at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis on the rigid anatomy of the T-rex. Read the article...
• The University of Delaware's Web site featured a story about a MSU/Museum of the Rockies exhibit of selections from the Paul R. Jones collection, believed to be the largest and oldest collection of African-American art. The collection is housed at the University of Delaware. Read the article...
• Chuck Schwartz, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, will help with an Alberta bear project that will count grizzlies while the province bans and assesses the hunting of the bear, according to a story by the Canadian Broadcast Company. Read the article...
• Aviation giant Sikorsky Aircraft announced plans to build a facility in Bozeman, in part because of the proximity of MSU College of Engineering graduates. The story made national news, including the Hartford Courant. Read the article...
• Dan Gustafson, ecology, was quoted in a High County News story about the Western phenomenon of New Zealand mud snails. Read the article...
• The Cattle Network ran a story about a project headed by John Patterson, animal and range science, that will help ranchers test for persistent bovine viral diarrhea. Read the article...
• MSU research into the age-old battle against weeds in agricultural fields was featured in a story in the Bismarck, N.D. Farm and Ranch Guide. Read the article...

• Napoleon's armies were brought down by lice, according to MSU's Robert Peterson, LR&ES, quoted recently on the Discovery Channel. Read the article...
• Wendy Stock, economics, was quoted in a Chronicle of Higher Education story about the health of the field of economics. Read the article...
• Tony Clevenger of Western Transportation Institute was quoted in a USA Today story about animal friendly roads. Read the article...
• The Cinderella-like story of MSU anthropology student Anna Madorsky, who is competing at the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships, was featured in the Cleveland Jewish News. Read the article...
• The double-proxy wedding enabled by Montana's law and the Burns Technology Center was the subject of a story in the St. Petersburg Times. Read the article...
• A MSU study that found that snowmobile use doesn't adversely affect wild animals in Yellowstone National Park made national news including Forbes Magazine and The Seattle Times.

• Brent Christner, a posdoc fellow in Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, was quoted in an article about methane-making microbes found in Greenland ice and the ramifications for life on Mars. The story can be found on The Discovery Channel Web site and on Newsday's News in Science Web site.
• An article co-written by Robert Garrott, ecology, originally published in the journal Biological Conservation was cited in a USAToday story about the debate over the declining elk population in Yellowstone Park. Read the article...
• Montana State University was mentioned in a national Associated Press story about of several college towns in the country that have spawned entrepreneurship. The story ran in many publications including The Biloxi Sun-Herald and The Westchester County (NY) Journal News.
• Gary Strobel, plant sciences and plant pathology, was mentioned in a Wall Street Journal article about companies funding research into microbes that help control pests. The article discussed Strobel's discovery of the fungus Muscodor albus in the bark of a cinnamon tree in Honduras. The syndicated article can be accessed on the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette. Read the article...
• An article co-written by Andy Hansen, ecology, for the Ecological Society of America, about rural sprawl in America was originally published in Ecological Applications. It also appeared in the popular press, including Yuba.net. Read the article...
• Shannon Podruzny, an MSU ecology grad who now works with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team, was featured in a USA Today story about grizzly bear researchers. Read the article...
• Ronald Tobias, Media and Theatre Arts, was featured in a Science and Theology News story that quoted from his lecture on science filmmaking at a bioethics, human cloning and stem-cell research film festival in Scotland. Read the article...

• John Priscu's work at Lake Vostok in Antarctica was featured in the Oct. 28 issue of Science magazine. Read the article...
• MSU's involvement as the lead institution in land-based studies of carbon sequestration were mentioned in Germany's innovations report and project director Susan Capalbo was quoted at the end of an Idaho State Journal article.
• MSU's hosting of Gov. Schweitzer's Western Governors' Energy Conference netted national media attention for MSU, including stories in The (Wash.) Olympian and The Caspter Star-Tribune.
• Bozeman and MSU were the number one city and institution mentioned in this Nov. 29 Forbes magazine column about the advantages of living in a college town. Read the article...
• The work of Joe Shaw (engineering) and his bomb-detecting honey bees were featured in Photonics. Read the article...
• An MSU study on calories burned during skiing was featured in Competitor Magazine. Read the article...
• John Marsh, ag econ, figured prominently in an Associated Press story about the slowing of the cattle trade that appeared in several places, including the Bismarck Tribune and Cattlenetwork.com.
• Henrietta Mann's participation in a panel in Michigan that addressed cultural omissions in textbooks was featured in a story on Central Michigan Life Web site. Read the article...

• The work of Richard Bessen, VMB, linking prions to the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease in elk and deer was featured in The New York Times and The Rocky Mountain News.
• Microbiology professor Joan Henson's research into a fungus found on grass growing in geothermal soils of Yellowstone National Park that protects grass and other plants from the damaging effects of heat and drought was featured in the Sept. 23 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Read the article...
• MSU's participation in the CubeSat project and the work of Dave Klumpar physics, was featured in a story on SPACE.com. Read the article...
• Clarann Weinert, MSU professor of nursing, was the subject of a profile in the Chico Enterprise Record resulting from her speech at Chico State on women in research and science. Read the article...
• A Salt Lake City Tribune story featured MSU alumnus Noelle Cockett, dean of the School of Agriculture at Utah State University. Read the article...
• An MSU News Service story on John Paterson, whose Animal and Range Science study into a cattle identification system was featured in AgricultureOnline. Read the article...
• David Singel, chemistry, is listed as a collaborator in new research linking a defect in red blood cells to a common lung disease in an article in Science Daily. Read the article...

• A national Associated Press reporter profiled MSU's Shakespeare in the Parks program. The story ran in several major daily newspapers in the U.S. and Canada including the Washington Post, and the Rocky Mountain News.
• The work of Joe Shaw (electrical and computer engineering) in using LIDAR and honey bees to find land mines was featured in a number of publications including Business Week and Optics.org
• The collaboration of Keith Cooksey, microbiology, with David Bayless of Ohio University's Coal Research Center in removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere was featured in the Aug. 29 edition of Scientific American. Read the article...
• The work of Monica Pokorny (LR&ES) to eliminate the weed Dyer's Woad from Montana was featured on AgricultureOnline. Read the article...
• Tony Clevenger of the Western Transportation Institute, based at MSU, and his research about wildlife crossings was mentioned in several articles across the country, including the Florida-based Poynter Institute. Read the article...
• The story of a student from Casper, Wyo. who transferred to MSU from Tulane to escape Hurricane Katrina, was featured in the Casper Star-Tribune. Read the article...

• An article written by Cathy Whitlock, earth sciences, on forest fire management strategies was published in Nature. Read the article...
• John Priscu, LR&ES, was quoted in a Washington Post story about bacteria growing on the ocean floor near Antarctica. It was also picked up by the Seattle Times. Read the article...
• Bobby Bossenecker, a junior majoring in paleontology at MSU, was featured in a San Francisco Chronicle story about amateur paleontologists. Read the article...
• Ryan Jordan, biofilm, was quoted in a Los Angeles Times' story about pollution in the backcountry. Read the article...
• MSU's efforts to develop a wheat breed resistant to sawfly was featured in the Bismarck Farm and Ranch Guide. Read the article...
• The same publication also featured a story about Perry Miller, LR&ES, and his recommendation to plant dry peas to save on fertilizer. Read the article...

• The approaches of Robert Maher, electrical engineering, in integrating many aspects of engineering into the building of robots in MSU's Engineering 101 course was featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Read the article...
• "The Lost Wolves of Japan," Brett Walker's (history) new book on wolves in Japan, was reviewed in the Houston Chronicle. Reviewer Alex Lichtenstein calls it a "stunningly original book about the Japanese veneration and then extermination of wolves." Read the article...
• The "She-Rex" and MSU's place work in untangling the mysteries of dinosaurs continues to make the news, including the Washington Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, among a myriad of other news agencies.
• Sociologist Bakari Kitwana, who delivered the Martin Luther King, Jr. speech at MSU this year, draws on his experience on the MSU campus and in a hip-hop club in Bozeman (he calls it the best hip-hop party he's attended) in this story on rap and culture in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Read the article...
• An MSU News Service feature on architect Dennis Sun Rhodes and local artist Jim Dolan, whose friendship began at MSU resulting in the seeds for the proposed new MSU American Indian Center, appeared in Indian Country Today. Read the article...

• Jack Horner (Museum of the Rockies) and Mary Schweitzer's (MSU grad)announcement in Science of their discovery of female gender indicated in the leg bone of an ancient T-Rex fossil highlighted MSU's mention in national and international media last month. The story was carried as far as China and Pakistan as well as more traditional American media including the New York Times and Science Daily.
• Marsha Goetting, economics, was quoted in a story written by Becky Bohrer of AP in Billings that went national about the reason why farmers traditionally work beyond retirement. It can be found in the Kansas City Star. Read the article...
• Cathy Cripps, plant sciences, was quoted about the abundance of morel mushrooms caused by Montana's wet spring in this article in a Dutch publication Read the article...
• A measurement logging package provided by Montana State University in a rocket launched by Long Beach State netted MSU mention in several publications including Space.com. Read the article...
• The appointment of Jean Ballantyne, nursing, as the new director of the School of Nursing at the University of Alaska Anchorage, noted a mention in this article in the Anchorage Daily News. Read the article...
• A study done by MSU graduate student Kristin Kiesel's (economics) and economics professors Dave Buschena and Vincent Smith Montana State University that found consumers are willing to pay more for mile free from bovine growth hormone (BGH) found its way to Foodconsumer.org in Wisconsin. Read the article...

• The death of MSU grad Maurice Hilleman, 85, a noted vaccinologist who saved millions of lives and is compared to Jonas Salk, made international news. This clip, from the Washington Post, also ran in papers ranging from The New York Times, to the Los Angeles Times and papers in India, Australia. Read the article...
• An opinion essay by MSU English professor Paul Trout on the lack effectiveness of student evaluations of their professors appeared in the April 21 edition of Commonweal. Read the article...
• The donation of Aubrey Haines' papers to the MSU Libraries resulted in this story in the Seattle-Post Intelligencer. Read the article...
• The research of Wally Johnson, adjunct professor in ecology, of the Pacific Golden Plover, a bird that migrates from Alaska to Hawaii, was featured in this story in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Read the article...
• Deborah Haynes, health and human development, and her Student Advocates for Financial Education program were featured in U.S. News and World Report's annual graduate school edition. Read the article...
• Suzanne Christopher, health and human development and principal investigator of the Messengers for Health, an MSU-based program that educates Crow women about cervical cancer in a manner that is both comforting and traditional, was featured in Indian Country Today. Read the article...
• A lecture by Cameron Sinclair, architecture adjunct and founder of the award-winning Architecture for Humanity, on public service architecture was featured in Madison, Wisc.'s Capitol Times. Read the article...
• The Western Transportation Institute's Marcel Huijser is quoted in this Canadian story about attempts to save moose on New England roads and highways. Read the article...
• A story on MSU's youngest graduate, Promethea Pythaitha, appeared on the national news search engine, AZCentral. Read the article...
• MSU Extension personnel were quoted about Montana growing and planting conditions in this Grand Forks, N.D. roundup about four-state growing conditions. Read the article...
• The appointment of Greg Weisenstein, MSu dean of Education, Health and Human Development, as provost at UND also netted a story in the Grand Forks Herald. Read the article...

• An MSU paleontological crew's discovery of soft tissue in a dinosaur fossil has resulted in international coverage mentioning the university including:
  

  Boston Globe - Soft tissue is discovered inside a dinosaur fossil
  New York Times - Dinosaur Find Takes Scientists Beyond Bones
  LA Times - Soft Tissue Discovered in Bone of a Dinosaur
  Washington Post - A Major T. Rex Breakthrough
  And even the Azar Tag in Azerbijian - American Scientist Soft Tissue Discovered In Bone Of A Dinosaur

• Packers.com again profiles the always quotable former Bobcat Joey Thomas, who just finished his rookie season for the Pack. Read the article...
• MSU mudsnail researcher Billie Kerans (ecology, fish and wildlife) was quoted in the Denver Post about an outbreak in Colorado. Read the article...
• Grad student Praveen Singh's (Wildlife filmmaking) student Emmy was featured in an article on Backstage.com. Read the article...
• MSU's Sara Young, who works with MSU outreach programs on the Crow and Northern Cheyenne reservations, was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor piece on the world of Indian teens following the school shooting in Red Lake, Minn. Read the article...

• MSU economist Kevin McNew is quoted in a story about ag marketing club meetings. The story about the marketing and support groups we written by AP reporter Becky Bohrer and went on the national AP wire, appearing in many papers in America's heartland. It appears here in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Read the article...
• MSU's success in attracting prominent researchers, and their grant dollars, was mentioned in this Seattle Post-Intelligencer story about competition for research dollars. Read the article...
• MSU's success was also mentioned in a Seattle P-I editorial encouraging the state to support the economic engine of higher education. Read the article...
• Jane Fonda's appearance on the MSU campus landed the university in the national news, including this story on ABC.com. Read the article...
• Jim Mitchell, director of MSU's student health services, has been quoted in scores of papers across the country about mandatory health insurance for students. This story appeared recently in the Detroit News. Read the article...
• MSU student Brianna Arnold, a senior majoring in biotechnology, was featured in an LA Weekly story about women researchers in Antarctica. The story was written by Margareta Wertheim, an NSF visiting journalist. Read the article...
• MSU is one of seven university partners working with NASA on an international space station project. Read the article...
• MSU exercise physiology professor Dan Heil predicts that Lance Armstrong will break the one-hour cycline record. Read the article...

• Cameron Sinclair, adjunct professor at MSU's School of Architecture, has garnered a great deal of international publicity for his organization, Architecture for Humanity. It included this story in archinect.com about the work that AIH and Sinclair's MSU students would be doing to design a new school for the children featured into the Academy-award nominated documentary, "Born Into Brothels." Read the article...
• The Jan. 11 Christian Science Monitor mentioned the MSU's Natural Science Filmmaking class in a story about universities that offer programs in the convergence of science and art. Read the article...
• Jeff Linkenbach lectures about Most of Us campaign in Colorado. Read the article...
• John Priscu's on Antarctica's Lake Vostok was featured in Australia's "The Age." Read the article...
• Duncan Patten on the wolves controvery in the Seattle Times. Read the article...
• Craig Stewart. MSU physical education professor, is quoted in the Tampa Tribune about the differences coaches can expect in coaching girls and boys. Read the article...
• MSU engineering professor Ed Adams, an international expert on avalanches, is quoted in the Las Vegas Review Journal about a fatal avalanche in Nevada that took the life of a 13-year-old boy:Read the article...

• Neil Cornish, MSU astrophysicist and physics professor, was recently featured in Discover Magazine. Read the article...
• The Western Transportation Institute's road kill project north of Yellowstone Park was recently featured in ESPN Outdoors. Read the article...
• MSU's knapweed dog was discussed on the National Park Service's Nature and Science Web site. Read the article...
• MSU's Piet Martens is involved in Virtual Solar Observatory. Read the article...
• Denver media interviewed MSU professor John Priscu during an international snow science conference in Denver. Read the article...
• Dr. Bob Flaherty of the MSU Student Health Service was consulted on the American Medical Association's publication about discussing the treatment of sinusitis. Read the article...
• Duncan Patten of the Big Sky Institute weighs in on debate whether increase in wolves has decreased the number of elk in Yellowstone. Read the article...
• Jack Horner on insights into the utility of the domed-head of the pachycephalosaurs in a Southern California daily. Read the article...
• Jack Horner on the R-rex's teenage feeding frenzy in Nature. Read the article...
• Lance Craighead was interviewed about Wyoming's grizzly bear policies in the Casper Star Tribune. Read the article...
• An MSU graduate student's research uncovers science about duck habitat on the ESPN outdoors publication. Read the article...
• A column in the Seattle-PI featured MSU's Undaunted Stewardship program. Read the article...
• MSU history professor Joan Hoff was an international commentator on the U.S. presidential elections. Here she's quoted here in the Toronto Star. Read the article...

• Montina, the gluten-free grain developed at MSU, and MSU researcher Alice Pilgeram, Plan Sciences, were featured in a Washington Times story about celiac disease. Read the article...
• Henrietta Mann, Native American Studies, is quoted in a national story distributed by the Lee News Bureau about the National Museum of the American Indian. This one appeared in the Corvallis, Ore. Gazette-Times. Read the article...
• Earth Science's professor David Varricchio's research about the discovery of an intact dinosaur nesting site indicated a protective, parenting posture among adult dinosaur as they cared for their young made worldwide news.

  IAfrica, South African News - Dinosaurs made devoted dads
  National Geographic - Dinosaurs may have been caring parents
  Washington Post - Evidence of Dinosaur Parenting
  Salt Lake Tribune - Fossils may be a dinosaur day-care
  Indianapolis Star - Dinosaurs may have been caring parents
  CBC News - Fossil site points to devoted dinosaur parents

• John Miller's collaborative work on a cockroach-like robot also made national news. The National Science Foundation funded a $5-million, five-year grant that included PI Robert Full of UC-Berkeley and professors from Cornell, Princeton and the University of Michigan, as well as MSU. Miller is a professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience and director of MSU's Center for Computational Biology. Read the article...
• MSU chemistry professor Trevor Douglas works with Temple researchers studying protein structures as they design and assemble metal oxide nanoparticles that could be used in environmental remediation. Read the article...
• Bob Gough, MSU's plant expert, is featured in Bankrate.com's "20 tips to a frugal garden." Read the article...
• Earth Science's Cathy Whitlock was featured in the September issue of National Geographic. The article, entitled "Time Signs: Now What?," discusses Whitlock's research on climate change. Read the article...
• MSU psychology professor Richard Martell's research was mentioned in a story about obstacles to women's success in academe that appeared on the ABC news Web site. Read the article...
• MSU cross-country skiing coach Grethe-Lise Hagensen was featured in Faster Skiier magazine. Read the article...
  

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