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  • Ancient fossils give MSU students hands-on research experience

    Marshall Swearingen, MSU News Service|Updated Aug 15, 2019

    For Montana State University undergraduate Isabelle Brenes, digging a triceratops out of a hillside in the badlands near Ekalaka in July marked only the beginning of a long, familiar process of readying fossils for study and display. When she isn't volunteering on field digs with the Museum of the Rockies at MSU, Brenes, a senior majoring in paleontology in the Department of Earth Sciences in the College of Letters and Science, works at the museum as a fossil preparer,...

  • MSU students get hands-on experience with calving

    Marshall Swearingen, MSU News Service|Updated Mar 22, 2018

    BOZEMAN – Just like ranchers across Montana, Montana State University student Caleb Bowey kept a watchful eye on heifers on a late February day, waiting for one to give birth. "Most of these are due tomorrow," said Bowey of the dozen pregnant cattle hanging around the front of the calving barn. "But you can only guess. When it happens, it happens." That's when Bowey and other MSU students jump into action, leading a heifer into the warmth of the barn, pulling a stuck calf out...

  • MSU researcher wins national award for eclipse project

    Marshall Swearingen, MSU News Service|Updated Oct 5, 2017

    BOZEMAN - A Montana State University researcher has won a national award honoring her leadership role in an unprecedented, hands-on student project that culminated during the 2017 total solar eclipse. Angela Des Jardins, assistant research professor in the Department of Physics in MSU's College of Letters and Science, received the National Space Grant's Special Service Award at the organization's fall meeting on Sept. 17. The award was created to recognize her major contributi...