• RossiDr. Rick Rossi, Department Head of Mathematical Sciences, has just had his book Applied Biostatistics for the Health Sciences published by John Wiley and Sons. Dr. Rossi is also the author of another book recently published by John Wiley, Theorems, Corollaries, Lemmas, and Methods of Proof.
  • Dr. Robert (Bob) Ziegler, professor in Liberal Studies, has just had his fourth book, Asymptote, An Approach to Decadent Fiction, published by Presses Rodopi of Amsterdam. Dr. Ziegler also recently published The Nothing Machine: The Fiction of Octave Mirbeau.
  • Undergraduates Charmaine Weyer, Garrett Smith, and J. Babcock are co-authors with Montana Tech faculty, Dr. Steve Parker of Chemistry and Dr. Chris Gammons of Geological Engineering, and others on a paper, recently published paper; Parker, S. R., Gammons, C. H., Poulson, S. R., Weyer, C. L., Smith, M. G., Babcock, J. N., Oba, Y., 2010. Diel behavior of stable isotopes (18-O & 13-C) of dissolved oxygen and dissolved inorganic carbon in Montana, USA rivers, and in a mesocosm experiment, Chemical Geology, 269, 22-32.
  • Undergrduates Josh Prince and Allison Bradley, along with interdisciplinary master's student Bablu Sharma, working with Dr. Martha Apple of the Biological Sciences Department, presented at the December 2009, American Geophysical Union Annual meeting in San Francisco on An In-situ Root Imaging System in the Context of Surface Detection of CO2 at ZERT.
  • Dr. Scott Carver, a postdoc working with the Hantavirus research group in Biological Sciences, is the lead author on Carver, S., Bestall, A., Jardine, A., Ostfeld, R. S. 2009. The influence of hosts on the ecology of arboviral transmission: potential mechanisms influencing dengue, Murray Valley encephalitis and Ross River virus in Australia,Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 9:51-64. that was picked by the journal editors as the “hot paper” for February 2009.

  • Dr. Henry Gonshak, Liberal Studies professor, was awarded a Fulbright to study in Poland during the 2008-2009 academic year.  Henry will be teaching, starting in mid-September, 2008, at the University in Wroclaw, which is a large city in western Poland near the border with Germany and the Czech Republic. Henry will be teaching courses in American Literature and is working on offering a graduate level course on Holocaust in American Mass Media.

  • Dr. Marisa Pedulla, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, was named Science Mentor of the Year by the Montana Academy of Sciences.

  • Drs. Don and Andrea Stierle and a chemistry undergraduate, Briana Patacini, authored one of the five most accessed papers published in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Natural Products in 2007; The Berkeleyacetals, Three Meroterpenes from a Deep Water Acid Mine Waste Penicillium, Stierle, D.B.; Stierle, A.A.; Patacini, B.; Journal of Natural Products; 70(11):1820-1823, 2007.
  • Dr. Tim Kober, associate Professor of Business and Information Technology, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation; IS ACCOUNTING EDUCATION ALIGNING WITH THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE MARKETPLACE? AN ANALYSIS OF CPA FIRM HIRING PREFERENCES RELATED TO THE 150-HOUR REQUIREMENT; in the Educational Leadership program at The University of Montana - Missoula this April.

  • Dr. Steve Parker, Associate Professor of Chemistry & Geochemistry, Dr. Chris Gammons, Professor of Geological Engineering, Dr. Ric Hauer of the University of Montana, and Dr. Simon Poulson, University of Nevada, Reno have just received word that their grant application on Stable Isotopes of Dissolved Oxygen as Tracers of Chemical and Biological Processes in Groundwater to the National Science Foundation was funded for $318,342 over two years. This grant will not only provide summer support for the PIs, but will support one graduate research assistant and 3 undergraduate students over this period.

  • Dr. Michelle Van Dyne, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, has assumed the duties of Department Head of Computer Science, which oversees B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Software Engineering.  Dr. Celia Schahczenski, Professor of Computer Science, has stepped down as Department Head in Computer Science after 6 years of devoted service to devote more time to research.  Congratulations Michelle and thanks Celia!

  • This past fall 2007 Jim Aspevig, Assistant Professor of Health Care Informatics, taught HCI 4206, Issues in Health Care Informatics, to not only on-site Montana Tech students, but also via distance delivery to three graduates students in the University of Montana’s Master’s in Public Health program.  This spring 2008 semester Chari Faught, also an Assistant Professor of Health Care Informatics, is teaching HCI 1016, Introduction to Health Care Informatics, to two students at a distance, one of whom resides in Forsyth, in addition to her on-site students.  Also this semester Roger Oldenkamp, Associate Professor of Business and Information Technology, is teaching BUS 3516, Business Finance simultaneously at a distance to 14 students in Helena and on-site to 20 students.  All of these courses are being taught out of the HCI Distance Delivery Laboratory in CBB 001 that is under the direction of Kathy Stevens, Distance Delivery Coordinator.

  • Allison McIntosh of Montana Tech’s Nursing Department, working with University of Montana faculty and others, helped The Montana Geriatric Education Center receive a $1,074,160 three year grant from U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to increase health literacy of at-risk rural minority elderly in Montana.

  • Drs. Don and Andrea Stierle's research on characterizing bioactive metabolites with potential medicinal value isolated from the extreme environment of the Berkeley Pit was recently featured in articles in the New York Times and in Wired.

  • The Computer Science and Software Engineering programs (along with the Electrical Engineering program) underwent an ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering Technology) accreditation visit in September.  For CS the visit was for reaccreditation, while SE and EE are seeking accreditation for the first time.

  • Dr. Marisa Pedulla, assistant professor in Biological Sciences, has been named the Carnegie Foundation Council for Advancement and Support of Education CASE Professor of the Year for Montana for 2007. Marisa was chosen from among 300 outstanding faculty across the nation for this honor. In part this award recognizes Marisa's efforts to involve hundred's of pre-college students from across Montana in the excitment of doing science through discovering bacteriophages, viruses of bacteria.

  • Vanessa Murray, Professional and Technical Communications graduate student, presented a poster on Prime-Time Education at the Sigma Xi National Meeting in Orlando Florida on November 3rd, 2007. Also attending the conference were Dr. Joe Figueira, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Research and Dr. Doug Coe, Dean of the College of Letters, Sciences, and Professional Studies.

  • Occupational Safety and Health major, Erin Jenrich, gave a presentation Usability of Warnings in Printed Materials on November 8th, 2007 at the World Useability Day Conference in Bozeman Montana. Also attending the conference were Dr. Henreitta Shirk, Professional and Technical Communications Department Head and Dr. Dale Decco, adjunct instructor.

  • Montana Tech Computer Science seniors Mikeal Day, Tyler Dusek, and Ryan Weis bested teams from the University of Montana and Montana State University in finishing 2nd overall at the International College Programming Contest held at the University of Utah on October 20th.  Click here for more detail.

  • Dr. Martha Apple (Biology), Dr. Xiaobing Zhou (Geophysics), and Dr. Curtis Link (Geophysics) have been awarded a three year National Science Foundation grant to develop a scientific understanding of the evolution of large river eco systems..

  • Dr. Pat Munday (Professional and Technical Communication) was awarded a $71,105 National Science Foundation grant to pursue a study of Science, Society & Superfund: A Social History of America's Largest Superfund Site

  • Danette Melvin, Nursing Lab Director, was approved by the Montana Board of Nursing and selected by NCSBN for the sixth time to participate on a panel of subject matter experts that develop test items for the NCLEX® exam required of all applicants for licensing as registered nurses.

  • Dr. Doug Coe (Chemistry and Dean of the College), Amy Verlanic (Director of Technical Outreach), and Annette Kankelborg (Associate Director of Technical Outreach) were awarded in July a $593,450 grant from the National Science Foundation for Montana Minds, Scholarships for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics.  A similar grant received last year for $489,450 is currently funding four year scholarships for 20 Montana Minds Scholars in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, and Software Engineering.

  • Chris Dienes, a junior mathematics major was named a 2007 Barry M Goldwater Scholar.  As part of his successful application Chris addressed the importance of communicating the understanding of statistics to society in his essay, “Promoting the Understanding of Statistics in Today's Society”.  Chris intends to pursue graduate work in statistics.

  • Pat Kane, a Micron scholar and a triple-major in Computer Science, Biology, Information, Technology and Design, spent the 2007 summer doing research in the AMGEN Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at MIT.

  • Dr. Rick Rossi (Department Head in Mathematical Sciences) had his book Theorems, Corollaries, Lemmas, and Methods of Proof, published by Wiley-Interscience this past summer.  Dr. Rossi has now turned his attention to writing a textbook in Biostatistics. 

  • Dr. Robert (Bob) Ziegler (Liberal Studies) has just had his third book, The Nothing Machine: The Fiction of Octave Mirbeau, accepted for publication.