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Rick Douglass - 2010 Distinguished Researcher Award
 Rick Douglass has been with Montana Tech forever – 1983 actually. He has been an adjunct faculty member, professor, department head, and, in a weak moment, acting Research Director. In more recent times he has become an active mentor and collaborator to a wide range of new faculty, postdocs, students and international visitors. He was instrumental in founding the Intermountain Journal of Sciences and now serves on its editorial board. His grant funding now approaches $2,000,000 and he is in the enviable position of being called by the CDC when they have money. Although known throughout most of the world for his work on Hanta Virus, he has more recently turned his attention toward the re-establishment of native plant communities and has forged new collaborations with the University of Montana in this developing ecological field.
Rick is a graduate of the University of Utah and received his PhD degree in Zoology from Montana State University. He is a previous award winner, and is the only Montana Tech researcher ever to be twice honored by his faculty peers.
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