2015 News Listing

12/07/2015

The Montana Tech Veterans Group has teamed up with Butte's Marine Corps League Detachment 724 to help with the local Toys for Tots Program this holiday season. ... Read More

12/03/2015

Montana Tech Health Care Informatics (HCI) student Nicole Rudolph received the 2015 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Undergraduate Scholarship, one of three scholarships awarded in 2015 by the HIMSS Foundation. ... Read More

12/03/2015

Montana Tech has been named the winner of the second annual Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the American Association of Drilling Engineers (DFW AADE) Drillers Cup. ... Read More

12/02/2015

The Montana Tech Band's Annual Christmas Concert is Friday, December 4th at 7:00 pm in the Mother Lode Theatre. ... Read More

12/02/2015

Professor Henry Gonshak will be signing copies of his recently published book, Hollywood and the Holocaust, on Saturday, December 5, from 1-3:00 pm, at Books & Books, 206 West Park Street in Butte. ... Read More

11/23/2015

Terrorism is a crisis of public order and safety. ... Read More

11/17/2015

Highlands College has developed a Microsoft Office IT Academy Program which will allow its students to obtain various industry-recognized credentials in addition to their academic degrees - all free of charge. ... Read More

11/10/2015

On Monday, Montana Tech honored faculty, staff and students who served in the military at a luncheon on campus. ... Read More

11/04/2015

Dr. John W. Ray of Montana Tech's Liberal Studies Department has had two peer reviewed papers in different areas accepted for presentation next year at two international conferences. ... Read More

11/02/2015

Montana Tech will be hosting an event in honor of International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day on Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Kelley-Steward Room in the Student Union Building on campus. ... Read More

11/02/2015

The American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II Regional Rankings are out and the Montana Tech Orediggers are ranked third in the West Region behind Arizona State Elite and the University of Utah. ... Read More

10/09/2015

Montana Tech released fall enrollment numbers today. ... Read More

10/08/2015

Zach Kasperick, a Montana Tech Electrical Engineering student from Butte, has been selected as a Power & Energy Society (PES) Scholarship Plus Initiative recipient for the 2015/16 academic year. ... Read More

10/06/2015

A project at Highlands College spanning four years was completed this semester. ... Read More

09/16/2015

Wellness in all aspects of life will again be featured, encouraged and celebrated at the Fall Montana Tech Wellness Fair. ... Read More

09/11/2015

On Saturday, September 12, 2015, Montana Tech will dedicate a lab in the Nursing Department as the Jerry and Julie Schuyler Fundamentals Lab. ... Read More

09/10/2015

U.S. News and World Report released their 2015 Best College rankings. Montana Tech tied for the No. 5 spot for Top Regional Colleges in the West and landed in the No. 1 spot for Top Public Regional Colleges in the West. ... Read More

09/10/2015

Senator Jon Tester today helped secure an additional $2.3 million for continued research and development at Montana Tech from the Army Research Lab. ... Read More

09/10/2015

Chris Roos, an Assistant Professor in the Mining Engineering Department at Montana Tech and doctoral student in the Individualized Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program (IIP) at the University of Montana, is the recipient of one of three $60,000 fellowships awarded for 2015 from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME). ... Read More

09/10/2015

Montana Tech has received a contribution of $20,000 from QEP Resources, a leading independent crude oil and natural gas exploration and production company. ... Read More

09/09/2015

The Women of Montana Tech will host a purse auction and champagne brunch on Saturday, October 3, 2015 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm in the HPER Complex. ... Read More

09/03/2015

The 16th Annual Montana Tech Career Fair will be held on Thursday, September 10, 2015 in the Montana Tech HPER Complex. ... Read More

08/11/2015

Join us on the Richest Hill on Earth to participate in the 16th Annual Montana Tech Career Fair. ... Read More

07/28/2015

Montana Tech has received a grant in the amount of $50,000 from Montana Resources to design and build a boat that will automatically sample water from the Berkley Pit. ... Read More

07/21/2015

Montana Tech's Institute for Educational Opportunities has been awarded a $1,100,000 TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) grant from the U.S. Department of Education over the next five years to continue serving 120 of Montana Tech's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) students along with students in the healthcare fields. ... Read More

07/14/2015

On June 10, the Pita Pit in Butte and Montana Tech hosted an event encouraging the community to enjoy a meal at the Pita Pit and help a Butte kid on their path to an extraordinary life. ... Read More

07/13/2015

Montana Tech's Environmental Engineering students took second place in an International Environmental Competition organized by the Air & Waste Management Association's (A&WMA) Environmental Challenge International (ECi) in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 22-25, 2015. ... Read More

07/02/2015

Highlands College is proud to announce that its RevUp Montana Workforce Navigator, Kehli Hazlett, will be eating, blogging, Facebooking, Twittering and Instagramming about Butte food and its history from the Montana Folk Festival in July. ... Read More

06/23/2015

Amy Verlanic, Executive Director of the Institute for Educational Opportunities at Montana Tech, had her proposal entitled, "Political Advocacy: Best Practices In Influencing Educational Inequalities Through Applied Applications," accepted for presentation at the European Access Network's 24th Annual Conference in Oslo, Norway. ... Read More

06/19/2015

The following Montana Tech students have been placed on the Honor Roll (HR), Dean's List (DL), and Chancellor's Honor Roll (CL) for the spring semester 2015 at Montana Tech in Butte, Montana. ... Read More

06/16/2015

A team of students from Montana Tech competed in the 2015 NASA Robotic Mining Competition May 18-22 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ... Read More

06/15/2015

Montana's STEM Scholarship Program is designed to provide an incentive for Montana high school students to prepare for, enter into, and complete degrees in postsecondary fields related to science, technology, engineering, mathematics and healthcare. ... Read More

06/09/2015

Montana Tech and the Pita Pit invite you to eat at the Pita Pit in Butte as 100% of the proceeds raised on June 10 will be donated to the Kevin and Joan Shannon Scholarship Fund. ... Read More

06/09/2015

The Montana Tech Orediggers are about to turn the heads of NASCAR fans as they unveil the No. 27 Montana Tech Ford in late July in Butte, Montana. ... Read More

06/08/2015

Ten Montana Tech Oredigger Hockey players were named 2014-15 American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) D2 Academic All-Americans. ... Read More

05/28/2015

The Center for Advanced Mineral and Metallurgical Processing (CAMP) at Montana Tech has partnered with Space Propulsion Group (SPG), formerly of Sunnyvale, CA. ... Read More

05/21/2015

In 1987 Kevin Shannon, a local Butte businessman, started a scholarship club to support Butte High School and Butte Central High School students who plan to pursue higher education at Montana Tech. ... Read More

05/21/2015

Jessica Gregory, an instructor and teaching assistant for Montana Tech's Biology Department and University of Montana Interdisciplinary Studies Ph.D. student, won a national microbe imaging contest. ... Read More

05/20/2015

What do 12 Montana Tech students, 13 days, and over 20,000 miles have in common? The 37th International Mining Games! ... Read More

05/16/2015

Montana Tech held the 115th Commencement on Saturday, May 16, graduating 539 students. ... Read More

05/16/2015

Montana Tech announced the Outstanding Student Awards at the 115th Commencement Ceremony held at the Butte Civic Center on Saturday, May 16, 2015. ... Read More

05/15/2015

View the 2015 Chancellor's edition of Montana Tech's alumni magazine MNews. ... Read More

05/14/2015

On Saturday, May 16, Jesse Bowden will have earned three degrees from Montana Tech. ... Read More

05/14/2015

Mr. K. Marc LeVier, Chief Executive Officer and President of Great Western Minerals Group, will receive an honorary doctorate of science degree from Montana Tech during the university's 115th commencement ceremony. ... Read More

05/14/2015

Montana Tech will honor three alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award at the university's 115th Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 16, 2015. ... Read More

05/13/2015

What started as a house project turned into a career for Highlands College graduate Elizabeth Lyons. ... Read More

05/13/2015

Montana Tech Chancellor Don Blackketter will present Frank Aplan and Floyd Bossard with the Chancellor's Medallion at the university's commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 16, 2015. ... Read More

05/13/2015

Please join Cfwep.Org, the Clark Fork Watershed Education Program, and 4th and 5th grade students from Whittier School to clean-up Blacktail Creek. ... Read More

05/13/2015

Dr. John W. Ray has had a peer reviewed paper presentation accepted for the international French/German Kant Society Congress to be held in late September at Johannes Guttenberg University in Mainz, Germany. ... Read More

05/12/2015

Military veteran and single father Karsan Sprague is ready to start his new career. ... Read More

05/12/2015

The Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology at Montana Tech has named Dr. Don Winston as the recipient of the 2015 Uuno Sahinen Silver Medallion. ... Read More

05/12/2015

Montana Tech Health Care Informatics students, Nicole Rudolph and Bailey Lubick, were selected as Program Assistants to participate in the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2015 Conference in Chicago. ... Read More

05/11/2015

Lindsay Carlson graduated at the top of her class from Montana Tech and is continuing her exceptional research at Utah State University. ... Read More

05/11/2015

Montana Tech will celebrate its 115th Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in the Butte Civic Center. ... Read More

05/07/2015

Sandy Stash has been named as the commencement speaker for Montana Tech's 2015 ceremony. ... Read More

05/07/2015

Dr. John W. Ray of Montana Tech's Liberal Studies Department has had a peer reviewed paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Rhetoric of Evidence Conference: Epistemic Models and Rhetorical Practice in Science, Education and Culture held at Heidelberg University under the auspices of Tubingen University, Germany. ... Read More

05/06/2015

Solvay USA Inc., formerly Rhodia Inc., has awarded their annual The Solvay USA Inc. Engineering for Environmental Protection Scholarship to Thomas Bolton of Butte Central High School and Levin Mullaney of Butte High School. ... Read More

05/05/2015

The Montana Tech Band's Tenth Spring Concert will be held on Sunday, May 10th in the Montana Tech Auditorium at 3:00 PM. ... Read More

04/28/2015

Program started by Greg Gianforte and Rob Irizarry aimed at introducing computer science to junior high and high school students across Montana will now be administered by Montana Tech. ... Read More

04/28/2015

Dr. Jack Skinner, Assistant Professor in the General Engineering Department, has been invited to provide a seminar and submit a journal article on his research lab's work on nanotechnology-based materials and devices at the 2015 SPIE Optics + Photonics Meeting in San Diego during August. ... Read More

04/22/2015

Dr. John W. Ray of Montana Tech's Liberal Studies Department was recently invited to give a presentation at the EPA's Community Involvement Training Conference to be held this summer in Atlanta. ... Read More

04/22/2015

On March 17th, Montana Tech's Environmental Engineering and Petroleum Departments teamed up and competed in the first annual Society of Petroleum Engineers Health, Safety, Security and Environmental (HSSE) Competition in Denver, CO. ... Read More

04/21/2015

Brian Kukay, Ph.D., P.E. of Montana Tech's General Engineering Department was recently invited by International Code Council and National Structural Engineer's Association to present a webinar on the evaluation of existing buildings. ... Read More

04/21/2015

Montana Tech's College of Letters, Sciences, and Professional Studies will host the Spring 2015 Introduction to Psychology Poster Session on campus today. ... Read More

04/21/2015

The 2015 Montana Tech Environmental Design Team recently competed at the 25th IEE/WERC Annual Environmental Design Contest in Las Cruces, New Mexico. ... Read More

04/16/2015

In honor of Distracted Driving month, a fun and educational "Safety Charlie" event will take place in the SUB between 11:00 am and 1:00 pm on April 23. ... Read More

04/16/2015

The Butte-Silver Bow Health Department and Montana Tech are again partnering in the local sponsorship and promotion of the national "Get Yourself Tested" (GYT) Program. ... Read More

04/16/2015

This year, Montana Tech students participated in INBRE-funded Public Health Internships for the first time ever. ... Read More

04/15/2015

Seven members of the Montana Tech Digger Hockey team were selected to represent the Mountain West Collegiate Hockey League (MWCHL) at the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II National All-Star Challenge in West Chester, Pennsylvania this weekend. ... Read More

04/15/2015

Through collaboration with legislative leaders and the governor's office, the Montana University System has frozen the cost of tuition for the last 4 years at four year institutions and the last 8 years at two year institutions. ... Read More

04/14/2015

For the 6th year, Montana Tech celebrates National Student Employment week. ... Read More

04/09/2015

Montana Tech will host a roundbreaking ceremony for the newest building on campus, the Natural Resources Research Center (NRRC) on Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. in the parking lot north of the Mining & Geology Building. ... Read More

04/09/2015

Dr. Keith Vertanen, Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Montana Tech, along with his two students, Haythem Memmi and Justin Emge, received a best paper award for their paper title "VelociTap: Investigating Fast Mobile Text Entry using Sentence-Based Decoding of Touchscreen Keyboard Input." ... Read More

04/08/2015

Montana Tech student Macy Ricketts, a sophomore majoring in Cellular and Molecular Biology, has been awarded Honorable Mention by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship Foundation. ... Read More

04/07/2015

Montana Tech invites the community to attend the public lecture by Dr. William D. Phillips—1997 Nobel Laureate in physics. ... Read More

04/03/2015

Montana Tech's April safety video encourages faculty, staff and students to be mindful drivers--no texting, eating or other distracting behaviors--when you are behind the wheel. ... Read More

03/31/2015

In response to a $15 Million federal infusion of grant dollars into Montana's higher education system to enhance Health Care Workforce Development, Montana Tech announced today that Annette Kankelborg has been hired as the Montana Health Care Grant Coordinator on the Montana Tech campus. ... Read More

03/30/2015

While prepping for its 10th annual Kids College, Montana Tech is excited to celebrate a new Kids College sponsor. ... Read More

03/30/2015

Highlands College will hold its Spring Student Research, Creative and Scholarly Activity Celebration on Wednesday, April 1st. ... Read More

03/30/2015

Dr. Courtney Young, Department Head and Lewis S. Prater Professor of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering at Montana Tech, received a President,s Citation Award from the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME). ... Read More

03/26/2015

Montana Tech Career Services will sponsor the 4th Annual Montana Tech Spring Volunteer Fair on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. ... Read More

03/10/2015

Army Research Lab awarded a 5-year Cooperative Agreement to Montana Tech on March 5, 2015. ... Read More

03/10/2015

The Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology will host its second annual student poster session Thursday, March 12, 2015 from 5 to 6 p.m. ... Read More

03/06/2015

The Montana Board of Regents approved the offering of a 4-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree on the campus of Montana Tech. ... Read More

03/05/2015

The mining engineering program at Montana Tech was featured by Mining Global as a top program in the United States. ... Read More

03/05/2015

Through the efforts of the Business & Information Technology (BIT) department, Montana Tech has become the first college or university in Montana to be invited to be a member of the SAP University Alliance. ... Read More

03/03/2015

Montana Tech was mentioned in Monday's The Wall Street Journal as a top 10 Best Public University for Return on Investment. ... Read More

02/26/2015

Committed to assist STEM instruction at all levels, Montana Tech and its Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering have partnered with ASM Materials Education Foundation to host a free one-week professional development workshop on minerals, metals and materials this summer. ... Read More

02/23/2015

The Montana Tech Digger Hockey team qualified for the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II Western Regional Tournament hosted by Arizona State University in Tempe on February 28th and March 1st. ... Read More

02/23/2015

Montana Tech's Institute for Educational Opportunities and the Student Assistance Foundation will host College Goal Montana on February 24th from 5:30-7:30pm at the Butte High School Library. ... Read More

02/19/2015

Rod Alne, President of The Peak, Inc. of Butte, Montana and Montana Tech adjunct faculty member, is featured in the March issue of Outdoor Life Magazine. ... Read More

02/19/2015

This year, Montana Tech will offer a series of camps for high school students entering their sophomore or junior year in fall 2015. ... Read More

02/16/2015

The following Montana Tech students have been placed on the Honor Roll (HR), Dean's List (DL), and Chancellor's Honor Roll (CL) for the fall semester 2014 at Montana Tech in Butte, Montana. ... Read More

02/12/2015

Montana Tech engineering students took home the first-place trophy for their hands-on ability to estimate a multi-million dollar project and produce a real-world bid in the heavy civil engineering category of the Associated Schools of Construction Competition (ASC) held in Reno, Nevada on February 4 through the 7. ... Read More

02/12/2015

The Montana Tech Honors Program is planning a short-term study abroad trip to Spain in May 2016. The trip is open to all Montana Tech students, faculty, staff and their families. ... Read More

02/02/2015

Dr. John W. Ray of Montana Tech's Liberal Studies Department has had an article entitled "Parliamentary Procedure as a Means of Mending Our Broken Politics" accepted for publication in a forthcoming edition of Parliamentary Journal which is an international journal published by the American Institute of Parliamentarians to advance the understanding and practice of parliamentary procedure. ... Read More

02/02/2015

The public is invited to attend the 7th Annual Montana Tech CareerSMART Fair pre-event workshops on Tuesday, February 10th on the Montana Tech campus in the Student Union Building. ... Read More

01/29/2015

Montana Tech nursing students received a year end result of 94.29% on the National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX). ... Read More

01/26/2015

The Student Leadership at Highlands College is sponsoring a Super Bowl Football Pool with all of the funds generated to be donated to the Cancer Center at St. James Healthcare in honor of Dr. Peter Sorini and his family. ... Read More

01/22/2015

The Montana Tech Hockey team will host Washington State University this weekend at the Butte Community Ice Center. ... Read More

01/22/2015

High in the backcountry of Glacier National Park, something strange happens to the landscape. As the mountains rise and forests give way to open screefields, the land develops stripes, like a zebra. A deep green and tan zebra. ... Read More

01/21/2015

The winter research edition of Montana Tech's alumni magazine MNews is ready for viewing. ... Read More

01/21/2015

Highlands College of Montana Tech will sponsor its 2015 Wellness Fair for students, faculty and staff on Wednesday, February 4th from 10 am to 1 pm. ... Read More

01/20/2015

Need money for a worthwhile cause? Montana Tech invites the public to a free grant writing workshop on Tuesday February 10th from 5:30pm-7:00pm at the Montana Tech Library. ... Read More