$1.3 million UM grant to boost fossil study in eastern Montana training middle school teachers and students on better ways to hunt for fossils

Eastern Montana ranks among the world’s premier fossil-hunting grounds, and a new $1.3 million grant to The University of Montana will train middle school teachers and their students on better ways to use this incredible natural classroom.

The three-year, National Science Foundation grant will fund the Paleo Exploration Project: Spatial Analysis of Fossil Finds in the Northern Plains. The effort will be a project of UM’s new Paleontology Center.

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