Montana State University researchers net grant to study fuel-producing fungi

Last December, Angie Tomsheck walked into her professor’s office and told him she didn’t want to go home for the holidays, she didn’t want to take her exams — heck, she didn’t even want to eat lunch.

"At last," Gary Strobel, her research professor, told her, "you know what it’s like to discover."

Tomsheck, who at the time was a Montana State University junior studying microbiology, had just discovered a fungus that produced eucalyptol – a rare compound only previously known to be found in eucalyptus bark.

By CARLY FLANDRO, Chronicle Staff Writer

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