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Lifestyle Benefits Lure Engineers Back to Small-Town America – Missoula, Montana

Back when James Stephens graduated from the University of Montana with degrees in chemical engineering and industrial microbiology, the fly-fishing in the sleepy city of the northern Rocky Mountains was unmatched. So were the views. But there was not a biotech job within 400 miles.

Today Missoula has become an unlikely engineering and technology hub. There are 33 computer and telecommunications companies alone. And Stephens, who left Montana to work at Fortune 500 companies including Cargill and Tyson Foods, has happily come home to join them, bringing his startup biotech company, Blue Marble http://bluemarblebio.com/ .

By Jon Marcus

Full Story: http://blogs.ptc.com/2012/10/02/lifestyle-benefits-lure-engineers-back-to-small-town-america/?goback=.gde_1868765_member_174758975

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Thanks to Paul Gladen for sharing this.

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Back To Montana – the mario blog – to live an interesting life – October 10, 2012 http://www.matr.net/article-52248.html

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