Incubators and R&D

"We hope to use this method to build out our biology department," Figueira said. "The state is hard-pressed to provide money for start-ups or equipment and these federal grants are a way to provide that start-up money."

"And all of these grants are helping to allow us to make thrusts into those health care and biomedical areas," Figueira said. "And I think it will grow so that the self-sustaining requirement won’t be an issue. I see a lot more federal grants and students taking new courses."

Fort Peck beef More than 100 people – most of them American Indians — raise livestock on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, estimates Vince Smith, professor of agricultural economics/economics at Montana State University. How do…

Further, the U.S. Department of Commerce tells us that for every $1 million of research and development spending, 36 new jobs are created.

"You’re going to see an emboldened conservative majority in Congress telling the president, ‘You cannot continue to spend the way you’ve been spending the past couple of years,’ " he says.

"First and foremost, (the contract was appealing) because of its future and its connection with nuclear energy research," Madia said. "We think the energy shortage is a serious problem and nuclear is a component of the solution."

"It’s taken years to get to this point, but it’s a good starting point for people to see the alternative energy program we are trying to grow," Williamson said. "There’s lots of other things that are happening now and are going to happen, but this gives people something to kick the tires on.

Dairy cow power Farmers with small operations might be able to benefit from turning manure into electricity. Blair Stringam, assistant professor of agricultural operations technology at MSU, wants to develop technology for very small farms…

The journal Nature Medicine ranked a 1994 discovery by scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton as a "major biomedical achievement" in its November edition.

The research clinic has drawn interest from scientists as far away as Australia, and many of the 38 National Cancer Institute sites across the country, said Dr. Brad Black, a CARD clinic physician.

Montana’s universities have been lobbying Congress and federal agencies for years, raising roughly $150 million a year for research projects. By Chronicle Staff http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2004/10/27/news/lobbyingsidebar.txt Now the Montana Board of Regents wants to be in on…