Incubators and R&D

After nearly three years of construction, a new facility at Hamilton’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories opens its doors with scientists waiting in the wings. By JENNY JOHNSON Staff Reporter The new, highly secure lab will allow…

Waiting for hemp According to Montana law, it’s legal to grow industrial hemp in this state — but the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency disagrees. Unless that conflict is resolved, don’t expect to see local farmers…

UM programmers excited for blast-off In May when a billion-dollar NASA satellite the size of a semi-truck sitting on top of a "huge" rocket blasts into space carrying UM designed software, programmer Andrew Neuschwander will…

Local research could help rivers all over the world Two UM geology professors want to create a research center that would bring a variety of researchers from all over the world to UM to study…

George Carlson, senior scientist and director of the McLaughlin Research Institute, said Friday that mice are treated properly at the research facility. By Tribune Staff He was reacting to a videotape made by People for…

A reception and press con ference will be held Tuesday to recognize the Montana Tech Environmental Design Team’s recent success at the International Environmental Design Contest in Las Cruces, N.M. By the Standard Staff The…

Congratulations go to the following winners of this month’s Phase 0 grants: Montana Microbial Products LLC 510 East Kent Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 542 9404 Phase 0 Title: Enyzmatic Hydrolysis and Fermentation of Sugar Beet…

Great Falls native Dr. Irving Weissman will be crowned the 44th California Scientist of the Year next month. By RICHARD ECKE Tribune Staff Writer Weissman, a Stanford University professor and medical doctor, will receive the…

Space cassettes If everything goes as planned, Elinor Pulcini, two other MSU researchers and three or four undergraduates will head for the Kennedy Space Center in July. They will load bacteria into 16 cassettes designed…

VP of research and development feels at home in Montana Bryan O’Connor Montana Kaimin — This is the fifth story in a weekly series of interviews with university administrators that will run in the Kaimin….