Incubators and R&D

Four University of Washington students earned $25,000 and an opportunity to walk the walk when their idea for a high-tech company won the UW business school’s entrepreneurial business plan competition Tuesday. By Lisa Heyamoto Seattle…

Montana State University recently received a $400,000 USDA grant to fund a statewide Sheep Institute. The Montana Sheep Institute is a cooperative program of MSU, the Montana Wool Growers Association and the Montana sheep industry….

Two new businesses have signed up as client companies with the Montana Business Incubator in Billings. by Leanne H. Frost Western Business Osteo Northwest and Kids Stuff Consignment became the third and fourth companies, respectively,…

Scientists working for the Pentagon have trained ordinary honeybees to ignore flowers and home in on minute traces of explosives, a preliminary step toward creating a buzzing, swarming detection system that could be used to…

Documenting Shakespeare This will be the 30th season for Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, an outdoor touring company that has been crisscrossing the state since 1973. Tom Watson, assistant professor in MSU’s media and theatre…

Space lab The solar system is by far the best laboratory for testing gravitational theories, says Ron Hellings, research professor of physics at MSU. So if you want to see what gravity is doing, look…

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…