Montana Education/Business Partnerships

Whyte gave five executive-in-residence lectures at the Montana State University Billings College of Business and is visiting seven local retailers, including Billings Hardware and the Ace Hardware stores. The Stihl story was featured in a 2010 book co-authored by Tim Wilkinson, interim dean for the MSU Billings Business College: "The Distribution Trap: Keeping Your Innovations from Becoming Commodities."

I have started a company that is focused on donating classic cars to late teens and adults that meet the requirements of an application process.

"I’m so proud of our Montana students and I can’t wait to see how this once-in-a-lifetime learning opportunity will boost their ideas for the future. Warren is one of the world’s most successful investors and I have no doubt he’ll have some sage advice for our students to bring back and contribute to Montana’s economic potential," said Baucus who was an ardent advocate for the meeting.

"Bozeman is hundreds of miles away from the schools targeted by the TEAMS program," said Watson. "We have dedicated educators in those schools who want to participate, but they can’t make the trip to MSU, either because of the distance or because they are working with students throughout the summer. So we’re going to bring the workshops to them."

Since Baucus championed the 2009 overhaul of the TAA program, hundreds more Montanans who have lost their jobs have become eligible for training programs, health care and wage assistance.

"About half of the students who go through this program go to work right after they graduate, and the other half pursue more education," Wilkins said. "We get great support from our local auto body shops and they keep us on our toes, too."

"Signals and Noise, Oh Boy!" is about the NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto and helps students better understand how spacecraft communicate with Earth and how that communication is affected by all the background noise of objects in the universe.

​The federal government on Thursday announced that community colleges and their partners can apply for grants through a $2 billion training program geared toward workers dislocated because their jobs have moved abroad.

Students at Sentinel High School in Missoula are learning computer skills in shop class while building school pride.

Turner is the perfect speaker for Northern, with his interests in conservation and environmentalism reflected largely in Northern’s programs in bio-energy research.