Montana Education/Business Partnerships

Technology show-and-tell sessions have joined teaching and research as staples of academic life. By Jon Van Chicago Tribune staff reporter As universities have gotten into the business of starting new companies, more campuses are initiating…

Mark Ptashne and Tom Maniatis began more than two decades ago to research the mysteries of life’s genetic code, splicing strands of DNA, isolating genes, and growing proteins in bacterial and mammalian cells. By Naomi…

Georgia Tech topped the nation in its efforts to help state and local agencies with economic development, according to a study released by the Southern Growth Policies Board’s Southern Technology Council (STC). Conducted by Louis…

Montana State University English student Lance Novak was pretty nervous about talking about short stories with 90-year-old ladies at a Bozeman retirement home, but it helped him understand literary criticism better. By GAIL SCHONTZLER Chronicle…

The Pied Piper of technology gave a party for young geeks this weekend, but not enough kids could come out to play. By Michelle Delio Wired.com Teams from 38 high schools engaged in a heated…

It’s a familiar story: A middle school girl stops going to the computer lab after school because boys hog the machines. That was Susannah Camic’s experience. It bothered her enough that she wrote a 10th-grade…

Responding to the demands of business leaders to close the nation’s workforce skills gap, the National Skill Standards Board (NSSB) has created the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Voluntary Partnership to represent the telecommunications, computer…

Gov. Paul Patton announced today a technical education partnership that creates a more seamless path to postsecondary education and training for Kentucky high school students, allowing them to get a head start on their college…

ASPEN — The technology boom and bust of the past half-decade laid the foundation for a new world economy, one tech entrepreneur said Sunday. By Janet Forgrieve , Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer "We just…

In a major effort to convince Montanans that the university system is a lucrative business — rather than a bottomless pit of expenses — UM is launching a three-part study to measure the economic impact…