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Wild Sustenance: Innovative Course Introduces UM Students to Hunting – “This was the coolest and most practical class I have ever taken,” Hanson said, “and my freezer is the proof.”

“Almost all of us who are hunters learned from relatives and friends. We had opportunities,” said course instructor Joshua Millspaugh, UM’s Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife Conservation. “There is such an impediment to those who didn’t have that opportunity. The students that are here say, ‘I’ve always been interested in learning more, but I don’t know where to start.’

Montana State University – ‘Mountains & Minds’ Fall 2022 Magazine

Advancing entrepreneurship

Growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at MSU helps students, faculty and alumni thrive

Montana Department of Commerce Awards Business Planning, Job Creation, and Workforce Training Grants to Seven Montana Communities

“We know that sustainable, good-paying jobs are at the core of creating financial resiliency for Montanans. That’s why Commerce will continue to assist local Montana businesses in creating more good-paying jobs for Montana workers,” said Montana Department of Commerce Director Scott Osterman.

“The Enrollment Cliff” – The incredible shrinking future of college

In four years, the number of students graduating from high schools across the country will begin a sudden and precipitous decline, due to a rolling demographic aftershock of the Great Recession.

UC Berkeley is No. 1 public school for startup founders in 2022 Pitchbook rankings

“That Berkeley is right at the top of the world’s universities for funded startups again will not be a surprise to many,” said Berkeley Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer Rich Lyons. “We have the geography, we have the culture, we have the width, breadth and scale. How the campus ecosystem has developed over the last 20 years tells our story.”

FVCC’s Website Redesign Project Earns Two Prestigious Awards

Project6 Design created a case study on their work to outline the problem, solution, and result achieved with the FVCC project. As experts in the education industry paired with first-hand knowledge from a wide variety of FVCC user groups, the resulting website exhibits a user-friendly, accessible, and now award-winning design.

Montana State receives $4.47 million award for improving cybersecurity

“When you go to the grocery store, you can look at product labels to see if what you’re buying contains peanuts so you don’t have an allergic reaction,” Izurieta said. “But with software it isn’t like that. A lot of times programmers build something and trust it to work without knowing the vulnerabilities. That’s one area of what we’re trying to fix.”

UM Native Excellence Programs Receive $250,000 Cognizant Foundation Gift

The Cognizant Foundation support also will help UM launch the Indigenous First-Year Experience program, new for the 2022-23 academic year. That program will foster a supportive cohort of first-year American Indian students while connecting them with critical resources to ensure a successful start to their college experience.

Center for Humane Technology – Together we must Align Technology with Humanity’s Best Interests

Our social media environment is broken. Want a roadmap to help fix it?

In one state, every class teaches climate change — even P.E. – Will your state be the second to do this?

The first state in the country to adopt learning standards obligating teachers to instruct kids about climate change across grade levels and subjects. The standards, which went into effect this fall, introduce students as young as kindergartners to the subject, not just in science class but in the arts, world languages, social studies and physical education. Supporters say the instruction is necessary to prepare younger generations for a world — and labor market — increasingly reshaped by climate change.

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

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Our range includes a flat range from 10-100 yards as well as a 20 target walking course for more realistic simulation of hunting scenarios.

Montana Technology Innovation Partnership (MTIP)- Promoting Technology Commercialization in the State of Montana.

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