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MSU News Service In recent years, the effect of trauma on students' educations has become more widely recognized, but Montana State University researcher Christine Stanton says an important question remains: How can education research help when education itself is traumatic for many students? Stanton, an associate professor in the Department of Education, and Robert Petrone, a former MSU faculty member who is now an associate professor at the University of Missouri, have published an article in a prominent academic journal exploring the...
BOZEMAN — Dr. Irving Weissman, a world-renowned stem cell scientist who currently serves as director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, will deliver a guest lecture, “Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine, Cancer, and as Rogue Cells in Disease,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, at Montana State University’s Museum of the Rockies. The event is free and open to the public. “Dr. Weissman has made many seminal contributions to our understanding of the immune system and the m...
BOZEMAN — Eva Schloss, a Holocaust survivor and the stepsister of Anne Frank, will speak at Montana State University this fall. Schloss will participate in a Q&A session to be held as part of “A Historic Evening with Eva Schloss” at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, in MSU’s Strand Union Building Ballrooms. Also participating in the Q&A will be Rabbi Chaim Bruk, executive director of Chabad Lubavitch of Montana. MSU President Waded Cruzado will lead the session. Schloss was born Eva Geiringer in 1929 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family. Accordi...
BOZEMAN — An innovative program at Montana State University that supports Montana students based on their effort and potential will be sustained into the future with the help of a new $1 million endowment, university officials announced today. The endowment will support the Hilleman Scholars Program, named after MSU graduate and vaccinologist Maurice Hilleman. The funds are from Lorraine Hilleman, Maurice Hilleman’s widow, as well as from 11 additional individual donors and from Merck & Co., where Maurice Hilleman spent the majority of his car...
