The Mental Health Opportunities for Professional Empowerment in STEM (HOPES) project began in August 2021 as a collaboration between Montana Tech, MSU-Billings, and the University of Montana, with funding support from the National Science Foundation. The project, which just completed its pilot year, is funded through Summer 2024. The goal of HOPES is to design, pilot, assess, and implement evidence-based,…

The “CHIPS and Science Act’s” investments in the National Science Foundation will help the United States remain a global leader in innovation. Implementation of this legislation will be key to ensuring that ideas, talent and prosperity are unleashed across all corners of the nation. Learn more here: https://new.nsf.gov/chips

The E-RISE RII program supports the incubation of research teams and products in a scientific topical area that links to research priorities identified in the submitting jurisdiction’s approved Science and Technology (S&T) Plan. E-RISE RII invites innovative proposals that will lead to development and implementation of sustainable broad networks of individuals, institutions, and organizations that will transform…

NSF has released the solicitation for the 2023 RII Track-1. RII Track-1 awards provide up to $20 million total over five years to support research-driven improvements to jurisdictions’ physical and cyber infrastructure and human capital development in topical areas selected by the jurisdiction’s EPSCoR steering committee as having the best potential to improve future R&D competitiveness. 

Missoula, MT: University of Montana has selected Seth Bodnar as the18th President.  Montana University System leaders announced today that Seth Bodnar has accepted the offer to be the next president of the University of Montana. Subject to Board of Regents approval in November, Bodnar will assume the UM presidency on Jan. 1.

The Montana Institute on Ecosystems and partners have released the Montana Climate Assessment (MCA). The Montana Climate Assessment (MCA) is a product of the Montana University System’s Montana Institute on Ecosystems, in collaboration with the Montana Climate Office, Montana Water Center, and MSU Extension.The MCA, the first in a series of assessments, focuses on climate trends and their consequences for three of Montana’s vital…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded five jurisdictions nearly $20 million each through the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), which builds research and development capacity in states that demonstrate a commitment to research but have thus far lacked the levels of investment seen in other parts of the country. Funded jurisdictions are…

Drs. Tung-Chung Mou and Brian Chaffin with the University of Montana were awarded NSF EPSCoR Research Fellows (Track-4) awards. Dr. Mou will receive training at the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging (NCMI) to support his work on the analysis of the structure and function of specific proteins. Dr. Chaffin will partner with ecologists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to develop a statistical method for…

UM Professor of Wildlife Biology, Zac Cheviron, is the PI on a newly awarded $4M RII Track-2 FEC project in partnership with the University of Nebraska Lincoln. The Using Natural Variation to Educate, Innovate, and Lead (UNVEIL): A Collaborative Research Network to Advance Genome-to-Phenome Connections in the Wild project targets understanding how organisms function in complex environments and how they…

NSF has published the EPSCoR RII Track-1 RFP for 2017. Montana NSF EPSCoR is working with a team to develop a proposal. Key dates include July 31, 2017 for a Letter of Intent and an August 31, 2017 proposal deadline.