Montana | 39 Years as an EPSCoR State
Did you know Montana was one of the original five NSF EPSCoR states when the program was established by the National Science Foundation? EPSCoR was established in 1979 to help build science and technology infrastructure in states that, at that time, received the least federal research and development funding. The goal was to give broader geographic distribution of federal funding, which had been concentrated in a relatively few number of states. The experiment was a huge success, and Montana has received EPSCoR funding ever since.