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Montana State University is one of only 108 institutions - out of 4,600 - designated as “very high research activity” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of teaching. This means that MSU is among the top 2% of institutions in the United States in research which translates into significant opportunities for research, scholarship and creative work.

MSU’s inquiry and research-based curriculum inspires exploration and creativity, and ensures exposure to a broad range of disciplines. Every student participates in a research or creative experience from one of four areas: the arts, humanities, natural science and social sciences.

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Estudo com participação de cientista brasileiro revela como a geografia do clima, e não apenas o clima em si, influencia nos padrões de diversidade das espécies. Birger Strahl/Unsplash

Não são apenas o calor e a umidade que fazem dos climas tropicais os mais biodiversos da Terra

Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL); Catherine Graham, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Dave Roberts, Montana State University

Estudo com participação de cientista brasileiro revela como a geografia do clima, e não apenas o clima em si, influencia nos padrões de diversidade das espécies.
Natural selection can get to work in isolated locations. Birger Strahl/Unsplash

Tropical climates are the most biodiverse on Earth − but it’s not only because of how warm and wet they are

Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL); Catherine Graham, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Dave Roberts, Montana State University

A new study reveals how the geography of global climates influences the rich patterns of species diversity in an ever-changing world.
In heat and drought like the western U.S. and Canada are experiencing in 2021, all it takes is a spark to start a wildfire. Jim Watson/Getty Images

Skip the fireworks this record-dry 4th of July, over 150 wildfire scientists urge the US West

Philip Higuera, University of Montana; Alexander L. Metcalf, University of Montana; Dave McWethy, Montana State University, and Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado Boulder

Every year, the number of wildfires caused by humans spikes on Independence Day. There are safer ways to celebrate amid the heat and drought.
Infection fatality rate is simply the number of deaths divided by the number of infections, but finding those numbers is harder than it might seem. AP Photo/John Minchillo

How deadly is the coronavirus? The true fatality rate is tricky to find, but researchers are getting closer

Justin Silverman, Penn State and Alex Washburne, Montana State University

The percentage of people who die from a coronavirus infection is an important number for public health experts to know. Recent estimates now put it at 0.65%, far lower than initially thought.
The revelry that comes with college football comes with a serious social cost. Sergey Nivens/www.shutterstock.com

Big game days in college football linked with sexual assault

Jason Lindo, Texas A&M University; Isaac Swensen, Montana State University, and Peter Siminski, University of Technology Sydney

Reports of sexual assault increase by as much as 41 percent when the local college football team plays, according to researchers who say the increase is related to the drinking culture on campus.
The swollen Fitzroy River in Queensland, Australia, where heavy rains in early 2011 led to extraordinary regrowth with a global impact. Capt. W. M. & Tatters/Flickr

Record rains made Australia a giant green global carbon sink

Pep Canadell, CSIRO and Ben Poulter, Montana State University

Record-breaking rains triggered so much new growth across Australia that the continent turned into a giant green carbon sink to rival tropical rainforests including the Amazon, our new research shows…

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