MISSOULA, Montana, Sept. 8 (TNSper) -- The University of Montana issued the following news release: As a student at the University of Montana School of Journalism, Jacob Baynham found inspiration in a visiting professor who pushed him to be a better writer and reporter. Now, Baynham is returning to encourage a new generation as UM's next T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Professor. After graduating in 2007, Jacob Baynham freelanced around Asia for The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek and other more PR

MISSOULA, Montana, Sept. 9 (TNSper) -- The University of Montana issued the following news release: The University of Montana has announced that Kelsey Jencso, a faculty member and renowned researcher, will receive an endowed position to elevate research and teaching in water science and management. Jencso will serve as the inaugural W.A. Franke Endowed Faculty Chair in Watershed Hydrology, a position created by the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation to lead in research, teaching more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 7 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2022: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen today announced that Montana will receive at least $6.1 million under an agreement in principle between JUUL Labs resolving a multi-state investigation into the e-cigarette manufacturer's marketing and sales practices. In addition to the financial terms, the settlement would force JUUL to comply with a series of strict injunctive terms s more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 8 -- Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2022: Amid efforts by the Biden administration to overhaul Title IX, Governor Greg Gianforte today urged the administration to abandon its plans to undermine equal opportunity for Montana girls and women. The governor also called on Montanans to submit public comment on the proposed changes to make their voice heard. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ensures women have equal acc more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 9 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Ryan Zinke, Republican candidate for MT-01, has now skipped the third Western District debate in a row. He has kept a very low-profile on the debate trail ever since a damning report by a Trump-appointed Inspector General revealed that Zinke had lied to investigators who were conducting a corruption and criminal investigation into Zinke during his short, scandal-plagued tenure at the Department of the In more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 7 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: The state legislative elections this November could have resounding consequences on labor and workers' rights in Montana, as the Montana GOP has grown increasingly anti-worker and pushed hard during the last legislative session attempting to pass so-called "right-to-work" legislation. Thanks to a united front between labor activists, unions, Democratic lawmakers, and some moderate Republicans, the 2021  more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, Sept. 7 (TNSres) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: A long time ago in galaxies millions to billions of light years away, gas and dust particles were ejected from their orbits around black holes and hurtled into space. Later, on 21st century Earth, those particles' optical wavelength emissions were picked up by a powerful telescope, recorded in an astronomical data bank and then analyzed by a Montana State University graduate student looking for th more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, Sept. 9 (TNSres) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: Over the next three years, a Montana State University professor and his students will fly drones over wintry landscapes in Montana and Finland to measure albedo, the proportion of energy reflected from surfaces on the earth. Those field expeditions will be timed as closely as possible with the overpass of satellites taking simultaneous albedo measurements from the same locations. The drone- and sa more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, Sept. 7 (TNSeco) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: Logan Health has signed a letter of intent to donate land for a new nursing education building in Kalispell to be built with a portion of a $101 million investment by philanthropists Mark and Robyn Jones to Montana State University. "We're excited to be involved in this investment in the education for our future nurses. There's no better training than learning alongside the highly qualified, exper more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Sept. 10 (TNSper) -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release on Sept. 9, 2022: An experienced scholar in American Indian studies who grew up on Montana's Blackfeet Indian Reservation and has worked for nearly a decade on Wyoming's Wind River Indian Reservation has been selected to facilitate research partnerships between the University of Wyoming and the Wind River tribes. Tarissa Spoonhunter, most recently an associate professor at Central Wyoming College more PR