BOZEMAN, Montana, Sept. 13 (TNSconf) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: Montana State University will host former astronaut Mae Jemison for a lecture on Nov. 14. "An Evening with Mae Jemison: First African American Woman in Space" will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Strand Union Building ballrooms on MSU's campus. The event is open to the public and will include opening remarks from MSU President Waded Cruzado. Jemison served six years as a NASA astronaut and is an  more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 15 (TNSpar) -- Carroll College issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2022: The Montana Department of Commerce announced today a collaboration with Carroll College's Math and Data Science Department and Commerce's Research and Information Services (RIS) Bureau to build population and housing projection models. These models will be used to forecast and plan for future community development and land-use planning in the state. The partnership is through Carroll Coll more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 15 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release on Sept. 14, 2022: Montana Attorney General Knudsen called on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to postpone for a month its hasty decision to cut in half the flow rates out of Fort Peck Dam and protect the northeast Montana sugar beet harvest. In a letter sent Wednesday to Colonel Mark Himes, USACE Commander and Engineer for the Omaha District, Attorney General Knudsen explained how th more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 15 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release and letter: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general today called on President Biden to classify fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. The 18 attorneys general demanded the president take decisive action in response to the record nationwide increase in overdose deaths related to the lethal substance. This action would require the Department o more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 13 -- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following news release on Sept. 13, 2022: Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen led a 17-state coalition against the Biden administration's attempt to redefine the concept of biological sex to include "gender identity" and weaken the protections women have received from Title IX for the last fifty years. Attorney General Knudsen and the coalition submitted formal comment Monday to the U.S. Department of Education  more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 13 -- Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2022, and letter: Joined by 21 other governors, Governor Greg Gianforte today called on President Joe Biden to immediately withdraw his student loan forgiveness plan, which shifts the burden of the loans from borrowers to the American people. "As governors, we support making higher education more affordable and accessible for students in our states, but we fundamentally oppose your plan  more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 17 -- Gov. Greg Gianforte, R-Montana, issued the following news release on Sept. 16, 2022: Governor Greg Gianforte today announced both the number of Montanans working and the size of Montana's labor force grew to new all-time highs in August, according to data compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Montana Department of Labor & Industry. "Hardworking Montanans are fueling our strong economy, which grew at the seventh fastest rate in the country la more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 17 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Governor Greg Gianfore's Fish, Wildlife, and Parks commission (FWP) has spent the last year and a half slowly but methodically rewriting the state's wildlife management policies to benefit a select few. Gianforte's approach to Montana's public resources have followed a predictable arc: ignore environmental experts and bend the rules to be favorable to his rich, well-connected friends and donors. Let's  more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 14 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Rep. Matt Rosendale recently visited a weapons manufacturer, Hoplite Armor, and posted what felt alarmingly like a sponsored ad for the company, praising their "high grade, exceedingly military standards." The business - which incidentally is in not the district Rosendale is running for this November - has a history of sharing anti-semitic posts, and promoting deeply anti-government, secessionist propag more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 17 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Ryan Zinke, then-Secretary of the Interior, was one of five Cabinet Secretaries who planned on deserting Trump in the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections, according to a new book on the Trump presidency. The shocking revelations reveal that there is nothing consistent with Zinke's retelling of his time serving as Montana's first cabinet secretary. Was Ryan Zinke fired from the White House because he  more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 16 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: The defining moment in Ryan Zinke's tenure at the Department of the Interior was his recommendation that President Trump illegally revoke Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. The result? The single largest rollback of land protections in American history. "This is not about energy," Zinke told reporters after the protections had been rolled back. "There is no mine within Bears E more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 14 -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following news release: Tuesday morning, a Senate Republican introduced a nationwide abortion ban in the US Senate, despite the fact that for months they have assured Americans that the decision should be left to the states. Less than two months away from the November midterm elections, Montana voters deserve to know how the Republican party, and more specifically, how Senator Steve Daines plans on voting on the nationwide ba more PR

HELENA, Montana, Sept. 16 (TNStalk) -- The Montana Democratic Party issued the following statement on Sept. 14, 2022: * * * On Tuesday, Montana's junior senator, Steve Daines, cosponsored Sen. Lindsey Graham's national abortion ban. In response, Sheila Hogan, executive director of the Montana Democratic Party, released the following statement: "Senator Daines is dangerously preoccupied with controlling women's healthcare and reproductive freedom. He won't stop until he can intrude upon Montan more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: As a result of new research involving a cutting-edge facility at Montana State University, agricultural biomass that would otherwise sit in farmers' fields could instead be turned into plastic beverage bottles and food containers. Stephanie Wettstein, associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in MSU's Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering, is leading a project  more PR

BOZEMAN, Montana, Sept. 10 (TNSawa) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: Being relatively new to academia, Rodrigo Marques, an assistant professor in the Department of Animal and Range Sciences at Montana State University, never anticipated receiving awards for his research, at least this early in his career. But, despite the short time he has been part of the College of Agriculture faculty, he has gained recognition for his research centered on maternal nutrition of b more PR

BILLINGS, Montana, Sept. 15 (TNSconf)(TNSres) -- Montana State University-Billings issued the following news: By Maureen Brakke, director of University Communications & Marketing Montana State University Billings professors Susan Gilbertz, Ph.D., and Rodrigo Lobo, Ph.D., will be at the forefront of a three-day international sustainability research conference in Villa Nova de Gaia in Portugal, next week. MSU Billings is the only U.S. higher education institution participating in the conference. more PR

BILLINGS, Montana, Sept. 13 (TNSpro) -- Montana State University-Billings issued the following news on Sept. 12, 2022: By Maureen Brakke, director of University Communications & Marketing Montana State University Billings Student Health Services will offer qualifying MSUB students equine assisted services (EAS) as an additional method for counseling at no additional cost starting this fall. This pilot program is shared through Riverstone Health's Department of Public Health and Human Services  more PR