College of Letters & Science
The College of Letters and Science, the largest center for learning, teaching and research at Montana State University, offers students an excellent liberal arts and sciences education in nearly 50 majors, 25 minors and over 25 graduate degrees within the four areas of the humanities, natural sciences, mathematics and social sciences.
Sub-communities within this community
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Agricultural Economics & Economics
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American Studies
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Chemistry & Biochemistry
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Earth Sciences
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Ecology
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History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
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Mathematical Sciences
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Modern Languages & Literatures
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Native American Studies
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Physics
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Political Science
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Psychology
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Sociology and Anthropology
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Recent Submissions
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A Holocene history of monkey puzzle tree (pehuén) in northernmost Patagonia
(Wiley, 2020-12)Aim Although it is established that climate and fire have greatly influenced the long-term ecosystem dynamics of Patagonia south of 40°S, the environmental history from northernmost Patagonia (37–40°S), where endemic and ... -
Associations Between Childhood Abuse and COVID-19 Hyperarousal in Adulthood: The Role of Social Environment
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021-02)Background: Childhood abuse increases risk for high levels of distress in response to future stressors. Interpersonal social support is protective for health, particularly during stress, and may be particularly beneficial ... -
A retrospective view of early research on dominance, stress and reproduction in cooperatively breeding carnivores
(Elsevier BV, 2022-04)Social carnivores have been central in studies of cooperative breeding, and research using noninvasive methods to examine behavioral and endocrine mechanisms of reproductive suppression started in the 1980s with dwarf ... -
What Structural Features Make Porous Carbons Work for Redox-Enhanced Electrochemical Capacitors? A Fundamental Investigation
(American Chemical Society, 2021-02)The addition of redox-active molecules into electrochemical-capacitor electrolytes provides increased specific energy density. Here we illustrate the underlying operational mechanisms and design principles for carbons with ... -
Size-specific apparent survival rate estimates of white sharks using mark–recapture models
(Canadian Science Publishing, 2019-02)Abstract: For species that exist at low abundance or are otherwise difficult to study, it is challenging to estimate vital rates such as survival and fecundity and common to assume that survival rates are constant across ... -
Provenance analysis of Cretaceous peripheral foreland basin in central Tibet: Implications to precise timing on the initial Lhasa-Qiangtang collision
(Elsevier BV, 2020-01)Mesozoic strata along northern margin of the Lhasa terrane near Dingqing, Tibet provide a semi-continuous record of the Bangong-Nujiang Ocean closure and the subsequent Lhasa-Qiangtang collision. In this study, we present ... -
The easternmost occurrence of Mammut pacificus (Proboscidea: Mammutidae), based on a partial skull from eastern Montana, USA
(PeerJ, 2020-11)Mammut pacificus is a recently described species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of California and Idaho. We report the easternmost occurrence of this taxon based upon the palate with right and left M3 of an adult male ... -
The design of tasks that address applications to teaching secondary mathematics for use in undergraduate mathematics courses
(Elsevier, 2020-12)his paper describes theoretical design principles emerging from the development of tasks for standard undergraduate mathematics courses that address applications to teaching secondary mathematics. While researchers recognize ... -
Texto y contexto en la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
(Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2020-03)La naturaleza compleja de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala admite diferentes —y aun contradictorias— lecturas. La poca información que tenemos hasta el día de hoy acercade este autor indígena ... -
Why Bayesian Ideas Should Be Introduced in the Statistics Curricula and How to Do So
(Informa UK Limited, 2020-09)While computing has become an important part of the statistics field, course offerings are still influenced by a legacy of mathematically centric thinking. Due to this legacy, Bayesian ideas are not required for undergraduate ... -
Ectomycorrhizal and Dark Septate Fungal Associations of Pinyon Pine Are Differentially Affected by Experimental Drought and Warming
(Frontiers Media SA, 2020-10)Changing climates can cause shifts in temperature and precipitation, resulting in warming and drought in some regions. Although each of these factors has been shown to detrimentally affect forest ecosystems worldwide, ... -
Post-Fire Vegetation Response in a Repeatedly Burned Low-Elevation Sagebrush Steppe Protected Area Provides Insights About Resilience and Invasion Resistance
(Frontiers Media SA, 2020-11)Sagebrush steppe ecosystems are threatened by human land-use legacies, biological invasions, and altered fire and climate dynamics. Steppe protected areas are therefore of heightened conservation importance but are few and ... -
Trajectory Determination for Coronal Ejecta Observed by WISPR/Parker Solar Probe
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-10)The Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) onboard the Parker Solar Probe (PSP), observing in white light, has a fixed angular field of view, extending from 13.5∘ to 108∘ from the Sun and approximately 50∘ in the ... -
Providing goal reminders eliminates the relationship between working memory capacity and Stroop errors
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021-01)Previous research has shown that list-wide effects in the Stroop task interact with working memory capacity (WMC). The predominant explanation for this relationship is goal maintenance. However, some researchers have ... -
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Planktonic- and Biofilm-Conditioned Media Elicit Discrete Metabolic Responses in Human Macrophages
(MDPI AG, 2020-10)Macrophages (MΦs) are prevalent innate immune cells, present throughout human bodily tissues where they orchestrate innate and adaptive immune responses to maintain cellular homeostasis. MΦs have the capacity to display a ... -
Après Nous, le Déluge: A Human‐Triggered Jökulhlaup From a Subglacial Lake
(American Geophysical Union, 2020-11)Glacial floods (jökulhlaups) are a phenomenon of some temperate ice masses; they are a significant natural hazard, but their complex hydrology is incompletely understood.We document a jökulhlaup from a subglacial lake in ... -
SnowCloudMetrics: Snow Information for Everyone
(2020-10)Snow is a critical component of the climate system, provides fresh water for millions of people globally, and affects forest and wildlife ecology. Snowy regions are typically data sparse, especially in mountain environments. ... -
Evaluating wildlife translocations using genomics: A bighorn sheep case study
(Wiley, 2020-12)Wildlife restoration often involves translocation efforts to reintroduce species and supplement small, fragmented populations. We examined the genomic consequences of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) translocations and ... -
The ultrafast onset of exciton formation in 2D semiconductors
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-10)The equilibrium and non-equilibrium optical properties of single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are determined by strongly bound excitons. Exciton relaxation dynamics in TMDs have been extensively studied ... -
Dual inhibition of the terminal oxidases eradicates antibiotic‐tolerant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(EMBO, 2020-12)The approval of bedaquiline has placed energy metabolism in the limelight as an attractive target space for tuberculosis antibiotic development. While bedaquiline inhibits the mycobacterial F1F0 ATP synthase, small molecules ...
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