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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Cell Biology & Neuroscience
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Chemistry & Biochemistry
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Earth Sciences
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Ecology
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English
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History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
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Mathematical Sciences
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Microbiology and Immunology
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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
www.montana.edu/socanth
Recent Submissions
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The Whole in Small Compass: D'Arcy McNickle's Social Vision in The Surrounded
(2019-06-01)This essay aims to renew interest in D'Arcy McNickle's allotment-era novel set on the Flathead Indian Reservation, The Surrounded (1936), by drawing attention to how McNickle's social vision theorizes culture, history, and ... -
Protective Effects of a New C-Jun N-terminal Kinase Inhibitor in the Model of Global Cerebral Ischemia in Rats
(2019-05-19)c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) is activated by various brain insults and is implicated in neuronal injury triggered by reperfusion-induced oxidative stress. Some JNK inhibitors demonstrated neuroprotective potential in ... -
Neutrophil Immunomodulatory Activity of Natural Organosulfur Compounds
(2019-05-19)Organosulfur compounds are bioactive components of garlic essential oil (EO), mustard oil, Ferula EOs, asafoetida, and other plant and food extracts. Traditionally, garlic (Allium sativum) is used to boost the immune system; ... -
Diel cycling hypoxia enhances hypoxia-tolerance in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): evidence of physiological and metabolic plasticity
(2019-07-19)Many fish naturally encounter a daily cycle of hypoxia, but it is unclear whether this exposure hardens hypoxia-intolerant fish to future hypoxia or leads to accumulated stress and death. The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus ... -
The Ancestral Lhasa River: A Late Cretaceous trans-arc river that drained the proto-Tibetan Plateau
(2019-09-19)Late Cretaceous trench basin strata were deposited in the subduction zone that consumed Neo-Tethyan oceanic lithosphere along the southern margin of the proto–Tibetan Plateau. We conducted detrital zircon (DZ) U-Pb ... -
Detrital zircon U-Pb data reveal a Mississippian sediment dispersal network originating in the Appalachian orogen, traversing North America along its southern shelf, and reaching as far as the southwest United States
(2019-06-19)Recent detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology reveals an increasing proportion of Grenville-age (ca. 0.95–1.3 Ga) and ca. 300–480 Ma grains in late Paleozoic strata of the SW United States. These grain populations are interpreted ... -
Snowpack influences spatial and temporal soil nitrogen dynamics in a western U.S. montane forested watershed
(2019-07-19)Declines in winter snowpack have increased the severity of summer droughts in western U.S. forests, with the potential to also impact soil available nitrogen (N). To understand how snowpack controls spatiotemporal N ... -
Enabling microbial syringol conversion through structure-guided protein engineering
(2019-07-19)Microbial conversion of aromatic compounds is an emerging and promising strategy for valorization of the plant biopolymer lignin. A critical and often rate-limiting reaction in aromatic catabolism is O-aryl-demethylation ... -
Don't Judge a Wine by Its Closure: Price Premiums for Corks in the U.S. Wine Market
(2019-02-19)For many purchases, consumers often possess only limited information about product quality. Thus, observable product characteristics are used to determine expected quality levels when making purchase decisions. We use more ... -
Efficacy and Safety of Immuno-Magnetically Sorted Smooth Muscle Progenitor Cells Derived from Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Restoring Urethral Sphincter Function
(2017-04)Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs)-based cell therapy holds promise for treating stress urinary incontinence (SUI). However, safety concerns, especially tumorgenic potential of residual undifferentiated cells ... -
Prioritizing surveillance of Nipah virus in India
(2019-06)The 2018 outbreak of Nipah virus in Kerala, India, highlights the need for global surveillance of henipaviruses in bats, which are the reservoir hosts for this and other viruses. Nipah virus, an emerging paramyxovirus in ... -
Identifying and clarifying arguments in a recent debate regarding measures based on memory-based methods
(2019-04)Two recent commentaries published in this journal argued against the usefulness of memory-based dietary assessment methods (M-BMs). A pair of responding commentaries disputed those negative claims regarding M-BMs and ... -
Zeolite-Templated Carbon as the Cathode for a High Energy Density Dual-Ion Battery
(2019-04)Dual-ion batteries (DIBs) are electrochemical energy storage devices that operate by the simultaneous participation of two different ion species at the anode and cathode and rely on the use of an electrolyte that can ... -
Synthetic secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (LGM2605) inhibits Libby amphibole fiber-induced acute inflammation in mice
(2019-07)Background Exposure to the Libby amphibole (LA) asbestos-like fibers found in Libby, Montana, is associated with inflammatory responses in mice and humans, and an increased risk of developing mesothelioma, asbestosis, ... -
Characterization of synovial fluid metabolomic phenotypes of cartilage morphological changes associated with osteoarthritis
(2019-08)"Objective Osteoarthritis (OA) is a multifactorial disease with etiological heterogeneity. The objective of this study was to classify OA subgroups by generating metabolomic phenotypes from human synovial fluid. ... -
Geobiological feedbacks, oxygen, and the evolution of nitrogenase
(2019-02)Biological nitrogen fixation via the activity of nitrogenase is one of the most important biological innovations, allowing for an increase in global productivity that eventually permitted the emergence of higher forms of ... -
Ligation state of nickel during C-O bond activation with monodentate phosphines
(2018-11)The oxidative addition of phenolic electrophiles at Ni(0) in the presence of monodentate phosphine ligands was studied with both dispersion-free and dispersion-containing DFT methods. With the popular bulky ligand PCy3, ... -
N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand-Controlled Chemodivergent Suzuki–Miyaura Cross Coupling
(2019-09)Two N-heterocyclic carbene ligands provide orthogonal chemoselectivity during the Pd-catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura (SM) cross-coupling of chloroaryl triflates. The use of SIPr [SIPr = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-4,5-dihydr ... -
Employer-Sponsored Education Assistance and Graduate Program Choice, Cost, and Finance
(2019-06)This paper studies the impact of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 that amended employer-sponsored education assistance (ESEA) fringe benefits from taxable to nontaxable for graduate studies. ... -
From biology to behavior: a cross-disciplinary seminar series surrounding added sugar and low-calorie sweetener consumption
(2019-06)Introduction This report presents a synopsis of a three‐part, cross‐sector, seminar series held at the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC from February–April, 2018. The overarching goal of the seminar ...
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