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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Effects of Soil Microbes on Functional Traits of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) Seedling Families From Contrasting Climates
(Frontiers Media SA, 2020-01)Examining factors that influence seedling establishment is essential for predicting the impacts of climate change on tree species’ distributions. Seedlings originating from contrasting climates differentially express ... -
Investigating old‐growth ponderosa pine physiology using tree‐rings, δ13C, δ18O, and a process‐based model
(Wiley, 2019-06)In dealing with predicted changes in environmental conditions outside those experienced today, forest managers and researchers rely on process‐based models to inform physiological processes and predict future forest growth ... -
Faster drought recovery in anisohydric beech compared with isohydric spruce
(Oxford University Press, 2023-01)With drought and heat events increasing in frequency and intensity worldwide, global drought-induced tree decline (Allen et al. 2010, Hammond et al. 2022) has resulted in widespread interest in understanding the physiological ... -
Functional traits underlie specialist-generalist strategies in whitebark pine and limber pine
(Elsevier BV, 2023-08)Plant species life history strategies are described by functional variation spanning an acquisitive and conservative resource use continuum. Specialist species can exhibit traits promoting one end of the continuum, while ... -
The egg-thief architect: experimental oviraptorosaur nesting physiology, the possibility of adult-mediated incubation, and the feasibility of indirect contact incubation
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-08)Numerous, high-quality reproduction-related oviraptorosaur fossils have been described. However, oviraptorosaur-style nests are unknown among extant animals, and their curious construction makes nesting behavior difficult ... -
Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
(The Royal Society, 2023-07)Particle dynamics and multi-agent systems provide accurate dynamical models for studying and forecasting the behaviour of complex interacting systems. They often take the form of a high-dimensional system of differential ... -
Facilitation strength across environmental and beneficiary trait gradients in stream communities
(Wiley, 2023-08)Ecosystem engineers modify habitats in ways that facilitate other community members by ameliorating harsh conditions. The strength of such facilitation is predicted to be influenced by both beneficiary traits and abiotic ... -
Homo medialiteratus and the media literacy proxy war: mapping the U.S. response to digital dismisinfo
(Informa UK Limited, 2023-07)This article presents findings from a visual network analysis study mapping the collective response to digital disinformation and misinformation, or digital dismisinfo, in the United States. Inspired by the digital ... -
Structural insights into redox signal transduction mechanisms in the control of nitrogen fixation by the NifLA system
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023-07)NifL is a conformationally dynamic flavoprotein responsible for regulating the activity of the σ54-dependent activator NifA to control the transcription of nitrogen fixation (nif) genes in response to intracellular oxygen, ... -
Base-Catalyzed Phenol-Mannich Condensation of Preformed Cesium Iminodiacetate. The Direct Synthesis of Calcein Blue AM and Related Acyloxymethyl Esters
(American Chemical Society, 2023-08)A rapid and highly practical one-flask procedure for the positionally selective preparation of (acyloxy)methyl N-(2-hydroxybenzyl)iminodiacetate and related diesters from iminodiacetic acid and phenols is described. The ... -
Hydrogen-Type Binding Sites in Carbonaceous Electrodes for Rapid Lithium Insertion
(American Chemical Society, 2023-08)Direct pyrolysis of coronene at 800 °C produces low-surface-area, nanocrystalline graphitic carbon containing a uniquely high content of a class of lithium binding sites referred to herein as “hydrogen-type” sites. ... -
Confident detection of doubly ionized thorium in the extreme Ap star CPD-62° 2717
(Oxford University Press, 2023-05)Despite the Universe containing primordial thorium (Th) of sufficient abundance to appear in stellar spectra, detection of Th has to date been tentative and based on just a few weak and blended lines. Here, we present ... -
The Role of Magnetic Shear in Reconnection-Driven Flare Energy Release
(Cornell University, 2023-08)Using observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Atmosphere Imaging Assembly and the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, we present novel measurements of the shear of post-reconnection flare loops (PRFLs) ... -
Romance Lands and Conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
(Montana State University, 2023)To fully grasp the significance of this story we explore the history of the West, the development of Yellowstone National Park, something about the discipline of conservation biology and related policy sciences, Grizzly ... -
Estimating contact network properties by integrating multiple data sources associated with infectious diseases
(Wiley, 2023-07)To effectively mitigate the spread of communicable diseases, it is necessary to understand the interactions that enable disease transmission among individuals in a population; we refer to the set of these interactions as ... -
Evaluating the importance of individual heterogeneity in reproduction to Weddell seal population dynamics using integral projection models
(Wiley, 2023-07)Identifying and accounting for unobserved individual heterogeneity in vital rates in demographic models is important for estimating population-level vital rates and identifying diverse life-history strategies, but much ... -
Chthonic severance: dinosaur eggs of the Mesozoic, the significance of partially buried eggs and contact incubation precursors
(The Royal Society, 2023-07)For most dinosaurs, clutches consisted of a single layer of spherical to sub-spherical, highly porous eggs that were probably fully buried. Both eggs and clutch form change drastically with pennaraptoran theropods, the ... -
Origins of the Evil Eye: M64's Stellar Halo Reveals the Recent Accretion of an SMC-mass Satellite
(American Astronomical Society, 2023-06)M64, often called the "Evil Eye" galaxy, is unique among local galaxies. Beyond its dramatic, dusty nucleus, it also hosts an outer gas disk that counter-rotates relative to its stars. The mass of this outer disk is ... -
Spawning Locations of Pallid Sturgeon in the Missouri River Corroborate the Mechanism for Recruitment Failure
(MDPI, 2023-05)Conservation propagation of pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) upstream of Fort Peck Reservoir, MT, USA, has successfully recruited a new generation of spawning-capable pallid sturgeon where there would otherwise be ... -
JWST’s PEARLS: TN J1338–1942 – I. Extreme jet-triggered star formation in a z = 4.11 luminous radio galaxy
(Oxford University Press, 2023-04)We present the first JWST observations of the z = 4.11 luminous radio galaxy TN J1338–1942, obtained as part of the ‘Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science’ (‘PEARLS’) project. Our NIRCam observations, ...
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