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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Wildfires Influence Abundance, Diversity, and Intraspecific and Interspecific Trait Variation of Native Bees and Flowering Plants Across Burned and Unburned Landscapes
(2019-07)Wildfire regimes are changing in the western United States, yet the ways in which wildfires influence native bees, the resources they depend on for food and nesting, or the traits that influence their interactions with ... -
Re-evaluation of the taxonomic status of Vegaranina (Crustacea: Raninidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Cuba, with description of a new species
(2018-10)A new species of raninid crustacean, Vegaranina rivasi sp. nov, is described based on three specimens collected from a Late Cretaceous deposit in central Cuba. Previous studies assigned one of the specimens to Vegaranina ... -
Distal spinal nerve development and divergence of avian groups
(2020-04)The avian transition from long to short, distally fused tails during the Mesozoic ushered in the Pygostylian group, which includes modern birds. The avian tail embodies a bipartite anatomy, with the proximal separate caudal ... -
Variable Selection and Parameter Tuning for BART Modeling in the Fragile Families Challenge
(2019-09)Our goal for the Fragile Families Challenge was to develop a hands-off approach that could be applied in many settings to identify relationships that theory-based models might miss. Data processing was our first and most ... -
The logic of parliamentary action: Brexit, Early Day Motions, and bolstering the personal vote
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-11)More than 300 Members of Parliament (MPs) found themselves in an awkward position after the vote on Britain’s membership in the EU: They had taken a public stance on Brexit in opposition to their constituents. We investigate ... -
Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco
(2020-01)The geological and paleoenvironmental setting and the vertebrate taxonomy of the fossiliferous, Cenomanian-age deltaic sediments in eastern Morocco, generally referred to as the "Kem Kem beds", are reviewed. These strata ... -
How should we train and assess our STEM graduate students in oral communication?
(2020-01)A poster presented at a IGE annual PI's reporting meeting in January 2020. Today’s STEM graduate students need to be able to effectively communicate their research with the public. How do we develop and assess a curriculum ... -
The FIREBIRD-II CubeSat mission: Focused investigations of relativistic electron burst intensity, range, and dynamics
(2020-03)FIREBIRD-II is a National Science Foundation funded CubeSat mission designed to study the scale size and energy spectrum of relativistic electron microbursts. The mission consists of two identical 1.5 U CubeSats in a low ... -
Evaluating and presenting uncertainty in model‐based unconstrained ordination
(2019-12)Variability in ecological community composition is often analyzed by recording the presence or abundance of taxa in sample units, calculating a symmetric matrix of pairwise distances or dissimilarities among sample units ... -
Quantifying seasonal cornice dynamics using a terrestrial laser scanner in Svalbard, Norway
(2020-02)Snow cornices develop along mountain ridges, edges of plateaus, and marked inflections in topography throughout regions with seasonal and permanent snow cover. Despite the recognized hazard posed by cornices in mountainous ... -
A new twist on the graduate student journal club: Using a topic‐centered approach to promote student engagement
(2020-02)Journal clubs are widely used as an educational tool in graduate life science programs. In journal clubs, students are assigned to read specific journal articles to achieve a broad knowledge in their field of study and to ... -
Contribution of wild foods to diet, food security, and cultural values amidst climate change
(2019-11)Wild foods are recognized to contribute to diet and food security through enhancing the availability of local, diverse, and nonmarket food sources. We investigated the contribution of wild foods to diet, food security, and ... -
Antimicrobial activity of naturally occurring phenols and derivatives against biofilm and planktonic bacteria
(2019-10)Biofilm-forming bacteria present formidable challenges across diverse settings, and there is a need for new antimicrobial agents that are both environmentally acceptable and relatively potent against microorganisms in the ... -
Janthinobacterium CG23_2: comparative genome analysis reveals enhanced environmental sensing and transcriptional regulation for adaptation to life in an Antarctic supraglacial stream
(2019-10)As many bacteria detected in Antarctic environments are neither true psychrophiles nor endemic species, their proliferation in spite of environmental extremes gives rise to genome adaptations. Janthinobacterium sp. CG23_2 ... -
DropSOAC: Stabilizing Microfluidic Drops for Time-Lapse Quantification of Single-Cell Bacterial Physiology
(2019-09)The physiological heterogeneity of cells within a microbial population imparts resilience to stresses such as antimicrobial treatments and nutrient limitation. This resilience is partially due to a subpopulation of cells ... -
The structure of Photosystem I acclimated to far-red light illuminates an ecologically important acclimation process in photosynthesis
(2020-02)Phototrophic organisms are superbly adapted to different light environments but often must acclimate to challenging competition for visible light wavelengths in their niches. Some cyanobacteria overcome this challenge by ... -
Atomistic Structures of Zeolite-Templated Carbon
(American Chemical Society, 2020-03)Zeolite-templated carbons (ZTCs) are a distinct class of porous framework materials in which a three-dimensional network of pores is contained between atomically thin, polycyclic hydrocarbon walls, synthesized by carbonization ... -
A turbulent upriver flow: steamboat narratives of nature, technology, and humans in Montana Territory
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019)For a 25 year period in the second half of the 19th century, steamboat travel was a critically important transportation technology which influenced the material, social, and cultural existence of people and landscapes in ... -
Dietary Beliefs and Management of Older American Indians With Type 2 Diabetes
(2019-07)Objectives This qualitative study examined dietary-related beliefs and self-management among older American Indians with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Design Semistructured in-person interviews were conducted and ... -
Thermal variability drives synchronicity of an aquatic insect resource pulse
(2019-08)Spatial heterogeneity in environmental conditions can prolong food availability by desynchronizing the timing of ephemeral, high‐magnitude resource pulses. Spatial patterns of water temperature are highly variable among ...
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