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
www.montana.edu/socanth
Recent Submissions
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African wild dog movements show contrasting responses to long and short term risk of encountering lions: analysis using dynamic Brownian bridge movement models
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-12)Background Prey depletion is a threat to the world’s large carnivores, and is likely to affect subordinate competitors within the large carnivore guild disproportionately. African lions limit African wild dog populations ... -
Advancing food democracy: The potential and limits of food policy positions in local government
(Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems, 2021-10)For several decades, food policy councils (FPCs) have led the effort to place food on local government policy agendas. While FPCs are making progress in supporting local food systems, they also face institutional and ... -
Quantifying fixed individual heterogeneity in demographic parameters: Performance of correlated random effects for Bernoulli variables
(Wiley, 2021-10)An increasing number of empirical studies aim to quantify individual variation in demographic parameters because these patterns are key for evolutionary and ecological processes. Advanced approaches to estimate individual ... -
The AGN Fraction in Dwarf Galaxies from eROSITA: First Results and Future Prospects
(American Astronomical Society, 2021-12)Determining the fraction of nearby dwarf galaxies hosting massive black holes (BHs) can inform our understanding of the origin of “seed” BHs at high redshift. Here we search for signatures of accreting massive BHs in a ... -
Stability and Bifurcations of Equilibria in Networks with Piecewise Linear Interactions
(World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt, 2021-09)In this paper, we study equilibria of differential equation models for networks. When interactions between nodes are taken to be piecewise constant, an efficient combinatorial analysis can be used to characterize the ... -
Belief in the myth of an American Indian/Alaska Native biological vulnerability to alcohol problems among reservation‐dwelling participants with a substance use problem
(Wiley, 2021-11)Belief in the myth of an American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) specific biological vulnerability (BV) to alcohol problems is associated with worse alcohol outcomes among AIAN college students who drink, despite also being ... -
Toward a More Complex Understanding of Natal Super Star Clusters with Multiwavelength Observations
(American Astronomical Society, 2021-09)Henize 2–10 (He 2–10) is a nearby (D = 9 Mpc) starbursting blue compact dwarf galaxy that boasts a high star formation rate and a low-luminosity active galactic nucleus. He 2–10 is also one of the first galaxies in which ... -
Secondary Trauma in the Workplace: Tools for Awareness, Self-Care, and Organizational Responses in Montana
(Montana State University, 2018)This book is written for Montana’s victim service providers—the people who have chosen to dedicate their professional lives to helping the survivors of trauma. As providers, we are the ones working day in and day out with ... -
Determinants of Relapse and Opportunities for Growth: Perspectives on Substance Use among American Indian Community Members
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-10)esulting from generations of historical oppression and systemic racism, American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities experience serious health disparities associated with substance use disorders (SUDs). As part ... -
Nanoparticles To Study Lectins in Caenorhabditis elegans: Multivalent Galactose β1-4 Fucose-Functionalized Dendrimers Provide Protection from Oxidative Stress
(American Chemical Society, 2021-11)Galectins are galactoside-binding lectins that are functional dimers or higher-order oligomers. Multivalent binding has been shown to augment the relatively low affinity of the galectins for their galactoside-binding ... -
The intersection of geoethics and diversity in the geosciences
(Geological Society of London, 2020-12)The geosciences (inclusive of geology, oceanography, atmospheric science and allied disciplines) have an ethical imperative to increase diversity in the profession. The diverse ways of exploring the Earth system, and the ... -
Metaphorical and Literal Groundings: Unsettling Groundless Normativity in Environmental Ethics
(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2020-01)Accounts of grounded normativity in Indigenous philosophy can be used to challenge the groundlessness of Western environmental ethical approaches such as Aldo Leopold’s land ethic. Attempts to ground normativity in mainstream ... -
Using social contact data to improve the overall effect estimate of a cluster‐randomized influenza vaccination program in Senegal
(Wiley, 2021-09)his study estimates the overall effect of two influenza vaccination programs consecutively administered in a cluster-randomized trial in western Senegal over the course of two influenza seasons from 2009-2011. We apply ... -
Should I judge safety or danger? Perceived risk depends on the question frame.
(American Psychological Association, 2021-04)Linguistic polarity is a natural characteristic of judgments: Is that situation safe/dangerous? How difficult/easy was the task? Is that politician honest/dishonest? Across six studies (N = 1599), we tested how the qualitative ... -
Rock weathering and nutrient cycling along an erodosequence
(American Journal of Science, 2021-10)How flowing water and organisms can shape Earth's surface, the Critical Zone, depends on how fast this layer is turned over by erosion. To quantify the dependence of rock weathering and the cycling of elements through ... -
Determination of anisotropy constants via fitting of magnetic hysteresis to numerical calculation of Stoner–Wohlfarth model
(AIP Publishing, 2021-08)Anisotropy constants of magnetic materials are typically determined through angle-resolved Ferromagnetic Resonance (ar-FMR) and torque magnetometry, which can be time consuming measurements, thus limiting their utility. ... -
Estimating viral prevalence with data fusion for adaptive two‐phase pooled sampling
(Wiley, 2021-10)The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of efficient sampling strategies and statistical methods for monitoring infection prevalence, both in humans and in reservoir hosts. Pooled testing can be an efficient ... -
Understanding the costs and benefits of politics among adolescents within a sociocultural context
(Wiley, 2022-03)Politics entails personal costs and benefits, which may differ for youth from different sociocultural backgrounds. The at-stake hypothesis proposes that politically marginalized youth experience greater costs (e.g., stress, ... -
DIISC-I: The Discovery of Kinematically Anomalous H i Clouds in M 100
(American Astronomical Society, 2021-11)We report the discovery of two kinematically anomalous atomic hydrogen (H i) clouds in M 100 (NGC 4321), which was observed as part of the Deciphering the Interplay between the Interstellar medium, Stars, and the Circumgalactic ... -
A High-Throughput Metabolic Microarray Assay Reveals Antibacterial Effects of Black and Red Raspberries and Blackberries against Helicobacter pylori Infection
(MDPI AG, 2021-07)Helicobacter pylori infection is commonly treated with a combination of antibiotics and proton pump inhibitors. However, since H. pylori is becoming increasingly resistant to standard antibiotic regimens, novel treatment ...
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