Montana Tech News

BELGRADE - Army veteran and former Great Falls resident Michael R. Patterson, 59, of Belgrade, whose varied careers included welder, fishing hand, construction worker and teacher of English as a second language, died June 17 at a Missoula hospital, of complications from a car crash near Drummond.

BUTTE - Recent Butte High graduate Jake Richards won the Skills USA national championship for carpentry.

An old greenhouse has become new again at Montana Tech. A small group made up of community leaders, legislators, college administrators and professors gathered Wednesday for a dedication ceremony.

Attorney General Steve Bullock has written a letter to the NCAA clarifying that Montana's gambling laws prohibit wagering on the outcome of athletic events.

Twenty-five students who attend Montana colleges and universities have together received more than $143,500 in NASA scholarships and graduate research fellowships for the 2009-10 school year.

There's a new rock star in town -- only this one doesn't sing. But it brings plenty of glitter and glamour to the Montana Tech Mineral Museum.

Wiggins High School graduates William Pratte and Trent Rogers both plan to major in engineering and Logan Trautwein in computer science, and each received an offer of a scholarship from the University of Wyoming.

A public meeting held by Move MISTI will take place at Montana Tech tonight. MISTI refers to NorthWestern Energy's plans to build and operate a 500 kilovolt electric transmission line.

Although there was little evidence of summer in the Mining City Tuesday, the sun was at least shining on many Butte students who were enjoying the last day of school.

The Wiggins High School Class of 2009 was offered more than $500,000 in scholarships this year.

A Montana State University graduate student whose research has the potential to make a difference in how light is harvested for alternative energy applications has won a $90,000 fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

Yerington High School has announced top academic honors for the YHS Graduating Class of 2009, and each of those honors has been earned by outstanding young women.

Commencement ceremonies for two area colleges will take place this weekend. Montana Tech will celebrate its 109th commencement ceremony Saturday with a graduating class of 414 students.

Montana Tech is preparing for one of its biggest fundraising days of the year. The Digger Spring Auction's decor is in the process of completion as well as the setup to accommodate an expected group of 700-plus at Kelvin Sampson Court in the HPER complex.

Shareholders in NorthWestern Corp. got a rosy profile of the company during its annual meeting Wednesday.

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Centerville High School senior Tom Hove was ready for a change of scenery. 'I wanted to move out of state because I'm really tired of living here,' he said last week as he talked about his future.

Chris Atherley, left, of Tucker Wireline, talks to NAIT students about a "quad stack" -- an open-hole tool string used to analyze wells -- during demonstrations for the college's petroleum engineering technology program.

The National Institutes of Health awarded Andrea Stierle, a chemistry researcher at Montana Tech and her husband Don Stierle, a professor of chemistry at the Montana college, $650,000 to continue their research of microbes found in Berkeley Pit water and their effectiveness in fighting certain types of cancer.

New West Health Services is continuing a scholarship program designed to keep Montana healthcare students from leaving the state.