Press Releases

• Fourth solar physicist affiliated with MSU wins national prize -- January 19, 2012A fourth solar physicist affiliated with Montana State University has won a national prize for making significant contributions to the study of the sun.
• MSU graduate in solar physics wins presidential award -- September 28, 2011A former Montana State University graduate student in solar physics has just won the highest award the United States government gives to science and engineering professionals who are in the early stages of their independent research careers.
• MSU solar physicist invited to exclusive symposium -- July 28, 2011Charles Kankelborg, a Montana State University solar physicist who has received a White House award and other honors for being an outstanding scientist early in his career, has now been invited to attend the 23rd annual Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium.
• MSU grad in solar physics wins national award -- June 20, 2011A recent MSU graduate will receive a national award in solar physics. He's the first MSU recipient and the first solar physicist to receive this award in more than a decade.
• MSU graduate receives fellowship to continue studying sun -- March 30, 2011A Montana State University graduate who helped explain a two-year absence of sunspots has now received a major fellowship from NASA's Living with a Star program.
• That's the rocket biz: A video journal of the launch of MSU's student-built satellite -- March 21, 2011Watch the video.
• MSU satellite launches on NASA mission, but fails to reach orbit -- March 4, 2011Montana State University's student-built satellite launched early Friday morning (March 4) on a NASA rocket, but the rocket failed to place any of its four satellites into orbit.
• MSU team solves mystery of missing sunspots, helps predict space weather -- March 2, 2011Three scientists who started collaborating while at MSU have published a paper that explains for the first time why sunspots disappeared from 2008 to 2010.
• Launch of MSU satellite now postponed until early March -- February 23, 2011The launch of the first Montana satellite chosen to ride on a NASA space mission -- a small research satellite that involved more than 125 Montana State University students over five years -- is now postponed until early March.
• Solar Physics Program Shines -- October 15, 2010Since its inception, members of the MSU Solar Physics Group have distinguished themselves with national and international awards recognizing their scholarship.
• Star Power - The history of the MSU Solar Physics group and the people who made it what is is today -- October 15, 2010Since former astronaut Loren Acton landed at MSU, the Solar Physics Program has had 'The Right Stuff'
• Crowd views new solar images that MSU helped capture -- April 21, 2010Stunning new images of the sun beamed onto the Montana State University campus Wednesday afternoon, drawing a crowd that wanted to see solar photographs that MSU scientists helped capture
• MSU helped design solar telescopes launched -- February 04, 2010Solar physicists at MSU helped design and calibrate four telescopes that were launched Feb. 11 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
• Free concert to coincide with international solar meeting at MSU -- June 14, 2010"A free public concert will be held June 18 in conjunction with an international gathering of solar scientists at Montana State University.
• MSU satellite to accompany NASA mission into space -- February 03, 2010A small research satellite that MSU students built to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful U.S. satellite will ride into space this fall on a NASA launch.
• MSU alumnus receives solar physics prize -- January 29, 2010A third solar physicist affiliated with Montana State University has received the Karen Harvey Prize from the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society.
• MSU instruments shake, bake, hurtle to prepare for space -- September 02, 2009Montana State University students who build satellites and space instruments welcome rigorous opportunities to test their designs, says David Klumpar, director of the Space Science and Engineering Laboratory at MSU.
• MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission -- August 31, 2009Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere.
• MSU solar physicist receives White House award -- December 19, 2008A Montana State University solar physicist, in a White House ceremony, received the highest award the United States government gives to outstanding young researchers.
• MSU experiments to be launched on space shuttle -- March 04, 2008Three groups of MSU researchers will send experiments on the Space Shuttle Endeavour, scheduled to launch March 11, 2008
• MSU students build satellite for 50th anniversary of Explorer-1 -- January 29, 2008MSU students plan to launch a satellite later this year to commemorate the country's first successful satellite. Explorer-1 was launched 50 years ago, on Jan. 31, 1958, in response to Sputnik.
• Asteroid named after MSU astrophysicist -- August 01, 2007"Charles Kankelborg, a "well-rounded astrophysicist" at Montana State University, now has an asteroid named after him.
• Solar physicist shines, wins second Harvey Award for MSU -- January 31, 2007For the second time in five years, a Montana State University scientist has won the Karen Harvey Award given to solar physicists who've made significant contributions early in their career.
• NASA awards MSU for speedy reporting from 100-hour experiment -- January 08, 2007MSU physicists were recently awarded for their involvement in a 100-hour experiment conducted by NASA.
• Lost in space, student finds galaxy of opportunities -- August 02, 2006 Brandon Anderson, a recent graduate of Montana State University, said his undergraduate opportunities surprised the people he met while interviewing for graduate school
• Crash of Russian rocket destroys Montana's first satellite -- July 26, 2006 Built by science and engineering students at Montana State University, the state's first satellite was destroyed after the Russian rocket it was riding on crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, July 26, 2006.
• MSU rocket roars into space above New Mexico desert -- February 09, 2006 MSU students and faculty watched from a New Mexico missile range Wednesday, Feb. 8, as the first Montana-built rocket payload roared into space.
• MSU research team launches balloons in Arctic -- January 27, 2005 An MSU professor and two undergrads spent January in the Arctic, launching helium balloons to measure x-rays in the upper atmosphere of the Earth.
• MSU students to build another satellite -- January 13, 2003 Students at Montana State University-Bozeman have built a satellite that will be launched from the former Soviet Union. They've sent balloons into the earth's upper atmosphere between Big Timber and Billings. Now, they're about to start working on a new satellite for the U.S. Air Force.

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