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Students, schools invited to sign up for Trades and Technology Day at Highlands College

Highlands College of Montana Tech will host Trades & Technology Day for high school juniors and seniors on Wednesday, October 2, 2024.

TRIO hosts successful summer program at Montana Tech with special trip to Washington, D.C.

Twenty high school students from Butte, Anaconda, and Helena capped off a five-week immersive, hands-on summer learning and research program at...

Montana Technological University awarded $6.5 million via the Defense Production Act Investments office to create online stackable certificate programs to meet demands for critical minerals, rare earth elements

Montana Technological University has been selected to receive an educational workforce award from the Department of Defense using Defense...

There’s still time to sign up for drone classes this semester!

On any given day at Montana Technological University, students utilize drones to expand their knowledge in a number of fields.

Digger hockey team to kick off 33-game season full of special community events in September

Montana Tech’s Oredigger Hockey returns to the ice on September 13 in Provo, Utah to kick off their first American Collegiate Hockey...

Montana Tech Chancellor Advisory Search Committee members named

The advisory search committee will conduct a national search to replace Les Cook, who has announced his decision to retire as Chancellor of Montana...

Montana Tech to Kick Off 2024 Season with Copper Game Showdown

The No. 21 Montana Tech Orediggers will host the No. 3 Georgetown College Tigers in a highly anticipated matchup on Thursday, August 29th at 6:00...

Dr. John Bognar joins Montana Technological University as inaugural director of technology transfer

The University has hired Dr. John Bognar as its first director of technology transfer to spearhead a growing number of projects that seek to...

Trevor Russell is first Montana Tech student to earn a Fulbright award

A Materials Science and Engineering graduate student from Clancy, MT is the first in the history of Montana Technological University to be named a...

Counselor Cara DeBolt works to connect students with mental health, community resources

As Orediggers head back to classes this fall, Montana Tech’s Clinical Counselor Cara DeBolt is hard at work connecting students with the...

Geophysical engineering junior attends global leadership training in the Netherlands

Geophysical engineering junior Halli Weis, of Anaconda, honed her leadership skills, immersed herself in foreign culture and made new friends when...

Montana Tech offers new, all-online payment plan for students

Montana Technological University’s Business Office is implementing a new payment plan system this semester designed to make students’...

Skinner to serve as interim dean of the Lance College of Mines and Engineering

Dr. Jack Skinner has been appointed as the interim dean of the Lance College of Mines and Engineering at Montana Technological University.

Occupational Health and Safety alumna says Montana Tech education gave her the scientific background to become a public health officer

Lauren Bolton (B.S. Occupational Health and Safety, ’17) says her path to finding the right career was a little bumpy. Now Bolton works as...

Montana Tech helped golf alumna connect with a career in law

Tanna Campbell (B.S. Business Information Technology-Marketing/Management, 2021) says she came to Montana Technological University from Big Timber...

Montana Technological University Chancellor Les Cook set to retire in 2025

Montana Technological University Chancellor Dr. Les Cook will retire from his position, effective June 30, 2025, capping off nearly 40 years in...

Montana Tech nursing alumna makes informatics her specialty, connecting patient care and technology

Rachael Clagett DNP, RN, NI-BC, a Sherry Lesar School of Nursing alumna, has made healthcare informatics her specialty. She is the manager of...

Researchers in the Montana Tech Nanotechnology Laboratory to patent novel nanomanufacturing technology with potential applications in a wide variety of industries

The Montana Tech Nanotechnology Laboratory (MTNL) has announced a groundbreaking discovery in nanomanufacturing with potential applications in a...

Montana Tech alumna officiates U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming for a second time

Susan Huckeby’s journey to the U.S. Olympic Trials as a swimming official begins with her own children’s swim practices, many of which...

Poster Symposium will highlight summer research 

The Montana Tech Research Office will host the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), Montana IDeA Network of Biomedical Research...

Liberty Energy partners with Montana Technological University to make new turf on Bob Green Field possible

Montana Technological University and Montana Tech Athletics are excited to announce significant upgrades to Bob Green Field at Alumni Coliseum.

$900,000 grant to bolster data science enrollment at Montana Technological University

The Montana Tech Department of Mathematical Sciences and the College of Letters, Sciences and Professional Studies (CLSPS) have been awarded a...

 Writing Duo Make Montana Tech Education More Affordable by Producing Third Open Textbook

Writing instructors Dawn Atkinson and Stacey Corbitt have penned their third textbook, Advanced-Level Writing in the University Classroom and...

Students learn hands-on skills, have lots of fun in Montana Tech’s Field Geology course

Several students at Montana Technological University spent much of the month of May completing hands-on learning via fieldwork in the picturesque...

New student orientation begins August 21, 2024

Montana Technological University will welcome hundreds of new Orediggers and their families to campus during the new student orientation, which...