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100 Delegates: Montana Constitutional Convention of 1972, Montana Constitutional Society of 1972

2017 ASC Bidding Competition – Heavy Civil, Shandy Holm, Kenneth Hunter, Kendra Jackson, Carlos Martinez, Jacob Nistler, and Katherine Schuler

3D PRINTING OF 316L STAINLESS STEEL AND ITS EFFECT ON MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES, Rawn Penn

Accu-Scribe, Brian Gollehon

Achieving Environmental Justice: A Challenge for Butte's Superfund Cleanup and Restoration, John W. Ray, Ph.D.

ADSORPTION OF SALICYLHYDROXAMIC ACID ON SELECTED RARE EARTH OXIDES AND CARBONATES, Greer Galt

Aeromagnetic and Spectral Expressions of Rare Earth Element Deposits in Gallinas Mountains Area, Central New Mexico, USA, Mo Li

A Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of the Unexcavated 24BE2206 Site Near Dewey, in the Big Hole Valley of Montana, Jacob Clarke, Andrew Wilson, Michael Masters, and Marvin Speece

Alien Plant Invasions in the Indian Himalayan Region: What We Know and What We Need to Know, Zafar Reshi

All-In Sustaining Cost Analysis: Pros and Cons, Asseu Gilbert Yapo and T. W. Camm

Analytic Approach to Electron Correlation in Atoms, Ronald White and Frank Stillinger

Analytic Power-Series Solution of the Schrödinger Equation for the Helium Atom, W. Byers Brown and Ronald White

An Interpretation of Birds, Jim Robbins

An Investigation on the Influence of a Biofilm Fertilizer on Plant Growth and Soil Geophysical Properties, Joseph Natale; Martha E. Apple, Ph.D.; and Xiaobing Zhou

A Note Regarding the Mathematical Treatment of a Class of Steady-State Compartmental Models of the Circulation, Ronald White

Application of Carbon Nanotubes to Kevlar Fabric for Use in Body Armor, Curtis Baker and Dario Prieto

A REVIEW OF CARBON DISULFIDE-GC/FID VERSUS THERMAL DESORPTION-GC/MS METHODS THROUGH THE LENS OF ANALYTICAL PROFICIENCY AND HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RISK, Vanessa Frost Barnes

Becoming Chinese in Montana: The Chinese Empire Reform Association & National Identity among Montana's Chinese Communities, Mark Johnson

Beyond the Dam: the Influence of Beaver on Stream and Riparian Dynamics, Rebekah Levine

Big Questions about the Role of Small Particles in the Ecosystem, Ben Colman

Bioaerosol Exposures from Three Utah Cattle Operations, Clark Evans

BIOGEOCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS IN FLOODED UNDERGROUND MINES, Renee Schmidt

Biomolecular Interactions & Dynamics with Time-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy, Sandy Ross

BPSOU Groundwater Remedy - Capture and Treatment of Metals-Impacted Groundwater in Butte, Loren Burmeister and Mike Borduin

Cambrian and Proterozoic Quartzites in the Pioneer Mountains, Katie McDonald

Can mine reclamation with an exotic grass species precede successful restoration in intermountain grasslands? A case study with Agropyron cristatum., Mark Mariano

CHARACTERIZATION OF GRANITE AND SUBSEQUENT GROUND CONTROL MANAGEMENT PLAN AT ORPHAN BOY MINE – BUTTE, MONTANA, Emily Rose

Choosing Native Species for Restoring Crested Wheatgrass Fields, Peter Lesica

Coal Mine Reclamation for Reforestation, Paul Conrad

COLLEGE PREPAREDNESS: A Program for High School Education Professionals, Cullen Gilbreath

COLSTRIP COAL: DEVELOPING A WEBSITE TO COMMUNICATE A HIGHLY COMPLEX AND CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT, Carolyn Chaffee

Community Forestry in Bhutan and Montana, Jill Belsky PhD.

Daines' Dilemma: Support DC Secrecy or Montana Openness?, Evan Barrett

Daines’ Filibuster Proposal Bad for Senate, America and Montana, Evan Barrett and Andrew Person

Design Approaches and Lessons Learned for the Durant Canyon Reclamation Project - Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area NPL Site1, Pierre Lemieux

Design, Construction, and Testing of a Fluidized Bed Reactor, Tanner Iszler, Dario Prieto, and Jerome Downey

Ecological Stability in the Sagebrush Steppe and Restoration Implications, Matthew Lavin

Educational LED Board, Nathan Ericksen, Tyana Rasmusan, and Ashtyn Aumueller

Effects of an Exotic Reclamation Grass (agropyron cristatum) on the Restoration of the Butte Hill, Mark Mariano

Escape from Competition: Neighbors Reduce Centaurea Stoebe Performance at Home but not Away, Ragan Callaway, Lauren Waller, Alecu Diaconu, Robert Pal, Alexandra Collins, Heinz Mueller-Schaerer, and John Maron

Evaluating the Function of an Understudies Family of Antiviral Proteins, Britnee N. Crane, Hannah E. Sparks, and Joel W. Graff

Evaluation of Desiccated and Deformed Diaspores from Natural Building Materials, Tamas Henn and Robert Pal

EVALUATION OF METHODS TO MODEL HYDRAULIC FRACTURES IN FLOW SIMULATION, Ben Doleshal

EVALUATION OF THE FERTILIZATION PROPERTIES OF ALGAL BIOMASS AND ASSESSMENT OF KOH-INDUCED FLOCCULATION OF PW95 ALGAL CELLS, Olakunle Ogunsakin

Examination of SAP Enterprise Systems in US College and University Education and its Application to Montana Tech, Sebastian Perduss and D. Lance Revenaugh, Ph.D.

FEASIBILITY OF 802.11A-BASED TRANSCEIVERS FOR VHF/UHF COMMUNICATIONS IN REMOTE REGIONS, Abhimanyu Nath

FOUNDATIONS FOR A GEOBIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MUDPOTS IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Georgia Dahlquist

From Genes to Management: Different Invasion Potential of Two Geo-Cytotypes of the Highly Invasive Giant Goldenrod in Europe, David Nagy

GEOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE MEMBER OF THE BAKKEN FORMATION IN DIVIDE COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA, Mandy Brewer

Geophysical Investigation of Dewatering in Lolo Creek, Southwest Missoula, Montana, USA, Akpofure Orubu

Glutamate, Plasticity, and the Secret Life of Motor Neurons, Melissa Harrington

GOP Congress: Faith Over Facts; Politics Over Policy, Evan Barrett

GPS and Total Station Plane Survey of the Unexcavated 24BE2206 Site in the Big Hole Valley of Montana, Liana Galayda, Michael Masters, and Abhishek Choudhury

Ground and Surface Water Response to Changing Irrigation Practices: A Bitterroot Valley Case Study, Kirk Waren

Health Care: Finding Hidden Meaning in Political Words, Evan Barrett

Hexavalent Chromium Exposure to Military Aircraft Painters, Doug Rosaaen

High Temperature Corrosion in Energy Systems, Paul Gannon

How Do I Get to This? Challenges in Growing Natives for Restoration, Krystal Weilage

How to Set Up and Configure the PI System, Xanthius Christenson

HYDROLOGIC AND CHEMICAL INTERACTION BETWEEN WASTE DUMPS AND A FLOODED MINE POOL AT THE COMBINATION MINE, PHILIPSBURG DISTRICT, MONTANA, Corey Swisher

Impact of Mid-Successional Dominant Species on the Diversity and Progress of Succession in Regenerating Temperate Grasslands, Sandor Bartha, Szilard Szentes, Andras Horvath, Judit Hazi, Zita Zimmerman, Csaba Molnar, Istvan Dancza, Katalin Margoczi, Robert Pal, Dragica Purger, David Schmidt, Miklos Ovari, Cecelia Komoly, Zsuszanna Sutyinszki, Gabor Szabo, Andras Istvan Csatho, Melinda Juhasz, Karoly Penksza, and Zsolt Molnar

Indigenous Methods of Research: Beyond Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Lori Lambert

Integral Series Solution of the SchrÖdinger Equation for the Helium Atom, W. Byers Brown and Ronald White

Interesting History of Montana’s Special Congressional Elections, Evan Barrett

Intraspecific Analysis of Cerebral, Neurobasicranial, Mandibular, & Dental Integration: a Test of Anatomic Relationships among Superinferior Features of the Adult Modern Human Skull, Derek Ralph and Michael Masters

In Trump World - The Responsibility of Just Saying “No”, Evan Barrett

Invasive Plants and Montana's Range and Wild Lands, Jane Mangold

Investigative Reporting on Proteins: Getting the Scoop on Nature’s Tiniest Machines, Andy Karplus

Ion‐Pair Theory of Concentrated Electrolytes. III. Variational Principle, Frank Stillinger and Ronald White

Ion‐Pair Theory of Concentrated Electrolytes. IV. Ion Atmosphere Charge Distribution, Frank Stillinger and Ronald White

Is There Money Behind the Trump-Putin Love Affair?, Evan Barrett

Lives and Numbers Count as Trump Tweets, Evan Barrett

Luck & Skill: Black Swans & Machiavelli's Ideas on Power, Fortune, Virtu, T. W. Camm

Managing Engineering Talent: Unique Challenges to Optimize the Best and Brightest, T. W. Camm and J. C. Johnson

MAXIMAL SWIM DISTANCE, TIME, AND HEART RATE WHILE WEARING LABOR-WEAR AND A PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICE, Reece Gendreau

Mentoring American Indian Students with NASA, Ed Galindo

Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Heddleston Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposit, Montana, Ben Schubert

Mining Sustainability through Metallurgy – Perspectives on Hitting Home Runs & Grand Slams in Research, Courtney Young

MODELING THE EFFECT OF METHANE vs. CARBON DIOXIDE INJECTION ON OIL RECOVERY: CASE STUDY: THE EAST VACUUM GRAYBURG-SAN ANDRES UNIT, LEA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO, Charles Ohalekwu

Montana Outdoors Magazine: Serving Up Science & Management Information for Public Consumption, Tom Dickson and Luke Duran

Mycorrhizal Colonization of Cover Soils, Richard Prodgers

Nanoplastic Settling Potential in Saline Environments, Zachary Smith and Katherine R. Zodrow

Naturally Occurring Acid Rock Drainage in the Anaconda-Pintler Mountain Range, Montana: A Case Study of Geochemistry in Two Streams Flowing from Mount Evans, Margaret Doolittle

Oxidative Stress and Redox Homeostasis in Mammals: Should You Take Anti-oxidant Supplements?, Ed Schmidt

Performance-Based Contracting for Rest Area Maintenance, Michael Powers

Perturbation‐Theoretic Approach to Potential‐Energy Curves of Diatomic Molecules, Robert Parr and Ronald White

Perturbation Theory of the Hooke's Law Model for the Two‐Electron Atom, Ronald White and W. Byers Brown

Plant Invasions: Linking Science with Citizen Science to Make Sense of Restoration, Manzoor Ahmad Shah

PROPERTY SENSITIVITY STUDY FOR OIL RECOVERY IN THE BAKKEN, Daniel Beach

Raspberry Pi Human Machine Interface and Control System for an Electromagnet Water Filter, Thad Haines and Frank Joyce

Reconstructing Holocene Climate Based on Alkenones and Isotopes from West Greenland Lake Sediments, Spruce Schoenemann

Reduction of Unnecessary Scanning to Lower Costs While Preserving the Integrity of the Legal Health Record, Toni Wood

Reliability Analysis of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Walls, Michael Powers

Restoration of Metal(loid) Contaminated Soil: Investigating the Potential Use of Microbes and Soil Amendments to Improve Outcomes, Scott Robinson

Restoring the Reed College Canyon Ecosystem in Urban Portland: Approach and Practices, and the Role and Opportunity for Undergraduate Research, Zachariah Perry

RURAL BROADBAND MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS: SPECTRUM OCCUPANCY AND PROPAGATION MODELING IN WESTERN MONTANA, Erin Wiles

Sasquatch's Footprint: a Guide to Plant Restoration, Giles Thelen

Science, Engineering, and Society, George H. Brimhall

SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION OF THE BOW ISLAND MEMBER OF THE THERMOPOLIS FORMATION USING SURFACE OUTCROP AND SUBSURFACE DATA, LIBERTY AND HILL COUNTIES, MONTANA, Michael Vineyard

Solidago Gigantea Plants from Nonnative Ranges Compensate more in Response to Damage than Plants from the Native Range, Huixuan Liao, Priscila Gurgel, Robert Pal, and Ragan Callaway

Structural Reliability Analysis of Tunneling-Induced Ground Settlement and Damage to Adjacent Buildings: A Case Study using Moment Methods and FLAC2D, Powers Michael

SUPERGENE MINERALIZATION OF THE CONTINENTAL PIT, BUTTE, SILVER BOW COUNTY, MONTANA, Kyle Eastman

Survey of Colorado Tick Fever Virus Presence in Montana Deer Mice and Wood Ticks, Zach J. Hart, Joel W. Graff, and Amy Kuenzi

Teaching, Teamwork, and AHA! Moments, Andy Karplus

TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF SELECTIVELY SEPARATING RARE EARTH ELEMENTS BY VAPOR PHASE EXTRACTION AND CONDENSATION, Katie Lyons

Tester Sided with 75% of Montanans on Gorsuch Vote, Evan Barrett

THE EFFECT OF MINERAL COMPOSITION ON SHALE OIL RECOVERY, Andrew Fakhry

The Montana Historical Society (MHS) has honored Evan Barrett of Highlands College and Montana Tech with its Heritage Guardian Award for his outstanding contribution to Montana history and heritage. The MHS’s special Heritage Guardian Award is only presented under special circumstances, in this case for a unique contribution to Montana history in the form of Barrett’s “In the Crucible of Change” video Montana history series. The award was last presented 2011. (see full statement below), Evan Barrett

The Release of Bio-Control Insects for Spotted Knapweed Invasion, William Good

The Silver Bow Foundation: Designing a New Path for Economic Development in Butte-Silver Bow through Organizational Development and Technical Communication, Brendan McDonough

Thixotropic Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications, Monica A. Serban

Time to Invest in Infrastructure, Evan Barrett

Time to Pony Up for Butte, BP, Evan Barrett

Tracking potential leakage of tailings-lake water into background groundwater in Butte, Montana, using geochemical and stable isotope tracers, Matthew Berzel

“Ultra-Rich” Gianforte: Right Now Technologies’ Congressman, Evan Barrett

Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) Control Lab, Clayton Eskridge and Mitchell Postlethwaite

VIBRATION MODIFICATION TO A.P.I. FRACTURE SHORT TERM CONDUCTIVITY TESTING PROCEDURE, Blake A. Ereaux

What a Restoration Project Manager Needs to Know, Tom Mostad

Why Are Invaders Such a Problem in Restoration?, Ray Callaway

Yellowstone Wolves: the First 20 Years, Doug Smith