2011 News Listing

12/21/2011

Recent graduates of the Montana Tech College of Technology Lineman Program participated and scored significantly well in the 19th Annual Montana Lineman’s Rodeo. ... Read More

12/08/2011

The contract for Montana Tech’s head volleyball coach Marilyn Tobin will not be renewed at the end of the fiscal year. ... Read More

12/08/2011

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) named the volleyball 2011 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athletes last Friday. ... Read More

11/30/2011

The Science Mine will open its doors into a world of hands-on science discovery during the Christmas Stroll in Uptown Butte, December 2, from 5-9 p.m. ... Read More

11/23/2011

Montana Tech’s Civil Engineering Technology students and faculty have successfully completed a project to establish a Continuously Operating Reference Station at the College of Technology. ... Read More

11/18/2011

Montana Tech head basketball Coach Aaron Woliczko announced two signees for the Orediggers 2012 basketball team this week. ... Read More

11/16/2011

Frontier Conference commissioner Kent Paulson announced the 2011 all-conference volleyball teams and individual award winners. ... Read More

11/14/2011

Cortney Dix, a senior from Arlee, MT, has signed a letter of intent to play volleyball for the Montana Tech Oredigger volleyball team. ... Read More

11/14/2011

Montana Tech’s Computer Science and Software Engineering students recently returned from the ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition’s Rocky Mountain Regional Contest held on the campus of Neumont University in South Jordan, Utah. ... Read More

11/10/2011

The 17th Annual Peggy Sarsfield Tournament will take place at Kelvin Sampson Court at the HPER Complex on Montana Tech campus November 25th and 26th. ... Read More

11/07/2011

Montana Tech will sponsor a Veteran’s Appreciation Luncheon on Wednesday, November 9th at noon in the Copper Lounge of the Student Union Building. ... Read More

11/03/2011

A.J. Paine of Montana Tech was named the Frontier Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week. ... Read More

11/01/2011

Connor O’Neill of Montana Tech was named the Frontier Conference Defensive Player of the Week for his performance this past weekend. ... Read More

10/31/2011

Montana Tech Electrical Engineering professor John Morrison’s research on battery diagnostics was recognized by The Wall Street Journal in their 2011 Technology Innovation Award competition. ... Read More

10/31/2011

Professor John W. Ray of Montana Tech's Liberal Studies Department has had a paper accepted for presentation at the annual convention of the National Communication Association in New Orleans in November. ... Read More

10/31/2011

Montana Tech is known for helping students apply what they learn in real world situations. This concept has been clearly on display at the College of Technology. ... Read More

10/31/2011

A group of Montana Tech students took-on a research project to measure and confirm the elevation of Silver Bow County’s highest point. ... Read More

10/06/2011

Montana Tech scored the second highest in the nation in the NAIA’s Champions of Character Five Star Award released today by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. ... Read More

10/05/2011

The Montana Tech Career Services and Technical Outreach departments have partnered to sponsor the 1st Annual Montana Tech Volunteer Fair on Wednesday, October 12, 2011. ... Read More

09/29/2011

Montana Tech is celebrating the grand opening of its new, state of the art x-ray laboratory in the College of Technology. ... Read More

09/28/2011

The Montana Tech Campus Corps team will spend Saturday afternoon, October 1 from 12-4, “digging” out The Science Mine, a hands-on science discovery center serving Butte and all of Southwest Montana. ... Read More

09/28/2011

Montana Tech alum Chris Roos has been selected as the recipient of the 2011 Robert Peele Memorial Award from the Mining & Exploration (M&E) Division of the Society of Mining Engineers of AIME (SME). ... Read More

09/28/2011

A student computer programming team from Montana Tech competed in the Montana qualifying Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest this past weekend on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman. ... Read More

09/15/2011

G.I. Jobs, the premier magazine for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, has awarded Montana Tech the designation of Military Friendly School. ... Read More

09/14/2011

Montana Tech has been ranked in the top tier of “America’s Best Colleges” by U.S. News & World Report. ... Read More

09/12/2011

he start time for the Montana Tech vs. Rocky Mountain College football game scheduled for this Saturday, September 17 in Billings has been moved from 3:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ... Read More

09/12/2011

SM Energy, an independent energy company, presented a $16,000 donation to Montana Tech today. ... Read More

09/01/2011

Julie Hart, Associate Professor of Safety, Health and Industrial Hygiene, presented a paper titled Evaluating the Impact of Weatherization Procedures on Homes with Vermiculite Attic Insulation and or Other Asbestos Containing Materials at the Johnson Conference at the University of Vermont. ... Read More

08/31/2011

After the national economic downturn, the 2011 fair will host over 100 companies, many with global connections, on September 8th. ... Read More

07/27/2011

Montana Tech Chancellor Don Blackketter announced today the appointment of Traci O’Neill as the interim Vice Chancellor of Development and Alumni Affairs at Montana Tech. ... Read More

07/12/2011

Montana Tech Vice Chancellor of Development and Student Services and President of the Montana Tech Foundation, Mike Johnson, announced today that he will be departing Montana Tech on August 5th to become President of Management Consultants Inc., a Butte-based organization. ... Read More

07/06/2011

The Montana Tech Foundation reported today that fiscal year 2011, which ended June 30th, produced a record level of donations. ... Read More

07/01/2011

Ivan Sljivar, former standout for the Montana Tech men’s basketball team, was selected as the Frontier Conference recipient of the NAIA Dr. LeRoy Walker Champions of Character Award. ... Read More

06/30/2011

Montana Tech alumnus Ronald Verbeck, who passed away in August 2010, left $686,000 to the Montana Tech Foundation. ... Read More

06/29/2011

The editors of R&D Magazine have announced the winners of the 49th Annual R&D 100 Awards, which salute the 100 most technologically-significant products introduced into the marketplace over the past year. ... Read More

05/12/2011

UM President Royce C. Engstrom, guided by a 25-member Montana Tech search committee, has selected Donald Blackketter for the chancellorship in Butte. ... Read More

05/09/2011

Whiting Petroleum Corporation, an independent oil and gas company, announced today the awarding of a $125,000 gift to Montana Tech. ... Read More

05/04/2011

Today, the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation announced the awarding of a $100,000 grant to the Montana Tech Foundation to support the construction of the University Relations Center on the edge of the campus. ... Read More

05/02/2011

The Montana Tech student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) placed second at the 2011 Student Design Competition. ... Read More

04/29/2011

The Construction Technology students from the Montana Tech College of Technology will be celebrating the successful completion of their major academic year project. ... Read More

03/31/2011

Goldcorp Inc, one of the world’s largest gold mining companies, pledged a donation of US$605,000 to Montana Tech. ... Read More

03/28/2011

Montana Tech will be partnering with the Butte YMCA to offer two college-credit writing classes at the Y location this coming fall semester, which begins in August. ... Read More

03/24/2011

University of Montana President Royce Engstrom was on the campus of Montana Tech today to unveil an Economic Impact Study conducted by Patrick M. Barkey, Director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at The University of Montana. ... Read More

03/22/2011

The Beta Xi Sigma Chapter of the two-year honor society, Phi Theta Kappa, will induct twenty-one new students on Wednesday, March 23rd at an evening ceremony at the Montana Tech College of Technology. ... Read More

03/22/2011

Mining students from Universities across the globe traveled to Reno, NV in hopes for earning bragging rights at the 33rd annual international mining competition at the University of Nevada, Reno. ... Read More

03/21/2011

Montana Tech is pleased to announce a $100,000 donation from the Aera Energy Fund, a donor-advised fund administered by the Kern Community Foundation on behalf of Aera Energy LLC. ... Read More

03/16/2011

At the Society of Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Annual Meeting banquet on March 2, 2011, David Armstrong was honored as a 2010-2011 SME Henry Krumb Lecturer. ... Read More

03/16/2011

The Ivan B. Rahn Award was presented to Dr. H. Peter Knudsen at the Society of Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Annual Meeting. ... Read More

03/16/2011

In May of 2007, Hugo Pulju returned to his alma mater to attend commencement and class reunion activities. ... Read More

03/10/2011

On Friday, March 25, 2011, Montana Tech will host its annual Tech Scholar’s Day. Tech Scholar’s Day is a day where Montana Tech invites all scholarship recipients and their families to campus for a day of fun and welcoming by Montana Tech students, faculty and staff. ... Read More

03/09/2011

Newmont Mining Corporation, one of the world’s largest gold producers, will present Montana Tech with two donations this coming Friday, March 11, 2011. ... Read More

03/09/2011

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has officially released the field of 32 teams for the 2011 NAIA Division I Women's Basketball National Championship. ... Read More

03/04/2011

At the Board of Regents meeting in Helena today, the Regents gave Montana Tech approval to award Thomas W. Dyk with an Honorary Doctor of Science degree. ... Read More

02/28/2011

The annual Montana Tech Regional Science Fair will be held on March 8th and March 10th on the Montana Tech campus. ... Read More

02/02/2011

A former Philip Morris research scientist, who became the first whistleblower to reveal the tobacco industry’s secrets about the dangerous health effects of tobacco, will speak on the campus of Montana Tech. ... Read More

01/25/2011

Montana Tech head football coach Chuck Morrell is pleased to announce his Oredigger football coaching staff. ... Read More

01/19/2011

A group of Construction/Carpentry Technology students from the Montana Tech College of Technology has come together to help the Butte Kiwanis Children’s Sunshine Camp. ... Read More

01/19/2011

Montana Tech’s Career Services Department is hosting the 3rd Annual CareerSmart Fair on February 16, 2011 on the Montana Tech campus in the Student Union. ... Read More

01/18/2011

Pioneer Technical Services, Inc., a full-service environmental sciences, engineering, and surveying firm, recently donated $25,000 to Montana Tech to establish the Pioneer Technical Services Endowed Scholarship. ... Read More

01/03/2011

Montana Tech Head Football Coach Chuck Morrell has announced that Philip Antonioli has committed to play for the Orediggers in 2011. ... Read More