历史

MSU was founded in 1893 as the state's land-grant college, and named the "Agricultural College of the State of Montana." Later renamed the "Montana College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts," by the 1920s it was commonly referred to as "Montana State College" (MSC).

Recognizing the institution's growth and excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, the state assembly renamed the institution Montana State University on July 1, 1965. Located on the south side of scenic Bozeman, the university's sprawling 1170 acre (4.73 km²) campus is the largest in the state. The elevation of the campus is 4900 feet (1493 m) above sea level.[1]

Distinguishing facts

MSU is the national leader for Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowships and is among the top ten institutions in the country for recipients of Goldwater Scholarships. The university counts among its graduates several recipients of the Rhodes and Truman scholarships, and MSU has consistently produced winners of USA Today Academic All-America honors. U.S. News and World Report has routinely listed MSU as one of America's "best buys" for undergraduate education, and ranks it in the third tier of National Universities. Montana State University offers the world's only Master of Fine Arts degree in Science and Natural History Filmmaking, and MSU's Museum of the Rockies is home to the largest T. Rex skull ever found—bigger, even, than "Sue" at the Chicago Field Museum.

Montana State University has recently made a name for itself as "the University of Yellowstone," for its extensive research and scholarly activities concerning the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Montana State University has received more than five times the number of National Science Foundation grants for Yellowstone studies than its nearest competition, Stanford and UCLA, according to David Roberts, head of MSU's ecology department.

体育运动

MSU athletic teams are nicknamed the Bobcats, and they participate in NCAA Division I (I-FCS for football) in the Big Sky Conference, of which Montana State University is a charter member. Originally playing as the Aggies, men's teams compete in football, basketball, track, cross-country, skiing, rodeo and tennis. Women's teams include volleyball, basketball, track, cross-country, tennis, golf, rodeo and skiing. The school has won several national championships in men's rodeo, three in football and one in men's basketball. Non-varsity (club) sports include Men's hockey, Men's lacrosse, fencing and ultimate frisbee.

In 1956 the Bobcats football team won a share of the Aluminum Bowl in Little Rock, Arkansas playing to a tie with the Pumas of St. Joseph’s College from Rensselaer, Indiana. In 1976 the Bobcats of Montana State again won a national football title in Wichita Falls, Texas beating the Zips of Akron, Ohio 24-13 in the title game. Again in 1984 the Bobcats returned to a national football title game played in Charleston, South Carolina beating Bulldogs of Louisiana Tech 19-6 for their third national football title.

Montana State boasts one of college basketball's legendary teams, the Golden Bobcats of the late 1920s. The school's basketball teams had acclaimed fame throughout that decade by playing "racehorse basketball," becoming one of the first schools in the nation to employ what we know as the fast break. Montana State coach Ott Romney, a graduate of the school himself, pioneered that style of play, and by 1926 had assembled a team perfectly suited to playing an up-tempo brand of ball. Cat Thompson, John "Brick" Breeden, Frank Ward, Val Glynn and Max Worthington for the heart of the Rocky Mountains' best basketball team, as MSC won the Rocky Mountain Conference title three straight seasons, besting powerful outfits from Utah State, BYU, Colorado, and Denver University each season. The 1928-29 team reached college basketball's zenith, defeating the AAU Champion Cook's Painters in a two-of-three series and steamrolling to the Rocky Mountain Conference title. The team was named National Champions by the Helms Foundation, which also eventually named Cat Thompson one of the five greatest players in the first half of the 20th century in college hoops.

Football

Montana State University has an ongoing rivalry with the University of Montana Grizzlies.

[edit] Colleges

• College of Agriculture
• College of Arts and Architecture
• College of Business
• College of Education, Health & Human Development
• College of Engineering
• College of Letters and Science
• College of Nursing
• College of Technology in Bozeman
• University College
• College of Graduate Studies

Notable alumni

• Ken Amato NFL longsnapper
• Arthur F Carmazzi Best selling author and international speaker on leadership and corporate culture change
• Jan Stenerud ('67 Bus) - One of only three kickers in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Former football player for the Kansas City Chiefs (1967-1979), Green Bay Packers (1980-1983), and Minnesota Vikings (1984-1985).
• Dr. Joe Coyne Founder of DGRM: Doctors for Gay Rights and Marriage
• Doug Coombs - the World Extreme Skiing Championship, in 1991 and 1993
• Henry Cratesmer - Founder of the famous Streamline Stapler company. Revolutionized the way staplers were made in America.
• John Dahl - Director and screenwriter. - [2]
• Kevin Donovan - film director
• Dennis Erickson - former NFL head coach and the current head football coach at Arizona State University.
• Zales Ecton - One of two Republican Senators in Montana in the last 100 years, served from 1947-1951
• Maurice Hilleman saved more lives than any other scientist of the 20th century. He is the father of vaccinology and created over three dozen vaccines including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, meningitis, among others.
• Craig Kilborn - talk show host and actor played basketball for the Fighting Bobcats
• David S. Lee - Chairman of the Board, eOn Communications Corporation, and Regent, University of California
• Alex Lowe - prior to his death in October, 1999, considered by many to be the world’s best climber
• Emil Petaja - noted science fiction and fantasy author
• Brian Schweitzer - Governor of Montana
• Mary Schweitzer - North Carolina State University paleontologist, first to discover soft tissues in a dinosaur bone
• Kari Swenson 1984 Olympic Women's Biathlon 3 x 5 km relay Bronze Medalist and abductee of "mountain men" Don and Dan Nichols
• Joe Tiller - Former head football coach at Purdue University
• Sarah Vowell - writer and journalist with PRI's This American Life
• Irving Weissman Professor at Stanford University, research on stem cell biology

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参考文献

External links

• Montana State University - Bozeman - official university site
• MSU Bobcats.com - official athletics site
• MSU - Office of International Programs & International Admissions
• Terraserver.microsoft.com - USGS topo map (& aerial photo) - MSU campus
• MSU - School of Architecture
• About MSU - information and statistics
• MSU - Spirit of the West Marching Band