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Vanessa Simonds has won the Marley-Maben Native and Indigenous Peoples Leadership Award as part of the 2025 Founders Day Faculty Awards at MSU Explore
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Accounting students from Montana State University’s Jake Jabs College of Business and Entrepreneurship are offering free help preparing tax returns for MSU students and community members who made less than $60,000 last year.

Accounting students to offer free tax help

The 2026 help sessions will be held on the MSU campus in Jabs Hall.

Service Saturdays provide MSU students an opportunity to engage with their local community. Here students volunteer with the Gallatin Valley Food Bank at the Story Mill Community Learning Garden in August 2025.

Montana State recognized for community engagement

MSU has earned the classification three times: 2010, 2020 and 2026.

Robert Mokwa

Mokwa announces plan to retire from provost role

Brian Tripet working with equipment in a lab

Green Lab certification program rolls out at MSU

Events

Blind Date with the Archives Poster

Blind Date with the Archives

11:00am - 3:00pm MSU Library
Archives and Special Collections

Hospitality Majors Association Meeting 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Mountains & Minds Toastmasters Club Meetings 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Men's basketball to host University of Idaho 7:00pm

MSU Family Science Night 6:00pm - 7:30pm

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More than 100 area trails |

The 47th annual American Indian Council Powwow at Montana State. |

$120 million in average annual research expenditures |

Aerial shot of campus. |

Montana State’s 2023 Spring Rodeo in the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse. |

Bozeman has more than 60 miles of bike trails & lanes |

National Agriculture Week. |

MSU offers more than 250 academic options |

Montana State no. 1 in the region for Goldwater Scholars |

Montana State Commencement Ceremony Spring 2023. |

250+ study abroad programs in 60 countries are available to MSU students |

Spirit the bobcat during the first snow of the winter season |