Introduction to MSU Departments

Introduction to Colleges & Departments
at MSU

14-Sep-2017 by Aki Takeda (Research Scientist at Dept. of Phys.)

0. Montana

a satellite image

	area (km^2)	population	popul./area
Montana	381,000	1,000,000	2.6
Hokkaido	78,400	5,460,000	70
Japan	378,000	120,000,000	342

1. Brief history of MSU.

1893 : Started as the Agricultural College of the State of Montana.
1920s: Montana State College.
1964 : Dept. of Physics, founded.
1965 : Changed name to Montana State University.

2. Colleges at MSU.

College of Agriculture
College of Arts and Architecture
College of Business
College of Education, Health, and Human Development
College of Engineering
College of Letters and Science
College of Nursing

3. College of Letters and Science.

Agricultural Economics & Economics
Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Ecology
History & Philosophy
Mathematical Sciences
Modern Languages & Literatures
Physics
Psychology

American Studies
Center for Computational Biology
Earth Sciences
English
Liberal Studies Degree
Microbiology & Immunology
Native American Studies
Political Science
Sociology and Anthropology

4. Department of Physics

Research web page

Astrophysics group
- relativity, gravity, cosmology
- stellar and galactic astronomy
- solar physics
- Space Sience and Engineering Laboratory (SSEL) --- physics + engineering
- Montana Space Grant Consortium (MSGC)
Condensed Matter group
- ion beam, magnetic reasonance, superconductivity
- biophysics, nanostructures
- Imaging and Chemical Analysis Laboratoy (ICAL) --- physics + chemistry + biology
Laser optics, Holography
Physics Education

5. Solar Physics Group

"We have no big solar telescope here at MSU!" Instead ...