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Junkyard Find: 2009 Kia Borrego LX

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Instead of a Trans Sport Montana or first-gen Cavalier, we're going to follow up one gloom-inducing Great Recession vehicle with another: an ultra-rare example of the single-model-year Kia Borrego , found in a Denver car graveyard last week.

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Ways to Bridge the U.S. Computer Science Education Gap

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Introducing CS concepts at a young age demystifies the technology and empowers students with problem-solving skills, logical reasoning, analytical thinking, creativity, and digital literacy. Code Girls United , founded by IEEE Member Marianne Smith , serves girls in rural and tribal communities across Montana.

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Hyundai opening R&D and Lab Center in Montana to design and build Ultimate Mobility Vehicles

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Hyundai New Horizons Studio (NHS), a unit focused on the development of Ultimate Mobility Vehicles (UMVs) ( earlier post ), will open a new Research, Development and Lab Center in Bozeman, Montana. Elevate concept revealed in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2019. Market research and assessment. Testing operations.

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PM2.5, O3 pollution associated with development of Alzheimer’s disease; new study identifies evolving axonal damage

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Now, a new study of children and young adults in Mexico City by a team of researchers at the Universities of Montana, Valle de México, Boise State, Universidad Veracruzana, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría and Paul-Flechsig-Institute for Brain Research has identified evolving axonal damage using a novel Non-P-Tau assay for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

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DOE Selects 15 Projects Aimed at Secure CO2 Underground Storage

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Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.) Montana State researchers plan to test a mesoscale high-pressure rock test system, develop biomineralization seal experimental protocol, and create biomineralization seals in different rock types and field conditions. (DOE DOE share: $780,185; Recipient share: $195,046; Duration: 18 months).

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This Startup Uses the MIT Inventor App to Teach Girls Coding

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The organization has taught more than 1,000 elementary, middle, and high school students across 38 cities in Montana and three of the state’s Native American reservations. Computer science is not a K–12 requirement in Montana,” Smith says. With each concept learned, the students built a more difficult app. “It

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Study finds children’s exposure to urban air pollution results in early hallmarks of Alzheimer’s

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Metropolitan Mexico City is an example of extreme urban growth and serious environmental pollution, where 8 million children are involuntarily exposed to harmful concentrations of fine particulate matter in the air every day beginning at conception. The work is published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

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