Dr. Willie Thomas of Family Vision Care in Missoula isn't mincing his words about Monday's solar eclipse. Don't look at it without the proper eye protection, or permanent damage could occur.
The entire country will be taking a pause on Monday, August 21, as a total solar eclipse will be visible across a broad swath of the United States, and partially in western Montana.
A NASA higher education program called the Montana Space Grant Consortium will be conducting two separate experiments in conjunction with the highly anticipated solar eclipse on August 21.
Scott Whittenberg, UM Vice President for Research and Creative Scholarship, as well as Dean of the graduate school announced this week that the institution set a new research funding record for the third year in a row.
University of Montana Professor John Kimball has been working for ten years on a project called “SMAP” or Soil Moisture Active Passive.