Sarah Brown
Field Days HostSarah Kanter Brown is the producer of YPR’s Field Days. A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, Brown has worked at newspapers and magazines nationwide.
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The Montana University System Board of Regents meets today to hear updates and proposals from the state’s public colleges and universities, among them Montana State, where the university’s ag students could get a multi-million dollar boost for hands-on learning.
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Acclaimed novelist Isabel Allende will visit Montana State University this fall. Allende is one of three distinguished speakers in the President’s Crossing Boundaries Speaker Series.
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Last year, more than 200,000 tons of waste went into Gallatin County’s landfill. As much as 20 percent of that likely could have been composted. That could be about to change.
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A wheat field is nothing new in Montana. But one wheat field, sown on a vacant lot in northeast Bozeman, has a deeper meaning–one that fuses art, agriculture, and the future of our food systems.
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The Human Resource Development Council, known locally as HRDC, has a new one-stop shop.
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Montana ranks 6th in the nation for pregnancy-related deaths. Within the state, rural and Native women suffer disproportionate numbers of pregnancy-related complications. Now hopes are high that a new nurse-midwifery program will improve women’s health care for the state’s rural, frontier, and Native communities.
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The decades-long decline in cigarette smoking means fewer butts littering sidewalks, parks, and roadways. But increasing electronic cigarette use has driven the waste underground, literally. A new initiative aims to keep e-cigarettes out of Gallatin County landfills.
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What if a single strategy could prevent chronic disease, increase physical activity, and reduce motor vehicle-related injuries and air pollution? Hopes are high that Bozeman’s revived Safe Routes to Schools could do just that.
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Montana State University is celebrating its growing research in the field of quantum science by marking World Quantum Day for the first time this spring.
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A proposed amendment to Livingston’s noise ordinance is riling some residents of this sedate community on the banks of the Yellowstone River.