University of Montana Class of 2008: Grad looks to clean water around globe and at home in Lame Deer. Graduation a dream come true for Indian nursing student at MSU

Chauncey Means sits quietly in a chemistry laboratory, tinkering with a silica polyamine composite.

The concoction, he explains with gentle patience, is amazing: It takes heavy metals out of water.

By combining the proper amounts of the proper ingredients, he says, polluted water can be cleaned up.
Means’ work is part of an international research project to remove uranium from polluted waters in South Africa.

Under the guidance of University of Montana chemistry professor Ed Rosenberg http://www.cas.umt.edu/casweb/for_faculty/FacultyDetails.cfm?id=533 , Means is helping to test the UM-created composite.

“We are trying to see if our stuff works,” Means says, and with a grin: “So far, so good.”

Although the project is helping to solve an environmental disaster halfway around the globe, for Means, the work brings him ever closer to his home and family in Lame Deer.

By BETSY COHEN of the Missoulian

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ISBOMC’08 – Fourth International Symposium On Bioorganometallic Chemistry, 7/6-10, University Of Montana Missoula http://matr.net/events.phtml?showdetail=2325

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Graduation a dream come true for Indian nursing student

By GAIL SCHONTZLER Chronicle Staff Writer

For Casaja Fritzler, a 26-year-old member of the Crow tribe, graduating on Saturday from Montana State University with a bachelor’s degree in nursing will be the realization of a dream she thought impossible.

“I’ve always wanted to be a nurse,” Fritzler said Tuesday. As she talked, her whole face would light up with a smile. “I absolutely love to help people n that’s what attracted me.”

It has been a struggle, she confessed. For one thing, MSU’s four-year-degree nursing program is known as rigorous. For another, Fritzler has been trying to get through college, while being a wife and a mom to her two little girls.

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