MSU Academic Technology and Outreach

📣 Registration is open for our upcoming interactive community workshop, Navigating your Career in Times of Uncertainty, co-hosted with MSU Career Services! Join us in exploring how to build a meaningful and adaptable career over a lifetime. After attending this workshop, you'll leave with: ✅A framework for navigating career uncertainty with greater confidence, ✅A deeper understanding of the difference between your work and your workplace, ✅Practical strategies for bringing your strengths to any role through intentional contribution, ✅Reflection tools that transform experiences into future growth, and ✅Concrete practices for continuing to explore, learn, connect and adapt throughout your career. Date/Time: Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, 6:15-8:15 p.m. Location: MSU Bozeman; free parking available Cost: $30 for the General Public, $15 for MSU Students, Employees or Alumni Instructor: Cimberli Kearns, Assistant Director of Career Services at MSU Learn More and Register: https://lnkd.in/gmv9wZFF

Hope to see you tomorrow at our MSU After Hours Workshop: Wildfire Smart Residential Landscape Design & Maintenance! Register now, and learn how to make your property more fire-resilient without sacrificing what you love about your yard. Date/time: Aug. 18, 2026, 6:30–8:15 p.m. Location: MSU Bozeman Instructor: Rebekah VanWieren, Professor of Landscape Design at MSU Cost: $25 Learn More & Register: https://lnkd.in/gx-5GDG9 What You'll Learn: ✅How wildfire behaves and what it means for Gallatin County (and beyond) ✅Key wildfire preparedness strategies to create and maintain defensible space around your home and neighborhood ✅How landscape design choices (plants, materials, layout and structures) and maintenance affect fire risk ✅Practical steps to assess and reduce risk on your own property

Generative AI is changing how we work, learn, create and solve problems, but what exactly is it, and how can you use it effectively? Whether you're intrigued, skeptical or somewhere in between, discover firsthand what generative AI tools can do, where they fall short and why understanding them matters in this MSU After Hours workshop: Demystifying Generative AI, hosted by Academic Outreach. ✅Date/Time: Tuesday, September 29, 2026, 6:15-8:15 p.m. ✅Location: MSU Bozeman; free parking available ✅Instructor: Jason A. Clark, Professor and co-lead for the Research Programs and Services in the Interdisciplinary Institute on Artificial Intelligence at MSU ✅Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/g2tUQqhZ

MSU Academic Technology & Outreach received a grant from Adobe to support digital literacy initiatives and help prepare students for a workforce that prioritizes digital skills! Check out the full news release on the MSU News page: https://lnkd.in/gZFciWJH

There's still time to register for our upcoming MSU After Hours Workshop: Wildfire Smart Residential Landscape Design & Maintenance. Learn how to make your property more fire-resilient without sacrificing what you love about your yard! Date/time: Aug. 18, 2026, 6:30–8:15 p.m. Location: MSU Bozeman Instructor: Rebekah VanWieren, Professor of Landscape Design at MSU Cost: $25 Learn More & Register: https://lnkd.in/gx-5GDG9 What You'll Learn: ✅How wildfire behaves and what it means for Gallatin County (and beyond) ✅Key wildfire preparedness strategies to create and maintain defensible space around your home and neighborhood ✅How landscape design choices (plants, materials, layout and structures) and maintenance affect fire risk ✅Practical steps to assess and reduce risk on your own property

📣Registration is open for another MSU After Hours Program: The Cliché Next Door with Chrysti the Wordsmith! Ever wonder where expressions like “dead as a doornail,” “the powers that be,” or “pie in the sky” come from? Uncover the surprising histories hiding behind the phrases we use every day and get a glimpse behind-the-scenes of the long running KGLT radio series, Chrysti the Wordsmith. Date/Time: Tuesday, September 22, 2026, from 6:15- 8:15 p.m. Location: MSU Bozeman; free parking available Cost: $25 Learn More & Register: https://lnkd.in/gZi3jdGP

💜 Do you care for others in your professional or personal life? Whether you're a healthcare worker supporting patients or caring for a loved one, we hope you can join us for our upcoming course: Caring for Yourself While Caring for Others. Participants will learn to identify stress, compassion fatigue and burnout signs, and explore evidence-based methods to enhance resilience, set healthy boundaries, manage stress and develop lasting self-care routines. Dates/time: Thursdays, October 1-22, 2026; 6:00-7:30 pm Location: MSU Bozeman; free parking available Instructor: Desiree Dalke, Allied Health Division Director at Gallatin College MSU Cost: $50 Learn More and Register: https://lnkd.in/gCdpCtdV

Back by popular demand, registration is open for Embody your Space! This playful, interactive workshop explores how embodiment practices can transform the way you relate to the spaces you inhabit daily. Drawing from a framework called Internal Architecture, which explores the body as a tool for systemic redesign, you will learn: ☑️Somatic techniques for noticing and understanding your relationship to a space ☑️Practices for sparking meaningful personal and environmental change ☑️How to redesign a room without touching a single wall Date/Time: Thursday, September 10, 2026, 6:15 – 8:15 p.m. Location: MSU Bozeman; free parking available Cost: $25 Learn more & register: https://lnkd.in/dfH7_C2q

This is it! ✨ Sign up now for The Art of Wonder: Cultivating Awe Through Creative Writing! Grounded in the belief that creativity begins with attention, The Art of Wonder: Cultivating Awe Through Creative Writing invites participants to slow down, observe deeply and rediscover the richness of the everyday as a source of inspiration. No prior experience or formal training in creative writing required. ✨Dates/times: August 10-28, with live sessions on Wednesdays 5:30 – 7:30 pm ✨Location: ONLINE ✨Instructor: Kyndra Campbell, Department Chair at Gallatin College MSU ✨Cost: $240 ($25 discount available for nonprofit, public and MSU employees) ✨Learn more & Register: https://lnkd.in/ghvETa3s

Whether you’re a beginner who is curious about collage or a practicing artist looking to expand or refresh your creative practice, we hope you’ll join us at our upcoming online course, Collage and Assemblage: Exploring the Boundaries of Art and Meaning! No prior experience is necessary. Through a combination of lectures, demonstrations and hands-on projects, you will explore the history, techniques and theoretical underpinnings of collage and assemblage. Dates: September 16 - 30, 2026; live virtual classes meet on Wednesdays from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. MDT Cost: $115 (a discount is available for nonprofit and public employees, as well as MSU staff, faculty and students) Learn More + Register: https://lnkd.in/gavDzVWw