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Biomimicry author to speak at UM
Montana Scientist To Engineers: Nature Knows BestFor answers to industrial-design challenges look outside the laboratory, past the pavement, past the edge of town, where the industrial world ends and nature begins.
That’s where Janine Benyus looks. And she continues to find answers for some of world’s biggest companies in unlikely places: on the leaf of a lotus plant; on the wing of a butterfly; in the home of a termite.
Benyus, of Stevensville, will lecture on biomimicry – a term she coined – in the Urey Lecture Hall, at the University of Montana at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13. There, the award-winning natural science writer and founder of The Biomimicry Institute in Missoula, will explain how industrial design can mimic nature; how the tiny bristles on a gecko’s foot not only allow it to walk on walls but inspire scientists to develop recyclable glue-free tape.
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MercyFlight goes down 15 miles from Gallatin Field
Three Confirmed Killed in Plane Crash Near BozemanA small commuter plane crashed late Tuesday night about 15 miles northwest of Gallatin Field Airport, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle and the Great Falls Tribune are reporting. Three people on board the Benefis Healthcare MercyFlight – a pilot, a registered nurse and a paramedic – were killed.
The case is still under investigation and representatives at Benefis Healthcare in Great Falls would not release the victims’ names until their families were notified.
“We are devastated by the loss of our beloved friends, co-workers and members of our community,” Julie Hickethier, chief clinical officer at Benefis, told the Tribune. “This is a time of tremendous mourning for our entire organization.
The commuter plane reportedly left Great Falls en route to Bozeman at 9:15 p.m. for patient transport. At midnight, Gallatin County’s coroner confirmed the deaths of those on board.
