The NSF EPSCoR supported graduate program Science and Natural History Filmmaking at Montana State University was designed as an interdisciplinary program based on several radical premises to educate a new generation of filmmakers on crafting programs about science for television, exhibitions for museums and visual science education.

To further these efforts, UM NSF EPSCoR has partnered and will contribute additional financial support to the MSU Department of Media, Theatre and Arts to produce several short films, which will profile some of the more prominent scientists and their research in Montana. These films will air through the Montana Public Broadcasting system in 2005.