The University of Montana recently received a $1 million grant to endow its Osher Reentry Scholarship Program. Osher re-entry scholars are for nontraditional students who have experienced a cumulative gap in their education of five or more years and meet other requirements. Patrick Wayne is one UM student who became an Osher re-entry scholar when he returned to school at age 47. Read more
UM anthropology Associate Professor Kelly Dixon is among a team of volunteers documenting artifacts at Ghost Cave at Pictograph Cave State Park near Billings. The cooperative project aims to take a more comprehensive and detailed look at the state park and record inscriptions left behind by Works Progress Administration workers who excavated Ghost and Pictograph caves from 1937 to 1941, inscriptions that are now considered of historical value. Read more
A new medical residency program sponsored by the University of Montana kicked off this month and seeks to keep doctors in the state’s rural areas and bolster the availability and quality of care. After a monthlong orientation, residents with Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana are getting into the swing of their rotations during their first week on the job. Read more
In celebration of the upcoming 120th anniversary of the Montana Museum of Art & Culture, MMAC published “The Art of the State: 120 Artworks for 120 Years.” The handbook presents 120 carefully selected pieces from the museum’s Permanent Collection, highlighting MMAC’s most significant resource and providing access to this unique and little-known treasure that belongs to all Montanans. Read more
Does making a ball move without touching it, dissecting a sheep brain, making slime or controlling an underwater robot sound fun? All of those pursuits – and more – will be possible at spectrUM’s new, soon-to-open downtown Missoula location. Families will be able to enjoy more of the best of what spectrUM has offered at its current location on the University of Montana campus, as well as new exhibits and activities made possible by the expanded space. Read more
The limits of human endurance, and the study thereof, are challenged by many factors: physical and mental fitness, terrain, heat, even the willingness of a test subject to provide a rectal thermometer reading in the field. UM Professor Brent Ruby and his fellow researchers at UM’s Montana Center for Work Physiology and Exercise Metabolism have turned their frustration at losing data into a simple, modern solution: an app. Read more
Jack Stanford, director of UM's Flathead Lake Biological Station, approaches one of the station's instrumented buoys to collect research data. The buoys collect continuous, automated measurements of water quality in the water column and meteorological conditions on the lake. The Flathead Lake Biological Station is one of the oldest active biological field research stations in the United States. Learn more at www.umt.edu/flbs.
