Behind the Photo
Bozeman-based artist Lisa Lord applies pieces of glass and mirror to a mural she is installing on an exterior wall of the new Missoula College building. The mural is titled "Infinite Potentials."
The Tricked-Out Research Planes That Fly Through Wildfires
The only way to know exactly what’s in a wildfire’s smoke is to sample straight from the haze. UM atmospheric chemist Bob Yokelson is among a group of scientists who created a lab inside an...
UM Sets Research Funding Record for Third Straight Year
Research continues to surge at a record pace at the University of Montana, with the institution setting a record for external funding for the third year in a row. UM brought in nearly $88 million...
Montana Team to Livestream, Capture Data During Aug. 21 Eclipse
This August, UM will participate in a nationwide, NASA-sponsored project to livestream aerial video footage and gather scientific atmospheric data during the Great American Eclipse. A team of...
UM Teams with Hank Green to Explore History of Life
The UM Paleontology Center has partnered with internet producer Hank Green to launch EONS, a new weekly YouTube series that explores the billion-years-plus history of life on Earth.
Professor Earns Fulbright to Help Advance Education in Ukraine
Lisa Blank, a professor in UM’s Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to travel to a school in Kyiv, Ukraine. Blank will...
UM Announces 2017 Presidential Leadership Scholars
Twenty-three exceptional incoming UM freshmen have been awarded Presidential Leadership Scholarships. The scholarships recognize outstanding talent, academic performance, leadership and...
Visiting Student Researches if Nanomaterials Contribute to Disease
During UM’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program, visiting student Matthew Justus and Center for Environmental Health Sciences researchers are using hyperspectral imaging to identify whether...
UM Professor Receives Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award
UM Professor Valerie Moody recently was selected as one of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s 2017 Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer award recipients. Moody is a professor in...
Professor to Ride 500 Miles to Mark African-American Studies’ 50th Year
As the UM African-American Studies Program prepares to celebrate 50 years on campus, its director is about to embark on a 500-mile bike ride. Tobin Miller Shearer, an associate history professor,...
UM Leadership Program Hosts Iraqi Youth
UM welcomes 25 Iraqi students this week as part of the 2017 Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program. The students are participating in a three-week program focused on international peace building...
Researcher: Sea Spiders Pump Their Blood Using Their Guts
New research by UM Associate Professor Art Woods published in the journal Current Biology demonstrates that sea spiders move blood and oxygen around their bodies not by pumping their hearts, but...
Law Students Take Third at International Negotiation Competition
UM Alexander Blewett III School of Law students Frans Andersson and Kirsi Luther recently took third place at the International Negotiation Competition held in Oslo, Norway. The competition...
Beetle Study Shows Speedy Ponderosa Pines Fail Faster
An experiment by UM researchers with Ponderosa pine trees has run more than a generation and turned up some unplanned results. Saplings planted for their potential to grow the fastest, straightest...
UM Educator Named President of Statewide Accounting Association
UM accounting Associate Professor Joshua Herbold was recently named the 2017-18 president of the Montana Society of Certified Public Accountants board of directors. He is the first educator to...
Visiting Student Researches Gold Nanoparticles in Targeting Diseases
Visiting student Adam Lamphear is currently conducting research at UM with members of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences during UM’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program. He research...
For UM English Professor, Teaching and Writing Novels Feed Each Other
The way Kevin Canty sees it, if you don’t really want to write — that is, if you won’t sit down and commit to it — there’s nothing he can do to make you better. And if you don’t read other...
Journalism Students Return from Trip to Report on Nuclear Disaster in Japan
A group of UM journalism students recently returned from a trip to Fukushima, Japan, where they reported on the effects of the nuclear disaster following the Tohoki earthquake and tsunami that...
The Search for the Next President of the University of Montana
Visit the Presidential Search page on UM President’s Office website for updates on the search, timelines and the search committee member roster.
UM Researchers Band Osprey Chicks Honk, Hoot and Hero
UM researchers landed at Dunrovin Ranch last week to band three osprey chicks and tell school children in summer camp a little bit about them. UM and its partners also worked on a project to...
UM Receives Grant to Support Native American Faculty in STEM
A UM research team has been awarded a $1.8 million grant to promote professional success for Native American faculty in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The...
Visiting Student Researches Toxicity of Engineered Nanomaterials
During UM’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program, visiting student Joseph Vorderbruggen is researching the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials, including those made of gold and zinc oxide, while...
UM Aims for Most Beautiful Campus Designation
Travel+Leisure magazine named UM among the top 20 most beautiful campuses in the nation, but we want to be No. 1! Support Montana and Griz Nation by voting here through July 6.
UM Chemist to Study Climate, Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke
UM scientists will fly straight into the smoke of western wildfires as part of a collaborative research project, thanks to a new grant from the National Science Foundation. Assistant Professor Lu...
More Than 2,000 Montana Students Earn Scholarships from UM
Students at the University of Montana received $5 million in scholarships during the 2016-17 academic year. The following Montana students are among the recipients of more than 2,000 scholarships...
Big Dipper Partners with UM on Huckleberry Ice Cream
Lovers of ice cream and the Griz can celebrate two of their favorite things with the release of HuckleBeary, a newly branded flavor from Missoula’s own Big Dipper Ice Cream. The...
College Launches New Journal on Best Practices in Early Childhood Education
The Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences at UM has launched a new journal on best practices in early childhood education. The Journal of Early Childhood Scholarship and...
‘Play Me Montana’ Brings Alum Tim Ryan Rouillier Back to Where it All Began
Montana-native-turned-Nashville star Tim Ryan’s grandest dream yet – a musical memoir called “Play Me Montana” – will open at UM’s Dennison Theatre on June 17. His magnum opus, featuring a...
UM Research Center Conserves Gun from Famed Sunken Battleship
The Center for Integrated Research on the Environment at UM has been tasked with restoring a gun from the USS Maine, the historic warship that sank in 1898. The Maine played a key role in events...
Students Recognized for Excellence by Society of Professional Journalists
UM journalism students made a splash during the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2016 Mark of Excellence Awards held during the SPJ spring conference. In addition to taking home a national win...
Visiting Student Researches Epigenetics, Nanomaterials During Summer Program
Visiting student Natalie Alvarez is working with researchers in UM’s Center for Environmental Health Sciences to analyze the relationship between diet and carbon nanotube inflammation, especially...
Preserve and Protect: UM Researchers Team Up with UM Army Corps of Engineers
Boosted by a $45 million research award, UM’s Center for Integrated Research on the Environment is working with Army Corps of Engineers to solve problems at Air Force bases across the country.
2,743 UM Students Make Dean’s List, President’s 4.0 List
At the University of Montana, 2,743 students made the spring semester 2017 Dean’s List and President’s 4.0 List. To qualify for the Dean’s List or President’s 4.0 List, students must be...
Student Gives UM Dining Compost Van a New Look with Custom Paint Job
UM Dining’s compost van has a sharp new paint job courtesy of a student graffiti artist who offered his services for free after seeing the plain gray van driving around campus. The artist, who...
UM Law School Ranks 15th in Nation for Federal Judicial Clerkship Placement
The Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana ranks 15th in the nation for placing new graduates in federal judicial clerkships, based on the past three years of data. The...
UM to Fukushima: Journalism Students Report from Japan
Several UM journalism students are in Fukushima, Japan, reporting on the effects of the nuclear disaster that occurred there in 2011. The trip is part of UM’s Montana Journalism Abroad program....
Second Doctoral Candidate Earns P.E.O. Scholarship Award
Joanna Kreitinger, a biomedical sciences Ph.D. student at UM, is one of 100 doctoral students in the U.S. and Canada selected to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the P.E.O. Sisterhood. “The...
Scientists Receive Grant to Investigate Heat Trapped in Greenland’s Snow Cover
A new $1.54 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund University of Montana geoscientists as they study the deep layer of compacted snow covering most of Greenland’s ice sheet....
Doctoral Student Earns NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
UM doctoral candidate Eric Palm recently was selected for the prestigious NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship. Palm and his adviser, Professor Mark Hebblewhite, were awarded $45,000 to study...
Pinkerton Voted Big Sky Softball Coach of the Year
There are any number of reasons his peers could have voted Montana's Jamie Pinkerton the Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year, which they did this month, making it twice in two years Pinkerton has...
UM Dining Earns Five Awards for Exceptional Food Service
UM Dining recently was recognized with five Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards from the National Association of College and University Food Services competition. The awards celebrate exemplary menus,...
Anthropologist Reveals Native Lifestyles in New Book
UM researcher Anna Prentiss is helping to fill holes in the history of indigenous peoples living in the Pacific Northwest during the Fur Trade period.
UM Grad Hank Green Bases Internet Empire in Missoula
Combining a passion for knowledge with a penchant for silliness has produced a winning equation for Hank Green, Missoula’s most widely known internet entrepreneur. His web of channels, platforms,...
African-American Studies Marks First Graduating Class
UM celebrated its first cohort of graduating seniors with majors in African-American studies during Commencement on Saturday, May 13. For 49 years, UM students could take classes in...
Tiger Experts Cross the Globe to Learn from Montana Biologists
The first thing you need to know about tigers: They like to eat bears. The second thing: They’re best studied in Missoula, Montana. Despite being half a planet away from the nearest wild tiger...
