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Happening at UM

Upgrades Improve Fan Experience at Washington-Grizzly Stadium

Washington-Grizzly Stadium has the reputation of producing the best fan experience in the Football Championship Subdivision, but reputations are like eggs: fragile, easy to break and very hard to put back together. That’s why fans who attend a Grizzly football game this fall will notice three major upgrades to the stadium, all added to enhance the fan experience. Read more about the upgrades taking place in Washington-Grizzly Stadium.

Today

Athletics

Campus and Community

Chinese Delegation Visits for Talks on Academics, Trade, Technology

A delegation of high-level Chinese ambassadors will stop this week in Missoula, one of just three U.S. cities listed on their North American tour. Organized by the Mansfield Center at UM, the stop in Missoula includes talks with university officials, Gov. Steve Bullock and state business leaders, among others. The exchange will focus in part on economic trade, energy, internet technology and academic exchanges. Read more about the delegation’s visit.

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Academics

Campus and Community

Alumni

3 UM Faculty Listed Among ‘World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds’

Three UM faculty members are lauded in the recent publication “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” for publishing the greatest number of highly cited papers between 2002 and 2012. UM Regents Professor of Ecology Steven Running is listed in the Geosciences section and Associate Professor of Conservation Ecology Gordon Luikart and biology Professor Ragan Callaway are listed in the Environment/Ecology section. Read more about the professors’ ranking.

July 23rd, 2014

Academics

Research

Hands working with a wooden tool on a artifact

Project Unearths Buffalo Soldiers’ Artifacts at Fort Missoula

UM archaeologists are leading an effort at Fort Missoula to better understand the lives of black soldiers in the American West in the late 1880s. Nicknamed “buffalo soldiers,” the 25^th Infantry at the decommissioned fort included 220 African-Americans. The group made history in 1896-97 by testing whether bicycles could be used instead of horses during times of war, pedaling to what became the Glacier and Yellowstone national parks and then on to St. Louis. Read more about the archaeological project.

July 21st, 2014

An instructor teaching in front of a class a the institute

Institute Attracts High Schoolers with UM College Experience

Marion DiVore came to UM’s 2014 Kermit and Kathleen Schwanke Honors Institute for high school students seeking a true college experience. She lived on campus for two weeks, dined at the Food Zoo and even pulled an all-nighter. “I actually didn’t sleep last night,” says DiVore, a sixteen-year-old junior from Mountain Home, Idaho. “A group of us were up writing and helping each other with our projects.” Read more about the Schwanke Honors Institute.

July 21st, 2014

Jaxie Friedman, right, and her mentor, Fernando Cardozo-Pelaez

Visiting Honors Student Investigates Parkinson’s Disease

Meet Jaxie Friedman, a visiting honors student from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. Friedman is participating in UM’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program and conducting research with mentor Fernando Cardozo-Pelaez, a faculty member in UM’s Center for Environmental Health Sciences. Over the course of the summer, Friedman and Cardozo-Pelaez are researching the neurochemical and behavioral effects that pesticides can cause in the brain in order to better understand Parkinson’s disease. Read more about Friedman’s research at UM.

July 18th, 2014

Academics

Research

The Story Behind the Photo

Artist Sandra Dal Poggetto talks with museum docents about her solo exhibition, “Sandra Dal Poggetto: Meditations on the Field,” on display at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture at the University of Montana. The exhibition is on display through Sept. 27 in the Meloy and Paxson galleries, located in the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center Building. Read more about Dal Poggetto’s work here.

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