Our Students
Whether they are presenting their scholarship at conferences, receiving prestigious awards, competing in national events, gaining experience in an internship, or volunteering at home and abroad, students at the University of Montana are thriving.
Please email the OfficeoftheProvost@umontana.edu to share stories about our students.
Zach Brown - Environmental Studies
Recent UM graduate and Truman Scholar Zach Brown is interning in the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) as part of the Truman Foundation’s Summer Institute program in Washington, D.C. The USTR oversees bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations on behalf of the President. ...
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Samantha Mitchell - Biology
Biology major Samantha Mitchell presented exciting new findings from UM’s Lawrence Lab to fellow neuroscience students and professors at the Society for Neuroscience annual conference in New Orleans in November 2012. Samantha’s research explores the behavioral effects of deleting a subclass of ac ...
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Kevin Kicking Woman - Anthropology
In September 2012, anthropology graduate student Kevin Kicking Woman travelled to attend “Stories and Songs of the People” at the InterNational Peoples Village in Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia, where he participated in a series of events featuring Indigenous people’s stories, mu ...
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Abigail Nastan - Geosciences
Geosciences major Abigail Nastan travelled to San Francisco in fall 2012 to represent both UM’s Geosciences and Physics & Astronomy Departments at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Her poster topic compared climate change on Earth to that on Mars and explored whether humans could one day liv ...
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Edwin Webster - Political Science
During Wintersession term in January 2013, a group of undergraduate UM Political Science majors traveled to Washington, D.C., for an intensive seminar course at The Washington Center. Edwin Webster was one of these students. Edwin’s trip included visits to think tanks, congressional offices, the Capitol bu ...
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Casie Dunleavy - Philosophy
Casie Dunleavy, a graduate student in Environmental Philosophy, represented UM at the International Association of Animal Hospice and Palliative Care Conference in November 2012. At the conference in Denver, Colorado, Casie met many veterinarians interested in philosophical concepts like animal dignity and whose wor ...
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David Schaad - Environmental Studies
Environmental studies major David Schaad travelled to Vietnam during Wintersession term in January 2013. There, he earned six UM credits while studying the ecology, culture, history, and economic development of the nation, as well as the impacts of climate change in the region. David writes, “Words cannot ...
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