Provost Seeks Comments on Shortening Winter Break
UM currently has one of the longest winter breaks in the nation at six weeks. Some students, parents, faculty and administrators have raised issues regarding the length of the break. The Office of...
UM's Family Medicine Residency Earns High Marks
In June 2013, western Montana had no resident physicians. This July, 30 doctors will be at work in the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana, along with nine core faculty, more than 100...
Forestry School Hires New Native American Program Coordinator
The College of Forestry and Conservation announces the appointment of Ruth Ann Swaney as coordinator of the Native American Natural Resource Program. Swaney is an enrolled tribal member of the...
UM Ranks No. 6 for Producing Peace Corps Volunteers
UM has been named the No. 6 medium-sized university for producing Peace Corps volunteers, making a big jump up from its 2014 ranking at No. 12. Currently, 27 UM alumni serve with the Peace Corps...
Health Care Students at Missoula College Find Jobs Aplenty
It’s no secret that job growth within the health care industry is booming as the American population ages. A national emphasis on preventative care, growing rates of chronic conditions and “baby...
STEM Education Seeing Rapid Growth in Montana
Children with a passion for science, technology, engineering and math – often referred to as STEM – can be found around Western Montana. Based on Chamber of Commerce data, Montana is tenth in the...
Environmental Moot Court Team Advances to Final Round
Three UM School of Law students advanced to the final round of the 2015 National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition held Feb. 19-21 in White Plains, New York. Third-year law student Katelyn...
UM Family Medicine Residency Program Earns High Marks
UM’s family medicine residency program recently was awarded the highest level of accreditation available from its oversight organization. The Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana earned...
Students Named Gates Millennium Scholars, Earn Scholarships
Five UM students recently were named Gates Millennium Scholars, earning more than $43,000 in scholarships. Since the inception of the program in 1999, it has produced more than 18,000 Gates...
UM’s State-of-the-Art Planetarium Up and Running
It's understandable if you're unaware of the hidden planetarium beneath the Native American Center. The project has been in the works since 2013, but the astronomy department has kept it pretty...
UM Students Win Prize for Business Idea with Wood Waste
UM College of Forestry and Conservation student Stephen Jenkins fromBigfork and recent forestry graduate Jena Trejo from Marcola, Oregon, were first runners-up in the Barrett Foundation Business...
TEDxUMontana Returns Feb. 20 with Language Theme
TEDxUMontana returns for a second year, and the theme of this year’s event is language. Tickets are now on sale. The...
UM Professor Explains Animal Weaponry in New Book
It’s not easy being a male Onthophagus nigriventris dung beetle. When they’re not jostling for space around a pile of excrement, they’re trying to mate with females while ensuring no other male...
Ch-paa-qn Peak: Shuffling from Anguish to Enlightenment
“The phone rings and rings, each chime pounding in my head. I groan, stretching my arm out, reaching for the source of my annoyance. I flip it open, sit up, and blearily rub my eyes. An annoyed...
Adventure Writing Assignment: Rising Above the Homesick Blues
“A 360-degree view of Missoula and the surrounding mountains greeted me at the summit. I found myself smiling inside, discovering something I’d been doubting since I’d been in Missoula. I can be...
Hip Flicks: Meet Missoula's Up-and-Coming Filmmakers
Every year, filmmakers from across the world apply to have their films screened at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. This year, four filmmakers under 30 from the festival’s home city made the...
Reaching Santiago: UM Student Reflects on Pilgrimage
Last fall, UM student Rebecca Collins completed 12 credits of independent study on the Camino de Santiago, a medieval pilgrimage in southern France and northern Spain. Equipped with knowledge from...
Evolutionary Biologists Ask: Which Came First, the Dinosaur or the Bird?
The consensus is in: Birds are living dinosaurs. But how that epic evolutionary leap took place remains one of science’s greatest mysteries. Evolutionary biologists like Ashley Heers represent the...
Wild Cats in the City: Research Takes Student to South Africa
The sun hadn’t risen yet, but Tanner Saul was up. He unzipped his tent and stepped out into the chilly morning, still unable to see the African landscape surrounding him. Saul, a sophomore...
Global Leadership Initiative: The GLI Student Experience
The University of Montana’s Global Leadership Initiative is a four-year fellowship that provides students unique...
Tackling Pengelly: Class Assignment Takes Student Straight Up
“I love hiking, but as I spun in circles running from class to class this semester, I just couldn’t find time for this hike. I found time for other hikes, but never the Pengelly Ridge Trail.” UM...
Professor Earns Outstanding Book Award for ‘Creole Renegades’
A UM’s professor’s cross-cultural analysis received one of the top book awards from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Benedicte Boisseron, an associate professor of French and Francophone...
Hundreds Prepare for First Semester at UM with Spring Orientation
Hundreds of new students spent the day getting adjusted to life on campus Thursday, in preparation for their first semester as UM students. The spring semester at UM starts Monday, and about 200...
‘From Hellgate Canyon We Could Almost See Tuscon’
“We trudged up the steep and rocky path, leaving the Kim Williams riverside trail below us. Even though there was a great view of the Missoula Valley behind us and fall colors ahead of us, I felt...
Missoula Named Among Top Five Towns for Moviemakers
The independent film magazine MovieMaker recently named Missoula to its list of “Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2015: Top Five Towns.” The article notes Montana’s dramatic...
UM Signs Exchange Agreement with Japanese Education Board
A new agreement between UM, Missoula County Public Schools and their Japanese counterpart aims to increase educational exchange opportunities. Representatives from UM and MCPS met with a...
UM Earns National Recognition for Student Engagement, Service
UM recently earned recognition from two prominent civic engagement organizations. The Corporation for National and Community Service honored UM with a place on the 2014 President’s Higher...
Capitol Ceremony Marks Journalism School’s 100th Anniversary
From its founding days housed in Army tents on the University of Montana’s Oval in 1914, the School of Journalism has taught its students how to improvise in tough situations. This was just one of...
Defensive End Crittenden Named to Academic All-Star Team
UM’s Derek Crittenden is one of 50 players who was recently named to the 17th annual Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association Academic All-Star Team. A 6-3, 240-pound...
Study Abroad Blog: 'Nothing Will Ever be the Same Again'
“One of my favorite English professors at UM likes to tell us often, ‘the best stories take place during the moments from which the main character realizes that, nothing will ever be the same...
UM Students Travel to Vietnam to Study Climate Change
Thirteen UM students and one professor are in Vietnam from through Jan. 19 for the fifth annual study abroad field course focused on climate change impacts and adaptation in the Mekong Delta. The...
Professor Explores Animal Weapons and the Evolution Of Battle
From horns to claws, teeth and talons, the animal kingdom features many natural weapons. But UM evolutionary biologist Doug Emlen wanted to know why, in some rare cases, animals develop weapons...
Mansfield Library Recognized for Serving as Regional Depository
The U.S. Government Publishing Office recently spotlighted UM’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library for serving as a regional depository library. The library was designated as a depository in 1909...
Hewlett-Packard to Return in February to Recruit UM Students
Career Services at UM strives to provide students with ample opportunities to explore careers with the world’s most renowned and reputable companies. Career Services recently teamed up with...
UM Researcher Studies Origins of Life with NASA Award
When astrobiologists contemplate life on nearby planets or moons, they often suggest such life would be simple. From such simple life, more complex life forms could eventually come to be. How did...
Grizstagram: 2014 in Review
As we ring in the new year, enjoy this video featuring student photos from Instagram that were tagged #Grizstagram...
UM Team Searching for Earth-like Planets Using New Telescope
From his lab in Missoula, Nate McCrady watches the stars. The UM associate professor of astronomy and his team of research students received a $1.125 million grant from NASA last year. The grant...
UM’s New Data Center Solves Problems, Opens Doors
After four years of investigating, planning, politicking and decision-making, UM has a new data center. It doesn’t look like much from the outside—a big white box sitting beneath a slanted metal...
UM's 2014 Year in Review
As 2014 draws to a close, the University of Montana looks back at the moments and milestones of the past year in...
Missoula Second Per-Capita in Producing Peace Corps Volunteers
An annual report produced by the Peace Corps recently found that Montana and Missoula ranked among the top 10 overall per-capita volunteer-producing states and metropolitan areas in the country....
Welding Students Craft Steel Menorah for Missoula Synagogue
It's a good thing Har Shalom's menorah used light bulbs instead of candles; no one could have reached up to light the wicks. The Missoula synagogue celebrated Hanukkah by flicking the switches to...
UM Graduate Students Excel at University, State and National Levels
Toxicology graduate students at the Center for Environmental Health Sciences are involved in extracurricular...
UM Telescope One Step Closer to Discovering New Worlds
“First light” marked a new dawn for UM astronomy on Dec. 16. UM astrophysics Associate Professor Nate McCrady, along with a team of researchers, achieved “first light” on Tuesday – a term used to...
Students Produce 2015 Edition of Montana Journalism Review
The Montana Journalism Review, an award-winning magazine produced by UM School of Journalism students, has released its 2015 edition. For the 44th issue, the nation’s oldest journalism review...
Students Turn Class Assignment into Successful Ski Outerwear Business
Saga Outerwear has always been grounded, an independently owned company since it first launched in 2005. The brand got its start when Andrew Mallett and Austin Stevens, both longtime skiers and...
