UM Creative Writing Graduate Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
UM graduate Andrew Sean Greer, Class of 96, has won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Greer's novel, "Less," is "a generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range,...
UM Commencement to Feature NIKE Chief Operating Officer
The 2018 Spring Commencement ceremonies at the University of Montana on Saturday, May 12, will feature words of wisdom from speaker Eric Sprunk, the chief operating officer for NIKE Inc. Sprunk,...
UM to Award Honorary Doctorate to Sheila Stearns
The University of Montana will award an Honorary Doctorate in Education to Sheila M. Stearns during its May 12 Commencement exercises. On March 9, the state Board of Regents unanimously approved...
DeCuire Named Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year
UM head basketball coach Travis DeCuire is the Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year. The award was announced Wednesday morning after voting was compiled by each head coach.
Aaniiih Gros Ventre Student Heads to Dental School
Joshua "Teague" Rutherford will graduate from UM and head to the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health. The human biology major believes he'll become the first dentist from Fort Belknap.
UM Accounting Master’s Program Ranks in Top 20 Nationally
Public Accounting Report’s 36th Annual Professors Survey ranked the University of Montana Master of Accountancy Program 16th in the country for master’s programs with less than 17 full-time...
Alumna Cultivates Dual Careers in Fine Art, High-End Editorial Worlds
Holly Andres, a photographer from Missoula, Montana, says she once had a vivid experience in which she could recall a memory from her childhood, both the feeling she had in the moment and as a...
Missoula, UM Continue to Lead Nation in Peace Corps Volunteerism
The spirit of service continues to surge at the University of Montana and in Missoula. Both UM and Missoula lead the nation in yielding Peace Corps volunteers. Per capita, Missoula ranked as the...
125 Years and Counting: UM Celebrates Milestone
As beginnings go, 50 students and six instructors wasn’t necessarily an auspicious start for UM. But 125 years of steady growth, some setbacks and frequent greatness followed.
Happy 125th Birthday, UM!
Students and alums share birthday greetings as the University of Montana marks 125 years of excellence. The Montana...
UM Honors Professor Rosalyn LaPier, Other Esteemed Faculty
Professor Rozalyn LaPier received the George M. Dennison Presidential Faculty Award for Distinguished Accomplishment on Feb. 15 as part of UM's Charter Day awards ceremony. The award recognizes a...
UM Alumna Lost Husband to War but Her Love Never Died
Barbara Adams grew up in Billings but went east for her first year of college. We don’t know what else she brought with her when she stepped onto the UM campus in the fall of 1939.
Dickenson to be Inducted into College Football Hall of Fame
On Jan. 8, the National Football Foundation announced that Montana football great Dave Dickenson will be immortalized as one of the greatest college football players of all time as a member of the...
Students Earn Degrees from UM
UM had 809 students who were degree candidates for fall semester 2017. Those students are UM degree candidates or have been awarded their degrees for fall semester 2017.
Thank You, President Stearns
University of Montana staff members, faculty members and students share their gratitude and wishes for Sheila...
Emma Lommasson Celebrates 106th Birthday
Emma Lommasson, the namesake for UM’s student transaction building, recently turned 106 years old. Watch the UM alumna and longtime University employee describe the students she served for so...
Alumna, Instructor, Doctoral Student Wins Prestigious Literary Prize
A UM alumna, instructor and current doctoral student recently received a prestigious literary award for her novel-in-progress. Dana Fitz Gale earned her MFA in creative writing in 2013 and...
Regents Unanimously Approve Selection of UM’s Next President
The Montana Board of Regents unanimously gave its stamp of approval Nov. 16 for Seth Bodnar to become the University of Montana’s next president. Bodnar will begin his new duties in January...
Information Technology Employee Earns Two National Accolades
Kayla Pierson, a designer and user experience specialist for UM’s Information Technology department, recently earned two national awards. Pierson was one of six winners from the research and...
Legacy Players Reflect on Family, Finding Their Way to UM
UM has great respect for tradition and perhaps the greatest Montana tradition is its penchant for continuity. Players who were once titans of UM athletics frequently wind up seeing their children...
‘Brain Scoop’ Creator Interviewed by Neal deGrasse Tyson
Emily Graslie, a UM art
Entrepreneur Shares Business Success Stories with Students
UM School of Business Administration alumnus Bill VanSickle built three highly successful companies from scratch. He shared his secrets as part of the Gilkey Executive Lecture Series.
UM Entrepreneurs Participate in National Training Camp
Two UM Blackstone LaunchPad entrepreneurs, along with other top college entrepreneurs from around the world, visited New York City for the Blackstone LaunchPad Techstars Training Camp on Oct....
Get This Job: Bear Biologist
What does it take to research one of nature's most powerful creatures for a living? An education at the University of Montana and the tenacity of a mama grizzly, according to Backpacker magazine.
UM's New Washington-Grizzly Champions Center Opens
Learn more about UM's new state-of-the-art training facility at http://bit.ly/2ysL8CO.
$10 Million Gift to Expand College of Education and Human Sciences
Building a better education for Montana: That’s one of the primary goals of the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation. Now, it has made another transformative gift to propel high-quality...
2017 Best of UM: Inaugural Awards
The results from the first-ever Best of UM competition are in. See the complete list of winners here.
UM Names Five Recipients of 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award
Five exemplary UM graduates will receive 2017 Distinguished Alumni Awards during Homecoming weekend festivities on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 13-14. The awards are the highest honor presented by...
UM Hires Bodnar as 18th President
Montana University System leaders announced today that Seth Bodnar has accepted the offer to be the next president of the University of Montana. Subject to Board of Regents approval in November,...
Honor the Past, Shape the Future at UM Homecoming Oct. 8-14
The UM Alumni Association invites alumni and the Missoula community to celebrate Homecoming 2017, Sunday through Saturday, Oct. 8-14. This year’s theme, “Reflections: Honoring the Past, Shaping...
Four Finalists for UM Presidency to Visit Campus
The search for UM’s next president has narrowed to four finalists who will visit the campus later this month. “The search committee is excited to bring these finalists to campus,” said Clay...
Psychology Grad Found Solace, Identity in Art After Paralyzing Crash
Mitchell McCabe's latest work in progress is an abstract drawing of Three Buttes, a mountain west of Route 66 on the Fort Belknap Reservation where he grew up. Three semi-abstract horses, riding a...
UM Student Experience: My Nike Internship
UM student Skyler Anderson just completed a summer internship with Nike in Beaverton, Oregon. “My time in Nike's Skateboarding category was unlike anything I could have imagined,” she says. Read...
Couple Donates More Than $8 Million to Upgrade LA Building
Over the last three years, Dennis and Gretchen Eck have committed a total of $8.3 million to renovate UM’s Liberal Arts Building, Dennis Eck’s old stomping grounds as a political science and...
With Independents Ascendant, Missoula's Vault Comics Looks to Future
UM alumnus Adrian Wassel and his brother Damian have teamed up to pursue their dream: launching a comic book publishing company called Vault Comics. The Wassel brothers, joined by and a UM...
Alumni Earn Fulbright Funding for Teaching Abroad
Three UM alumni are finalists for Fulbright U.S. Student Program Awards to fund their teaching abroad. Julie Ammons, Ian Strahn and Sam Hines are eligible for Fulbright English Teaching Assistant...
Donors Support UM in Record-Breaking Numbers
Donors stepped up to support the University of Montana in a big way this year, topping $50 million for the fourth year in a row. At the close of fiscal year 2017, private support totaled $84.5...
A Tribute to Exemplary Educators: Gift Supports Two Academic Chairs
An anonymous donation to UM’s Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences has created two academic chairs, a first for the college and among the academy’s highest honors. The...
UM Grads Create Documentary About Group Home Residents
Two recent UM digital filmmaking graduates are at work on a documentary that gives an inside look at the lives of three Missoula men with intellectual disabilities. "Paxson: A Home in Common," a...
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...
‘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 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 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,...
2,122 UM Students Earn Degrees
UM had 2,122 students who were degree candidates for spring semester 2017. The students listed here are UM degree candidates or have been awarded their degrees for spring semester 2017.
UM ScholarWorks Reaches 1 Million Downloads
ScholarWorks, UM's online scholarly repository, has achieved a momentous milestone: 1 million downloads. The service is online at http://scholarworks.umt.edu. Managed by the Mansfield Library,...
