Teaching, Publishing and Coordinating with Richard Drake
Richard Drake sits in his naturally lit office on the third floor of University Hall with three walls covered in books and papers scattered across both of his desks. Drake taught at schools like...
New UM Faculty Member Pleased to Call Missoula Home
Monica Serban is a new Montanan, having moved to Missoula with her family this summer. Serban, a new faculty member at the University of Montana, was most recently in Boston. She had an...
Research Resurgence: UM Logs Spending Jump
Frank Rosenzweig's laboratory at UM is working with NASA to understand key moments in the evolution of life. Researchers with the Neural Injury Center are developing new tools to gauge the...
Researcher Earns $3.8M Grant to Investigate Chemical Exposure
A new, five-year $3.8 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has been awarded to a research team led by UM Professor Chuck Thompson. The grant will be used...
Scientist Earns Grant to Study Carbon Across North America
UM researcher Ashley Ballantyne recently was awarded a nearly $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study ecosystem carbon production and consumption across North America....
UM Receives Record-Breaking $83 Million in Research Awards
The research enterprise at UM received nearly $83 million in research awards during fiscal year 2015 – an all-time record for the institution. The total of $82,964,694 surpassed the previous...
Researcher Discovers Why Tropical Songbirds Have Fewer Chicks
Tropical songbirds produce fewer, high-quality nestlings per breeding effort than do songbirds that breed in temperate zones, according to a study by UM Professor Tom Martin published Aug. 27 in...
Duo Spends Summer Guiding Volunteers into Beartooths
While large swaths of the West have suffered through extreme drought and wildfires this summer, Dan Pendergraph and Sage Stowell have endured numerous hail, rain, lightning and wind storms and the...
President to Deliver State of the University Address Aug. 28
UM President Royce C. Engstrom will outline institutional accomplishments, issues and priorities ahead of the upcoming academic year during his annual State of the University Address at 10 a.m....
UM Training Marketers to Think More Like Data Scientists
For the first time in history, marketers have comprehensive, real-time insight into the buyer journey. And yet, marketers are underprepared, and underperforming. Marketers that began their careers...
UM Grows Portfolio of Patents to More Than 100
Ryan Mizner has a patent pending for a device called The Bridge, a physical therapy tool developed by the UM associate professor and one of his students. The device represents a trend at UM, too,...
UM Researchers, Students Help to Curate U.S. Navy Artifacts
UM anthropology Professor Kelly Dixon has spent most of her career reminding people that archaeologists don’t traipse around the world like Indiana Jones, with bullwhips and a nose for treasure....
UM Scientist Studies Earthquakes from Montana to the Himalayas
Soon after the earthquake struck Nepal this spring, Rebecca Bendick got an alert from nearly every device she owned. Bendick, an earthquake scientist and professor at UM, is part of a rapid...
Chemistry Professor, Inventor Talks About Path to the XPRIZE
When Sunburst Sensors won $1.5 million in prize money last month, the work of Michael DeGrandpre went from the trash bin to the international stage. DeGrandpre is a chemistry professor at UM whose...
UM Student Researches Inflammatory Lung Disease Treatments
UM pharmacy student Shelby Cole is participating in UM’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program in the Center for Environmental Health Sciences. She is conducting research concerning interactions...
UM Researcher Earns NSF Grant to Study Tectonics in Nepal
The Himalayas mark one of Earth's youngest mountain ranges. They also signal the location of an active seismic region, as the people of Nepal witnessed on April 25 when a magnitude 7.8 quake...
NASA Comes to Arlee: UM Grad Bestows Montana Names on Mars
The Mars rover Curiosity was rolling through Arlee on Friday. Not that Arlee. The one on Mars. “Because western Montana is interesting geologically, it ranked up there to get on the names list,”...
Visiting Student Explores Nanoparticles as Environmental Contaminants
Meet Jessica Ray, an animal science major from Michigan State University who is participating in UM’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program through the Center for Environmental Health...
Flathead Lake Biological Station Hires New Director
James “Jim” Elser, an internationally renowned freshwater ecologist, will become the next director of the University of Montana’s century-old Flathead Lake Biological Station. UM President Royce...
Refurbished Boat Returns to Flathead Lake Biological Station
The Flathead Lake Biological Station’s research boat, the Jessie B., returned to its dock recently after a six-month absence. The welded-aluminum hull on the station’s refurbished boat now houses...
NFL, GE Award UM Brain Researchers $500,000
UM researchers Sarj Patel and Tom Rau are among six final winners nationally to receive $500,000 from the Head Health Challenge I, a program sponsored by General Electric Co. and the National...
UM Researcher Studies Greenland Ice Sheet Movement
The annual "State of the Climate" report released Thursday said 2014 was the warmest year on record going back 135 years. Temperatures continued to rise, and glaciers kept shrinking. The impact...
UM Hires New Director of Wildlife Biology Program
UM’s Wildlife Biology Program has named Chad Bishop as its new director. Bishop, who previously served as assistant director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, takes over on Aug. 1. He has a...
Visiting Student Researcher Studies Cell Biology, Nanomaterials
Meet Samantha Couture, an environmental health major from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, who is participating in UM’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program through the Center for...
Journalism Grad Students Report from Crown of the Continent
The Crown Reporting Project at UM pairs students from the graduate program in Environmental Science and Natural Resource Journalism with seasoned editors as they pursue stories in the Crown of the...
Visiting Student Researcher Studies Asbestos, Cancer at UM
Maggie Honig is excited to be exploring her interest in environmental chemistry and toxicology this summer as she participates in UM’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program through the Center for...
To Build a Fire: Professor Devotes Career to Changing Fire Policy
The science of wildfires often pits academics against forestry professionals. Carl Seielstad, an associate research professor at the University of Montana, has built a career bridging the divide...
Mansfield Library Organizes New Max Baucus Collection
Last year, a semi-trailer deposited nearly 1,000 boxes of material for the Archives and Special Collections at UM’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library from Max Baucus’ career as a politician, a...
UM’s Large Plant Collection Serves State and Beyond
Upstairs in a corner of the Natural Sciences building on campus, curator Shannon Kimball watches over some 129,000 pressed plant specimens in the University of Montana Herbarium, an organized...
High Schoolers Learn about Health Careers at Summer Camp
While some Missoulians were still eating their breakfast on Monday, two dozen Montana high-school students taking part in a health career summer camp were wrist-deep dissecting the heart of a pig....
Researcher to Study Exposure of Bee Colonies to Corn Dust
Honey bee exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides has been a growing concern. Now Jerry Bromenshenk will lead a team at UM examining the long-term health consequences of exposure of honey bee...
Professor Anya Jabour Jumps from Academia to Show Business
Anya Jabour is a professor in academia who recently jumped into show business. Jabour, who teaches history at UM and serves as co-director of its program in women's gender and sexuality, got an...
Undergraduates Converge for Summer Research Program at UM
Biochemistry major Laura Fisch is excited to spend the summer exploring her interest in environmental toxicology through UM’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program at the Center for Environmental...
Bioclimatologist Tracks Carbon to Improve Climate Change Models
When not teaching and free from meetings, Ashley Ballantyne can be found on his computer, scrolling through carbon readings from around the globe. He searches for patterns, ones that will...
Researchers Studying Concussions in the Running for Funding
Two UM researchers who in 2014 won a $300,000 award from the National Football League and General Electric are in the running for an additional half-million dollars in research funding in 2015....
Assistant Professor Named Smithsonian Research Associate
Rosalyn LaPier, assistant professor of environmental studies at UM, recently was appointed a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington,...
Department Works to Make People Healthier, Happier
From HIV prevention to a runner’s gait to elementary school physical education, UM’s Health and Human Performance Department makes a significant impact on the well-being of the people of Montana...
Fruit Fly Research May Lead to Improved Drugs
UM researcher Sarah Certel says that tiny fruit flies could provide keys to understanding how brains are capable of producing aggression. Members of her lab study videos of daily boxing matches...
UM Initiative Helps People With Disabilities Get Outside
Seeing Montana’s intellectually disabled population lead healthier lives is the focus of an upcoming initiative launched by UM’s Rural Institute. The institute held a training meeting for...
UM Partners With Company to Create New Therapies
The University is one step closer to turning a discovery into a drug. Promentis Pharmaceuticals Inc. has announced it will enter an exclusive agreement with UM to commercialize a discovery made by...
Regents Professor Emeritus Receives Molecular Ecology Prize
The journal Molecular Ecology has chosen UM Regents Professor Emeritus Fred Allendorf as the recipient of its 2015 Molecular Ecology Prize. Allendorf is one of a handful of people who founded the...
Students Create App to Test Bee Colony Health
A team of UM students has built a mobile-phone app that allows beekeepers to record the sound of their colony to determine whether it’s healthy or not. The Android app was developed by computer...
Legislature Creates $1,000 Scholarships for STEM Majors
The state of Montana is offering new $1,000 scholarships to in-state high school graduates who major in science, technology, engineering, math or health care at a Montana college. Graduating...
The Slow-Motion Symbiotic Train Wreck of the 13-Year Cicada
A vast swarm of cicadas are starting to crawl out of the ground after 13 or 17 years spent underground. When they greet daylight for the first time, they devote themselves to weeks of frenzied sex...
Pre-Med Program Sees Increase in Medical School Acceptance
With 18 students accepted into medical schools this year, the Pre-Medical Sciences Program at UM reached an acceptance rate of 64 percent – 20 points higher than the national average of 44...
