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The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at The University of Montana promotes better understanding of Asia, U.S. relations with Asia, and ethics in public affairs in the spirit of Senator Mike Mansfield (1903-2001) and his wife and life partner Maureen Hayes Mansfield. The Center houses programs that focus on the peoples and cultures of modern Asia and ethics in public affairs, the core interests and hallmarks of Senator Mansfield's career.

U.S. Department of State UGRAD Student Vuthika Hang is honored for his year of study at the University of Montana by Provost Perry Brown, Foreign Student and Scholar Services Director Effie Koehn, and Director of International Programs Paulo Zagalo-Melo.

State Department Award


Anne Fairclough Mansfield, daughter of Maureen and Mike Mansfield, passed away at age 74

Anne MansfieldAnne Fairclough Mansfield, age 74, died on April 24, 2013 at the Washington Home Hospice in the District. She had suffered a fall following a stroke at her home in the District. Anne was a native of Missoula, Montana. An only child, she was the daughter of the late U.S. Senate Majority Leader and U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Mike Mansfield and his wife, Maureen Hayes Mansfield. She is survived by her daughter, Caroline Theresa Hayes Marris, of London, and many cousins and friends in Washington, D.C., and London. She was divorced from the late Robin Marris, PhD of London.

Anne was a graduate of Marymount School and High School in Arlington, VA. She was a junior Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College who spent her junior year studying in Spain. Anne divided her time between London and Washington. In Washington, she was a member of St. Mary Mother of God Catholic Church. Anne was a brilliant raconteur, a strong political conservative, a dedicated Catholic and a devoted mother. She is survived by many loyal friends all over the world.

Requiem Mass in the Extraordinary Form will be celebrated at St. Mary's located at 727 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, D.C., 20001, on Friday, May 3rd at 10:00 a.m. The family will greet friends one hour prior to the funeral mass at the church. Burial willl follow at Congressional Cemetery in Washington. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Anne's name to St. Mary Mother of God Church for the purchase of traditional vestments.

Published in Washington Post on April 29, 2013


Mansfield Conference Airing on MCAT

The eight lectures from the 2013 Mansfield Center Conference, The Future of Health Care in America: Balancing Individual Rights with Social Responsibility, will air on Missoula Community Access Television channel 7 on Wednesday, May 15th at 8:30 pm! Replays will be available on Saturdays at 8:00 pm for eight weeks.


Mike and Maureen Mansfield 30th Anniversary Dinner Slide Show

                  

                 


 

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Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime adventure!

The Mansfield Center is excited to announce that we will offer the AYLP Cambodia program for 20 Montana high school students and two teachers again next summer, in 2014.

We will post information on applying in August, but if you would like to learn more about the program before then, we will blog daily about our program activities while in Cambodia June 20 - July 12. The blog link will be posted on our website by the start of the program orientation in Missoula, June 16.


Economic empowerment

The Mansfield Center is honored to host a program of the U.S. Department of State, the Economic Empowerment Exchange Program for Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. This program specifically seeks out participants who seek to be empowered with concrete skills they can use to generate economic growth, with the objective to increase incomes and reduce poverty in their respective countries through access to more economic opportunities.

In our program, 20 southeast Asians and 20 Americans will travel in four cohorts from April 2013 - January 2014.  Southeast Asian participants will engage in a 37-day program in the U.S., while U.S. participants will travel overseas for an average 16-day program.


To find out how to be a part of this exciting program to empower people through building economic opportunity, visit our program page.


Brown Bag Series

The Spring 2013 Brown Bag Series has ended. 

Please check back in the Fall for information on our Fall 2013 Brown Bag Series!


Robert McCoy is retired from the U.S. Air Force, where he worked as a Korea specialist during his long career. He studied Korean language and culture at Yale's Institute of Far Eastern Languages and advanced Korean studies at the Monterey Defense Language Institute, and holds graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Maryland and the University of Nebraska. He has spent more than 15 years in Asia.

The Mansfield Center

Level 4, Mansfield Library

University of Montana

Missoula, MT 59812

(406) 243-2988

(406) 243-2181 fax

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