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Briefs
Historic
Winner-Professor Harry Fritz, chair of UM's history
department, is one of five people honored with a 2003 Montana
Committee for the Humanities Governor's Humanity Award.
Established by Gov. Marc Racicot in 1995, the award honors
achievement in humanities scholarship, service and education.
The 2003 recipients will be honored at a ceremony with Gov.
Judy Martz Feb. 6 in Helena. Fritz teaches courses in early
American history, American military history and Montana
history. He won UM's Teacher of the Year Award in 1972 and
1999 and was the University's Distinguished Service Award
winner in 1985. He is author of "Montana: Land of Contrast"
and co-editor of "Montana and the West" and "The
Montana Heritage." He served in the Montana House of
Representatives in 1985 and 1987 and the state Senate in
1991 and 1993. He has long been an MCH Speakers Bureau favorite,
offering a variety of programs during the last 15 years,
including an Abraham Lincoln performance.
Legal
Leaders-The UM Law School American Bar Association Negotiation
Competition team performed well in the ABA Regional Law
School Negotiation Competition Nov. 8-9, which was held
at the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis & Clark College
in Portland, Ore. Malin Stearns, a second year student from
Missoula, and Todd Denison, a third year student from Kalispell,
earned second place in the regional competition and will
go on the national competition Feb. 9-10 in Seattle. Teammates
Ben Hursh, a third year student from Miles City, and Patti
Bowers, a first year student from Seattle, came in fifth
place in the regional competition. The teams, coached by
Klaus Sitte, UM adjunct lecturer, competed in negotiation
exercises. "All the teams in the competition receive
a set of general facts," said Sitte. "Then, each
team also has a set of 'secret facts,' which contain things
like the wishes, motivations and bottom lines of their theoretical
client. Each team then attempts to work out a resolution
with the other team that is in the best interests of that
client."
Athletes
Honored-Two UM-Missoula students were honored for their
commitment to community service Nov. 23 during the Griz-Bobcat
football game. They were selected as Montana Campus Compact
2002 Montana Athletes in Service Award Winners by a statewide
committee. The UM winners were Jill Henkel, a UM senior
and Lady Griz basketball player, and Ryan O'Neill, a UM
senior and men's tennis team member.
Environmental
Support-UM's Environmental Studies Program has been
selected to receive a prestigious $230,000 grant from the
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The grant will provide
financial support for UM graduate students committed to
careers as practicing conservationists in the nonprofit
or public sectors. Only five of the 48-month grants were
provided to some of the nation's top environmental schools.
The other four grant-winning conservation programs are at
Duke University, the University of Michigan, the University
of Wisconsin and Yale University. "Until we became
involved with the Duke Charitable Foundation -- through
their invitation -- I don't think we understood how widely
respected and recognized our program and graduates are,"
said program Director Tom Roy.
Emergency
TV-Twelve broadcast journalism students in UM's Department
of Radio-Television produced a 30-minute television program
that profiled Montana emergency workers. The students researched,
reported, filmed, wrote and edited the show. The program
aired Nov. 21 on Montana PBS stations. It followed Montana
Highway Patrol officers in Helena; LifeFlight pilots, medical
technicians and 9-1-1 dispatchers in Missoula; emergency
room personnel in Great Falls; and firefighters and paramedics
in Bozeman.
Calendar
Cash-You can now purchase a 2003 calendar that will
offer chances to win cash each day of the year -- and sales
of the calendar will support needed services for children
with language and literacy challenges. The Western Montana
RiteCare Childhood Language and Literacy Clinic, located
at UM-Missoula's Curry Health Center, is supported in part
by calendar sales. The calendar costs $20 and has a form
for the purchaser to fill out and send to the Scottish Rite
Masons, which will hold a drawing for cash prizes daily
during 2003. Calendar owners are eligible for daily cash
giveaways of $25, except on Sundays and holidays. On Sundays
cash awards will be $100, and selected holiday prizes will
be either $250 or $500 - except for Christmas 2003, when
the drawing will be for the grand prize cash award of $4,000.
Winners will be posted daily on the clinic's Web site at
www.umt.edu/ders/LanguageClinic/index.htm.
Calendars are available in many grocery stores throughout
western Montana or can be ordered by calling (406) 243-5261
or e-mailing slclinic@selway.umt.edu.
A
Mansfield Christmas-Maureen Mansfield, half of the dynamic
duo for whom UM's Mansfield Library is named, enjoyed designing
her own Christmas cards for friends and family. A display
of Mrs. Mansfield's work will be shown during the holiday
season in a glass case near the Archives and Special Collections
office on the library's fourth floor.
Halloween
Food-Volunteers collected more than 8,650 pounds of
food from area residents for the Missoula Food Bank on Halloween
as part of the fourth annual "Trick or Eat," an
event sponsored by UM's Office for Civic Engagement. Volunteers
from six UM organizations and area high schools and middle
schools made sure the event was a success.
Seeds
and Weeds-A recent episode of the award-winning Montana
PBS program "Backroads of Montana" featured unique
seed-art, a weed roundup and behind-the-scenes looks at
a doll museum in Loma and ZooMontana in Billings. The "Seeds
and Weeds" episode was the 18th program in the series,
which focuses on communities around the state and the local
culture that makes them different from any place on Earth.
Check your local listings for future episodes of "Backroads,"
which is produced at UM's Broadcast Media Center for Montana
PBS. "Backroads" videos can be purchased online
at www.montanapbs.org.
They also are available for checkout at Montana libraries.
Writing
to Win-Two UM-Missoula journalism students were rewarded
for their feature writing prowess during the latest round
of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program -- a national competition
that involves students from more than 100 accredited journalism
programs across the nation. Kristen Inbody, a senior from
Choteau, captured eighth place and a $500 scholarship. Paul
Queneau, a senior from Golden, Colo., finished 13th and
won a certificate of merit. The wins scored points for the
University in Hearst's Intercollegiate Writing Competition,
and UM is now ranked second overall behind Western Kentucky
University. The winning institution will be announced next
spring after six rounds of competition.
Student
Job Finder-The UM Career Services Office and the Center
for Work-Based Learning recently introduced a new Web-based
career management system. Griz eRecruiting provides UM students
with new resources to find jobs or internships nationwide.
The job search component allows students to view thousands
of job listings. UM students can sign up for a Griz eRecruiting
account at www.umt.edu/career/ermain.htm
or the Career Services Office in Lommasson Center Room 154.
For more information call 243-2022.
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