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National
Adviser-UM forestry Professor Jack Ward Thomas has been
appointed to a three-year term on the national Board on
Agriculture and Natural Resources. Created in 1983, BANR
is one of 10 major units within the National Research Council,
which advises the nation on science and technology. Thomas,
UM's Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife Conservation,
will be one of 23 board members.
BANR
addresses science and policy issues confronting the agricultural,
food and environmental system. It provides expert advice
on problems and issues relating to agriculture production
and natural resource development. The board studies the
growing demand for food and resources and its associated
environmental impacts.
Thomas
was chief of the U.S. Forest Service for three years, and
he has accrued more than 30 years of experience in various
capacities with the Forest Service, including chief research
wildlife biologist.
Environmental
UM-President George Dennison signed a pledge to support
an international environmental action plan -- the Talloires
Declaration -- during an Earth Day 2002 ceremony. The declaration,
composed in 1990 at an international conference in Talloires,
France, is the first official statement made by university
administrators to commit to environmental sustainability
in higher education.
Dennison,
the first Pacific Northwest university president to support
the declaration, has formed a 12-member committee charged
with establishing programs to produce expertise in environmental
management and sustainable economic development, as well
as design an environmental literacy curriculum requirement.
Student
Winners-Three projects by UM radio-TV students were
honored by the Broadcast Education Association during its
first national student news competition. The winners were
selected from entries of more than 100 schools from across
the country.
First-place
honors in the radio hard news category went to junior Kim
Dobitz of Morristown, S.D. Her story, which aired on KBGA
student radio, looked at the problem of underage drinking
in Missoula. Junior Johanna Feaster of Brookings, S.D.,
earned an honorable mention in the same category for her
radio report on skateboarding. Her story also aired on KBGA.
The
awards honored UM's student documentary unit as well. The
unit's production "Meth: Dark Cloud over the Big Sky"
received honorable mention for its in-depth report on the
people caught up in the methamphetamine epidemic sweeping
the state. The documentary aired on Montana Public Television.
NFL
a Knockin'-Two members of the 2001 NCAA-IAA championship
Griz football team are heading to football's biggest stage.
Senior offensive lineman Thatcher Szalay has signed a three-year
free-agent contract with the Cincinnati Bengals. Senior
corner back Calvin Coleman signed a three-year deal with
the New York Giants.
Emmy
Nominations-Two programs produced by KUFM-TV, the Montana
PBS station in Missoula, recently received four regional
Emmy nominations from the Seattle-Northwest Chapter of the
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. "Sun
River Homestead" by producer Margaret Carey was nominated
in the cultural/historical category. Carey was a UM graduate
student who worked with KUFM-TV.
"Silence
& Solitude: Yellowstone's Winter Wilderness" received
three nominations. Livingston photographer Tom Murphy earned
a nod in photography in the category for programs longer
than 30 minutes. Daniel Dauterive, KUFM-TV operations director,
was nominated in editing for programs longer than 30 minutes.
UM music faculty member Scott Billadeau was nominated for
musical composition.
The
Seattle-Northwest Chapter of NATAS serves television professionals
in five states. The regional Emmy winners will be announced
June 15 in Seattle.
Get
Musical-High school students aged 14 to 18 can build
the singing, acting and movement skills needed for musical
theater during a summer camp at UM. Musical Theater Camp
gives young singers and actors the chance to learn performance
skills while enjoying social and recreational activities
on and around the Missoula campus.
Presented
by UM's Department of Music, the camp runs Sunday, June
16, through Saturday, June 22. The camp is open to students
who have completed grades eight, nine, 10, 11 or 12. The
application deadline is June 7. Call (406) 243-6880 for
registration information.
Not
for Profit-UM-Missoula now offers American
Humanics, a program designed to prepare students for
professional work in the nonprofit sector. Students in the
program learn how to raise funds, motivate volunteers, manage
a budget, supervise staff and do what is necessary to run
a successful nonprofit organization. For more information,
call Andrea Vernon, director of UM's Office for Civic Engagement,
at (406) 243-5159.
Death
Marchers-UM ROTC students in the Grizzly Battalion performed
well during the grueling Bataan Memorial Death March, held
last month at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The
competitive march is a 26-mile desert trek that includes
a 1,200-foot ascent. As the country's largest memorial march,
the race recognizes the sacrifices of service members forced
by the Japanese to walk 65 miles under terrible conditions
during World War II.
The
Grizzly Battalion came in fourth out of 15 universities
that participated in the "ROTC Heavy Team" division.
Carrying 35-pound rucksacks, the UM squad finished the course
in 7 hours and 56 minutes. The Griz came in behind the University
of California, Davis; San Diego State; and Arizona State,
but UM beat out West Point and several Big 10 and Big 12
schools.
Summer
Learning-Art appreciation. Acting for non-majors. Slavery,
racism and lynching. American foreign policy. These are
just a few of the subjects that will be explored this summer
in courses at UM. Summer semester offers two five-week sessions
as well as a variety of short courses between May 28 and
Aug. 23.
Course
offerings are available online at www.montanasummer.com,
which features a catalog request form. Registration may
be completed online at cyberbear.umt.edu. Free catalogs
also are available at The Bookstore at UM, Griz Central
and the James E. Todd Building, or by calling (406) 243-6014.
Top
Chef-Carla Roe, production manager for the UM-Missoula
University Center Food Court, has been named Chef of the
Year for Western Montana by the local chapter of the American
Culinary Federation. ACF is the governing body for national
certification of chefs and cooks. As Chef of the Year, Roe
will be responsible for next year's annual ACF banquet,
which will be held in Missoula.
Hot
Appointment-UM employee Dan Corti has been appointed
to the Ad Hoc Committee on Homeland Security of the Health
Physics Society. Corti directs the University's Environmental
Health and Occupational Safety office. Corti will chair
two national subcommittees -- one that develops training
materials for first responders to radiation disaster sites
and another that delivers training materials to first responders.
"I
feel pretty good about this," Corti said. "Any
time you deal with radiation safety at this level, it makes
you glow."
The
Health Physics Society works to protect people and the environment
from unnecessary exposure to radiation. The society is concerned
with understanding, evaluating and controlling the risks
from radiation exposure relative to the benefits derived.
Corti's office manages workers' compensation, loss control
and occupational safety programs, as well as UM's radiation,
hazardous and biohazardous materials programs.
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