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News
Professor Wins Prestigious National
Writing Award
A book by UM-Missoula Professor Stewart Justman
has been awarded one of the writing world's
highest honors: the 2004 PEN Award for the Art
of the Essay. Justman is a liberal studies
faculty member who has taught introductory
English composition at UM for three decades. He
was rewarded for his "Seeds of Mortality: The
Public and Private Worlds of Cancer," which was
published in 2003. The PEN Award is presented
each year to the best collection of essays by an
American writer.
UM Offers Unique Entertainment
Program
An innovative new program at UM-Missoula may
lead students from the Rocky Mountains to the
Hollywood Hills. On May 1 six students became
the first to receive certification from the
Media and Entertainment Management Program, the
latest offering from the University's School of
Business Administration. Students take classes
in venue management, artist management, new
media, and touring and promotion. Offerings may
lead to careers as agents, tour managers,
concert promoters, film producers and more.
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Academic Events
Schedule Announced For Commencement
Ceremonies
Following finals week May
10-14, this year's graduates will don caps
and gowns Saturday, May 15, for Commencement
ceremonies in the Adams Center. The professional
schools will observe a 9:30 a.m. ceremony, while
the College of Arts and
Sciences and College of Technology begin theirs at 2
p.m. Degree candidates meet an hour earlier
at the Oval, with processionals beginning
promptly at 9:10 a.m. and 1:40 p.m.,
respectively. In case of rain, processionals
will depart from the Adams Center south annex
gyms. Individual school ceremonies follow the
main ceremonies. Locations and details are
available on the UM
Calendar or the Registrar's Graduation
Information page.
Fulbright Offers International
Opportunities
Are you looking for an opportunity to study,
conduct research or teach in another country? UM
students, alumni and other young professionals
can apply now for the 2005-06 Fulbright U.S.
Student Program competition to earn full or
partial grants to pursue international
opportunities. Fulbright student grants aim to
increase mutual understanding among nations
through educational and cultural exchange while
serving as a catalyst for long-term leadership
development. news
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Miscellaneous
Community Invited To Very Special
Event
Join Gov. Judy Martz, Montana Grizzlies head
football coach
Bobby Hauck and honorary chair Phyllis
Washington Wednesday, May 19, at opening
ceremonies for the Special Olympics Montana 2004
State Summer Games. This event
begins at 7 p.m. in Dahlberg Arena, where 1,000
athletes from across Montana will gather for a
Parade of Athletes. The games continue Thursday
and Friday, May 20-21, with athletic
competitions at locations throughout Missoula.
Events include golf, softball, gymnastics,
soccer and more. Volunteers still are needed for
the Olympic Village, which will be open from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. May 19-20 in the East
Auxiliary Gym. To volunteer, contact
Jessica
Wilcomb, (406) 243-2488.
UM Selects Outstanding Business School
Alumni
The School of Business Administration at
UM-Missoula has selected its 2004 outstanding
alumni award winners. The three winners were
chosen by the school's Business Advisory
Council. Sharon Vega of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho;
Jon Marchi of Polson; and Eric Sprunk of
Beaverton, Ore., will receive their awards
tonight in Missoula during the 57th Annual Donor
Recognition and Scholarship Awards Banquet,
which will be held at 7 p.m. in the University
Center Ballroom.
Mansfield Library Receives
Recognition
Promotion of the Missoula Reads Initiative, a
community-wide effort to celebrate the joys of
reading and literacy, has earned three Missoula
organizations the 2004 Montana Library
Association Media Award. The winners were the
Missoula Public Library, the St. Patrick
Hospital-based Institute for Medicine and
Humanities, and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield
Library at UM. Separately, the Mansfield Library
also recently made the Collection Management
Honor Roll of the Montana State Library Commission.
Campus Compact Names Scholarship
Winners
The Montana Campus Compact, a statewide higher
education organization that supports
campus-based public service, has announced its
2004 MTCC Community Service Scholarship
recipients. Each winner will receive a
certificate and $500 award. Winners are Sarah
Weems Pallis, a mathematics faculty member at
Carroll College in Helena; Dixie Linnell, an
elementary education faculty member at Flathead
Valley Community College in Kalispell; and Tara
Keller, a UM-Missoula graduate and Habitat for
Humanity volunteer.
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Sports
UM Tennis Finishes Season
The men's tennis team dropped two of three
doubles contests and three singles matches in a
4-0 loss to No. 4-seed Northern Arizona in the
quarterfinals of the Big Sky Conference
Championships last week in Ogden, Utah. With
the win, Northern Arizona advances to the
conference semifinals, where they will face
top-seed Montana State. The UM men end their
season with a 7-11 overall record. The women's
tennis team fell 4-2 to No. 2-seed Northern
Arizona in last Friday's Big Sky Conference
Championships semifinals. The Lumberjacks
took two of three doubles matches and three singles
contests from the Lady Griz. Montana ends the
2004 tennis season with a 3-14 overall mark.
Griz Track Home For Tom Gage
Classic
Montana's men's track and field team defeated
rival Montana State, but the Grizzly women fell
to the Bobcats during the schools' annual dual,
held this year at Bozeman last Saturday. For the
third consecutive time, the Grizzly men beat MSU,
winning with a score of 105-94. Montana's women
came up short, though -- 105-98 -- losing for
the eighth straight year to the Bobcats. Montana
hosts the Tom Gage Classic today at Dornblaser
Field in Missoula. It will be the final meet for
the Grizzlies before the Big Sky Conference
Championships, which get under way May 12 in
Ogden, Utah.
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