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Welcome to the newly redesigned, summer edition of TGIF News! This e-mail newsletter is provided weekly, except during the summer and scheduled academic breaks, to subscribers including students, alumni, employees and friends of The University of Montana.

Mad Dogs For UM  Distinguished alum contributes proceeds from new book Here's your chance to purchase acclaimed novelist James Grady's newest thriller hot off the press and support UM at the same time. Grady, author of the classic "Six Days of the Condor," will donate profits from UM sales of "Mad Dogs" to the University. For an extra charge, books can be signed or personally inscribed by Grady. "Mad Dogs" will be released in hardback Sept. 19 and Grady will present a reading and book-signing on campus during UM Homecoming, Oct. 13-14. Books pre-ordered from UM will be available for pickup at Homecoming or shipped the following week. A native of Shelby, Grady attended UM from 1967 to 1972 and was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award last year. Mad Dogs For UM

July Events Explore Environmental Thought   The UM Center for Ethics is offering six events in July that are free and open to the public during the environmental ethics institute “Exploring Environmental Thought.” The evening lectures and panel discussions begin at 7:30 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building. Each presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer period. The series begins Tuesday, July 18, with “When We Restore Nature, What Do We Owe the Past?” in GBB 123. Andrew Light of the University of Washington will offer a provocative discussion of our moral obligations to retain elements of industrial or agricultural legacies, or “disturbance memories,” in ecological restoration efforts. Light is a leading environmental thinker, sought-after speaker and widely published author. A complete schedule is online. Center for Ethics

Researchers Study Fly-Casting Injuries   Tim McCue grew up fishing the Bighorn River near Billings, and he attended UM as an undergraduate to surround himself with world-class trout streams. The 34-year-old doctor returned to UM three years ago to patch up football players and other athletes as the head sports physician, but in his spare time his passion for angling already had led him to research the soreness and injuries associated with fly-fishing. Now he’s likely the world’s leading expert on fly-casting injuries. McCue and his partners have started a research project using high-tech, 200-frame-per-second cameras to analyze how people fly-fish before and after injury. A survey of fly-fishing instructors found that 50 percent claim to have pain in their shoulders, and 30 percent have pain in their wrist and elbows. Five percent claimed to have pain all the time in their casting arms. The institute hosts a clinic each summer in Hubbard’s Yellowstone Lodge in Montana’s Paradise Valley, where clients pay for detailed fly-casting analysis and education.

New Dean Hired To Lead College Of Technology   A West Virginia administrator with extensive experience working at two-year colleges has been named the new dean of UM’s College of Technology. Barry Good, vice president for academic affairs at West Virginia Northern Community College in Wheeling, W.Va., began his new duties July 3. He replaced Paul Williamson, who accepted a special assignment earlier this year to work on University projects related to alternative energy and developing a long-range building plan for COT. Five candidates interviewed for the COT dean position in May. Good earned a master’s degree in biology from Northeast Louisiana University in 1972 and a doctorate in botany from Louisiana State University in 1978.

Researcher Lands Article In Science   An article by UM paleontologist George Stanley, an expert on modern and ancient coral reefs, appears in the May 12 issue of Science, one of the world’s leading research journals. The article, “Photosymbiosis and the Evolution of Modern Coral Reefs,” describes how mutually beneficial relationships between one-celled algae called zooxanthellae and corals stimulated reef growth and led to successful reef building across the eons and into modern times. Stanley was invited by Science to write the article, his fourth published in the journal.

Student-Athletes Perform Well In Classroom   The Intercollegiate Athletics spring 2006 grade report once again shows that UM student-athletes are as successful in academic fields as on the playing fields. Results of the spring semester 2006 report show that the University’s 288 student-athletes achieved higher-than-average term and cumulative grade-point averages while taking higher-than-average credit loads. UM’s student-athletes achieved an average cumulative GPA of 3.00, and 156 of them -- more than half -- earned a 3.00 GPA or higher.

UM Gets First Official NAJA Student Chapter   UM is home to the first official student chapter of the Native American Journalists Association. The chapter, recently approved by NAJA, will serve as a resource for American Indian and other students in UM’s School of Journalism. Outgoing chapter president Luella Brien was a leader in the effort to get official NAJA status. Adam Sings In The Timber will serve as president during the upcoming academic year.

Painting By Expressionist Egon Schiele At UM   A watercolor by internationally recognized Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele is on display for public viewing at UM until Monday, Sept. 25. The artwork, “Young Girl Seated, Half Nude (Valerie Neuzil, 1913),” loaned to the Montana Museum of Art and Culture by an anonymous private collector, is in the lobby of the President’s Office in University Hall. Lobby hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Schiele, regarded by many of his contemporaries as the predestined successor to Art Nouveau artist Gustav Klimt, died of Spanish influenza in 1918 at the age of 28. During his short career, he emerged as a premier Expressionist. His work, controversial during his time because of its erotic content, carries a timeless resonance through its existential explorations of the human condition. This is the third generous art loan to the museum from a private collector. Montana Museum of Art and Culture

Center Selects Book For All Montanans To Read   The Montana Center for the Book and the Montana Committee for the Humanities at UM have announced the 2006 One Book Montana selection. Montanans are invited to read “This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind,” Ivan Doig’s 1978 memoir tracing his life growing up in rural Montana, over the summer and fall. The One Book Montana program offers reading and discussion guides; suggestions for library, school and book group projects; online opportunities for reader participation; and programming on Montana public radio stations. Doig also will participate in events at the Montana Festival of the Book, Sept. 28-30 in Missoula. Montana Center for the Book

New Mixer Truck Promotes UM Athletics   A concrete mixer truck has joined a growing Grizzly armada of vehicles owned by local businesses and decorated in UM themes. The concrete mixer, recently purchased by LS Jensen Construction & Ready Mix, turns heads with UM logos and pictures of four outstanding University athletes: Kevin Criswell, John Edwards, Katie Edwards and Scott McGowan. “We just wanted to be part of the Griz Nation,” said Stan Dugdale, general manager of the LS Jensen branch in Missoula. A Griz-themed beverage truck and semi tractor-trailer already ply the roads of Montana and beyond.

Tinkle Takes Over Griz Basketball   Wayne Tinkle has been named the 26th head basketball coach of the men's team at UM. Tinkle replaces Larry Krystkowiak, who had a two-year record of 42-20 at Montana and was the only coach in school history to guide the Grizzlies to two straight NCAA tournament appearances. Krystkowiak left UM to take an assistant coaching position with the Milwaukee Bucks. Tinkle, 40, played for the Grizzlies from 1985-89 and was a three-time Big Sky Conference all-league selection during his sophomore, junior and senior seasons. He has been an assistant coach at his alma mater the previous five seasons: most recently with Krystkowiak, and previously with former mentor Pat Kennedy (2002-04) and Don Holst (2001-02). Montana Grizzlies