International Education Week Events Planned
 

The importance of international education to America and the world will be the focus of International Education Week Nov. 13-18 at UM.

The theme of the week, celebrated worldwide, is “International Education: Engaging in Global Partnerships and Opportunities.” The week is sponsored nationally by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. UM events are sponsored by the University’s Office of International Programs.

International Education Week offers time to celebrate the rich history, cultures, music and artistic traditions of the world and a chance to learn about opportunities to work and study abroad.

The Opening Ceremony takes place from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, in the University Center Atrium. Speakers will be Mehrdad Kia, director of the UM Office of International Programs; Effie Koehn, director of UM’s Foreign Student and Scholar Services; and Kofi Abaidoo, president of the University’s International Student Association. The Saudi Cultural Group also will perform at the ceremony.

For a complete schedule of events, visit the Web site.

International Education Week schedule 

 Expert To Address Health Of America’s Rivers
 

The ecological condition of America’s river system -- particularly its smallest streams -- is the topic of the next installment of the President’s Lecture Series at UM.

Judith Meyer, international expert on terrestrial-aquatic ecosystem interactions, will present “Birthplace of Rivers: The Diversity, Destruction and Restoration of Headwater Streams” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, in the University Theatre.

The lecture is presented in collaboration with UM’s Division of Biological Sciences.

On Wednesday, Nov. 15, Meyer will present a seminar titled “Forest-stream Linkages in an Urbanizing Landscape” from 4:10 to 5 p.m. in the North Underground Lecture Hall. The event is presented in conjunction with the President’s Lecture Series and is the P.L. Wright Lecture in Conservation Biology in UM’s Ecology Seminar Series.

Both the Tuesday evening lecture and the seminar on Wednesday are free and open to the public.

Meyer is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Institute of Ecology at the University of Georgia in Athens.

President’s Lecture Series 

 Esquire Magazine Writer To Speak At UM
 

Here’s hoping Chris Jones doesn’t leave anything in Missoula.

Jones, Esquire magazine’s writer-at-large, will deliver his lecture “I Left My Gallbladder in L.A. (and Other True Stories of Life on the Road)” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14, in the North Underground Lecture Hall.

Jones began at Esquire as a contributing writer in 2002 and was promoted to writer-at-large in 2005 after winning the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. His winning story, “Home,” chronicled the lives of the three astronauts stranded on the International Space Station for months after the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster.

A book based on his reporting of those events, “Too Far From Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space,” will be published by Doubleday in March.

The lecture is part of an occasional series named for UM graduate Marjorie Nichols, who died of cancer in 1991. Nichols, who had a reputation for biting political commentary, was one of Canada’s most prominent journalists.

Jones, a graduate of the University of Toronto and a resident of Ottawa, is the next in a line of Canadian journalists and politicians who have come to UM as part of the series.

 

 Student To Discuss Adventures In Afghanistan
 

UM student Jacob Baynham has traveled extensively in Afghanistan, gathering tales of an untold civil war, drugs, bombs and the hope for a national future.

He will present “Between Karzai and a Kalashnikov: Afghanistan Five Years after the Taliban” at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13, in the University Center Theater. The event is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow his presentation. He will be introduced by Jerry Brown, dean of UM’s journalism school.

Baynham is a senior in print journalism and a Presidential Leadership Scholar at UM’s Davidson Honors College. He spent last summer in Afghanistan doing an internship with the Open Media Fund for Afghanistan. He documented his time there in a blog, “Letters From Afghanistan,” and had two articles published in the San Francisco Chronicle, including one on the front page.

Baynham speaks four Asian languages -- Lao, Hindi, Thai and Farsi -- as well as French. He grew up in Colorado and northern India and has lived or traveled in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

He won the Montana Newspaper Association’s Dean Stone Award in 2005 for achievement and outstanding performance in journalism.

Letters From Afghanistan 

 'For UM, For Us' Rally Day Planned
 

The UM Foundation will host a rally Thursday, Nov. 16, in support of the 2006 “For UM, For Us” faculty/staff fundraising campaign currently under way.

The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the University Center, where a table will be set up to collect donations from UM employees. All donors will be entered in a raffle for campus prizes.

Nearly 16 percent of faculty and staff members have contributed more than $320,000 since the campaign began in January. The “For UM, For Us” committee is aiming for a 20 percent participation rate by Dec. 31.

Funds raised provide support for scholarships, undergraduate research opportunities, classroom equipment and technology, professional development opportunities for faculty and staff, and Grizzly Athletics, the Mansfield Library and numerous other campus departments and programs.

For UM, For Us: A Faculty and Staff Campaign 

 Lecture Looks At Indian Education For All
 

Julie Cajune, program director of the Salish Kootenai College Tribal History Project, will speak Monday, Nov. 13, at UM.

Cajune will present “Resisting the Western Tradition of Imagining the Other: Imperial and Colonial Practices and Indian Education for All” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room L09. The event is free and open to the public.

The lecture will explore the invention of histories and identities of American Indian people that served colonial intentions of political conquest and control. It also will examine how those invented histories and identities influence efforts to implement the Indian Education for All law in Montana.

The law was passed by the Montana legislature in 1999 in a continuing effort to recognize the unique cultural heritage of American Indians and to commit to educational goals that preserve that heritage for Indians and non-Indians.

A 1974 graduate of UM, Cajune received a 2002 Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award, which honors outstanding education professionals.

 

 American Indian Grad Students Win Big
 

Two UM graduate students were among the top performers at the national American Indian Science and Engineering Society conference, held Nov. 1-5 in Detroit.

Brian Hall, a Blackfeet doctoral student in pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences, won the $1,500 first-place award for Best Overall Graduate Poster Presentation. Florence Gardipee, a Cherokee doctoral student studying fish and wildlife biology, earned $1,000 for placing among the top three graduate oral presentations.

Hall’s poster was titled “Human 5HT1A Receptor Loop 2 TM4: Structure-activity.” Gardipee’s presentation was titled “Investigating Fecal Parasites in the Greater Yellowstone Area Bison Populations.”

AISES provides opportunities for American Indians and Native Alaskans to pursue studies in science, engineering and technology. Eleven students from UM’s AISES chapter went to the national conference, attending workshops and networking with professional scientists and potential employers.

UM was elected to host the regional AISES conference in March 2007 and will submit grant proposals and raise funds to offset event costs.

 

 ‘Ordinary Wolves’ Essay Winners Announced
 

Three UM students have been awarded prizes for their winning essays in UM’s 2006 First-Year Reading Experience competition.

The book chosen for this year’s competition was “Ordinary Wolves” by Seth Kantner, a 1991 graduate of UM’s School of Journalism.

The $400 first-place award went to Emily Lund of Salt Lake City for her essay titled “A Million Miles Away.” Lund majors in biology and pre-pharmacy at UM.

Willa Fouts of Butte received the second-place award of $200 for her essay “Wolves Will Survive.”

The $100 third-place award went to Vera Jones of Marion for her essay “Role Models and Independent Leadership.”

The annual competition is open to all first-year students at the University. Special events, such as presentations by the books’ authors, lectures and educational sessions, are held in conjunction with the competition.

First-Year Reading Experience 

 Concert Benefits Habitat For Humanity
 

Community voices are invited to join professional singers in the holiday performance of Handel’s “Messiah” at UM.

The 11th annual fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity of Missoula will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 26, in the University Theatre. There is no charge for admission, but a free-will donation will be accepted at the door.

Community choir members collect pledges -- a minimum of $75 for adults and $40 for students -- to participate in the concert. Local businesses donate prizes for the 10 adult singers and 5 student singers with the highest pledge totals.

UM Professor Emeritus Joseph Henry will conduct “Messiah” this year. Featured soloists are UM music graduates Dawn Douglass, Karen Callan and Steven Aadland and UM music department chair Stephen Kalm.

Pledge sheets are available online or by calling Missoula’s Habitat for Humanity office at 406-549-8210.

Habitat for Humanity of Missoula 

 Freezer Burn Run A Fun Way To Keep Moving
 

UM health and human performance students have two goals in mind by hosting the Freezer Burn Run Saturday, Dec. 2: One is to motivate people of all ages to keep moving despite the colder weather. The other is to raise funds for the University’s Human Performance Laboratory.

The event, which includes a 13-mile run or a 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) run or fitness walk, begins at 10 a.m. at the Frenchtown High School parking lot.

The preregistration fee of $15 includes a long-sleeved run T-shirt. The registration deadline is Monday, Nov. 27, to get the T-shirt. A $5 registration fee minus the T-shirt also is available, and registration is free for UM students with a Griz Card who do not want a T-shirt.

Register online at or at the following locations: The Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave.; UM’s HHP office, McGill Hall Room 101; or UM’s Fitness and Recreation Center. Registration and check-in the day of the event begin at 9 a.m.

UM’s Human Performance Laboratory provides students hands-on experience measuring fitness. Proceeds from the Freezer Burn Run will purchase additional equipment for the laboratory.

Department of Health and Human Performance 

 Make It A Merry Grizmas
 

Spread a little maroon and silver holiday cheer this year with ornaments, stuffed animals and accessories in the signature style of the Montana Grizzlies.

UM’s beloved mascot Monte and a classic, logo-festooned ball ornament will add charm to any holiday tree. For under the tree, there are the cuddly “Merry Grizmas” bear and the “Merry Grizmoose” mascot.

Santa’s helpers will love the Merry Grizmas hat, and kids (and kids at heart) will appreciate recieving their loot in a Merry Grizmas stocking.

Holiday Griz gear is available online or at The Bookstore at UM.

Grizmas at The Bookstore at UM 

 Grizzly Football Team Holds Off Cal Poly
 

In a battle between two defensive powerhouses, Montana prevailed 10-9 Saturday over the Cal Poly Mustangs in Washington-Grizzly Stadium.

Junior kicker Dan Carpenter connected on a 21-yard field goal with five seconds to go as the second-ranked Grizzlies edged the sixth-ranked Mustangs in a Division I-AA non-conference battle.

Griz senior defensive end Dustin Dlouhy had a team-high 10 tackles and a critical forced fumble. Junior cornerback Jimmy Wilson had nine tackles, while junior linebacker Loren Utterback added eight stops and a tackle for loss. Senior end Mike Murphy had seven tackles and two sacks.

Montana (8-1 overall/6-0 Big Sky) returns to Big Sky Conference action against the league’s newcomer this Saturday, playing the host University of Northern Colorado Bears (1-8/0-6) in Greeley.

A Griz win at UNC would guarantee Montana at least a share of its ninth-straight Big Sky championship.

Montana Grizzlies 

 Griz Basketball Finishes Exhibition Play
 

Junior forward Andrew Strait led the Montana Grizzlies with a game-high 24 points in a 79-72 victory over Rocky Mountain College last Friday night in Missoula. It was the Grizzlies’ final exhibition game.

For the second-straight game, the Grizzlies overcame a first-half deficit and rallied back in the second half, outscoring Rocky Mountain 42-28.

The Griz return to action Friday, Nov. 10, in the season opener against MSU-Northern. Tip-off is at 7:05 p.m.

Montana Grizzlies 

 Lady Griz Split In Exhibition Play
 

The Lady Griz basketball team defeated Deja Vu 70-57 last Thursday night in an exhibition game in Dahlberg Arena.

Sophomore Mandy Morales led the Grizzlies with 13 points, five rebounds and four assists. She also went 3-for-5 from 3-point range.

The Lady Griz then lost 71-69 to Northwest Sports Monday night in Montana’s final exhibition game at Dahlberg Arena.

Montana opens its regular season this Sunday, hosting MSU-Billings at 2 p.m.

Montana Grizzlies 

 Montana Soccer Ends Season In Shootout
 

The UM soccer team saw its season come to an end last Friday, when they lost 5-4 to Sacramento State in a shootout.

The 2006 Big Sky Championship semifinals took place in Pocatello, Idaho. Montana’s shootout was the first in Griz history and Big Sky tournament history.

The No. 2-seed Grizzlies end the year 10-8-2.

Montana Grizzlies