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Bear Briefs
Leading Woman-Barbara Hollmann, vice president for student affairs,
received a Montana Excellence in Leadership Award 2000 from the Interdepartmental
Coordinating Committee for Women this month in Helena. The award recognizes her exemplary
leadership and outstanding efforts to help women excel in the workplace. UM President
George Dennison nominated her for the honor, citing her support for the promotion of women
-- often to positions previously held by men -- and her innovative workplace strategies to
change working relationships in offices reporting to her. Hollmann is one of UM's
top-ranking women administrators. Voluminous Collection-UM's Mansfield
Library celebrated a major milestone May 2 with the acquisition of its millionth volume.
(The library held a mere 187 volumes in 1895.) The millionth book is "Ecological
Stewardship, a Common Reference for Ecosystem Management" and was acquired with funds
from the Irene Evers Endowment. The book is available in print and CD format.
Ticket Time-The deadline for purchasing season tickets for 2000
Grizzly football is June 1. The Griz open their season in little more than three months
against powerhouse Hofstra Sept. 2 at home. Other home games are Cal Poly, Sept. 16;
Sacramento State (Homecoming), Oct. 7; Northern Arizona, Oct. 21; Idaho State, Nov. 4; and
Montana State (100th meeting), Nov. 18. Call (406) 243-4051 or (888) MONTANA for ticket
information.
Getting Acquainted-New students and their parents will visit campus
for the first in a series of summer orientation sessions June 14-16. For more information,
call Admissions and New Student Services at (406) 243-6266 or (800) 462-8636. Udall
Scholars-Three UM stu-dents have been awarded Udall Scholarships of up to $5,000 for the
2000-2001 academic year. The students are Sarah Canepa of Troy, Jonathan Rothman of
Roswell, Ga., and Andrew Van Eck of Portland, Ore. Udall Scholarships go to outstanding
sophomores and juniors who plan to pursue a career related to the environment.
Emmy Hopeful-A documentary produced by the Mansfield Center for
Pacific Affairs at UM is one of six cultural/historical documentaries nominated to receive
a regional Emmy from the Seattle chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences. The film, "From the Far East to the Old West: Chinese and Japanese Settlers
in Montana," describes through archival photographs, diaries and letters the lives of
these settlers who came to Montana before 1920 and their oft-forgotten contributions to
the state's development. The award will be presented June 17 in Seattle.
Prestigious Positions-Five UM journalism students have been picked for
prestigious Dow Jones Newspaper Fund internships for this summer. The students will train
at various universities before joining the staffs at top newspapers and news services
across the nation. To win the internships, the students had to take a "real stiff
editing test," said UM journalism Associate Professor Dennis Swibold. He added that
in his seven years of monitoring the program, UM has never had five of these internships
at the same time.
Rankin Retrospective-Brilliant, abstract Montana landscapes by a UM
alumnus are displayed in UM's Museum of Fine Arts through June 16. "Jerome Rankin: A
Retrospective" features intensely colored, mixed-media artworks "infused with
mythological and spiritual presence," according to the artist. Rankin, who earned a
master of fine arts degree from UM, now lives near Bozeman and devotes most of his time to
printmaking, painting and sculpture. Rankin's exhibit opened on campus May 12 as a feature
in the Honored Alumni Art Show. The museum is located in the Performing Arts and
Radio/Television Center. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
Historic Grant-UM's Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center has received a
three-year, $450,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation in New York. The grant, the
largest the center has ever received, supports the "America's Wars in Asia: A
Cultural Approach to History and Memory" project. Led by center Director Philip West,
the project is a collaboration with scholars, artists, writers and teachers from Japan,
Korea, Vietnam and China. It aims to put a human face on the complexities of
American-Asian relations by looking at them through literature, art, letters, biographies
and more that arises out of war. The project has three distinct components: the
Asia-America dialogue series, weeklong summer sessions begun in 1998 and ending in 2002;
the digital resource library on the Internet, to be ready for use by 2001; and teacher
training institutes starting at UM in summer 2003.
Bright Scholars-Seven UM students have been recommended for 2000-2001
Fulbright Scholarships by U.S. screening committees, a number that ties the University's
all-time high in 1995. The prestigious scholarships cover the basic costs of training in
the creative and performing arts or academic study abroad. Their purpose is to increase
mutual understanding between Americans and people in other countries. The UM students will
receive their scholarships when Fulbright committees in the host countries give approval.
The scholars are Hannah Thompson, a senior in art and German from Missoula; Kelsi Camp, a
senior in English and German from Sandpoint, Idaho; Caitlin DeSilvery, a graduate student
from New York; Paul Lachapelle, a graduate student in resource management from Shelburne,
Vt.; Elizabeth Morse, a senior honors student in communication studies from Anderson,
S.C.; Scott Pankratz, a graduate student in environmental studies from Thousand Oaks,
Calif.; and Joshua Tewksbury, a graduate student in organismal biology and ecology from
Brattleboro, Vt.
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