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Running To Receive E.O. Wilson Award
UM Regents Professor of Ecology Steve
Running will be among six to receive the
first-ever Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity
Technology Pioneer Award in April. The
awards honor those whose scientific
discoveries, inventions or work has helped
advance the biodiversity of life on Earth.
Running was chosen for the E.O. Wilson
award for his pioneering and seminal scientific
work with climatology, global warming and
other aspects of atmospheric science.
Wilson, known as the "father of biodiversity,"
will present his namesake awards at a dinner
to be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9, in
the Strand Union Building at Montana State
University-Bozeman. Reservations are
required. For dinner ticket information, call the
American Computer Museum, a co-sponsor of
the event, at 406-582-1288.
The award recipients also will be introduced by
Wilson at a public ceremony to be held at 1:30
p.m. April 9 at MSU's Brick Breeden
Fieldhouse. At that ceremony, Wilson will
receive MSU's Presidential Medal for Global
and Visionary Leadership.
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Events Set For Hunger Awareness Week
UM will commemorate Hunger Awareness
Week March 17-19 with a series of events
organized by the Office for Civic Engagement:
Tuesday, March 17, noon-1 p.m.:
"Hunger and Poverty in Latin
America: Global Causes and Community
Responses," University Center Room 207.
Presenters: Environmental
studies Associate Professor Dan Spencer and
graduate student Lauren Butz.
Wednesday, March 18, 6-8 p.m.:
Global
Hunger Banquet, University Center Ballroom.
Suggested donation: $1. Proceeds benefit
Kiva, a micro-lending organization that assists
the developing world.
Thursday, March 19, 5:30-7 p.m.:
Local
Foods Potluck, Holy Spirit Episcopal Church,
130 S. Sixth St. E. in Missoula.
Students eat free. Others are encouraged to
bring dishes with local food ingredients. All
donations benefit Garden City Harvest.
For more information, call Rohanna Erin at
243-5531 or e-mail
rohanna.erin@mso.umt.edu.
Office for Civic Engagement
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News About U
Communication studies Associate
Professor
Steven Schwarze will be the keynote
speaker
and distinguished critic April 13-15 at the 31st
Annual Communication Studies Conference at
James Madison University. The theme of the
conference is "Constructing Healthy
Communication Environments." Schwarze will
speak about his research on the public
discourse surrounding the Libby asbestos
situation within the broader context of
sustainability.
UM Regents Professor of Ecology Steve
Running will appear in a new Discovery
Channel program titled "Global Warming: The
New Challenge, With Tom Brokaw," set to air
Wednesday, March 18. The program
discusses some of the most promising
scientific, technological and economic
concepts that could potentially reverse the
Earth's warming. It will run from 8 to 9 p.m. on
most Missoula cable and satellite dish
networks and on Bresnan HD channel 755,
and from 11 p.m. to midnight on channel 55.
Listings for other areas are available on
Zap2it.
Liberal studies Professor Ruth Vanita
will give
the annual Spalding Lecture on Indian
Religions at Merton College, Oxford University,
England, on March 28. Vanita also will give the
keynote lecture at the April 3 University of
Wisconsin conference on collaboration.
Mathematics Associate Professor Bharath
Sriraman was appointed co-editor
of a
new book series titled
"Advances in Mathematics Education,"
published by Springer Science
Berlin/Heidelberg. Books published in the
series aim to integrate, synthesize and extend
current research in mathematics education
toward the future state of the art. The first
book in the series is titled "Theories of
Mathematics Education: Seeking New
Frontiers."
Montanan Editor in Chief Brianne
Burrowes
has been named The Rising Star in
Communications by the Council for
Advancement and Support of Education's
Northwest United States and Western Canada
region. The award recognizes a young
professional with three to five years
experience in the education advancement
professions whose early success bodes well
for future leadership and achievement.
Burrowes, a 2007 graduate of UM's School of
Journalism, has been editor in chief of the
University's alumni magazine since January
2008.
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Iverson, J.O. (co-author). 2009. "Agents of
Constitution in Communidad: Constitutive
Processes of Communication in
Organizations." In Building Theories of
Organization: The Constitutive Role of
Communication. (Eds.) L.L. Putnam and
A.M.
Nicotera. NY:Routledge. pp. 49-85.
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