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Aug. 17, 2009 | Vol. 38, No. 1

In this issue:

Join Colleagues At Welcome Back Picnic
Events Set To Open 2009-10 Academic Year
UM Among Princeton Review's Best
Dining Services Takes National Awards
Film Chronicles Pulitzer Prize Photographs
Volunteers Needed For Welcomefest
Registration Open: World's Largest Garage Sale
IRB Deadlines Set
Help Welcome International Students
News About U
Publications

Campus Links

Recent UM Publications

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Join Colleagues At Welcome Back Picnic

UM's Faculty/Staff Welcome Back Picnic will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25. The annual Mexican buffet will be held at the Kirkwood Memorial Grove, River Bowl East, located across Campus Drive from the Fitness and Recreation Center.

The event is open only to UM faculty, staff, administrators and retirees.

For more information, call Angela Priest of UM Faculty-Staff Wellness at 243-2027 or e-mail apriest@mso.umt.edu.

Events Set To Open 2009-10 Academic Year

UM President George Dennison will deliver The State of the University Address at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 28, in the Montana Theatre of the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center. Refreshments will be served in the PAR/TV foyer beginning at 9:30 a.m.

During the program, UM Provost Royce Engstrom will introduce new members of the faculty and administration and acknowledge those who have been recently promoted and awarded tenure. President Dennison will welcome new administrators, highlight last year's accomplishments and outline the University's priorities for the year ahead.

Provost Engstrom, President Dennison and UM faculty and staff will welcome students to the new academic year during the Academic Convocation on Saturday, Aug. 29. The Convocation begins at 11:15 a.m. in the University Theatre.

Fall 2009 classes begin Monday, Aug. 31.

UM Among Princeton Review's Best

UM once again is listed among the top four-year colleges and universities in North America by the Princeton Review.

The 2010 edition, "The Best 371 Colleges," was released last month. The rankings are based on surveys of more than 122,000 undergraduate students. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their school on several topics and report their campus experiences. Top schools, including UM, received a two-page profile with student comments.

"We are especially gratified that this ranking results from our student body," said UM President George Dennison. "This recognizes the dedication of our faculty and staff to provide an outstanding educational experience at The University of Montana."

The school profiles also include ratings based on data collected by the Princeton Review during the 2008-09 academic year. On a scale of 60 to 99, UM received an 83 for "Quality of Life." In 2008 the Princeton Review introduced the "Green" category as a measure of a school's commitment to environmental policies, practices and education. In the 2010 edition, UM received a rating of 96 in the "Green" category.

Only about 15 percent of the nation's four-year colleges and two Canadian colleges made "The Best 371 Colleges" list. Complete listings are on the Princeton Review Web site.

Princeton Review

Dining Services Takes National Awards

University Dining Services recently cooked up two major awards at the annual National Association of College and University Food Services conference.

UM's Casa Nina was awarded the Loyal E. Horton Grand Prize last month at the NACUFS conference in Milwaukee. The prize was given in the category of retail sales -- single stand-alone concept outlet. The authentic Mexican restaurant was eligible for the grand prize after being selected in May as the Loyal E. Horton Gold Award winner among large schools in the category.

The Loyal E. Horton Grand Prize is the ultimate professional tribute in college and university culinary arts. Named for an association founder and past president, the award salutes the most successful ideas in menus, presentations, special event planning and new dining concepts.

Casa Nina, located in the University Center Food Court, also received the People's Choice Award, determined by conference attendees' votes for 55 schools that were gold, silver or bronze winners in their division.

Film Chronicles Pulitzer Prize Photographs

The award-winning documentary film "Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs" will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, in the University Center Theater.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is held in conjunction with "Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs," currently at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture and the Gallery of Visual Arts at UM. "Capture the Moment" is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever shown in the United States. It features 143 color and black-and-white photographs of some of the world's most iconic images.

Other special events will be held in conjunction with the exhibition, including a presentation at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, by Michel duCille, two-time Pulitzer winner and assistant managing editor for photography at The Washington Post. DuCille will present "Modern Media: A Photojournalist's Vision for the Future" as part of the President's Lecture Series at UM. The presentation will be held in the Montana Theatre, located in the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center.

Gallery hours and more information about "Capture the Moment" and events held in conjunction with the exhibition are on the MMAC Web site.

Montana Museum of Art & Culture

Volunteers Needed For Welcomefest
Deadline To Volunteer: Wednesday, Aug. 19

A crew of more than 100 UM volunteers will help students get settled in residence halls at Welcomefest events Tuesday, Aug. 25, and Saturday, Aug. 29. The annual events bring UM administrators, faculty members, staff and students together as a community to greet new and returning students and their families.

From noon to 8 p.m. both days volunteers will direct parking, provide information and be available to help students during the move-in process. For giving one hour or more of time, volunteers receive a Welcomefest T-shirt and a free meal at the Food Zoo.

For more information or to volunteer, call Enrollment Services at 243-6266.

Registration Open: World's Largest Garage Sale

The semi-annual World's Largest Garage Sale will take place from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12. The sale will be held, rain or shine, at the covered parking structure located on campus near the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library.

Registration forms for selling spots are available now. For $20, sellers can purchase two parking spaces. The event is a fundraiser for the UM Advocates, who will do all the advertising for the sale, which attracts hundreds of shoppers.

For more information or a registration form, go to the UM Advocates Web site or call The Source in the University Center at 243-4636.

UM Advocates

IRB Deadlines Set

UM requires that all research projects involving human subjects be approved by the Institutional Review Board. Grant applications for these projects also must show evidence of IRB approval before they are processed by the University's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.

IRB policies, guidelines, deadlines for getting completed proposals to the Office of the Vice President for Research and Development, and meeting dates are on the Institutional Review Board Web site. For more information, call Colleen Hoffman at 243-6670 or e-mail colleen.hoffman@umontana.edu.

Institutional Review Board

Help Welcome International Students

The Missoula International Friendship Program is seeking volunteer families, couples and single people to become Community Friends to international students who will begin studies at UM this fall.

To complement their campus experience, MIFP provides a structured opportunity for students to meet local residents and share leisure and family activities once a month or so for one or two semesters. Hosts are not expected to become legal guardians or financial sponsors, and students do not reside in hosts' homes.

Application forms to become a host for an international student must be completed by Tuesday, Aug. 25. For more information, call UM Foreign Student and Scholar Services at 243-2226.

Foreign Student and Scholar Services

News About U

College of Forestry and Conservation Assistant Professor Cory Cleveland and Division of Biological Sciences Assistant Professor Winsor Lowe, Associate Professor John Maron and Professor Anna Sala presented papers at the 2009 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting held Aug. 3-7 in Albuquerque, N.M.

Associate Professor David Shively, in conjunction with the Clark Fork River Basin Task Force, UM Department of Geography and the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, organized and convened the Clark Fork River Basin Roundtable at the University Center on May 6 and the Montana Conjunctive Water Management Conference at the University Center June 8-9.

Montana Public Radio News Director Sally Mauk and MTPR Capital Bureau Chief Emilie Ritter received the Montana Broadcasters Association's Non-Commercial Program of the Year Award at the MBA convention held in June at Big Sky. Mauk and Ritter were recognized for their reporting from the 2008 national political conventions.

Publications

Books and Publications

Barkey, Patrick. 2009. "The Impact of the Recession on Montana's Retail Sector." Briefing prepared for U.S. Sen. Jon Tester.

Peterson-Perlman, J. and D. Shively. 2009. "Assessment of Municipal Water Rights in the Upper Clark Fork Basin." Research report prepared for the Upper Clark Fork River Basin Steering Committee.

Shively, D., Y. Zhou, and B.C. Sive. 2009. "Snowmobile Pollution in North America: Annual Flux Estimates of Air Toxics and Implications for Potential Personal Exposure in Snowmobile Dominated Communities." In Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Internal Combustion Engines. (Eds.) Sergey Demidov and Jacques Bonnet. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

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