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Law Building Dedication Set For Sept. 18
The University of Montana School of Law will dedicate
its new building addition at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will be
held on campus on the east side of the law building. A
reception and tours will follow the dedication.
The $14.8 million addition adds nearly 46,000 square
feet to the original law building, which contained
57,500 square feet prior to the new addition.
Construction began in early 2008, and the building
was ready for students when classes started Aug. 31.
"This addition gives the people of Montana a law
school building they can truly be proud of," said law
Dean Irma Russell.
The new construction added three floors and a lower
level, plus attractive new entrances to the facility with
overhanging balconies. The addition includes
classrooms with better acoustics, current technology
and audio-visual equipment. It also provides better
access for students and visitors with disabilities, as
well as additional small- and mid-sized classrooms
to accommodate the increasing number of elective
courses needed to prepare lawyers for legal
specialties.
The UM School of Law was founded in 1911. The
current building was constructed in 1961, and its last
major renovation was in 1978.
School of Law
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Series Celebrates Distinguished Faculty
The first event of UM's 2009 Provost's Distinguished
Faculty Lecture Series will take place this week. The
series, which is free and open to the public,
celebrates the outstanding quality and
accomplishment of UM faculty members.
This year's series features Regents Professor of
Marketing Jakki Mohr, chemistry Professor Garon
Smith and wildlife biology Professor L. Scott Mills. All
lectures begin at 6 p.m. in the University Center
Ballroom. A reception will follow each event.
Following is the lecture series schedule:
- Thursday, Sept. 17: "A World Without
Marketing:
Blessing or Curse?" by Jakki Mohr. Mohr was the first
woman in the state to be named a Regents Professor
by the Montana Board of Regents.
- Wednesday, Oct. 14: "The Chemistry of
Snowflakes, Color and Other Fun Stuff" by Garon
Smith. Smith was named 2008
Montana Professor of the Year by the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the
Council for Advancement and Support of
Education.
- Tuesday, Nov. 10: "Wildlife Biology in a
Changing
World" by L. Scott Mills. Mills,
a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, will use the fellowship to
help build capacity for ecological science in
Bhutan.
Lecture descriptions and additional information about
the presenting faculty members are on the Office of
the Provost Web site. For more information, call Kyra
Cardella at 243-4689 or e-mail
kyra.cardella@umontana.edu.
Provost's Office
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Conference Examines Key Aspects Of Aging
UM's Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center will host a
conference titled "Methuselah's Challenge: Aging in
Asia and America" Wednesday through Friday, Sept.
23-25, at the University Center. All conference events
are free and open to the public. "Methuselah's
Challenge" is the center's silver anniversary
conference.
The program begins with a keynote lecture by
Nicholas Eberstadt at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23,
in the University Center Theater. Eberstadt, an
internationally renowned demographer at the
American Enterprise Institute, will present "The New
Silver Age: How Aging is Changing America, Asia and
the World."
The main conference kicks off Thursday, Sept. 24, with
a welcome and introduction at 10 a.m. in the
University Center Ballroom. A full conference schedule
is on the Mansfield Center Web
site. For more information, call 243-2988.
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center
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Transportation Focus Of Presentation
James Corless, director of Transportation for
America,
will be at UM on Thursday, Sept. 17, to talk about
community design and transportation policy advocacy.
Local and UM student transportation advocates also
will attend the event, which will take place at 7 p.m. in
University Center Room 331. The public is invited to
attend.
Transportation for America, also known as T4
America, is a coalition of more than 250 organizations
working to promote a new national transportation
policy that provides more choices and is smarter,
safer and cleaner.
For more information about the UM presentation, call
Nancy Wilson, director, Associated Students of UM
Office of Transportation at 406-243-4599 or e-mail
nancy.wilson@mso.umt.edu.
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IT Offers Variety Of Short Courses
Fall 2009 Information Technology Short Courses,
which include a variety of Banner, Business Services,
MS Office 2007 and Web training classes, are free to
UM employees, but registration is required.
Two new courses are highlighted this year:
- Technology Orientation for Employees.
Offered by IT staff on a monthly basis, the course will
familiarize new and current employees with the many
computing systems at UM, how to access them and
best practices for using various technologies.
- Operational Efficiency. The course series,
offered by Jessica Carter, program coordinator for
Extended Learning Services, will introduce
participants to tools and practices that can help them
become and stay organized, communicate effectively
and work more efficiently. Get practical tips and tools
to incorporate into the workday right away by taking
only one course or the entire series.
For a complete short course schedule and to register,
go to the IT Web site. Questions may be directed to
Kathy Garramone, IT training coordinator, at 243-5362.
Information Technology Short Courses
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Intellectual Property Workshop Offered
"Intellectual Property Awareness -- Building &
Protecting IP Value" will be held from 1 to 5 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 17, at MonTEC, located at 1121 E.
Broadway in Missoula. The workshop, presented by
licensing and commercialization specialist Marti
Elder, will provide an understandable baseline for
making decisions about whether and how to register
and protect your IP.
Elder will address patents, trademarks, copyrights
and trade secrets, providing a basic review of the
motivation behind various filings, cost estimates and
IP responsibilities under a federal contract. The
workshop will begin at a basic level and build rapidly
to enable discussion of common strategic questions.
It will conclude with an overview of the federal Small
Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small
Business Technology Transfer (STTR) research and
development funding programs, with a focus on STTR
presented by John Balsam, Montana Technology
Innovation Partnership counselor.
Cost of the workshop is $45, and preregistration is
required. It is sponsored by MTIP and UM's Office of
the Vice President for Research and Development.
Those who register may request a half-hour individual
counseling session with Elder or Balsam. In addition,
any University department, program or institute with at
least one registered representative at the workshop
may arrange an hour meeting with Elder or Balsam to
discuss specific IP issues, commercialization,
SBIR/STTR or other related matters. The meetings will
take place the morning before the workshop or
anytime on Friday, Sept. 18. They will be scheduled on
a first-come basis and must be arranged in advance
by calling Balsam at 549-2460 or e-mailing
johnb@johnbalsamassociates.com.
Workshop Registration
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News About U
Communication studies Professor Betsy
Bach
presented "Making It Happen: What the National
Communication Association Can Do to Promote
Intercultural Dialogue" at the NCA Conference on
Intercultural Dialogue, held July 22-28 at Maltepe
University, Istanbul, Turkey. Bach currently serves as
NCA president.
Environmental studies Associate Professor Neva
Hassanein presented a paper titled
"Values-Based
Supply Chains and the Case of Kamut® Brand Grain"
and participated in a panel on "Community-Based
Research" at the Rural Sociological Society annual
meeting in August at Madison, Wis. Hassanein also
presented a paper on "Farmland and the Future of
Local Food Systems" at the annual meeting of the
Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society in June
at State College, Penn.
A.B. Hammond Professor of Western History Dan
Flores has received three additional awards for
his
article "Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: The
Horse Trade and the Early American West,
1775-1825," which was published in Montana: the
Magazine
of Western History last year. In addition to the
magazine's Vivian A. Paladin Best Article for 2008
award and the Western Heritage Association and
National Cowboy Museum's Outstanding Magazine
Article 2009 Wrangler Award, "Bringing Home All the
Pretty Horses" has received the 2009 Friends Choice
Award from the Friends of the Montana Historical
Society, the Western History Association's Ray Allen
Billington Prize for Best Article on the West 2009, and
a Finalist Award for 2009 Best Western Short
Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America.
Journalism Professor Carol Van Valkenburg
will serve on
an Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism
accreditation review team that will visit the Greenlee
School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa
State University Oct. 25-28.
Journalism Professor Clem Work and Adjunct
Instructor Gita Saedi Kiely attended the
Washington,
D.C., premiere of the documentary film "Jailed for
Their
Words" about Montana's World War I sedition
convictions of war critics. Work and Saedi Kiely spoke
about the film and answered questions from the
audience at the premiere, which was held at the
National Press Club.
Mansfield Library Assistant Professor Samantha
Schmehl Hines was elected president of the
Pacific
Northwest Library Association for August 2009-August
2010.
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Publications
Hines, Samantha. 2009. "Librarians at the Bounds of
Rationality: How Bounded Rationality Can Help Us
Help Others." Behavioral & Social Sciences
Librarian, 28(3):80-86.
Podger, Pam. 2009. "The
Limits of Control." American Journalism
Review, August/September 2009.
Sriraman, Bharath (lead editor). 2009. Relatively
and Philosophically E(a)rnest: Festschrift in Honor of
Paul Ernest's 65th Birthday. Charlotte, NC:
Information Age Publishing.
Sriraman, Bharath (co-author). 2009. "Aesthetics and
Creativity: An Exploration of the Relationships between
the Constructs." In Relatively and Philosophically
E(a)rnest: Festschrift in Honor of Paul Ernest's 65th
Birthday. (Eds.) B. Sriraman and S. Goodchild.
Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. pp 59-82.
Sriraman, Bharath (co-author). 2009. "Cognition." In
Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity and
Talent, Vol. 1. (Ed.) B. Kerr. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage Publications. pp. 149-152.
Sriraman, Bharath. 2009. "General Creativity." In
Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity and
Talent, Vol. 1. (Ed.) B. Kerr. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage Publications. pp. 369-372.
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