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UM Faculty Named Top Irish Educators
Irish Voice newspaper has named UM faculty
members Traolach O'Riordain and Katie Kane and
the University's Executive Vice President Jim Foley to
its inaugural Irish Education 100 list, which honors the
nation's top 100 education professionals of Irish
descent.
Kane, professor and director of UM's Irish Studies
Program, teaches courses on ethnic studies,
17th-century Ireland, and the colonial and postcolonial
experiences of the Irish and American Indians.
O'Riordain, an adjunct assistant professor raised in
County Cork, Ireland, teaches UM courses in Irish
language, nationalism, literature, history and
philosophy, as well as Gaelic culture.
A Helena native, Foley -- whose Irish-American father
was raised in Anaconda and whose mother grew up
an O'Neill in Butte's Dublin Gulch neighborhood -- has
served as UM's executive vice president since 2005.
O'Riordain said Foley was integral in building the
partnership between UM and Ireland that led to the
establishment of the Irish Studies Program, which
was launched in 2006 by Ireland's President Mary
McAleese.
Irish Voice, in conjunction with Irish America
Magazine, will honor the recipients at an Oct. 8 awards
ceremony at the American Irish Historical Society in
New York City.
UM Irish Studies Program
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Wildlife Society Honors UM Faculty
Several UM College of Forestry and
Conservation faculty members were honored at the
2009 annual conference of The Wildlife Society, a
leading scientific and educational organization
representing and serving wildlife professionals. Jack
Ward Thomas, UM's Boone and Crockett Professor of
Wildlife Conservation Emeritus, gave the plenary
presentation at the conference, which was held Sept.
20-24 in Monterey, Calif.
Professor Dan
Pletscher, director of UM's Wildlife Biology
Program, was awarded Honorary Membership in The
Wildlife Society. The award recognizes continuous
outstanding service to the society and is limited to only
two members per year.
UM Associate Provost Perry
Brown received the society's Wildlife Publication
Award for editorship for the book "Wildlife and Society:
The Science of Human Dimensions."
In addition, UM Boone and Crockett Professor of
Wildlife Conservation Paul Krausman was elected to
a four-year term on the society's Executive Council,
and wildlife biology graduate student Jonathan
Derbridge will serve as student liaison. Derbridge is a
Boone and Crockett Fellow in the University's Boone
and Crockett Wildlife Conservation Program.
"UM's Wildlife Biology Program is one of the best in
the country and recognized nationally for the expertise
of its faculty in large mammal ecology," Krausman
said. "The cutting-edge research conducted at UM is
important for wildlife conservation and management
decision-makers throughout the world. We are
pleased that the fine work at UM's College of Forestry
and Conservation is being recognized by The Wildlife
Society."
UM Wildlife Biology Program
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Theatre/Dance Production Opens Tuesday
UM's School of Theatre & Dance will present "Brighton
Beach Memoirs," the classic Neil Simon comedy, at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Oct. 6-10, and
Tuesday through Saturday, Oct. 13-17, in the Montana
Theatre, located in the Performing Arts and
Radio/Television Center.
"Brighton Beach Memoirs" is based on Neil Simon's
early adolescence in 1930s Brooklyn. Simon's alter
ego, Eugene, dreams of baseball and girls to the
chagrin of his intimidating mother and haggard father.
The first of the comic treasure's autobiographical
trilogy, the story is side-splitting, poignant, touching,
and charmingly rich when Eugene's eccentric
extended family is added to the mix.
To show appreciation for their long-standing
commitment and service to UM, President Dennison
and the School of Theatre & Dance will provide faculty
and staff one free ticket to this year's eight season
productions. In addition, a second ticket for each
performance may be purchased for $8.
To get faculty/staff tickets to "Brighton Beach
Memoirs,"
present your Griz Card at the Theatre & Dance Box
Office in the PAR/TV Center. Box Office hours are
11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and
one hour prior to performances.
School of Theatre & Dance
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Jewish Group Erects Religious Structure
A three-sided, 8-by-12-foot sukkah constructed by
members of UM's chapter of Hillel: the Foundation for
Jewish Campus Life will stand on the grassy lot
between Jeannette Rankin Hall and Don Anderson
Hall this week.
Sukkah is a Hebrew word that means booth or hut.
The simple building helps commemorate the
seven-day holiday of Sukkot, a celebration in which
people, both Jewish and non-Jewish, give thanks for
the harvest by joining together with friends to celebrate
the earth's bounty.
Ariel Barrett, president of UM's Hillel chapter and a
senior in anthropology, said her group had set the
sukkah up on the UM Oval in recent years, but it was
vandalized several times. She hopes the structure's
new location will lessen the chance for vandalism. In
addition, Danielle Wozniak, a UM social work
assistant professor, has mobilized students and
members of campus departments willing to stay in
the sukkah overnight, when vandalism is more likely
to take place.
Those wishing to volunteer to stay in the sukkah can
e-mail Barrett at
ariel1.barrett@umontana.edu or Wozniak at
danielle.wozniak@mso.umt.edu.
Hillel provides opportunities for students to explore
and celebrate their Jewish identity at more than 500
colleges and universities. Barrett said the UM chapter
has about 20 members.
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Publications
Bowler, Bruce E. (with others).
2009. "Thermodynamics of Loop Formation in the
Denatured State of Rhodopseudomonas palustris
Cytochrome c': Scaling Exponents and the
Reconciliation Problem." Journal of Molecular
Biology, 392:1315-1325.
Conley, T., H. Allen and K. McGuire. 2009. "Measuring
the Performance of Montana Drug Courts." State of
Montana Supreme Court, Office of the Court
Administrator. pp 1-31.
Rosenberg, Edward (with others).
2009. "Characterization of Surface Bound Zr(IV) and its
Application to Removal of As(V) and As(III) from
Aqueous Systems Using Phosphonic Acid Modified
Nano-porous Silica Polyamine Composites."
Industrial & Engineering Chemical Research,
48:3991-4001.
Rosenberg, Edward (with others). 2009. "High Flow
Metal Recovery from Acid Mine Drainage Using
Modified Silica Polyamine Technology." Chimica
Oggi, 26:42.
Rosenberg, Edward (with others). 2009. "Tuning
Photophysical Properties with Ancillary Ligands in
Ru(II) Mono-Diimine Complexes." Journal of
Organometallic Chemistry, 694:988-1000.
Sriraman, Bharath. 2009. "Mathematical Intelligence."
In Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity and
Talent, Vol. 2. (Ed.) B. Kerr. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage Publications. pp. 544-547.
Sriraman, Bharath. 2009. "Mathematics Curriculum" In
Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity and
Talent, Vol. 2. (Ed.) B. Kerr. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage Publications. pp. 553-556.
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College of Arts and Sciences Associate Dean and
biology Professor Carol Brewer co-chaired the
conference "Vision and Change in Undergraduate
Biology Education" held this summer in Washington,
D.C. The goal of the conference, hosted by the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
and sponsored by the National Science Foundation,
was to create a vision for bringing biology education at
U.S. colleges and universities into the 21st century.
Brewer also was a featured plenary speaker at the
Long Term Ecological Research Network All Scientist
Meeting held in Estes Park, Colo. Her address was
titled "When the Renaissance Ecologist Meets the
Citizen Scientist." Brewer was appointed to a
three-year term as chair of the network's National
Advisory Board.
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