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Visiting Artists Present Lectures
Three distinguished artists will speak about their work
Oct. 28 and 29 and Nov. 16 at UM. The following
lectures, hosted by the UM School of Art and
sponsored by the Jim and Jane Dew Visiting Artist
Fund and the Rudy and Lela Autio Opportunity Fund,
are free and open to the public:
- 5:10 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, Ceramics
Studio of
the Art Annex, located next to the Adams Center: Kurt
Weiser, noted ceramist and professor of art at Arizona
State University. Weiser's widely experimental
approach to ceramics over the course of his career
has resulted in groundbreaking developments in the
vessel tradition, culminating in his signature
China-painted porcelain forms.
- 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29,
Interdisciplinary
Science Building Room 110: Michael Oatman,
installation and video artist. Oatman teaches in the
architecture program at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute in Troy, N.Y. Fusing the roles of librarian,
archaeologist, taxonomist and artist, he makes
intricately detailed collages and exhaustively
researched installations focused on what he calls
the "poetic interpretation of documents."
- 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, Liberal Arts
Building
Room 11: UM Visiting Professor of Art Karina Hean.
Hean's abstract organic drawings are featured in the
Drawing Center's Viewing Program, created in 1977
to offer emerging artists the opportunity to include their
work in a curated Artist Registry that is consulted by a
wide variety of professionals from across the
globe.
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Health Care Forum At UM Oct. 30
UM will hold a forum Friday, Oct. 30, to advance
preventive health and wellness and talk about ways to
reduce the economic and social burden of illness.
The forum, "Exploring Community Connections to
Reduce Health Care Costs through Prevention &
Wellness Initiatives," is designed for business
owners, human resource directors, insurance
providers, clinicians, educators, worksite wellness
practitioners and consumers.
Events will take place from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. in
Skaggs Building Room 117. The forum is sponsored
by UM's College of Health Professions and
Biomedical Sciences and is free and open to the
public, but RSVPs are requested. Events begin with
a welcome and overview presented by David Forbes,
dean of the College of Health Professions and
Biomedical Sciences, and UM Adjunct Assistant
Professor Dave Levison.
A complete forum schedule is on the School of
Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science Web
site. For more information or to RSVP, e-mail UM
Professor
Reed Humphrey at
reed.humphrey@umontana.edu.
School of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
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Research Station Holds Open House
UM's Division of Biological Sciences will host an open
house at its newly renovated Field Research Station at
Fort Missoula at 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6. The event is free
and open to the public.
Scientists who work at the facility, located in Building
402 on Post Siding Road, will talk about their studies.
UM President George Dennison will speak, and
refreshments will be provided.
Originally built in 1910 as a U.S. Cavalry stable, the
research facility now boasts modernized laboratories,
offices, aviaries, a greenhouse and a conference
room, among other amenities.
For more information, call lab manager Heather Davis
at 243-5436 or e-mail
heather.davis@mso.umt.edu.
Field Research Station
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Publications
Farr, William E. 2009. Julius Seyler and the
Blackfeet:
An Impressionist at Glacier National Park. Vol. 7 in
The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and
Photography of the American West. University of
Oklahoma Press.
Hill, A.C. and J.A. Stanford (co-authors). 2009. "Recent
Sedimentary Legacy of Sockeye Salmon
(Oncorhynchus nerka) and Climate Change in an
Ultraoligotrophic, Glacially Turbid British Columbia
Nursery Lake." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and
Aquatic Sciences, 66(7):1141-1152.
Kimball, J.S., L.A. Jones, K. Zhang, and F.A. Heinsch
(co-authors). 2009. "A Satellite Approach to Estimate
Land -- Atmosphere CO2 Exchange for Boreal and
Arctic Biomes Using MODIS and AMSR-E." IEEE
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote
Sensing, 47(2):569-587.
Loisel, Clary. 2009. "El análisis psicológico en la
novela de Eduardo Barrios." Sieteculebras: Revista
Andina de Cultura, 28:6-10.
Sriraman, Bharath. 2009. "Collaborative Learning." In
Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity and
Talent, Vol.
1. (Ed.) B. Kerr. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications. pp. 158-159.
Sriraman, Bharath (co-author). 2009. "Relationship of
Creativity to Intelligence." In Encyclopedia of
Giftedness, Creativity and Talent, Vol. 2. (Ed.) B.
Kerr.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. pp. 726-728.
Stanford, J.A. (with others). 2009. "Surface Hydrology
of Low-relief Landscapes: Assessing Surface Water
Flow Impedance Using LIDAR-derived Digital
Elevation Models." Remote Sensing of
Environment, 112:4148-4159.
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Environmental studies Professor Neva
Hassanein
gave a keynote address, "The Power and Promise of
Local Food," at the Northern Rockies Bioneers
Conference Oct. 16 in Bozeman.
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