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Montana staff, faculty and administrators.
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UM's 'G.Wiz' Is Top Montana Professor
Chemistry Professor Garon Smith, better known to
many on campus and throughout Montana as G. Wiz,
has been named 2008 Montana Professor of the Year
by two national organizations that promote teaching
excellence -- the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching and the Council for
Advancement and Support of Education.
The U.S. Professors of the Year program salutes the
most outstanding undergraduate instructors in the
country -- those who excel in teaching and positively
influence the lives and careers of students.
Smith, one of UM's most popular educators, dons a
purple wizard's cape and robe to capture students'
attention and regales and instructs them with fiery
tricks and clever, humorous incantations that captivate
them. Of equal importance, his faculty colleagues
confirm that students leave Smith's courses with a
solid grounding in and understanding of chemistry,
well prepared for advanced work, President George
Dennison said.
When not teaching classes at UM, Smith tours
elementary and high schools around the state,
teaching short lessons as G. Wiz to get kids
interested in science. He also participates in
UM-organized outreach tours throughout Montana to
help recruit new students to the University.
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Retired UM Professor Receives Award
Retired UM Professor Richard Taber was presented
the Aldo Leopold Memorial Award from The Wildlife
Society in November. It is the highest honor bestowed
by the society.
The lifetime achievement award honors the famous
American conservationist and author of "A Sand
County Almanac" and is given to those whose careers
have made a difference to the cause of wildlife
conservation.
Taber joined the UM faculty in 1956 as an assistant
professor of wildlife biology. He rose through the
University's ranks to professor, assistant leader of the
Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit and
associate director of the Montana Forest and Range
Experiment Station.
In 1968, Taber moved to the University of Washington,
Seattle, where he served as professor of forest
zoology and wildlife science until his retirement in
1985. He returned to Missoula in 1986, where he
taught at UM as an adjunct professor. He now lives in
Salisbury, N.C.
During his career, Taber participated in wildlife
research and conservation in many parts of the world,
most notably working within local cultures and with
local people in Europe, Chile, Pakistan, India and
Taiwan.
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Publications
Humphries, Kathleen, Sierra Langstaff, Donna
Bainbridge and Tom Seekins. 2008. "The Wise
Choices Food Pyramid. Let's Compare Apples and
Oranges!" International Electronic Journal of
Nutrition and Wellness, 6(2).
Koehn, Peter H. (lead author). 2008. "Enhancing
Higher Education's Engagement in International
Development: Africa-U.S. Partnerships." Journal of
the World Universities Forum, 1(6):127-140.
Seguchi, Noriko (with others). 2008. "Exploring the
Kennewick Connection." In Kennewick Man:
Perspectives on the Ancient One. (Eds.) Heather
Burke, Claire Smith, Dorothy Lippert, Joe Watkins and
Larry Zimmerman. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast
Press. pp. 153-168.
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A.B. Hammond Professor of Western History Dan
Flores presented "Art and Regional Identity in the
Northern Rocky Mountain West" in November at the
University of New Mexico Center for the Southwest.
The presentation was the center's 2008-09 C. Ruth
and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and
Culture.
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