2008 PRESIDENT'S REPORT

2008 Highlights

UM's Got Wheels

The National Wildlife Federation named UM the winner of a transportation award for its innovative and effective transit system as part of NWF’s “Chill Out: Campus Solutions to Global Warming” competition. UM was one of eight schools honored from a nationwide pool of entries. The federation’s “Chill Out” awards honor U.S. schools that are ahead of their time in addressing global warming and are highly creative in doing so. Associated Students of UM manages the University’s Office of Transportation.

Students Sweep Documentary Awards

A UM School of Journalism documentary was named the best student-produced long-form program in the nation this year by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Broadcast Education Association. The radio-television students won the awards for “Beyond the Myths: Growing up in Montana.” The documentary profiles the lives of six teenagers across the state as they grapple with racism, motherhood and mental health. It was produced by 17 seniors in a class taught by Associate Professor Denise Dowling and Adjunct Professor Gita Saedi Kiely.

UM Professor Writes A.J. Gibson Biography

The UM Press has published the first complete biography of Missoula County’s best-known architect, Albert John Gibson. Written by UM art history and art criticism Professor Hipólito Rafael Chacón, “The Original Man: The Life and Work of Montana Architect A.J. Gibson” details the life and vision of the man who designed the first five buildings on UM’s campus, the Daly Mansion near Hamilton and the Ravalli County and Missoula County courthouses. The book brings to light previously unpublished documents, drawings and photographs from the architect’s life.

PBS Producers Wins Northwest Emmy

Gus Chambers, a television producer for the Broadcast Media Center at UM and Montana PBS, received an Emmy Award this year from the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Chambers was recognized for Individual Accomplishment in Audio for his historical documentary “Hidden Fire: The Great Butte Explosion” at a June ceremony in Seattle. In the documentary, Chambers used scale models and small explosives to re-create the sounds of a series of devastating explosions in Butte’s warehouse district in 1895.

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