|
|
Griz
Greetings!
Welcome to TGIF News. This e-mail newsletter
is provided weekly, except during the summer
and scheduled academic breaks, to subscribers
that include students, alumni, employees and
friends of The University of Montana.
The last spring semester 2008 issue of
TGIF will be coming to mailboxes on May 9.
 |
|
|
Commencement Ceremonies May 10
About 3,600 graduates are invited to
participate in UM's 111th Commencement
ceremonies Saturday, May 10, at the
Adams Center.
The general ceremony for professional schools
and colleges will be held at 9:30 a.m. The
general ceremony for the College of Arts and
Sciences and the College of Technology will
begin at 2 p.m. After each ceremony, students
will disperse to various campus locations for
individual awarding of diplomas. U.S. Deputy
Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt is
this year's Commencement speaker.
Commencement weekend gets under way Friday,
May 9, with class reunions, campuswide open
houses and special receptions for graduates
and their families. The Outstanding Senior
Recognition Awards Ceremony will be held at 1
p.m. Friday in the University Theatre.
On Saturday, President George Dennison will
host a free continental breakfast for
graduates and their families from 7:30 to
8:30 a.m. in the University Center Atrium.
The annual Commencement brunch, a no-host
buffet, will begin at 11 a.m. in the
University Center Copper Commons.
Reservations for the brunch can be made by
calling UC Catering at 406-243-4899.
All degree candidates participating in the
Saturday morning Commencement ceremony must
line up at 8:30 a.m. on the UM Oval for a
procession to the Adams Center. Those
participating in the afternoon ceremony
should line up on the Oval at 1 p.m. In case
of rain, candidates should meet at the
auxiliary gymnasiums at the south end of the
Adams Center.
Commencement weekend concludes with the ROTC
Commissioning at 6 p.m. Saturday outside
Schreiber Gymnasium.
Graduation Information
|
|
|
|
|
UM Hires New EO/AA Director
Lucy France, a 1993 graduate of the
UM School of Law, will
begin her duties as the new director of the
University's Equal Opportunity and
Affirmative Action
Office this month.
France was selected for the position after a
national search brought four outstanding
finalists to campus. Since 1995, she has been
a partner at the Missoula law firm
Garlington, Lohn & Robinson, where her
practice focus is employment and
discrimination law.
As director, France will oversee planning,
development, coordination, implementation,
interpretation and monitoring of the
University's equal opportunity and
affirmative action policies, publications and
programs.
UM Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Office
|
|
|
|
|
UM Chef Wins Silver At Culinary Competition
Chef Timothy Hodges of UM Dining Services was
awarded a silver medal at a recent regional
culinary competition.
The 2008 National Association of College and
University Food Services Continental Regional
Culinary Challenge was held April 1 at North
Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The
competition, now in its eighth year, is
sanctioned by the American Culinary Federation.
Each competitor had 75 minutes to produce an
original striped bass entrée and accompanying
side dishes and sauces. Judging criteria
included taste of the finished product,
demonstration of cooking skills and culinary
techniques, and the practice of
organizational skills, including sanitation
principles.
Hodges prepared a blackened striped sea bass
accompanied by carrot sriracha Israeli
couscous, roasted sweet peppers, red onion,
jicama and Meyer lemon aioli. He scored 32
out of a possible 40 points, qualifying for a
silver medal. He placed third, coming in
behind two other competitors who also won
silver medals. None of the chefs in the
competition received enough points to receive
a gold medal.
|
|
|
|
|
Museum Shows Major Modernist Works
"The Poindexter Collection," an exhibition of
American modernist artworks on loan from the
Montana Historical Society, will be at the
Montana Museum of Art & Culture at UM May
6-Aug. 16. The exhibition will be
in the museum's Meloy and Paxson galleries,
located in UM's Performing Arts and
Radio/Television Center.
Everton Gentry "George" Poindexter was a
Montana native, a UM alumnus (1918-20) and a
New York commodities broker. He and his wife,
Elinor, an art dealer, amassed nearly 500
artworks by some of America's most important
post war-era painters, including Willem De
Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Franz Kline, Richard
Diebenkorn, Jackson Pollock and Robert de Niro
Sr. The collection represents two major
painting characteristics of the New York
School: Abstract Expressionism, also called
action painting, and Color Field painting.
A free public lecture titled "Abstract
Expressionism-Innovations and Traditions"
will be presented by MMAC Curator Manuela
Well-Off-Man at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, in
the museum's Meloy Gallery.
MMAC summer gallery hours from May to August
are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through
Saturday. Admission is free, and parking is
available near the northwest corner of the
PAR/TV Center.
For more information, call 406-243-2019 or go
to the museum's Web site.
Montana Museum of Art & Culture
|
|
|
|
|
UM Relay For Life Raises More Than $40,000
Forty teams raised more than $40,000 to fight
cancer last weekend at the annual University
of Montana American Cancer Society Relay for
Life.
Hundreds of participants braved rain, sleet,
snow and cold temperatures as they walked
laps around the Oval from 6 p.m. Friday,
April 25, until 6 a.m. Saturday.
"If you wanted to see the very definition of
the word 'commitment,' all you had to do was
come out and watch the teams walking the Oval
at 2 a.m. with hats, gloves and winter
coats," said Katie Murphy, American Cancer
Society community relationship manager.
The teams raised funds to help the American
Cancer Society fight cancer. The UM
Panhellenic community -- including Kappa
Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Delta Gamma
and Alpha Phi -- raised more than $6,300.
For more information about donating to the UM
Relay for Life, call the Missoula office of
the American Cancer Society at 406-728-1004.
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzly Football Players Drafted by NFL
Two of the best football players in UM
history were chosen in last weekend's
National Football League draft.
UM defensive end Kroy Biermann was chosen in
the fifth round by the Atlanta Falcons, while
running back Lex Hilliard was taken in the
sixth round by the Miami Dolphins.
Biermann, a 6-3, 240-pounder from Hardin was
the winner of the 2007 Buck Buchanan Award.
The award is given annually by the
Sports Network
to the top defensive player in the Division I
Football Championship Subdivision.
Career-wise Biermann is ranked second in
Montana history with 33 sacks and 45 tackles
for loss in 52 career games. He participated
in the 62nd Annual Hula Bowl in Honolulu and
was the Big Sky Conference MVP. He led the
conference
with 15 sacks, which ranked him second in the
nation (1.25 sacks a game). He was named a
first team All-American by the Sports
Network, American Football Coaches
Association, Walter Camp and the Associated
Press.
A 6-foot, 240-pounder from Kalispell, Hilliard
is UM's all-time leader in rushing touchdowns
(50) and total touchdowns (52). He's second
in school history with 4,018 career rushing
yards. He had 18 100-yard rushing games in 49
career contests. In 2007, Hilliard rushed
for 1,134 yards and 16 touchdowns and was
UM's Steve Carlson Award (team MVP) winner
and the co-recipient of Montana's Terry
Dillon Award. He also served as one of UM's
four season-long captains for the second year
in a row.
Griz Football
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzly Athlete Hammers Out Record
The UM Open, held at Dornblaser Field
last Saturday, featured a new school record
in the
women's hammer throw, 10 new Big Sky
Conference qualifiers and 21 individual event
winners for the Grizzly outdoor track and
field teams. The meet included partial teams
from Montana and Montana State, as well as
athletes from MSU-Billings, Carroll College
and Great
Falls.
Senior Stephanie Bortz provided one of the
afternoon's highlights, winning the hammer
with a record-breaking throw of 168-5. The
mark broke Jessica Falcon's 2006 school
record of 165-10.
Of the 10 new Big Sky-qualifying
performances, freshman Jennifer Walter
produced two, winning and qualifying in both
the 100 meters (12.42) and 400-meter hurdles
(1:04.49). Montana will face Montana State
this Saturday in Bozeman in the annual
Griz-Cat Dual. The regular season wraps up
Friday, May 9, at Dornblaser Field with the
Tom Gage Classic.
Griz Track and Field
|
|
|
|
UM
Home