The second installment of the President’s Lecture Series at UM delves into the colorful life and history of copper king and Montana U.S. Senator William Andrews Clark (1839-1925).

Ambassador Andre Baeyens will present “From Copper to Corots: The Two Lives of William Andrews Clark, Senator of Montana” at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, in the University Theatre.

Earlier that day, Baeyens will present a seminar, “Franco-American Relations: Past and Present,” from 3:10 to 4:30 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room 123.

Both events, held in collaboration with the O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West, are free and open to the public.

Clark was elected senator of the state of Montana at the beginning of the 20th century. His successful pursuit of wealth, especially in copper mines at Butte and in Jerome, Ariz., was not out of the ordinary in those freewheeling days, Baeyens said. But Clark was unique in his devotion to the finer things in life: his great art collection, his monumental house in Manhattan, N.Y., and his abiding love of France and its culture.

Christine Boese, a writer for CNN Headline News and a blogging pioneer, will present a free, public lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, in the University Center Theater.

Her lecture is titled “Big Media and Little Bloggers: How Corporate Media Responded to War-Blogging Journalists.” Blogging, for those unfamiliar with the term, is a series of Web postings that can range from hard-hitting news articles to personal diaries, commentary and photography.

Boese is the fifth Distinguished Pollner Professor at UM’s journalism school. A Wisconsin native, she has worked as a newspaper reporter and has taught at universities in Wisconsin, Arkansas, Georgia, New York and South Carolina.

She also keeps more than two dozen blogs -- public and private -- including prominent “warblogs” from the Iraq War for two international freelance journalists who covered the war from Kurdistan in 2003.

This semester Boese is teaching a blogging seminar and working with the student staff of the Kaimin, UM’s campus newspaper.

“Barred and Gagged: Women, Prison and Representation” will be presented at UM from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, in Social Science Building Room 352.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Carol Jacobsen, visiting scholar from the University of Michigan, will present the lecture using documentary film and art as media through which to address censorship and violence against women.

The event offers a unique opportunity to learn about systems of gender inequality and oppression that exist within the criminal justice system and the possibilities for justice-oriented action through scholarship, art and activism.

Jacobsen, an associate professor of art, also chairs the Justice Committee of the Washtenaw County American Civil Liberties Union and coordinates the Michigan Battered Women’s Clemency Project. She exhibits her work throughout the United States and abroad and has lectured widely on the human rights issues of silencing and the censorship of marginalized women.

High school students and their parents can get a glimpse of life and learning at UM during its annual open house to be held from 8:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5.

The event, UM Days, aims to help high school juniors and seniors with their college search. Participants can learn about the University’s academic programs, student life and extracurricular activities, as well as get information about financial aid and career choices.

UM Days also offers the opportunity for participants to meet in small group settings with currently enrolled students to tour the University campus and residence halls.

Interested students and parents can register for UM Days online or by calling (800) 462-8636. For more information and a brochure, e-mail Molly Molloy, UM director of orientation, at mmolloy@mso.umt.edu.

Three recent UM graduates have received Fulbright grants to continue their study and research projects in countries outside the United States this year.

The three students – Ulrike Anderson of Stillwater, Minn., Russell Fielding of Temple Terrace, Fla., and Valerie Kurth of Wausau, Wis. – were selected for the awards on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields.

Anderson received a bachelor’s degree from UM in May. She will study in Germany, where she plans to translate Gabriele Reuter’s “Das Tranenhaus” into English.

Fielding completed his master’s degree at UM this year. He will go to Canada’s Prince Edward Island to study the effects of the Confederation Bridge – which links the island with the mainland – on the island’s tourism industry.

Kurth received her master’s degree at UM in December 2004. She will travel to Sweden to continue her research on boreal forest ecology.

Three UM radio-television students placed as national finalists in the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards.

Stan Pillman, a senior from Chicago, placed in the radio features category for a story on gambling addiction. The story aired on Montana Public Radio. Pillman is this year’s news director at UM-based KBGA College Radio.

Dustin Blanchet of Dutton and Van Redpath of Great Falls received national finalist recognition in the television news photography category for their story on students and gambling that aired on KECI-TV as part of the student-produced “UM News” program. Blanchet and Redpath graduated in May.

Blanchet also received national recognition in the television sports photography category for a “UM News” story he shot on former Griz runner Scott McGowan.

The Montana Historical Society’s nationally acclaimed exhibit “Photographing Montana 1894-1928: The World of Evelyn Cameron” opens Oct. 19 at UM’s Montana Museum of Art and Culture.

The opening takes place from 7 to 7:45 p.m. in the museum’s Paxson Gallery, located in the University’s Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center. Immediately following the opening, a special screening of the one-hour Montana PBS documentary “Evelyn Cameron, Pictures from a Worthy Life” will take place in the Montana Theatre.

The exhibit includes 47 striking photographs reproduced from Cameron’s glass plate nitrate negatives that record the early days on the western frontier and the coming of the homesteaders that changed the face of the land forever. Cameron came to Montana from England in 1889 with her naturalist husband, Ewen, and took up photography in 1894.

The exhibit has been featured in numerous national publications and electronic productions, including Smithsonian magazine and the Charles Kuralt CBS Sunday Morning program.

The Department of Drama/Dance at UM will present “UM Dancers on Location: A Site-Specific Dance Performance” at 1:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 8-9.

During the free performance the audience will begin at the Oval at the center of campus and then walk as a group to seven separate performance sites.

This year’s program features seven pieces, including choreography by drama/dance majors and former students. An improvisational structure directed by UM dance faculty member Nicole Bradley Browning also will be featured.

In addition, dance majors Aubrey Eayrs and Gillian Todd have created a dance with the climbing wall in UM’s Fitness and Recreation Center. Graduate student Emily Potter will perform a haunting solo in the middle room of the Art Annex.

Ann Johnson, a UM dance program graduate from New Orleans, will celebrate that city and honor the victims and survivors of Hurricane Katrina in a piece near the Clark Fork River and the pedestrian footbridge.

Audience members are encouraged to wear their walking shoes and enjoy the beauty of the seasons while taking in this innovative performance.

The Montana Grizzlies football defense forced four turnovers to lead the way as UM defeated the visiting Weber State Wildcats 24-19 last Saturday in a Big Sky Conference game.

A Homecoming crowd of 23,773 watched a seesaw game in which the lead exchanged hands four times and the Griz defense made a crucial stand on the Wildcats' final possession to preserve the victory.

The fourth-ranked Grizzlies continue their 2005 Big Sky Conference schedule this weekend, playing the 25th-ranked Idaho State Bengals Saturday in ISU's Holt Arena. Kickoff is 3:05 p.m. The game can be seen live on KPAX-TV in Missoula and on Montana Television Network stations statewide.

Montana Soccer lost its Big Sky Conference opener 1-0 to Eastern Washington Friday night in Cheney, Wash. Montana recorded a season-high 19 shots in the match, while Eastern Washington managed only nine. Montana was led offensively by junior Lindsay Winans, who tallied a team-best four shots. Junior Lily Coble and freshman Rachael Mayer added three shots apiece.

Sunday afternoon, Washington State University’s goal in the last minute of play gave the Cougars a 2- 1 victory over the Grizzlies in Pullman, Wash. Montana outshot WSU 7-2 in the first half, but the Cougars came back with eight shots to the Grizzlies' one in the second. Sophomore Mahlleace Tomsin and freshman Rachael Mayer led the Griz attack from the midfield position. Tomsin took one shot and scored UM's only goal of the match early in the first half. Mayer tallied four shots, one on goal.

The Grizzlies fall to 2-7-1 on the year.

UM continues its 2005 Big Sky Conference schedule on the road this week with matches at Northern Arizona and Sacramento State. The Grizzlies have a 7 p.m. contest with the Lumberjacks tonight, Oct. 7, at Lumberjack Stadium in Flagstaff, Ariz. Next they square off against the Hornets at 1 p.m. Sunday at Hornet Soccer Field in Sacramento, Calif.

Montana Volleyball dropped a three-game match Friday night at Montana State, falling 24-30, 19-30, 27-30. The game was the Grizzlies' only match of the weekend.

With the loss, Montana dropped to 0-3 in Big Sky Conference play, 10-7 overall. Junior Claudia Houle led Montana with 14 kills.

The team returns home this weekend to host Portland State Friday and Eastern Washington Saturday. Both matches will be at 7 p.m. at UM's West Auxiliary Gym.