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Think Grizzly, It's Friday | March 23, 2012 | Vol. 18 No. 10 | www.umt.edu
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Welcome to TGIF News. This newsletter is provided weekly, except during the summer and scheduled academic breaks, to subscribers who include students, alumni, employees and friends of UM.
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Global Leadership Initiative Kicks Off at UM
A slate of high-profile experts with extensive knowledge in antiterrorism policy, international human rights, foreign language education, international business and more will be on the UM campus next week as part of the official kickoff of the University's Global Leadership Initiative.
UM will host several panel discussions and presentations Monday and Tuesday, March 26-27, to celebrate the inaugural class of GLI Fellows. The unique initiative, spearheaded by a faculty committee co-chaired by UM Associate Provost Arlene Walker-Andrews and sociology Professor Daisy Rooks, aims to help the 200 students who begin the program each year to become engaged, articulate global citizens. It's the first university program of its kind in Montana. Read more
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Education Expert to Give Keynote Address During International Week
International Programs and other UM departments will host several events in honor of International Week, March 25-30. Events will feature a keynote address and presentation by Andre Lewis, deputy assistant secretary for International and Foreign Language Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Read more
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Sexual Assault Report from President Engstrom
This report has two purposes: to bring to a close the Special Investigation surrounding sexual
assaults that have occurred over approximately the last one and one half years; and to
articulate campus changes in education, policy and protocol regarding sexual assault. Read more
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UM Honored with Two Civic Engagement Awards
UM recently received two prominent civic engagement awards. The Corporation for National and Community Service honored UM with a place on the 2012 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, and Campus Compact awarded a UM student with the Newman Civic Fellows award. Read more
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MMAC Hosts Lecture on 'Curiosity' Exhibition
Sharlot Battin, a Metropolitan Opera and Broadway shoe designer in New York City, will present "Steppin' Out: The Shoemaker's Art" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in the Masquer Theatre in UM's Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Montana Museum of Art & Culture in conjunction with "Curiosity: Selections from the Permanent Collection." Read more
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Live Radio Program Focuses on Sex Assault
Students in the Advanced Audio course in the UM School of Journalism will host the second of three live radio programs on sexual assault at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 29. Read more
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SpectrUM Exhibit Heads to Victor
UM's spectrUM Discovery Area will bring its popular "The Brain: A World Inside Your Head" exhibition to Victor next week. Read more
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Writer, Band Team Up for Performance
Noted writer and environmentalist Rick Bass will join art-folk band Stellarondo for "An Evening of Songs and Scored Stories" on Wednesday, April 11, at UM. Read more
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Coronation Planned for Miss Rodeo Montana
UM student Mariah Rys-Sikora will formally accept her title as Miss Rodeo Montana during a coronation ball on Saturday, March 24, in Missoula. Read more
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Football Team Begins Spring Drills
UM held its second practice session of the 2012 spring drills March 21 in Washington-Grizzly Stadium, and head football coach Robin Pflugrad was pleased with the clip in which his players approached their individual drills and their overall focus. Read more
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Tinkle Named Coach of the Year
Sixth-year UM head basketball coach Wayne Tinkle was named the 2012 NABC Division I All-District 6 Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches on March 21. He was selected by his peers. Read more
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Men's Tennis Falls to University of Portland
The Grizzly men's tennis team dropped a hard-fought, 5-2 match to the University of Portland at the Louisiana-Pacific Tennis Center in Portland, Ore., on March 18. The Pilots (10-2) have won three straight matches while Montana (5-4, 1-0 BSC) won their first match of the weekend over Portland State on March 17. Read more
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Thanks for reading TGIF!
Jennifer Sauer, TGIF editor
University Relations at The University of Montana
jennifer.sauer@umontana.edu
406-243-4878
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