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Think Grizzly, It's Friday | May 4, 2012 | Vol. 18 No. 15 | 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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Entertainment Management Students Present Festival on Oval May 4
UM's Entertainment Management Program will host the 10th annual Festival on the Oval from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 4. The event serves as the finale for the program's semester-long Spring Thaw series.
The festival, which is free and open to the public, will feature entertainment, including a chance to soak UM instructors and students in a dunk tank from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., a giant game of musical chairs, a mini-golf course, sumo wrestling, a rock climbing wall and more. Read more
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Philanthropist to Speak at Law Graduation
Bill Neukom, an attorney who served as Microsoft's chief legal officer for 25 years and founded the World Justice Project, will speak at UM's School of Law graduation and hooding ceremony this month.The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 19. Read more
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Faculty Members Recognized for Excellence
Two UM faculty members, Leora Bar-el and Robert Greene, received the Cox Award for Teaching Excellence. Bar-el is an assistant professor of linguistics in the anthropology department. Greene is an associate professor in the history department. Read more
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Lecture Explores Ice Patch Archaeology
The Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, a part of UM's College of Forestry and Conservation, will host a discussion and video presentation about the impacts of climate change on the archaeology of ice patches in high-elevation areas. Read more
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Annual Business Plan Competition May 10
The UM School of Business Administration will showcase the entrepreneurial aspirations of students across the state when it hosts the 23rd Annual John Ruffatto Business Plan Competition on Thursday, May 10, in the Gallagher Business Building. Read more
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J-School Awards Record Amount in Scholarships
The UM School of Journalism gave students a total of $139,000 in scholarships and awards at the 2012 Dean Stone Awards Banquet on April 20. The total was a record amount, Dean Peggy Kuhr said. Read more
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UM Honors Educators, Scholarship Recipients
Montana educators and community partners were honored at a reception hosted April 27 by UM's Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences. Read more |
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Journalism Students Take First in National Competition
Three School of Journalism students at UM have been named national winners and one a national finalist in the annual Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Awards. Read more
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New Beekeeping Course at UM Creating a Buzz
The School of Extended & Lifelong Learning at UM is creating a buzz with its new apprentice-level beekeeping course.
The first in a series of SELL courses in a full-certificate beekeeping program that ranges from beginner to intermediate and master levels, the apprentice-level course will run from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from May 21 to June 11 at Fort Missoula. Read more
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UM Research Suggests Largest 1 Percent of Trees Dominate Forest Biomass
Big trees 3 or more feet in diameter accounted for nearly half the biomass measured at a Yosemite National Park study site, yet represented only 1 percent of the trees growing there. Andrew Larson, a University of Montana assistant professor of forest ecology, is part of the research team reporting this new finding.
"These trees are the elites of the forest," Larson said. "Just a few individual trees per acre, especially sugar pines, store a disproportionately large amount of the carbon in this forest." Read more
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Men's, Women's Tennis Coaches Named Conference Best
Montana men's tennis coach Kris Nord and women's tennis coach Steve Ascher swept the 2012 Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year awards, the league office announced April 27. It marks the first time since 1997 that a league school other than Sacramento State swept both awards. Read more
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Bobcats Edge Grizzlies at Track and Field Dual
If Montana could have competed with a combined team of its women's track and men's field athletes it would have been a tight showdown, but Montana State University used its depth across all 18 events to handily sweep the Griz-Cat Duals held April 28 on a blustery and snowy day in Bozeman. 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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