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Think Grizzly, It's Friday | Oct. 19, 2012 | Vol. 19 No. 9 | 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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Event to Spotlight UM Research Efforts
UM brims with researchers trying to advance human knowledge and puzzle out the mysteries presented to us by the natural world.
To highlight some of the great science being conducted here in western Montana, the University will host a first-ever "UM Research Spotlight" from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, in the University Center Theater. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a social.
"We are trying a novel approach with this presentation," said David Forbes, UM's interim vice president for research and creative scholarship. "The researchers on our panels will each show a few slides, with everyone commenting on what's presented. We'll do it in a way that's understandable and accessible to everyone, and we hope to get interaction with the audience." Read more
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Biological Station to Receive First Proceeds from Map Fundraiser
 Missoula-based Xplorer Maps will present UM's Flathead Lake Biological Station and the Flathead Lakers with the first installment of fundraising proceeds from sales of its antique-style map of Flathead Lake at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the FLBS.
The company has sold about half of the 300 signed, limited-edition prints of the map, which was released over the summer to raise money and awareness for continued monitoring, research and protection of Flathead Lake.
Greg Robitaille, co-owner of Xplorer Maps, will present a check in support of programs run by the station and the Lakers. The FLBS will use its portion of the donation as a matching contribution to the ongoing Flathead Lake Monitoring Challenge Grant. Xplorer Maps agreed to donate $20,000 of the revenue generated by the map to the FLBS and the Lakers. Read more
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Sprunk Family Creates Scholarship for College
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Front row, left to right: Rochelle Sprunk, Rachel Sprunk
Smith, Greg Sprunk. Back Row: Eric Sprunk.
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Three children of Missoula businesswoman Rachel Sprunk Smith are honoring their mother through the creation of a sizable scholarship for students in UM's College of Visual and Performing Arts.
The Rachel Sprunk Smith Scholarship will provide $4,000 scholarships each year to two students in the college. Smith's children, Eric Sprunk of Portland, Ore.; Greg Sprunk of Phoenix; and Rochelle Sprunk of Vancouver, Wash. worked with the UM Foundation to set up the fund.
"We are deeply grateful for the wonderful commitment and support of Rachel Sprunk Smith and her family," said Stephen Kalm, dean of UM College of Visual and Performing Arts. "This gift will positively impact the lives of many students." Read more
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UM Announces VP for Research and Creative Scholarship Finalists
After a nationwide search, The University of Montana will conduct campus interviews and public forums with four finalists for the position of vice president for research and creative scholarship.
The four finalists are Richard Billo, associate vice president for research at the University of Texas at Arlington; Scott Whittenburg, vice president for research and economic development at the University of New Orleans; James Petell, associate vice president for intellectual property management and commercialization and executive director of the University of Rhode Island Research Foundation at URI; and Patrick Pellicane, vice provost for research and dean of the graduate school at the University of Arkansas. Read more
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Public Invited to Seventh Annual Day of Dialogue
UM's seventh annual Day of Dialogue will be Thursday, Oct. 25. The Day of Dialogue is a campuswide series of events focused on diversity topics. Students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members discuss, present, perform and exhibit art throughout the day. Read more
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UM Hosts Fellows from Southeast Asia
The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at UM is hosting 10 women who are emerging leaders from Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos Oct. 4 through Nov. 11 as part of the U.S. Department of State's Professional Fellows Program. Read more
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Annual Costume Closeout Sale Oct. 23-24
With Halloween approaching, the UM School of Theatre & Dance will once again hold its Costume Closeout Sale from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 23-24, at the southwest entrance to the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center. Read more
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Award Will Fund Victim Advocate Training
The Institute for Educational Research and Service at UM has received a $195,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Victims of Crime to develop a training academy for volunteers across Montana who assist victims. Read more
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Anthropology Students Host Halloween Event
The Montana Anthropology Student Association at UM will host a Halloween Banquet at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at the DoubleTree Edgewater Hotel Ballroom, located at 100 Madison St. Read more
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Seeley Lake Students Study Local Forest
The Southwestern Crown of the Continent Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program monitoring committee will host a discovery day with Seeley-Swan High School on Tuesday, Oct. 30, on U.S. Forest Service land just outside Seeley Lake. Read more
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Environmental Scholar to Lecture at UM
Dennis Ojima will deliver the lecture "Emerging Challenges for Natural Resource Management under Changing Climate" for the Montana Institute on Ecosystems Distinguished Speaker Series at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, in Interdisciplinary Science Building Room 110. Read more
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Program Receives $2 Million Grant For Bird Research in Asia
 Tom Martin believes his upcoming research on two superfamilies of birds in southeast Asia will have a major impact on science's understanding of how species form, how physiology may influence longevity and the implications of climate change on their development and survival.
The National Science Foundation sees potential in the research, too, because the Montana Wildlife Cooperative Research Unit senior scientist and UM professor, together with four other scientists, recently received a $2 million grant from the organization to pursue the study.
Martin leads the study titled "Dimensions: Collaborative Research - Historical And Contemporary Influences on Elevational Distributions and Biodiversity Tested in Tropic Asia" with partners from the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Kansas and Louisiana State University. A large sum of the NSF grant, $1.3 million, will come to UM for the study, and Martin will lead a group of student researchers to the tropical island Borneo to study birds in the Sylvoidea and Muscicapidae families. Read more
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Annual Pianissimo! Concerts Slated for Oct. 26-27
The UM School of Music will present the fifth annual Pianissimo! concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26-27, in the UM Music Recital Hall. The dynamic event will feature a wide variety of music and styles for a total of eight pianos on the recital hall stage.
UM faculty, community favorites and students will perform. The School of Music's new Steinway & Sons concert grand piano, purchased with funds raised from past Pianissimo! concerts, will be inaugurated and prominently featured in the performances.
Tickets cost $20 for adults and seniors and $10 for students. They are available for purchase online, by calling the UM Arts Box Office at 406-243-4581 or at the door before the concerts. A reception hosted by Liquid Planet will follow the performances in the foyer of the Music Recital Hall.
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Men's Tennis Heads to
ITA Mountain Regionals
The Grizzlies tennis team will wrap up its fall season Oct. 17-20 in the ITA Mountain Regionals in Las Vegas. Read more
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Women's Golf Takes Eighth
at Wyoming Tournament
Following disappointment, the team will close its season Oct. 22-23 at the Memphis Fall Invitational. Read more
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Men's Cross Country Solid
at Inland Empire Classic
The men finished third with their best season performance and the UM women came in sixth. Read more
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Griz Suffer Difficult 30-20 Loss Against SUU Thunderbirds
 The Southern Utah Thunderbirds handed the Grizzlies another disappointing loss in front of a home crowd of 25,684 Oct. 13 in Washington-Grizzly Stadium, beating the Griz 30-20. Read more
This week the Grizzlies are on the road to play new Big Sky Conference member North Dakota in Grand Forks, N.D. Kickoff is at 1:40 p.m., and the game will be televised by ROOT Sports. Read more
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Griz Soccer Team Stays on Roll, Blanks Eagles 4-0
The Montana soccer team won its third straight match with a 4-0 victory over Eastern Washington Friday, Oct. 12, at Cheney, Wash. Senior Erin Craig had a pair of goals and assisted on another. The team is tied atop the Big Sky with Portland State (6-7-2, 4-2-1 BSC). Read more
The Montana soccer team will play its final Big Sky Conference matches this week when it travels to Southern Utah and Northern Arizona. The Grizzlies will face the Thunderbirds Friday at 3 p.m. in Cedar City, Utah, and the Lumberjacks Sunday at noon in Flagstaff, Ariz. Read more
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 Volleyball Team Stuns Bobcats in Bozeman
Beaten badly in the first two sets, the Montana volleyball team rose up and rallied for a five-set win at Montana State on Monday, Oct. 15, to give the Grizzlies their first two-match winning streak of the season and their seventh straight win over the Bobcats in Bozeman. Read more
Montana will host North Dakota (10-11, 5-5 BSC) at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, and Northern Colorado (14-5, 7-3 BSC) at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, in the West Auxiliary Gym. The Grizzlies lost to UND earlier this season in straight sets and to the Bears in four sets.
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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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