IN VISION:
Letter from the Publisher T.
Lloyd Chesnut discusses UM's research accomplishments
Priming the Pump UM research and development help fuel Montana's economy
Related: UM Research and the Economy
When Gardening Really Is Rocket Science NASA satellite uses UM-designed software to monitor Earth and its oceans
Related: UM Satellite Study Shows Increased Plant Growth
Helping Hospitals Multistate partnership works to improve quality of health care in rural communities
Leading Information New undergraduate degree program merges clinical health care and information technology
Excellence on the Air Montana Public Radio and PBS bring award-winning programs to Big Sky Country
Core of Discovery UM focuses on Lewis and Clark
Animal Advocate Veterinarian monitors quality of animal research at UM
Breathing Easier Professor's program puts UM at the forefront of research on asbestos-related diseases
Keep Tobacco Sacred Tobacco-abuse prevention project brings culturally relevant message to state's American Indian reservation schools
Hot Topic Mansfield Pacific Retreat draws international VIPs to discuss climate change
Cool Idea College of Technology paves way for hydrogen energy revolution
DEPARTMENTS:
Profile UM junior Amanda Ng explores
B. burgdorferi
News to Use Exercise expert encourages public health awareness
A Closer Look Briefs
Back Talk UM researcher earns highest U.S. honor for young scientists
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Doing
Business in Turbulent Times
A forum sponsored by UM’s School of Business Administration and
the Montana World Trade Center in June helped teach business leaders
how to steer their companies through uncertain economic times.
The forum, “Managing Money in Turbulent Times,” featured leading corporate executives from Microsoft and Charles Schwab.
“We put together this forum to help managers, owners, entrepreneurs, board members – anyone involved in leading a small or large business – not only survive but thrive during turbulent times,” MWTC executive director Arnie Sherman says.
The intensive course offered participants practical techniques to help businesses stay flexible in front of a changing economy.
Examining
Asbestos-related Diseases
Environmental Health Sciences at UM sponsored a summer conference to
present cutting-edge research on all aspects of asbestos-related diseases.
The conference, “New Directions and Needs in Asbestos Research,”
featured national and international asbestos experts, as well as the
work of UM scientists.
The conference began with an overview of asbestos-related health and epidemiologic issues that stem from investigations of exposure in Libby, where asbestos-bearing vermiculite was mined from 1923 until 1990. Presenters and panel members explored the mechanisms of disease development and the use of genomic approaches in asbestos research.
Ken Olden, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, gave the keynote address.
UM
Hosts Summer Research Lectures
The NSF-EPSCOR Summer Research Lecture Series debuted with five world-class
speakers: Missoula attorney William Rossbach discussing “Science
in the Courtroom”; Bozeman paleontologist Frankie Jackson, talking
about “Dinosaur Eggs and Embryos from Argentina”; Andrea
Stierle, a Montana Tech researcher, exploring “A Cancer Cure That
Grows in Trees and Other Fungal Stuff”; UM microbial ecologist
Mary Poss, lecturing on “Pathogens and Predators: The Evolution
and Biology of Retroviral Infections”; and Professor Janne Cannon,
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discussing “Women
and Minorities in the Sciences.”
The lecture series was organized by UM’s National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, funded by NSF to improve the science and technology infrastructure in Montana.
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| Vision 2001 picked up a handful of awards. |
Kudos
to Us
Believe it or not, you are holding an award-winning publication in your
hands. Vision 2001 was honored with a national Silver award in the external
publications category of The Admissions and Marketing Advertising Awards
competition. We’re especially proud because this magazine is produced
completely in-house and it triumphed over publications done for other
universities by external public relations and marketing firms at a much
greater cost.
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| Doug Emlen |
Both Vision and Research View are produced by graphic designer Mike Egeler, photographer Todd Goodrich and the writing and editing team of Rita Munzenrider, Patia Stephens, Brenda Day and Cary Shimek.
Stephens also took home a Bronze CASE award for her Web version of Vision 2001, and Shimek won another Bronze for a story he penned titled “Beetle Battles: The Strange World of Horned Combatants,” which appeared in the spring 2001 Research View. The story described the groundbreaking work being done with beetles by UM evolutionary biologist Doug Emlen (see related story). V