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UM is proud to present Under the M, a website about and for UM employees. It's designed to complement the weekly e-newsletter reaching more than 3,000 Grizzly employees.
MUS Benefits Plan Enrollment - More Changes on the Horizon
The MUS insurance plan is changing again this year. Insurance premiums and other costs are increasing. Learn more about the changes.
If you don't make any changes, your plan from this year will automatically renew next year (except for Flexible Spending Account selections.)
Grizzlies are Curious and Wise...
Working at UM, we can access the knowledge creation, creativity and exchange of ideas happening all over campus first-hand, by attending talks and presentations taking place almost daily.
This list will be updated each week as new information becomes available. Use the Under the M submission form to share details about an upcoming event here.
April-May 2026
When |
Where |
Title |
Presenter |
Host |
Link |
| 2-3 p.m. May 2 | CHCB 131 |
MS Thesis Defense: Mammal Community Responses to Human Disturbance andEurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) Density in the Romanian Carpathians Sheep |
Andrei Dinu, MS student |
Wildlife Biology | Teams link |
| 12-1 p.m. May 1 | GBB 119 |
The Network Predictors of Organizational Change Agents |
Wookje Sung, UM Dept. of Management and Marketing |
College of Business | |
| 4-5 p.m. April 28 | FOR 106 | Saving the Big Sky: A Chronicle of Land Conservation in Montana | Saving the Big Sky Project | Society and Conservation | |
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1-2 p.m. April 24 |
CHCB 131 | MS Thesis Defense: Social Identity and Wildlife: A Literature Review and Experimental Test of Identity Threat and Conspiracy Beliefs | Brianna Lipp, MS student | Wildlife Biology | Teams link |
| 4-5 p.m. April 21 | FOR 106 | Changing behavior to avoid wildfire smoke exposure | Katrina Mullan, UM Dept. of Economics | Society and Conservation | |
| 3-4 p.m. April 20 | MATH 103 | The Tangle Hypothesis | David Ayala, Montana State University | Mathematical Sciences | More info |
| 1-2 p.m. April 17 | CHCB 131 | Beavers from space: leveraging remote sense data to assess beaver impacts in prairie streams | Matt Webster, PhD student | Wildlife Biology | Teams link |
| 2-3 p.m. | CHCB 131 |
Linking host, pathogen and environment: A multi-model framework for white-nose syndrome defense in hibernating bats |
Maddy Guimond, Master's student | Wildlife Biology | Teams link |
| 4-5 p.m. April 15 | ISB 110 | Evolutionary rescue during climate extremes | Amy Angert, University of British Columbia | Ecology and Evolution |