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"The President's Update," a video series for UM President Royce Engstrom to communicate with the campus community, is available on the President's Office website and on the official UM YouTube channel.
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Renowned Sculptor Visits UM April 11
Sculptor Judy Pfaff will present a lecture at UM at 6:10 p.m. Monday, April 11, in Social Science Building Room 356. The event, sponsored by the UM School of Art and the Jim and Jane Dew Visiting Artist Program, is free and open to the public.
With a stellar career spanning more than 30 years, Pfaff is widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent installation artists of our time. She is known for her lyrical and energetic manipulations of surprising materials, taking over gallery and alternative spaces for months at a time.
Pfaff is a professor of art and co-chair of the Department of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. She has received numerous awards for her sculpture, installation, prints and drawings, including a United States Artists Fellowship, a Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship and two National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships.
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Event Explores Politics of Sustainability
William Shutkin, a global leader in sustainability and social entrepreneurship, will present the second event of the spring series of the UM Natural Resources and Environmental Policy Forum.
Shutkin, who is executive director of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, will present "Collapse, Collective Action, Conundrum: Pursuing Sustainable Communities in the Age of Ideology" at noon Thursday, March 31, in the UM School of Law Castles Center. The series is free and open to the public.
The forums are convened by the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in cooperation with the UM College of Forestry and Conservation, School of Law, Bolle Center for People and Forests, Resource Conservation Program, Department of Geography, Environmental Studies Program and the Indian Land Tenure Foundation.
The final event in the spring series, "Who's in Charge of Montana's Water and Land Management?" presented by Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Director Mary Sexton, will take place April 14. For more information, email Sarah Bates at sarah@cnrep.org.
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UM Educator Holds Book Signing
UM Assistant Professor Tobin Miller Shearer will read from and sign copies of his new book, "Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries," from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 1, at Fact & Fiction, located at 220 N. Higgins Ave. in Missoula. The event is free and open to the public.
"Daily Demonstrators," based on oral history interviews, photographs, letters, minutes, diaries and journals of white and African-American Mennonites, is the first book to bring together Mennonite religious history and civil rights movement history.
The Mennonites, with their long tradition of peaceful protest and commitment to equality, were castigated by Martin Luther King Jr. for not showing up on the streets to support the civil rights movement, said Shearer, who coordinates UM's African-American Studies Program. In the book he shows how the civil rights movement played out in Mennonite homes and churches from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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Expressions of Silence at UM March 31
Expressions of Silence, a student performance group from the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind, will present a variety of songs using sign language and dance on Thursday, March 31, at UM. Free and open to the public, the performance begins at 2 p.m. in UM's Music Recital Hall.
The students have performed for the Montana Legislature, the Montana Council for Exceptional Children, the Great Falls Symphonic Choir and several service organizations. They have traveled to perform for the National Association for Music Education and with the famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Oak Ridge Boys.
In an effort to promote a sense of humanity and goodwill to all individuals, regardless of their disability, the song "Love in Any Language" has become the motto of the group.
The Montana School for the Deaf and Blind provides comprehensive educational opportunities for deaf, hard of hearing, blind and visually impaired children, giving them their best chance for independence and success.
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Time to Make CHOICES
Online enrollment materials and instructions for 2011-12 CHOICES will be sent through campus mail by April 8. The first day of online open enrollment is Monday, April 11. The last day for online open enrollment is Wednesday, May 18. Signed signature pages are due to Human Resource Services, Lommason Center Room 252, by 5 p.m. Friday, May 27.
Human Resource Services will present informational events about plan changes effective July 1, 2011, in the University Center Theater on the following dates and times:
- Monday, March 28: noon-1 p.m. and 4:30-5:30 p.m.
- Wednesday, March 30: 11 a.m.-noon and 1-2 p.m.
- Thursday, March 31: 1-2 p.m. and 2:30-3:30 p.m.
- Monday, April 18: 10-11 a.m. and 5-6 p.m.
- Thursday, April 28: 11 a.m.-noon and 1-2 p.m.
- Friday, April 29: noon-1 p.m. and 2-3 p.m.
On Monday, April 25, Cindy Millard, MUS benefits representative, will present information in the University Center Theater for:
- Retirees: noon-1 p.m.
- Retirees (New West Medicare Advantage Plan): 1-2 p.m.
- Active employees: 2-3 p.m.
Walk-in open enrollment online assistance will take place from noon to 4 p.m. April 18-22, May 2-6 and May 9-13 and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 16-18 in Liberal Arts Building Room 139.
The HRS Benefits Fair from noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, in the third-floor grand foyer of the University Center offers a chance to talk to representatives from the MUS insurance providers, the employee assistance program, the flex plan, and retirement and supplemental retirement plans.
A complete schedule of events is posted on the HRS website.
Human Resource Services
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News About U
 Curriculum and instruction Associate Professor Martin Horejsi will represent NASA's Solar System Education Program March 28-31 during space activities at schools in Cheyenne, Wyo. Horejsi designed several of the highlighted activities chosen for the event, which allows scientists and science educators to take elementary, middle and high school students through NASA's mission specific educational activities.
Ecosystem and conservation sciences Professor Diana Six presented an invited talk titled "Climate, Forests & Insects: From Montana White Pine to South African Euphorbia" at the Forests at Risk Symposium held Feb. 18 in Aspen, Colo. The symposium was the first of its kind focusing entirely on how climate change is specifically affecting the health of forests through alterations in disturbances due to insects and wildfire. The event included an hourlong keynote speech by former Vice President Al Gore.
Education and human services Director of Field Experiences Nancy Marra gave a presentation on co-teaching models during clinical experiences March 15 at the Montana Association of School Superintendents annual conference in Helena.
Forestry and conservation Associate Research Professor Carl Seielstad and CFC graduate students Eric Rowell and Casey Teske spent two weeks in western Florida in February working collaboratively with Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory scientists Bret Butler and Dan Jimenez, the U.S. Forest Service, several other universities and the Department of Defense to measure fuels, heat transfer and weather on large prescribed fires at Elgin Air Force Base. The research teams are part of the Wildland Fire Science Partnership, which aims to work together to improve the management of wildland fire by integrating science, technology, education and practical experience. The measurements will be used by UM and Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory scientists to develop integrated validation datasets for fire models and to scale findings from small plots to larger fires.
Modern and classical languages and literatures Professor Liz Ametsbichler, who serves as the adviser of the UM Fulbright Program for students, attended a study tour through the National Association of Fellowship Advisors in Germany in January to learn more about study and scholarship opportunities for students at German institutions. The NAFA group visited universities in Berlin, Aachen, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and Munich and visited with the Fulbright Commission in Berlin and with DAAD, a German academic exchange service, in Bonn.
Undergraduate Advising Center professional advisers Shannon Janssen and Brian French received honorable mention at the National Academic Advising Association Region 8 Conference in Calgary, Alberta, for a second-place win in the Best of Region competition with their presentation titled "Advising 3.0: Utilizing Social Media to Meet Students Where They Are."
Candy Holt, who retired in December as University Center director, received an Emeritus Award from the Association of College Unions International at their Community Builders Awards Ceremony, held this month. ACUI is the professional association for people who have made student union and student activities their life's work. Established in 1994, the Emeritus Award recognizes college union and student activities professionals who have done outstanding work on their campuses and within the profession.
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Publications
 Crabtree, Robert and Diana Six (co-authors). 2011. "An Ecosystem-scale Model for the Spread of a Host-specific Forest Pathogen in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem." Ecological Applications, Doi:10.1890/09-2118.1.
Krausman, P.R. (co-author). 2011. Cumulative Effects in Wildlife Management: Impact Mitigation. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
McKusick, James C. 2010. Review of Harriet Ritvo, The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2009). Wordsworth Circle, 41:268-269.
Merkle, J.A., J.J. Derbridge, and P.R. Krausman. 2011. "Using Stable Isotope Analysis to Quantify Anthropogenic Foraging in Black Bears." Human-Wildlife Interactions, 5:159-167.
Saldin, Robert P. 2011. "William McKinley and the Rhetorical Presidency." Presidential Studies Quarterly 41(1):119-134.
Shearer, Tobin Miller. 2011. "Whitening Conflicts: White Racial Identity Formation within Mennonite Central Committee, 1960-1985," in A Table of Sharing (Scottdale, PA: Cascadia Press), pp. 215-238.
Six, Diana L. (co-author). 2010. "Fungal Phoenix Rising from the Ashes?" IMA Fungus, 1:149-153.
Six, Diana L. (co-author). 2011. "The Role of Phytopathogenicity in Bark Beetle-Fungus Symbiosis: A Challenge to the Classic Paradigm." Annual Review of Entomology, 56:255-272.
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