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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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Literary Expert Talks about Bible, Romanticism
Stephen Prickett, who has written extensively about the Romantic period and the Bible, will present the final events of the 2010-11 President's Lecture Series at UM.
Prickett will deliver a lecture titled "The King James Bible after Four Hundred Years" at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 28, in the University Center Ballroom. Earlier that day from 3:40 to 5 p.m., he will give a seminar titled "How Many Tongues Did Romanticism Have? A New Multi-Lingual Anthology of European Romanticism" in Gallagher Business Building Room 123.
Both events, presented in conjunction with UM's Davidson Honors College, are free and open to the public. The seminar also is presented in collaboration with UM's Philosophy Forum.
Prickett is Regius Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Glasgow and an honorary professor of the University of Kent at Canterbury. His latest book, "Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition: Backing into the Future," was published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. He is general editor of the new "European Romanticism: A Reader," a multilingual project involving 18 universities in 15 countries that was published by Continuum last year.
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Horizon Air President to Speak at UM
Glenn S. Johnson, president of Horizon Air since June 2010, will be at UM on Thursday, April 28, to deliver the Harold and Priscilla Gilkey Executive Lecture.
Johnson will present "Navigating through Change: Alaska Air Group 2000-2010 and Beyond" from 6 to 7 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room 106. The event is free and open to the public.
Johnson has more than 28 years of experience at Alaska Air Group, including oversight of customer services, finance, strategy, project management, maintenance, engineering, information technology and corporate real estate.
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MMAC Hosts Artist Talk, Reception May 6
The Montana Museum of Art & Culture at UM will present "A Conversation with Barry Hood" at 3 p.m. Friday, May 6, in the Montana Theatre of UM's Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is in conjunction with an MMAC exhibition of Hood's sculptural glass titled "Barry Hood: Flow" on display in the museum's Meloy Gallery through May 21.
A First Friday reception from 4 to 6 p.m. in the PAR/TV Center lobby will follow Hood's talk. Music will be provided by Montana favorite Tom Catmull.
Hood creates cast bas-relief and blown sculptural glass. His characteristic work, with its convoluted, undulating surface, forms as molten glass burns within a wooden mold. The glass begins to consume the wood before cooling into solid cores. Hood's bas-reliefs, on the other hand, use the process of shallow sand casting. He finishes his pieces by generously incorporating a range of evocative materials -- wrought iron, natural found objects and raw pigments -- to comment on ecology and humanity's relationship with the environment.
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MTPR Spring Pledge Week Exceeds Goal
Riding the wave of pledges for cats, dogs, horses, sheep and other pets (including one sourdough starter) in the "Pet Wars" finale April 17, Montana Public Radio raised a record $591,000 during its spring on-air fund drive, exceeding the goal of $550,000.
Supporters made more than 5,700 pledges during the week, which featured on-air celebrations for every thousand dollars raised and unique thank-you gifts offered by listeners and businesses. The "premiums" included chocolate cakes, tofu pies and live goats.
The spring fund drive represents about 50 percent of the total amount the station must raise from listeners and business underwriters in the coming year. Station manager William Marcus said the pledges are a vote of confidence that is especially appreciated during a time when federal funding for public broadcasting is in doubt.
MTPR is a public service of UM and broadcasts from studios in Missoula and through transmitters in Missoula, Kalispell, Helena, Butte, Hamilton and Great Falls.
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Enjoy 'Fuddy Meers' at UM
The UM School of Theatre & Dance will present its final theatrical production for the academic year, "Fuddy Meers," April 26-30 and May 3-7. Performances of the contemporary farce with more than a few twists begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Masquer Theatre of the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center.
When you have amnesia, who can you trust to tell you honestly what you like and don't like? Do you wake up every day starting over from the beginning? And why does your brother's friend have a hand puppet with such colorful language? If you're Claire, the heroine of this quirky comedy about communication, loyalty, and kin, you have to ask yourself these questions and hope to find the answers -- and remember them. Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire takes the audience on a funhouse ride that ends up in some surprising places.
To show appreciation for their long-standing commitment and service to the University, President Engstrom and the School of Theatre & Dance will provide faculty and staff one free ticket to "Fuddy Meers." In addition, a second ticket for a performance may be purchased for $9.
To get faculty/staff tickets, present your Griz Card at the Theatre & Dance Box Office in the PAR/TV Center. Box office hours are 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and one hour before performances.
School of Theatre & Dance
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News About U
 Art Assistant Professor Kevin Bell was elected by the membership of Foundations in Art: Theory and Education to serve on its board of officers as editor of the organization's journal, FATE in Review. FATE is a national association dedicated to the promotion of excellence in the development and teaching of college-level foundation courses in both studio and art history. Bell will oversee the solicitation, guidelines, budgeting, publishing and distribution of the journal, which is annually archived with the Library of Congress. He will serve FATE through the upcoming biennial conference, which will be held spring 2013 in Savannah, Ga.
Mansfield Library Professor Barry Brown gave an invited workshop April 15 on "Finding Science Information" at the University of California, Berkeley. The workshop was for mid-career public radio producers and reporters from across the country selected as fellows for the Science Literacy Project.
Mathematical sciences Professor Bharath Sriraman will give a keynote lecture titled "Mathematical Satire on Gaining by Reducing" on May 5 at the 2011 SUM Conference of the Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers Society, which will be held in Saskatoon. He also will deliver the plenary lecture at the Sixth Nordic Congress on Mathematics Education, to be held May 11-14 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Sriraman also was asked by Argentina's Minister of Education to serve as the educational consultant to design a doctoral program of study in mathematics education June 8-23 at the University of Corrientes.
Social work Professor Cynthia Garthwait presented a poster titled "Social Development and the Elderly: The Role of Social Work Education at a State University" at the International Consortium on Social Development, held Jan. 3-7 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Garthwait also was guest lecturer at the School of Social Work at Universiti Sains Malaysia and trained social workers in Penang. She recently visited schools of social work at Dhaka University, Bangladesh, and Vietnam National University, Hanoi, and observed social services agencies in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Vietnam and Cambodia.
Sociology Professor Emeritus Rodney L. Brod delivered a research paper titled "Development, Validation and Preliminary Use of the Culturally Congruent Instruction Survey" at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching conference, held April 3-6 in Orlando, and at the American Educational Research Association conference, held April 8-12 in New Orleans. He delivered the paper with UM curriculum and instruction doctoral student and Salish Kootenai College faculty member Regina Sievert and Joan LaFrance of Mekinak Consulting. The paper describes the participator process used to develop the survey with representatives from five Montana tribal cultures, SKC, UM, Montana State University and K-8 teachers from across the state. The ongoing research is part of the work of the Big Sky Science Partnership, a science education professional development and research project sponsored through a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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