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Lisa Marie Hyslop has been an adjudicator at the Montana State Thespian Festival for five years, her husband for two. During this year’s festival, held over the weekend at the University of Montana in Missoula, they saw something they won’t soon forget. (more…) Continue Reading →
Professors are not just employees of the institutions they serve, they are ambassadors. Rightly or wrongly, their conduct reflects on our Montana universities as a whole. According to the American Association of College Professors’ Statement of Professional Ethics, “Professors must give due regard to their paramount responsibilities within their institution in determining the amount and character of work done outside it. Professors need to stay away from employment outside the university that creates the appearance of a conflict of interest or otherwise negatively affects the university.” (more…) Continue Reading →
This is the 27th chapter of the 32-part video series “The Montana Ethic Project.” This chapter features Steve Running, University Regents Professor of Ecology at the University of Montana, talking about “Montana Climate Change.” You can watch the whole video below. Here is an edited transcript of how it begins:
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Montana colleges and universities posted mediocre results in Washington Monthly’s annual rankings, which came out Monday. The University of Montana ranked 115th nationally in the overall rankings. It was the only Montana school to make the list, which included more than 300 colleges and universities. In the “Best Bang for the Bucks” listing of colleges in the West, only the University of Montana Western campus in Dillion cracked the top 40. Montana Tech in Butte was listed 49th. Continue Reading →
This is the 25th chapter of the 32-part video series “The Montana Ethic Project.” This chapter features Jakki Mohr, the Regents Professor of Marketing and the Gallagher Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the University of Montana. She discusses the subject of “The Corporate Model for the 21st Century.” You can watch the whole video below. Here is an edited transcript of how it begins:
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Paul O’Brien was nearing the completion of his doctorate in physical therapy when he had a life-changing thought. He liked doing physical therapy, but he realized he didn’t really love it. Talking to his then-girlfriend, he wondered aloud what he could throw himself into that he was truly passionate about. As O’Brien recalled it, she looked at him and said, “It’s food. Are you kidding me? Continue Reading →
The Atlantic had an article in July about a Montana man who may have overturned scientific understanding of how those incredibly tough and hardy lichens work. For 150 years, the article by Ed Yong says, scientists thought that lichens were composite organisms made up of a fungus in partnership with algae. Toby Spribille, who was home-schooled in a Montana trailer park and returned here after studying in Germany, found a third element: another sort of fungus that works in partnership with the other two. Spribille suspected that the additional fungus existed, but it took him five years to find it, going through some 45,000 lichen samples he collected over the years. “Many of the fundamentals of lichenology will need to be checked, and perhaps re-written,” Yong writes. He quotes John McCutcheon, with whom Spribille works at the University of Montana: “Toby took huge risks for many years. Continue Reading →
This is the 21st chapter of the 32-part video series “The Montana Ethic Project.” This chapter features Dr. Thomas Power, University of Montana emeritus professor of economics, discussing the subject, “Valuing Montana: An Economist’s Observations.” You can watch the whole video below. Here is how it begins:
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This is the first chapter of the 32-part video series “The Montana Ethic Project.” You can watch the whole video below. Here is how it opens:
“My name is Richard Drake and I teach history at the University of Montana. I’ve been at the University since 1982 and one of the courses that I teach here at the university is ‘Terrorism in the Modern World.’ We cover the history of terrorism from the French Revolution in the late 18th century, all the way down to the present time. Continue Reading →
Starting a week from today and continuing every Monday for 32 weeks, Last Best News will be running a series of video presentations by state leaders in business, politics and academics. The Montana Ethic Project was created by a group of students at Montana State University and the University of Montana. They wanted some of the brightest, most inspiring people in Montana to speak directly to other residents of this state about subjects important to themselves and to the larger society. (more…) Continue Reading →
