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Dr. Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a UN Messenger of Peace, will speak at the University of Montana on Sunday, June 26. Goodall’s talk, “Hope Through Action,” is part of UM’s President’s Lecture Series and co-sponsored by UM’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center and the International Wildlife Film Festival. The lecture, which is free and ope...

The University of Montana has named Laurie Baefsky as its next dean of the College of the Arts and Media. She begins her new role at UM in January.

H. G. Merriam launched a journal 100 years ago “to serve as an outlet for the very living literary interest that is on the campus of The State University.” Now UM’s Mansfield Library has made the entire run of Frontier and Midland available online.

Archaeology students and researchers at the University of Montana have discovered artifacts in downtown Missoula that illuminate the lives of people from more than a century ago.

After a national search, the University of Montana hired Dr. Marketa Marvanova as the next dean of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy, beginning in February.

University of Montana computer science researcher Travis Wheeler recently was awarded a four-year $1.1 million grant to develop machine learning approaches to improving the accuracy and speed of sequence annotation.

First-year UM students entering the fall semester in 2020 may be invited to the Direct Admit Program within the business college. The new program will allow UM freshmen to declare business as their major rather than waiting until they are sophomores.

As the Montana State Department of Public Health and Human Services announces the first death associated with vaping in the state, students at the University of Montana have organized an event to increase awareness about the health impacts of e-cigarettes.

More than a century of accumulated news coverage from the Kaimin is available online in a searchable database, courtesy of UM’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library and its ScholarWorks service.

There exists a strange anomaly in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre ecosystem that has puzzled scientists for years. In this region that occupies the Pacific Ocean between China and the United States, the chemistry changes periodically.