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Summer semester enrollment at the University of Montana grew 17 percent from a year ago, with 2,932 students compared to 2,493 last year. Summer enrollment in 2018 was the highest at UM since 2014.

The University of Montana's Family Medicine Residency program, an affiliation of the University of Washington, launched in 2013 with a focus on placing new new doctors in rural settings and addressing Montana's medical shortage. So far, it has accomplished just that.

The University of Montana will graduate its third class of family physicians from the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana this Sunday. Of the dozen graduates, a record 11 physicians accepted employment to stay in the state.

The University of Montana and a Missoula startup have landed a $5.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a novel vaccine to fight bacterial infections in patients.

The University of Montana on Friday named Catherine Cole as its new vice president of enrollment and strategic communications, a hire that completes the school's push to integrate marketing, communications and enrollment under a single title.

While the growing apprenticeship program at Missoula College won't alone solve a problem partially rooted in demographics, it could help some industries build a pipeline of up-and-coming workers, and it won't need to reinvent the wheel to do so.

Anyone interested in Native American history, policy and culture now can earn a Native American Studies Certificate at the University of Montana. The new 12-credit program through UM’s College of Humanities and Sciences is designed for individuals who want to acquire broader knowledge, appreciation and academic skills.

Montana Public Radio will look back on 1968 with special programming and music June 2-9. “Our talented producers will present the music of the times across many genres of music," said MTPR program director Michael Marsolek.

The exhibitions “Horse” and “Denizens: Wildlife on the Western Frontier” will be on display from Thursday, June 7, to Saturday, Oct. 6, in the Paxson and Meloy galleries of the Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center at the University of Montana.

Julie Wolter, department chair and professor in the University of Montana Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, recently received a perfect score on her National Institutes of Health grant to study language development and dyslexia in children.