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The University of Montana School of Journalism has established a new media lab to serve as a center of innovation offering skills-based journalism training to members of the public interested in multimedia storytelling and audience engagement.

Works from renowned painters – including Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Jean-Charles Cazin – will soon have a home in the Montana Museum of Art & Culture’s Permanent Collection at the University of Montana.

Kindness ran as a common theme throughout the University of Montana's 121st commencement ceremony on Saturday, tinted with messages of “failing forward” as today's graduates enter a rapidly changing world.

Two journalists will join the faculty at the University of Montana School of Journalism during the 2018-19 academic year as T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Professors, including Ben Montgomery and Preston Gannaway.

Ashley Ballantyne, an associate professor of bioclimatology in the University of Montana's School of Forestry in Missoula, will serve as one of 14 climate researchers chosen for French President Emmanuel Macron's groundbreaking research initiative.

The 11th annual Summer American Indian and Indigenous Law Program offers nine weeklong courses from June 4 to Aug. 3. Expert Indian law scholars and practitioners from around the country will lead the courses.

Three University of Montana students have been awarded Fulbright awards to research or teach English abroad: Jedd Sankar-Gorton, Dillon Sarb and Lucy Tompkins.

Representatives from local government, the University of Montana, national corporations and small local businesses gather to imagine the future, one where longstanding boundaries between institutions are erased and innovation is both encouraged and incentivized.

The University of Montana released a draft of its new strategic plan on Tuesday, including a core set of recommendations intended to better meet the needs of students while positioning the university for a changing future.

With more than $50,000 in prizes on the line, the stakes were high and the nerves, for some, proved a little frayed at this year's business startup challenge at UM. But that may be part of the learning experience when launching a business from the ground floor.