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Missoula – Monte Mills, acting dean and a professor at the University of Montana Blewett School of Law, is part of a team working to find out how transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy will affect Native American tribes and their lands. Funded by a nearly $500,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the project will help inform tribal and federal policymaking, with a specific focus on energy development decisions that boost economic development and emission-reduction goals. The p...
Missoula – University of Montana first-year student Tori Matteson can't point to a specific event that peaked her interest in becoming a pharmacist – there aren't any in her family – but her curiosity about medicine started early in her high school years growing up in Butte. When it came time to enroll in college she looked at a few pharmacy schools in California and Idaho, but in the end it was "UM all the way," she said. Besides the proximity to home, Matteson said an invitation to parti...
MISSOULA – University of Montana Professor John Kimball is among a group of researchers nationwide who are contributing data to the National Climate Assessment. This month marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s 2014 National Climate Assessment, an effort spearheaded by the federal government to fulfill a need for reliable, scientific information about current and future changes, impacts and effective response options to a changing climate. “Today is the anniversary of the release of the 2014 National Clima...
MISSOULA – Twenty students from the University of Montana’s School of Law are currently taking a 1,400-mile, five-day bus tour across Montana to see firsthand the various forms of energy development in the state. The Energy Facilities Field Trip is a course designed to provide law students an on-the-ground experience of the energy developments about which they study. They are accompanied by law school Interim Dean Greg Munro. The trip will include a tour of the hydroelectric facility at Rainbow Dam in Great Falls, followed by a visit to the...
The brains of healthy children respond to long-term air pollution exposure with landmarks akin to those of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, according to a new paper co-written by University of Montana Associate Professor Dr. Lilian Calderon-Garciduenas. The article, titled “Early Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease Pathology in Urban Children. Friend vs. Foe Responses: It Is Time to Face the Evidence,” will be published in a special online March issue of the peer-reviewed BioMed Research International journal. The study, conducted b...
