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GREAT FALLS – Several Montana ranches, farms, and families were featured in a Dodge Ram commercial called “So God made a farmer” during this year’s Super Bowl.

The ad features a voice-over of radio legend Paul Harvey delivering a stirring portrait of farm and ranch life; he initially delivered the speech during a 1978 Future Farmers of America convention.

The ad aired during the 2013 Super Bowl, and garnered widespread praise for its simple, powerful approach.

One of those families lives in Chouteau County just outside of Geraldine, and talked about getting to show off the Montana way of life on one of the biggest stages in the world.

Read more and watch the news video at KPAX.com

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Thousands of students walk in its shadows, passing from history to math to science. They scurry below like ants or, I imagine, mice in some grand experiment. Caught in the rigors of academic study, they hardly turn an eye toward the belfry – toward the sky – to consider the din cleaving the wintry air, the chimes sending them from one point to the next.

The University of Montana campus bustles between classes, but the belfry at Main Hall remains quiet in its lofty isolation. Up here, a century of dust coats bolts and bricks and heavy wooden timbers. Cans of lubricating oil and greasers sit stacked in a corner, not neatly, but rather as if someone placed them here in haste 30 years ago and never returned to claim them.

It’s in this antiquated setting that Nancy Cooper climbs the wooden ladder, placing her feet carefully upon each rickety rung while making her ascension into the belfry, where pigeons sometimes come to die. She raises an arm and pushes open a trap door, the portal to the next level. She then waves me up, warning me to watch my head.

“We want a very cautious kind of cowering up here,” she suggests. “I can’t tell you how many people have hit their head on the bells after I’ve said that.”

Read more at Missoulian.com

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The University of Montana’s natural history museum in Missoula is the “largest zoological museum in Montana and one of the major zoological collections of the Northern Rocky Mountains,” according to its website. Its collections hold 14,500 mammalian specimens, 7,000 birds, 3,200 fish, and 320 reptiles and amphibians. However, it’s different than the typical ideal of a natural history museum: unlike the one that employs me (the Smithsonian), it is primarily a research facility and not a place where a vacationing family would devote a day to wandering through a maze of exhibits on multiple floors.

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This episode features our UM Dining services and their Rock & Roll Diner Omelet Bar. The above video is an approximate 20 minute time lapse of the omelet bar followed by a member of our team enjoying his omelet.

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Biomimicry–a tool for creativity and innovation–has the potential to transform business practices to be in harmony with nature.  Professor Jakki Mohr, Regents Professor of the University of Montana, provides many examples of how biomimicry is used to develop technological innovations, including:  Qualcomm’s mirasol display technology, creating vibrant color based on the butterfly wing; Swedish Biomimetics 3000 uMist technology for industrial sprays without VOCs based on the bombardier beetle; Greenshield Technology’s waterproof fabric finish based on the lotus leaf, and Ornilux Birdsafe Glass based on UV reflective strands in spider webs.  Her research and projects with companies commercializing biomimetic inventions and infusing biomimicry into their innovation processes provides insights for success.  Interface Flor, with its line of Entropy carpet tiles, is a shining success story in the world of biomimicry, based on not only its use of biomimicry in product innovation (patterned after the forest floor), but also in its infusion of sustainability through-out the company.

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There are girls who spend their lives living out an episode of “Toddlers and Tiaras.” And then there’s Alexis Wineman, a Miss America contestant who entered the pageant world on a whim and now is the first-ever Miss America competitor who lives with autism.

“Growing up, I never was really interested in pageants. I thought it would be something I was never able to do,” said the 18-year-old from Cut Bank, Mont. “But by the time I graduated, I kind of realized I’d done a lot of things I’d never thought I could do.”

She entered and won the Miss Montana program, and is one of 53 contestants vying for the Miss America crown Saturday. “It’s been an amazing, wonderful journey so far,” she said. But it’s been a long journey for Wineman, who told TODAY.com that it  was “stressful” growing up.

Read More on the Today website

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Students will study the intertwined relationships of society, environment, and economy, to look at the potential impacts of climate change on each of these, and to see how people are adapting, or planning to adapt, to the coming changes.

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Our time in Ho Chi Minh City culminated on New Year’s Eve when we joined hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese citizens to ring in the new year – half of them, at least, cruising the downtown in an endless stream of motorbikes that defies the imagination of how they can negotiate the traffic and pedestrians with virtually no accidents.  Ben Simonson and Harper Kaufman were picked out for interviews by Vietnam TV, which added to the fun.  The joy and exuberance throughout the downtown seemed in many ways to exemplify the dynamic and entrepreneurial spirit for which Saigon and the southern Vietnamese long have been known.

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UM Students enjoy the streets of Ho Chi Minh City on New Years Eve

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University of Montana Wildlife Biology Professor Dr. Erick Greene discusses his research and the Program. This film was premiered at the Wildlife Biology Program 75th Anniversary celebration at the University of Montana.

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UM Wildlife Biology

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