University of Montana Western head women’s basketball coach Cara Cocchiarella announced the signing of Kaitlyn Marie Forster, a 5-foot-8 forward from Richardton, N.D. and Alyssa Ladenburg, a 5-foot-5 point guard from Columbia Falls, Mont., to Frontier Conference/NAIA letters of intent.

The University of Montana Western rodeo team won top honors at the Dawson Community College College Rodeo April 23, 24 and 25. The men’s team currently leads the region while the women are second heading to The University of Montana Rodeo May 7, 8 and 9 in Missoula.

On May 4, the 2010 Jane Helm Maddock Service Award recipients will be honored with a luncheon beginning at noon in UMW’s Lewis and Clark room located in Mathews Hall.

Four student-athletes from Washington and Montana are the latest members of the 2010 Bulldog football recruiting class.

Wolves and the role of wildlife predators will be the topic of a film and panel discussion on Wednesday, April 28 at 7 p.m. in Block Hall Room 311 on the University of Montana Western campus.

Charelle Vivan Minor, a 6-foot-two middle blocker from Pocatello, Idaho, is the newest member of the Bulldog volleyball team.

Clinical hypnotherapist Patrick Marsolek returns to the Montana Western campus for a series of classes on Friday and Saturday, April 30 and May 1.

Lydia Mild, a 2002 graduate of the University of Montana Western, was just named the 2010 Rural School Teacher of the Year by the Montana Small School Alliance and the Montana Association of County School Superintendents.

The University of Montana Western Biology Department was recently featured in an online video highlighting over $1 million in research funding the department secured through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE).

Thirty-four new students from the University of Montana Western were inducted into Kappa Delta Pi, UMW’s honor society for educators and education majors, on Monday, April 12.