University of Montana Western education professor Julie Bullard finished the last block of the spring 2010 semester by taking her Exploring Rich Early Childhood Environments class on a tour of early childhood facilities in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington April 19-23.

Three University of Montana Western students are giving Dillon a better picture of the city’s public tree population, and their inventory could provide a blueprint for future greening efforts, including participation in a national tree planting effort.

Montana Western business students competing in a global business simulation competition recently ranked among the best in the nation.

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.

Two professors from The University of Montana Western recently took their teaching abroad to the Saint George’s University School of Arts and Sciences on the island nation of Grenada.

The Montana Western English department and writing club are calling all writers and artists to dust off unused paintings, short stories or poems and send them to the online magazine Twisted Ink.

University of Montana Western environmental sciences student Helen Sladek will be taking her studies all the way to Mars through an eight-week internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Spring 2010 enrollment numbers are in at the University of Montana Western. The 15th-day count reflects a continuing upward trend on top of the record-breaking fall 2009 enrollment numbers.