The Montana Board of Regents has bestowed it’s highest honor on University of Montana Western Professor Robert Thomas. The Regents named Thomas Regents Professor during their bi-monthly meeting, Thursday, Sept. 23.

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.

University of Montana Western environmental sciences professor Rob Thomas has been named Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer made an impromptu visit to the University of Montana Western to congratulate the 2009 Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year Rob Thomas.

A photo gallery of the University of Montana Western reception for the 2009 Outstanding Baccalaureate Professor of the Year, Rob Thomas.

A copy of Montana Western professor Rob Thomas’ acceptance speech as the Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year, given at the 2009 U.S. Professors of the Year luncheon at the Willard InterContinental in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 19, 2009.

Geology professor will present at the Arctic Grayling Recovery Program annual meeting in Bozeman.