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University Of Montana Commencement Program, Spring 2019, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Commencement Programs, 1898-2020

Commencement program from the University of Montana.

Montana Kaimin, April 24, 2019, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Minutes From The April 18, 2019 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Faculty, University Of Montana--Missoula. Faculty

University of Montana Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes from the April 18, 2019 meeting of the University of Montana faculty.

Flipped: The Lives Of Those With Mental Disorders, Teresa K. Hoskins

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

This collection of four short stories focus on how society perceives those with mental disorders, the stigma associated with those disorders, and how both of these affect the people who have mental disorders. The stories are designed to give a general audience insight into the lives of those with various mental disorders. In everyday settings, these stories revolve around ordinary actions of the characters, with and without mental disorders. Each story will contain two parts, the first part is a record of the incident from the perspective of a person without a mental health diagnosis and who is unrelated to …

Familiarity Affects Interaction: Social Behavior Differences In Pairs Of Stranger And Cagemate Degus, Stephen F. Cooke

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

The brains of social animals are adapted to form new relationships. Studying this has been difficult because we lack measures for relationship learning. To address this, we studied pairs of stranger degus, a rodent native to Chile, to see how their behaviors changed while learning about each other. Degus are a highly social animal making them a valuable research model. In this experiment we monitored behavior in same sex dyads of degus (male and female) to identify interaction patterns as they learn about one-another. Degus were separated for 24 hours prior to 20 minute pairing sessions. Dyads were paired 5 …

Communicative Quality Of Life For Stroke Survivors With Aphasia Who Participated In An Intensive Aphasia Program (Icap), Abigail Leclair

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Title: Quality of Life in Stroke Survivors with Aphasia who Participate in an Intensive Comprehensive Aphasia Program (ICAP)

Purpose: The purpose of this retrospective quantitative study is to investigate the impact that participation in an ICAP has on quality of life for stroke survivors with aphasia, as measured by the Assessment of Living with Aphasia (ALA) and the Communicative Participation Item Bank (CPIB).

Methods: Participants include eight stroke survivors with aphasia and their family caregivers who participated in the summer 2018 intensive comprehensive aphasia program (ICAP) at the University of Montana. Prior to and immediately following treatment, …

Do Young Children Treat A Robot As Having Intentions And Being Culpable For Its Actions?, Rachele L. Barker, Allison Beall, Caitlin Ryan, Shelby Rosston, Dennis Schuster, Rachel L. Severson

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Previous research has found that infants view people, but not mechanical devices, as having intentions (Meltzoff, 1995). Yet, new technologies, such as smart speakers and social robots, are capable of projecting personas and mimicking human interactions, which may cause children to view them more as social agents rather than mere technological devices. Indeed, recent research suggests children treat robots as social others (Meltzoff et al., 2010), but only when robots interact in a socially-contingent manner. The current study examines whether children will view a social robot as having intentions and, in turn, hold it morally culpable.

Three- and 5-year-olds ( …

Loneliness And The Aging Population, Nelson W. Weaver

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Previous research has shown social isolation and loneliness contribute to decreased quality of life, as well as compromised psychological and physical health among older adults. This represents a public health crisis in the context of a growing aging population anticipated to cost the United States over 126 billion dollars. The purpose of this research review is to build the case for conducting an effectiveness study aimed to reduce feelings of loneliness and social isolation in the aging population. To achieve this aim, I review the various characteristics of the aging population, the social and financial ramifications associated with social isolation …

Effect Of Perception Biases On Associated Value Of Stimuli, Jordan Broussard

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Negative and positive stimuli appear to have their own unique effects on mood, behavior, and even underlying perceptions. Previous experiments have shown that people have the tendency to focus more on negative stimuli than positive; this phenomenon is often explained through a lens of evolutionary psychology, as it appears that it was once more necessary for survival to focus on negative characteristics of the environment. This is referred to as the “negativity effect”. The present study examined this bias, as well as the level of truth that people associate with positive or negative stimuli. In this experiment, 43 University of …

Using Emotional Framing To Manipulate Anchoring Effect: How Affect Influences Judgment And Perception, Elizabeth M. Waterman

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

The anchoring effect is a well-established phenomenon in psychology. It is a cognitive bias that causes an individual to rely too heavily on one piece of information, the anchor, when making decisions and forming judgments. Regardless of how arbitrary that piece of information is, an individual forms a bias that effects all following related information. The current study will investigate whether the anchoring effect can be reduced or even eliminated by using a novel manipulation, such as a frame of emotion. Participants will be recruited through Psychology subject pool. They will be asked to answer a series of simple math …

Analyzing The Impact Of Protective Factors On The Resilience Of Middle School Students, Ruth E. Minix

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

When discussing risk and protective factors affecting children, the topic of resilience is brought up extensively. One of the programs targeting various factors relating to resilience is the Kaleidoscope Connect Program. Among the seven factors targeted by Kaleidoscope Connect are protective factors, which relate to beliefs, values, and behaviors, such as empathy and self-regulation (identified as yellow phactors), number of supportive adults (identified as red phactors), as well as risk factors such as negative peers or a lack of supervision (identified as blue phactors). The goal of this research project is to assess the efficacy of the Kaleidoscope Connect program …

Contact And Relationship To Attitudes Towards Populations With Disability In Doctor Of Physical Therapy Students, Carly M. Knudson

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

The present study examined contact in relation to attitudes towards disabled populations over the duration of physical therapy school. A total of 55 participants included 27 first year (Y1), 14 second year (Y2) and 14 third year (Y3) Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students that were largely female (80.0%), white (98.2%), and had a mean age of 26.1 (SD = 4.1) years. Two main instruments were utilized, the Contact with Disabled Persons Scale (CDP) and the Interaction with Disabled Persons Scale (IDP), to examine the relationship between reported contact and attitudes towards persons of disability in the three groups. …

Does Major Predict Mcat Success?, Megan M. Branson

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

One of the first questions prospective students ask the premedical sciences department is what major they should choose. Medical schools have no preference for major but students want to prepare as best they can for the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) because it is one of the most important aspects of their application. Using data on MCAT scores and majors from the previous 6 years, I examined the possibility of correlation between major and MCAT score. The MCAT is broken into 4 parts: Biological and Biochemical Foundations, Physical and Chemical Foundations, Comprehensive Analysis and Reasoning Skills and Psychological, Social and …

Umcur 2019 Program Pdf

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

The original program includes the general schedule as well as individual poster and presentation schedules and abstracts.

Montana Kaimin, April 17, 2019, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Contributors, Honorable Mentions, Sponsors, Back Cover

The Oval

No abstract provided.

2018 #Realcollege Survey School Report, Hope Center For College, Community, And Justice At Temple University

ASUM Renter Center Publications

This report was prepared for the University of Montana by the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University.

Invitations to complete the questionnaire were sent by email to approximately 11,900 students from the University of Montana and 902 students participated. Thus, the estimated response rate is 7.6%.

Overall Basic Needs Insecurity Rates:

• 42% of respondents were food insecure in the prior 30 days
• 55% of respondents were housing insecure in the previous year
• 28% of respondents were homeless in the previous year

67% of students at the University of Montana experienced at least one of these forms …

I Am Coming For You, Tammy Delatorre

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Department Of Mathematical Sciences Newsletter, Spring 2019, University Of Montana--Missoula. Department Of Mathematical Sciences

Newsletters from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at UM

Johnny Lott Receives NCTM Lifetime Achievement Award / Fred Peck -- Study Abroad & an Internship: Making the Most of My Degree in Mathematics / Megan Finley -- Notes from the Chair / Emily Stone -- #Latina #UM #Research #Montana #PR #MathEd #Yauco #Boricua / Ricela Feliciano-Semidel -- Spring 2019 Scholarship and Award Winners -- Honor Roll of Donors -- Degree Recipients 2018-19 -- First Annual Montana High School Mathematics Awards / Emily Stone

Montanan, Spring 2019, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 36, number 2.

Native American Cultural Dissonance & Dark Heritage Solutions, Victoria Parker

Student Scholarship

This paper argues that public institutions have an obligation to consider the weight of their responsibility to educate and inform the public about all forms of American history and heritage. Moreover, public institutions should embrace controversy, engage discourse and proactively work on exhibiting balanced representations by re-working or removing antiquated and false narratives surrounding Native American history. In this paper, I proffer solutions from case studies, examples, models, and my own perspective as a Native American tribal member, as to what public institutions and curators can do in the future to deal with cultural dissonance and creating awareness of (Native) …

Montana Kaimin, March 6, 2019, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

March 2019 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Documents From The February 27, 2019 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and meeting minutes from the February 27, 2019 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana. The following resolutions were discussed:

SB34-18/19: Resolution Regarding ASUM Rates for Travel Allocations

SB35-18/19: Resolution Regarding Budgeting Appeal Process in Section 9 of Fiscal Policy

SB36-18/19: Resolution Regarding Dean of Student References in House Rules

SB37-18/19: Resolution Regarding the Amount of Votes for Senate Candidates in the ASUM Election

SB38-18/19: Resolution Updating Fiscal Policy for the Student Group Resource Coordinator

Montana Kaimin, February 27, 2019, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Math Anxiety Among Teachers And Its Impact On Students’ Math Ability, Elina Bergund F

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Fear and anxiety about math can impede an individual’s math achievement, and math anxious people tend to perform worse than their abilities would indicate. When self-doubt and distress occurs, thinking and reasoning can be compromised. In fact, the fears that individuals with math-anxiety experience when they are forced to do math often prevent them from using their knowledge (Ashcraft & Kirk, 2001; Beilock, Gunderson, Ramirez, & Levince, 2010; Chipman, Krantz, & Silver, 1992). Math anxiety is more common among women than men and tends to manifest itself as an unpleasant emotional response to math or the prospect of doing math …

Gained In Translation: Storytelling Through Theatrical Innovation, Shane Lutz

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

As an artist, I am a challenger, a revolutionary, and an explorer - in no particular order. Swedish playwright August Strindberg believed that “society is so horribly regimented” in its obtuse ideas of art, resulting in a drastic stagnation of theatrical innovation. This remains as real today as it did when Strindberg flipped the theatrical tradition on its head in the late 19th Century. I believe that by deconstructing the ideals that have been ingrained into us in terms of what theatre can and cannot be, we can redefine an outdated and inaccessible art form to reach audiences across time …

The Musical Collaboration Of Tennessee Williams, Elia Kazan, Alex North In A Street Car Named Desire, Peter Philips

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

In his Notebook Tennessee Williams wrote:

The experimental dramatist must find a method of presenting his passion in an articulate manner… my form is poetic [therefore]…a nonrealistic form must be chosen…[what] I call sculptural drama.

Sculptural drama, Williams’s hypothesis of “plastic theater,” implied the use of all stage resources, to generate a theatrical experience greater than realism. Only by using “other” transformative shapes could poetic imagination define truth, life, or reality.

My work aims to demonstrate music as a universal source of poetic truth. Williams, from his earliest writings, recognized the poetic expressionistic purity of music. Similar expressions are found …

Death In The Anthropocene: Coping With Loss In The Age Of Extinction And Civilizational Collapse, Jensen A. Lillquist

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

The Anthropocene presents significant environmental problems for both humans and nonhumans alike, as both climate change and mass extinction are ongoing phenomena. While mass extinction represents the direct death and loss of multitudes of species, climate change represents the threat of death and loss to human populations. Thus, mass extinction and climate change may be termed the losses of the Anthropocene; much environmental writing voices an unprocessed grief directed towards each of these losses. Yet in order for grief to become mourning—an active response to loss—the loss must be recognized and dealt with. The example set by death practices may …

Documents From The February 20, 2019 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana (Asum), University Of Montana--Missoula. Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

Agenda and meeting minutes from the February 20, 2019 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM). The following resolutions were discussed:

SB21-18/19: Resolution Defining the Student-at-Large

SB25-18/19: Resolution Supporting the Governor's Proposed Revenue Enhancements

SB26-18/19: Resolution Amending ASUM's Third Legislative Priority

SB27-18/19: Resolution Opposing HB 302

SB28-18/19: Resolution Regarding Protections of Gender Expression and Sexual Orientation

SB29-18/19: Resolution Regarding Student Group Travel Requests for Funding Airfare

SB30-18/19: Resolution Regarding Section 9.1 of Fiscal Policy

SB31-18/19: Resolution Regarding "The Source" in Elections Bylaws

SB32-18/19: Resolution Updating the ASUM Website Update Committee Bylaws

SB33-18/19: Resolution Regarding Transportation Fee …