Confluence

In this episode, hear from Julia Goar (M.P.H) and Nicholas Coombs (Ph.D.), graduate students in public health. They reflect on their experience working in Borneo, where they had a chance to apply what they learned about cultural humility, the local challenges of international work, and the surprising insights of being exposed to different cultural models.

In this episode, we're in the flow with Dr. Bernadette Sweeney, professor of Theatre and Head of Performance & Practice. Bernadette reads a love poem set on the banks of a river, “Twice Shy,” by Seamus Heaney, and a passage from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, as a spur to our discussion about her theater practice, her writing about Irish theater, and her role as mentor to graduate student actors and directors.

In this episode, hear from Aimee Paxton, M.A. in acting at UM's School of Theatre & Dance, on her decision to come to UM, taking on her biggest stage role, and learning from a 'mad scientist'.

In this episode, hear from Cynthia Coleman, M.S. in the Department of Society and Conservation and a fellow in the BRIDGES program. Born and raised in San Bernandino, California, Coleman is also an enrolled member of the native village of Unalakleet, Alaska. Coleman came to the University of Montana to study how agricultural hemp contributes to tribal sovereignty. She will enter the Forest and Conservation Sciences Ph.D. program in the spring of 2020 at the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, where she will be a Sloan Scholarship recipient.

In this episode, hear from Jenny Sheets, M.F.A. in creative nonfiction writing, about deciding to pursue the degree, finding herself at "writing camp" and how the university has supported her side project as a startup founder.

In this episode, we’re in the flow with Dr. L. Scott Mills, Associate VP Global Change and Sustainability and Professor of Wildlife Biology. Scott reads an excerpt from “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” by William Wordsworth which propels our discussion about Scott’s path to becoming a research professor, his attraction to Montana, and his ideas about graduate study, interdisciplinarity, and international collaboration.

For more on Scott’s lab, see: http://www.umt.edu/research/millslab/scott.php