UM programs to visit local students, educators

From University of Montana

The University of Montana’s “We Are Montana in the Classroom” program is traveling to north-central Montana to share health and medicine educational and career opportunities with high school students. 

In partnership with the Native American Center of Excellence, a program housed within the Skaggs School of Pharmacy, We Are Montana in the Classroom will promote UM’s new Health and Medicine initiative with high school students Monday through Thursday. 

“We’re grateful to these vibrant communities for hosting us and excited to share with their students some of the many opportunities and rewarding career paths that await them in the health sciences at UM,” said Holly Truitt, who directs We Are Montana in the Classroom.

The visits next week include, in this area:

• Hays: Wednesday at Hays-Lodge Pole High School

  • Harlem: Wednesday at Harlem High School and Aaniiih Nakoda College

• Havre: 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, a social for high school teachers and college staff, Triple Dog Brewing Co.

• Rocky Boy: Thursday, at Rocky Boy High School

• Box Elder: Thursday, at Box Elder High School

Four UM faculty members and students will lead hands-on activities and demonstrations and serve as higher education and career role models. The group includes Ginger Collins and Minako May from the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders; Jenny Lind of the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences; and Shelby Cole from the Skaggs School of Pharmacy

This tour is co-sponsored by the Native American Center of Excellence and the College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences.