The GLI Weekly is Here!

BTC Reminders!

Are you planning to do a Beyond the Classroom Experience in the spring of 2025? Then make sure that you hit these deadlines!

• Beyond the Classroom Plan: due November 1 for spring 2025 experiences
• Beyond the Classroom Scholarship: due November 6 for spring 2025 experiences
• More information and links to submit in the Franke GLI Canvas page under “Year 3”

Attentions Seniors!

Are you graduating in the spring?

• Your graduation application is due November 8 to Sarah at sarah.griffin@mso.umt.edu!
• See our Canvas page under “Year 4” for the application link.

Attention Freshmen!

Applying for your Franke GLI BTC Scholarship this semester?

Attend our workshops on Wednesday, October 16 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. in Aber 425 and Thursday, October 31st from 2:00-3:00 p.m. in the Theta Rho room to work on your application! Co-sponsored with The Writing and Public Speaking Center.

Who do you know?

Do you know a great professor? Want to see them teach in GLI? Nominate an instructor to teach the first-year GBLD 194 course! Nominations are due by October 15th.

President's Lecture Series: Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel is the bestselling author of numerous novels, including The Glass Hotel, Station Eleven, and Sea of Tranquility. Her novel Station Eleven, UM's 2024 Griz Read, was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clark Award, the Toronto Book Award, and the Morning News Tournament of Books, and was adapted into a limited series for HBO. A previous novel, The Singer's Gun, was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. Her short fiction and essays have been anthologized in numerous collections, including Best American Mystery Stories 2013. She is a staff writer for The Millions.

Her lecture will be held Tuesday, October 15th @ 7:00 PM in the UC Ballroom.

Short-term Study Abroad in Japan!

Explore the beauty of Japan while studying Manga in Kyoto (May 11-23, 2025)!

This study-abroad opportunity extends the learning from ARTH 371.50: Manga and Anime: History, Practice, and Form. For more info on the ARTH 371 course content, please email alessia.carpoca@umontana.edu. Apply by October 18th!

Academic Opportunity!

This 21-credit minor is an interdisciplinary program with a curriculum that spans community and public health, humanities and sciences, and biomedicine. 

Call for Artists!

Are you a Montana artist between the ages of 19 and 39? Do you know someone interested in applying for an exciting invitational show with generous purchase awards? The Montana Museum of Art and Culture in Missoula, MT is putting out an open call for a juried exhibition of young Montana artists opening in spring 2025. Artwork from 19 contemporary artists within the ages of 19 to 39 will be selected for an exhibition at the MMAC. Artists working with all mediums and content are encouraged to apply. Purchase prizes of $10,000; $7,000; and $3,000 will be awarded. Application deadline is November 1, 2024.

Voter Information!

Late voter registration begins Tuesday, October 8! Those wanting to register to vote must do so in person at the Missoula County Elections Office Building B, located at 140 N. Russell St. (late registration ends Monday, November 4) at 12 p.m.

• October 11th, 2024 – Absentee ballots will be mailed out
• October 29th, 2024 – Vote Early Day
• November 5th, 2024 – Election Day