UM students help donate blood during holiday shortage

The University of Montana and Montana State students are helping fight the blood shortage that happens around the holiday season. The annual competition between the schools comes at just the right time of the year to help the Red Cross with donations. Each donation has the potential to save three lives. One of the reasons donations drop is because routine donors are out of town. Reporter Caryn Foehringer and photographer Spencer Jakobi went to a blood drive to see what it means to community to donate. For dates on future blood drives in the month of November click here.

The Parenting Place

One UM student is helping prevent child abuse and neglect at a community-based Missoula non-profit .

The Parenting Place wants to develop healthy parent-child relationships, improve the future of children and ensure healthy families. Especially during the holidays.

UM student Alexis Gruba helps give parents a break as a child-care provider.

Slacklining Takes Extreme Heights

Reporter Tasha Cain and photographer Chelsea Reichard traveled to Alberton Gorge to see Griffen Gilbert walk the longest highline in Montana. Gilbert walked almost 300 feet across the raging Clark Fork river. Gilbert says he walks highlines as a form of meditation and facing his fears.

UM News Maroon Show October 28

UM News anchors Caryn Foehringer and Ally Barry bring us stories about the campaign trail and preventative care at UM on this episode. Live reporter Kempson Cross stops in to tell us about the University’s underground tunnels.

UM Health Clinic Helps Students Stay Healthy

The demand for flu shots have gone up on campus since last year. Out of the thousand that the curry health center pre-ordered, 800 have already been used in two months. The curry health center provides flu shots for students, as well as people in the community. Flu shots typically provide patients with immunity for eight or nine months. Pharmacy manager Ken Chatriand says two cases of the flu came in just yesterday and encourages people to get their flu shot as soon as possible. The pharmacy students go through extensive training to be able to administrator flu shots in the curry health center as well as different locations on campus.

UM to expand underground tunnels

The University of Montana is set to expand the underground tunnel system with the construction of the new Champions Center. The tunnels supply phone, computer and security access to each building on campus. Built after the Second World War, the tunnels are rich with history. UM news reporter Caryn Foehringer and photographer Chelsea Reichard went underground to see how much the university depends on the tunnels.

UM Preventative Health Care Initiative

Students at the University is Montana are getting hands on experience while helping the community thanks to the preventative health care initiative. The New Directions Wellness Center is one of the programs in the initiative. The center  helps people with disabilities and chronic conditions exercise. The Center on campus is open to the not just students, but everyone in the community.