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Going Global. UM’s international efforts link Montana to the world

Growing up in the Republic of Georgia, University of Montana graduate student Melina Oganesyan always associated the United States with its largest cities.

“The main image we get of America is of New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles,” she says. “I didn’t even know what to think” about Montana.

Well, one thing leapt to mind: cowboys.

“What I knew about Montana came mainly from movies,” says Oganesyan, 23, who arrived in Missoula last fall as a visiting scholar from the Tbilisi Institute of Asia and Africa. Oganesyan, who holds the equivalent of a master’s degree in her own country, decided to remain in Missoula to pursue a master’s in American history at UM.

“I like this place very much, because Missoula is small and, in my opinion, a very safe city,” she says. “I like the research possibilities at the campus, and the faculty is very helpful, very understanding – and very demanding, as well.”

The community has been welcoming, too.

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