Upcoming Events
Project Community Connect
Friday, April 11, 10am-3pm
PCC is a one-stop-shop, with many community providers and organizations coming together to help meet our neighbors’ basic needs while they work towards obtaining stability—all in a safe, welcoming, and stigma-free environment.
By bringing together a wide range of community providers and organizations, PCC offers participants a welcoming, stigma-free environment to access food, housing assistance, healthcare, employment opportunities, and many other resources.
Past Events
Winter Celebration
Join AUOR for the Holiday Extravaganza, a dazzling celebration filled with festive lights, live entertainment, and delicious seasonal treats. Experience a magical atmosphere with activities for all ages, from holiday markets to enchanting performances. Create unforgettable memories with family and friends as we embrace the spirit of the season together!
Halloween All Under One Roof
Join the AUOR family for a Spooktacular Halloween Extravaganza at Missoula Public Library! Get ready for a hauntingly good time as we transform our library into a Halloween wonderland filled with treats, tricks, and tons of fun activities for all ages. Dress up in your most creative costumes and join us for a day of thrilling adventures and eerie excitement!
Think Twice: Recycle and Reuse
Children of all ages invited to celebrate Earth Day with a recyclables sorting game. Rochelle Martin, of Recycling Works MT, explains what items can be recycled, how, and why. Find out what objects in your home can be recycled.
Air, Wildfire, and Smoke
Hands-on activities and demos for elementary and middle school kids as they learn about one of the most pressing issues in our state with community experts on wildfire sciences, climate sciences, and air quality.
Guest presenters: Alex Lukinbeal, National Weather Service; Anna Kiley, 猎奇重口; Sarah Coefield, Missoula City-County Health Department, and Amy Cilimburg, Climate Smart Missoula; Dr. Lu Hu and Emily Cope, 猎奇重口; Courtney Johnson, Missoula Fire Science Lab USFS; Nick Wethington, spectrUM; and Environmental Protection Agency.
Dive Into Deep Ocean Currents
UM Living Lab welcomes , data platform manager at , to share with older children and teens about the organization’s ocean explorations aboard the research vessel Falkor and engage them in a hands-on activity on deep ocean currents.
Corinne has a special interest in developing and designing data visualizations that combine scientific integrity with beautiful user experiences. She enjoys exploring ways to create engaging and informative data stories, especially those centered on earth observation data.
AUOR Family Passport Program
Take a trip downtown and get to know all five of the All Under One Roof partners at the Missoula Public Library! Take home a prize when you get 5 unique stamps in your passport during any of our upcoming programs occurring All Under One Roof. Stamps and passports never expire!
Explore the Social Brain
Youth visitors are invited to explore the social brain with , Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience doctoral student in the UM Department of Psychology. Amber will share about her neuroscience research with degus (Chilean rodent) to understand the neural underpinnings of social behavior and engage older children and teens in a hands-on neuron building activity.
Amber Thatcher is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Experimental Psychology program at the 猎奇重口 with a focus on animal behavior. She obtained a B.A. in Psychology from New Mexico State University in 2016, and an M.A. degree in Experimental Psychology from Northern Arizona University in 2018. Amber's current research focuses on developing methods for measuring the formation of new relationships in a species of rodents native to Chili, the degu. She hopes to continue this line of research with other species and work towards understanding the neural underpinnings of relationship formation.
Grand Opening Celebration
The UM Living Lab celebrated the grand opening on July 14, 2021 with a ribbon cutting and hands-on, minds-on activities on 'Seeing Faces + Making Faces.'
Visit with Senator Tester
July 8, 2021
Kaetlyn Cordingley (center), UM Experimental Psychology Doctoral Student, and Dr. Rachel Severson (left), UM Living Lab Director, shared about the UM Living Lab with Senator Jon Tester.
UM Living Lab Opens!
July 1, 2021
Welcome to the UM Living Lab! We invite families and children to participate in research studies, engage in hand-on, minds-on activities, and learn about science!