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Affordable medicine, access focus of exhibit
An interactive, multimedia exhibit explaining effective and affordable medicines for people in developing countries is rolling through UNM.
The Access to Essential Medicines EXPO exhibit begins today and runs through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the parking lot east of the UNM Bookstore.
The Access EXPO exhibit profiles five patients from Doctors Without Borders projects around the world, each with a treatable, infectious disease. The exhibit is designed to show the need for better access to medical treatment in poor countries by putting the visitor in the situation of the patient. A diagnosis is then offered with an experienced Doctors Without Borders medical field volunteer.
An information session about becoming a volunteer for Doctors Without Borders will be Friday at 1:30 p.m.
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UNM researcher helps explain iguanas' deaths
UNM biology professor Howard Snell, along with several other professors, has helped link the mortality of marine iguanas to an oil spill on the Galapagos Island of Santa Fe.
Snell's research, titled "Marine Iguanas Die From Trace Oil Pollution," was published in the June 6 issue of Nature Magazine.
Snell established a link between the oil spill of January 2001 with a 62 percent mortality rate among the indigenous creatures the year after the "Jessica" oil tanker spilled about three million liters of diesel and bunker oil.
Snell spends the spring semesters working at the Charles Darwin Foundation in the Galapagos Islands and was able to help other researchers who had accumulated long-term data sets on two island populations of marine iguanas.
Chemistry students to see Nobel Prize winners
Nouvelle Gebhart, a third-year chemistry graduate student, will join more than 30 students from across the country at a meeting of Nobel Laureates where they will meet chemistry Nobel Prize recipients.
Students who have shown outstanding talent in chemistry will take part in the meeting, which is in Lindau, Germany in July.
Gebhart was nominated by UNM chemistry professor Martin Kirk and UNM president Bill Gordon.
In addition to attending the meeting in July, Gebhart is working on two projects and is set to begin an internship at Los Alamos National Labs in the fall.
Gebhart said she wants to either continue working in research for a national lab or begin a teaching career after graduation.
UNM professor voted VP of sociology association
Jane Hood, UNM associate professor of sociology, has been elected vice president of the Pacific Sociology Association.
Hood has been at UNM since 1985 and her research focuses on family, gender, qualitative methodology, work and occupation.
PSA is the professional association of sociologists for the western region of the United States and Canada and was established in 1929.
Members of the organization include professors and students working at colleges and universities located throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada, but especially those who live in the western region of those countries.
Gordon farewell party welcomes whole campus
A farewell party for President Bill Gordon and his wife Kathy Gordon will be held today from 4-6 p.m.
Students, staff and faculty are welcome to the party, which will be on the University House lawn at 1901 Roma.
Entertainment includes music from the Virginia Creepers and Amauta Espoch.
There will also be food from SUB Catering.
The party will unofficially bring an end to Gordon's term as president of UNM. He will begin work as provost at his alma mater, Wake Forest University in August.
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Conference will support, teach cancer survivors
A cancer survivor conference will be held this Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Monte Vista Christian Church at 3501 Campus Boulevard.
"Seeds for Survival: Nurturing Our Growth" is the theme for People Living Through Cancer's 2002 Survivorship Conference.
Keynote speaker Dan Shapiro, an assistant professor of integrative therapy at the University of Arizona, will share his perspectives resulting from his battle with Hodgkin's disease.
The conference is expected to provide an opportunity to learn, to meet with others with common experiences and to gain strength from a community.
Survivors and victims of cancer will gather to discuss topics such as coping with the disease, research breakthroughs, treatment methods and financial options.
Oncology nurse Susan Leigh, survivor of Hodgkin's disease, breast and bladder cancers, will conclude the conference with an update on the survivorship MOvement and Advocacy
People Living Through Cancer, Inc., was founded in 1983 by and for those dealing with a cancer diagnosis or the cancer of a friend or loved one.
