Meredith Hay Since June 2005, vice president for research at the University of Iowa, which received $360 million in external research funding during the past fiscal year. Reports directly to the president. Has served as assistant to the vice president for academic affairs at the University ...
by Steven Fernandez Daily Lobo Tony Danridge carried the UNM men's basketball team for the first 16 minutes Wednesday at The Pit. Unfortunately for the Lobos, none of his teammates got too involved on the offensive end, and Brigham Young ran away with the rest of the game in a 70-49 win. With ...
by Jeremy Hunt Daily Lobo With a portfolio of more than $2 million, it's the richest class at UNM. Anderson Schools of Management's portfolio management practicum is a class where students use the Board of Regents' money to invest in stocks and manage a portfolio. "Our No. 1 priority is to mold ...
Michelle Touson sometimes has a hard time explaining to her family why it takes so long to get a doctorate.
The Lottery Success Scholarship fund will have an $18 million deficit by 2011 unless changes are made to the allocation of funding, according to a 2006 report by the Department of Higher Education.
The first nurse to earn a Ph.D. at UNM's nursing school said the reality of her accomplishment is still sinking in. Marie Mugavin earned the first doctorate from the College of Nursing this month, marking the end of a three-year effort. "I did a very intense project," she said. "I'm still coming down from that."
Students are often more technologically savvy than the people they are learning from, said Daniel Reed, director of the Renaissance Computing Institute at the University of North Carolina. "What I found talking to students at Carolina is they are much more in tune with technology futures than are often the professors and the staff and the leaders of the institution, because they see those trends early on," Reed said. "That's the place where you actually find what's going to take off."
A 35-year-old man was arrested Monday after shooting at a police officer and taking a hostage in an apartment building near UNM, said Trish Hoffman, spokeswoman for the Albuquerque Police Department. The incident ended with no injuries at about 2 p.m., when police entered the Kachina Apartments at 301 Harvard Drive S.E. and arrested Jay Ulibarri, Hoffman said.
Eric Sandine Sophomore Psychology Daily Lobo: How stoked are you to be in Albuquerque right now? ES: Not stoked. I grew up in Baltimore and D.C., and it was a lot more interesting. It was easy to hop a train into D.C. and go to the Smithsonian and the art galleries. DL: Have you been to the National ...
It won't help students watch YouTube videos or download music faster, but LambdaRail will attract research scientists to UNM and improve distance learning, said Moira Gerety, director of ITS. Gov. Bill Richardson announced his support for the $5 million network connection Friday at UNM's Media Arts Center.
by Caleb Fort Daily Lobo Although UNM has made progress in sustainability by doing things like shutting down heat to several buildings during winter break, there is still work to be done, said Barbara Widhalm, coordinator of the Sustainability Studies program. "As a university, UNM has a lot of ...
The Institute of Public Law, a division of the UNM law school, requested $60,000 Saturday to start a UNM chapter of NMPIRG. The money would come from the Student Fee Review Board, which allocates money from student fees to UNM departments.
UNM needs to work on its image, said Richard Kilmer, a principal of Kilmer and Kilmer, a brand consulting firm. Beginning in the fall semester, the company examined how the University represents itself at the request of the Board of Regents Advancement Committee.
Student Leif Rotsaert said he spent about $450 on textbooks at the Bookstore last fall semester, but he hasn't tried to sell them back. "It's like pennies," he said. "It's not worth it." Rotsaert said he didn't pay as much this semester but still spent about $300. "Those (publishing) companies just want to make money off us," he said.
Tara Aran Freshman Planetary sciences "It's a bad idea. War is something you can't necessarily ask for public opinion on, but I think he had a personal agenda. It seems like he takes revenge on the country as a whole and can't isolate the real party that was responsible." John Ogren Junior ...
Residents and fellows at the UNM School of Medicine will vote Jan. 31 on whether to form a union. If they formed a union, the physicians would bargain for salaries and benefits as a group, rather than individually.
Student Mary Fortuin's room in Coronado Hall was occupied by unwelcome guests over winter break - mice that littered her room with feces. "It just makes my skin crawl," she said. "I know the mice aren't going to kill me, but their diseases might."
The MyUNM Web site crashed Tuesday morning because about 2,500 students tried to login at the same time, said Moira Gerety, director of ITS Computing. "The system is appropriately designed to handle what we expect with concurrent users," she said. "But when everybody hit the login screen concurrently, that piece choked."
Staff Report UNM Police arrested a suspected car thief Jan. 10 behind the Golden Pride restaurant at 1830 Lomas Blvd., said Lt. Pat Davis, UNM Police spokesman. When police tried to pull over Saul Puma, 21, he crashed a stolen vehicle into another vehicle driving down Lomas Boulevard.
Teresa Neely, director of Zimmerman Library, said she has been eager to reopen the east wing of the library since the fire in April. "We're very, very happy to open up this much larger space," she said. Fran Wilkinson, dean of University Libraries, cut the yellow caution tape blocking the east wing Tuesday. Neely said faculty and staff had to share offices for the last year and were grateful for the reopening.
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