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Shuttle opens for UNMH
July 20A shuttle that runs from UNM Hospital to the New Mexico Rail Runner Express opened July 14.
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Missing UNM cop found on peak trail
July 13Missing UNM Police officer Olga Valery was found Wednesday after a search and rescue team discovered her on a hiking trail at Wheeler Peak near Taos.
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Class to bridge language barrier
Caleb Fort | July 13Taking an English course is a logical step for many Spanish-speaking UNM staff members, said Annemarie Werner-Smith. "These people have come to the United States to have a better life," said Werner-Smith, an instructor for the University's new course. "That's the kind of people they are, so this class is an extension of that."
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Parking fines rise across campus
Abigail Ramirez | July 13Some students are upset about a new parking permit and fine increase that went into effect July 10. Julie Rannou was one of them. "I'm just kind of outraged because the University isn't offering better services, but prices are always going up," she said. "It's hard for students who work on a budget. If the prices went up $2 or $3 that would be OK, but $25 is kind of steep."
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Q & A
Eric Pacheco | July 6Daily Lobo: What is the main purpose of the graduation task force? Reed Dasenbrock: UNM, historically, has had very low graduation rates when compared to other institutions in the area, such as the University of Arizona and the University of Colorado. The average six-year graduation rate is ...
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Vandalism or art?
Marcella Ortega | July 6by Marcella Ortega Daily Lobo On sidewalks, bus stops and newspaper dispensers, a new form of graffiti is appearing all around campus. It is called stencil graffiti. Stencilists create their designs in the form of a stencil, which they use to fi lter spray-painted images onto their surface of ...
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Fair invites curanderos to heal, teach
Abigail Ramirez | July 6by Abigail Ramirez Daily Lobo After student Rosalinda Olivas picked up a fl yer for the 2nd Annual Mexican Traditional Medicine Fair, she looked forward to the event as a way to heal her foot. "I've had a broken toe for about two months, and it seems to be getting worse," Olivas said. "I already ...
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Working for their future
Christopher Sanchez | July 6by Christopher Sanchez Daily Lobo When UNM student Cherie Nanco was a sophomore in high school, her grades were low, and she was on the verge of dropping out. Nanco's life changed when her teachers referred her to Los Compa§eros Youth Mentoring Program, an organization with UNM's law school ...
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Showing the way to eBay payday
Caleb Fort | July 6by Caleb Fort Daily Lobo Jack Kaplan, an instructor for Continuing Education at UNM, made $825 from his first sale on the online auction Web site eBay. He received a 5 percent commission for selling his friend's motorcycle for about $16,000, he said. "I got that much money for a total of ...
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Working for their future
Caleb Fort | June 29Jessica Van Why, a UNM accounting major, thought she botched her interview for an internship at Intel. "I totally thought I blew the interview, because they asked me some tech-related questions," she said. "I don't really have any background in technology. I don't even know what I said."
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Library reopens after fire
Riley Bauling | June 29The reopening of Zimmerman Library on Monday brought a smile to the face of UNM student Rose Ebaugh. She'd been struggling to find places to use computers for the past two months, until the first floor of the library was opened after an April 30 fire torched the basement and damaged thousands of square feet of property.
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Working for their future
Abigail Ramirez | June 22Some engineering students will get their first field experience on 16,000 miles of New Mexico pavement this summer.
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Policy to check on backgrounds
Caleb Fort | June 22UNM may begin conducting background checks on employees as early as spring 2007, said Susan Carkeek, vice president of Human Resources.
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Phone shift nears completion
Caleb Fort | June 22UNM's transition to a new telephone switch is more than 60 percent complete, said Paula Loendorf, director of telecommunications. The switch is the device that connects calls and provides a dial tone.
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Budget passed for 2006-07
June 15The Board of Regents approved an operating budget of $1.7 billion dollars for the 2006-07 school year Tuesday. The budget is a $106 million, or 6.7 percent, increase from last year's.
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Cancer center funds approved
Riley Bauling | June 15The Board of Regents gave its approval Tuesday to begin building a $53.2 million Cancer Research and Treatment Center starting in October. Dr. Cheryl Willman, director of the center, said the building would be occupied by November or December of 2008.
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Regents updated on fire's cause
Riley Bauling | June 15While the state Fire Marshal's Office is still investigating the Zimmerman Library fire as arson, a general insurance adjuster said at Tuesday's Board of Regents meeting the fire seemed to be intentionally started.
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Phone upgrade to cause outages
June 15UNM can expect rolling outages of phone service beginning June 19, as technicians move phone lines to a new switch, said Mark Reynolds, UNM's telecommunications operations manager.
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Journals lost in blaze not easily replaced
Riley Bauling | June 15The fire that tore through the Zimmerman Library basement April 30 damaged journals that can't be found in UNM's online journal database, said Camila Alire, dean of University Libraries.
