Gov. Bill Richardson appointed four new members to the UNM Board of Regents Jan. 23. As regents, the four will help make policy for the University. Andrea Cook, James Koch, Donald Salazar and Maria Griego-Raby attended their first regents meeting Wednesday, and are eager to begin serving their respective terms.
The U.S. Department of Education recently awarded the UNM Center for Family and Community Partnerships in the College of Education a $2.3 million grant to begin local efforts to improve language and reading skills in young children, called Project LEER. Project LEER, an acronym for Learners Eager for Early Reading, which is also Spanish for "to read," is an Early Reading First Program.
Two UNM electrical engineering students are combining existing technologies with their own concepts in an attempt to create a new way of training medical personnel syringe injection techniques. Daniel Derkacs and Bill Anderson's electrical engineering senior design class project is to write software for a needle simulator device based in virtual reality that someday could be a more effective tool than traditional cadavers.
Staff Report ASUNM, the SouthWest Film Center and Student Special Events will present a one-time screening of "The Two Towns of Jasper" -- a documentary film about the racially motivated murder of a Texas man -- in Keller Hall at 7 p.m., tonight. "The Two Towns of Jasper" tells the story of James Byrd Jr.
UNM faculty, staff and students who are interested in writing manuscripts can attend a free panel discussion tonight meant to inform would-be writers about the ins and outs of getting published.
The director of the Athletic Training Education program works double time as the director of sports medicine for ESPN, a job she uses to bring exposure to UNM and provide many of her students with hands-on education. Susan McGowen, who has worked for the Entertainment Sports Programming Network for nine years, has headed medical teams providing assistance for sporting events across the world, including the Winter, Summer and International X-Games and the Global-X Championship.
Workers from Silver Construction Company of New Mexico, Inc. have been given seven days to leave campus after their contract to build the new SUB was terminated by University administrators Thursday.
ASUNM senators exchanged suggestions and questions with two new members of the UNM Board of Regents concerning topics such as the presidential search, tuition increases and faculty and staff salary increases. Newly appointed Regs. James Koch and Donald Salazar were guest speakers at the Associated Students of UNM meeting, Wednesday, and took the opportunity to acclimate themselves with the senators’ concerns.
UNM alumnus Justin Delacour has gathered some international publicity lately by questioning the practices of Venezuela's best-known polling companies. In an online report, "Can You Believe Venezuela's Pollsters?" Delacour accuses Venezuela's largest polling firms of being against the country's president, Hugo Chavez.
Construction is underway for a new entry forecourt at the North end of the Zimmerman Library. "I wanted to enhance the north-side entry, it had been on my list of things to do for a while, it will be just as much a front door as the South-side entry," said Gil Berry, associate director of Facility Planning.
The efforts made by a coalition of students and community members to delay the search for a new director of the Chicano/a Studies Program seems to have attracted the attention of UNM administrators throughout campus. Roberto Ibarra, special assistant to the president for Diversity Issues, said he was at Wednesday’s meeting between University College Dean Peter White and the coalition to collect feedback and information for both Garcia and his own work regarding campus diversity initiatives.
Recent winter storms on the East Coast dealt a harsh blow to UNM’s 21st Century Speakers Series. Award winning historical documentary filmmaker Ken Burns was set to give a presentation titled “Telling American Stories” at Popejoy Hall, Thursday night, but flight cancellations kept him in the Northeast.
Staff Report The New Mexico Legislature passed several education reform proposals designed to secure funding for a professional licensure program in public education and increase minimum salaries for teachers statewide. "For years, we have lagged behind our neighboring states in teacher salaries, and we're paying a price," Rep.
Staff Report New Mexico taxpayers without social security numbers are one step closer to being able to obtain driver's licenses thanks to the passing of House Bill 173 by the state House of Representatives Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Miguel Garcia (D-Albuquerque), would allow residents who work in the state to obtain a driver's license and auto insurance.
The UNM Board of Regents voted Tuesday to appoint a new regent, Maria Griego-Raby, to head the Presidential Search Committee, even though Griego-Raby has not been involved in the current search process. Larry Willard, the board's president and a search committee member, nominated Griego-Raby to replace former Reg.
UNM Police detectives are investigating an alleged incident of forgery that may have been committed by an Athletics Department employee. According to a UNM police report, filed by Sylvia Lopez, personnel coordinator for the Athletics Department, an employee allegedly forged a physician's signature to use as a documented excuse from attending work, while at the same time receiving sick leave benefit pay worth more than $2,500.
The UNM Presidential Search Committee spent an hour and a half Monday narrowing down its list of applicants from last week's figure of 83 to a "number fewer than 15." "That number could increase or decrease," said Larry Willard, acting committee chairman.
The Intel Corp. announced Friday that it is donating $17.5 million worth of computer manufacturing equipment to Next Generation Economy Inc., an Albuquerque economic-development group. A portion of the donated equipment will soon be set up at UNM’s Manufacturing Training and Technology Center.
UNM is now investing nearly $82 million in utility and construction projects across campus. However, University officials say the end is near for many of those on-going campus projects, eliminating the orange flags, heavy construction equipment and safety barricades that have become an-all-too familiar sight for the UNM community.
With his short hair, plaid shirt and wire-rimmed glasses, soft-spoken Trey Smith seems an unlikely leader of student peace activists. But that is the idea. "There's people who say, 'Well, I saw someone holding a sign about Bush being Satan,' and that sign alone is what keeps people from joining us," Smith said.
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