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.
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.
Staff Editorial Daily Texan (U. Texas-Austin) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas -- U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., wants to keep students in college. Due to this desire, Frank and 39 co-sponsors proposed H.R. 685 last week, a bill that would repeal a law barring students with drug convictions from receiving financial aid.
The UNM women's tennis team bounces back home to the Lobo Tennis Club this weekend to take on the University of Denver Pioneers and the University of Kansas Jayhawks. The Lobos were on the road last week, dropping matches to 40th ranked Washington State and No.
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.
by Scott Darnell Daily Lobo Columnist Miguel Estrada isn't probably someone with an immense amount of name recognition -- yet. President Bush appointed him to an open seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals, District Columbia Circuit on May 9, 2001; he immigrated to the United States from Honduras when he was 15 years old, graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude in 1986, has been a clerk for a Supreme Court justice, an assistant U.
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.
Editor, I read with dismay, but not surprise, about the theft of two bassoons from the UNM Music Department valued at $14,000. (See Daily Lobo News in Brief, Feb. 18.) The problem for the Music Department is not one of instrument theft but one of professional ethics.
After an impressive first-place finish in Crested Butte two weeks ago, the UNM ski team heads back to Colorado for the NCAA West Regional meet this Sunday and Monday in Winter Park, Colo. The Lobos are seated third overall going into regionals, following Utah and Colorado respectively.
The Lobos got sweet revenge in defeating the University of Wyoming Cowgirls, 70-37, Monday night, at The Pit. UNM lost to Wyoming 71-58 earlier in the year, but it made sure that there would be no repeat of that this time around. The Lobos (15-7, 5-4 MWC) played penny-pinching defense in forcing the Cowgirls (15-8, 5-5 MWC) to miss their first 11 shots of the game en route to a commanding 33-6 lead well into the first half.
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.
Jacques Derrida, one of the most brilliant and well-known living philosophers, is the subject of a new biographical movie, titled "Derrida," in which he reveals to the camera some personal details from his life. Most interesting, though, is what he does not explicitly say.
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.
Editor, Included in your Feb. 12 career issue was a statement of academic codes of conduct; “faculty members . . . an obligation . . . to foster and defend freedom of inquiry and instruction and free expression.” But when a respected faculty member expressed this freedom in regard to Sept.
Author Michael Cunningham wasn’t afraid to take a risk with his novel The Hours — that risk, writing about another book, ultimately won him a Pulitzer Prize and a movie deal with Paramount pictures. In a conference call with the Daily Lobo, Cunningham answered the question every one is dying to know the answer to — how did he write a book about one of the world’s most admired piece of literature, Mrs.
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