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Poetic play has dreamlike quality
Lauren Marvin | September 30A lifeless wedding dress sparkled under a blue light upon the stage. A remembrance of what could have been.
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Fall's pagan pride festival fills pantry
Daniel Montaño | September 29Early-morning rain clouds parted and the sun illuminated psychics, gypsy dancers and henna healers who all came together to celebrate the autumnal equinox. Albuquerque Pagan Pride Day took over Baatan Park on Sunday to educate the public about pagan traditions, encourage community service and bring food to those in need during the harvest season, said Ramona Stipe, event coordinator and president of the board for Pagan Pride Day.The event was one of 115 that took place nationwide over the past week, all of which were aimed at helping others in a loving way and spreading awareness, Stipe said.
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Football: Inconsistency plagues Lobos
Liam Cary-Eaves | September 29For the second time in three games, New Mexico’s sloppy second-half play squandered an opportunity for victory. Despite leading at halftime, the Lobos (1-3) couldn’t overcome a second-half meltdown that led to a 35-24 loss against Fresno State. Head coach Bob Davie said the game reminded him of the 58-23 loss to Arizona State in which UNM kept the game close until falling apart in the second half.“The stage was set,” Davie said. “We’re not good enough yet to go perform against a team like that for the entire game, and then go win the game.”
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Prenatal arsenic exposure linked to disability
Sayyed Shah | September 28A neuroscience researcher at UNM has found that mothers who drank water containing even moderate amounts of arsenic were more likely to birth children with depression and learning memory deficits later in life.Christina Tyler, a biomedical sciences graduate student, has developed a model using mice to measure the negative effects of exposure to arsenic and ways to counter those effects.Tyler’s pregnant mice were given access only to water that contained 50 parts per billion of arsenic – the same levels the average American adult drank prior to 2006.
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Albuquerque to host socialism event
Matthew Reisen | September 26Albuquerque will host the inaugural Southwest Regional Socialism Conference this weekend, presented by The Party for Socialism and Liberation.
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App aims to protect drone flyers
Liam Cary-Eaves | September 26Talk of drones can conjure concerns about privacy, safety and ethics for many, but one man has a different worry.
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Cancer treatment may make use of magnets
Lauren Topper | September 25The magnet is perhaps best known for its role in sticking things to the fridge, but scientists at UNM believe they may have a better use: treating cancer. At the Health Sciences Center, the laboratory of Dr. Pavan Muttil is making strides in developing a new method to target tumor growth within the lungs by using the simple power of magnets.Muttil and his students have developed a magnetic vest that, when worn by a cancer patient, may help direct cancer drugs to their intended target without damaging the rest of the body, he said.
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Disease database to be funded by NIH
Sayyed Shah | September 25A UNM professor of medicine has received a $4.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop tools to link information about drugs, diseases and genes. Dr. Tudor Oprea, chief of the Division of Translational Informatics in the Department of Internal Medicine at UNM’s School of Medicine, said the award is a part of the NIH Common Fund initiative called Illuminating the Druggable Genome.“Our aim is to try and make sense of all this information and put it together in an organized fashion in order to establish new relationships between medicines, drugs and drug targets,” he said.
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Campaign for decriminalizing pot registers new voters
Jonathan Baca | September 24Tuesday was National Voter Registration Day, and volunteers were on campus, registering new voters and campaigning for the decriminalization of marijuana.
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New Mexico newspapers going digital
Marielle Dent | September 24The College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences, and the Center for Southwest Research have received a $220,000 grant to digitize 100,000 New Mexico newspaper pages.
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2014 Homecoming court to be chosen
September 23Homecoming has descended upon UNM once again, and this week a new homecoming king and queen will be crowned.
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Project ECHO resounds across ocean
Sayyed Shah | September 23By Sayyed ShahUNM’s Project ECHO has expanded its global reach by inaugurating its first clinic in Asia for HIV and AIDs treatment.
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High times in Bernalillo, Sandoval counties
Jonathan Baca | September 22The battle of the ballots has been settled by the New Mexico Supreme Court, and voter’s voices will be heard.Citizens of Bernalillo and Sandoval counties will get the chance to have their opinions heard on whether marijuana should be decriminalized, and Bernalillo County voters will also weigh in on a proposed tax to fund mental health services.The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled after only a 30 minute deliberation on Friday that nonbinding advisory questions can be placed on statewide ballots, and ordered Secretary of State Dianna Duran to place the poll questions on the November election ballot.
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Freshman quarterback seals victory over Aggies
Thomas Romero-Salas | September 22Confidence isn’t something Lamar Jordan lacks. The freshmen quarterback proved that by engineering the first game-winning drive of his career against in-state rival New Mexico State in Las Cruces.
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Professor: Killer brains wired differently
Lauren Topper | September 22For most, the thought of committing murder is repulsive; yet some people might be hard-wired for it. A professor at UNM’s Mind Research Network is using MRI to view the brains of violent criminals, particularly subjects devoid of empathy or remorse, more commonly known as psychopaths.“(Psychopathy is) clinically one of the most interesting disorders that one could study,” Dr. Kent Kiehl said. “They’re just so completely and utterly different, and they have this complete inability to understand things that we do, like feelings toward your kids or family.”
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Daily Lobo to hold general election debates
Priscilla Bañuelos/NM News Port | September 21Members of the UNM community will hear from candidates running for statewide offices Oct. 13-17 at the New Mexico Daily Lobo’s inaugural General Election Debates series.Confirmed candidates include Democratic Land Commissioner Ray Powell; Democratic State Sen. Tim Keller, who is running for state auditor; and Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver, who is running for Secretary of State. Democratic candidate for state treasurer Tim Eichenberg and Republican candidate for state auditor Robert Aragon have tentatively agreed.
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Lobos take down Aggies in close game
Thomas Romero-Salas | September 20Confidence is something that Lamar Jordan doesn’t lack. The freshmen quarterback proved that by engineering his first game-winning drive of his career against in-state rival New Mexico State in Las Cruces.
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'Burque ranks in top fifty
Jonathan Baca | September 19A website ranked Albuquerque number 32 out of the country’s 100 largest cities for highest quality of life, beating out Denver, Phoenix, and Austin, Texas.The list was compiled by NerdWallet.com, and considered things like work-life balance, affordability, unemployment and poverty, and health benefits.Lifestyle was the main consideration for the study, based on research from Cornell University that found that stress stemming from income instability affected one’s overall wellbeing.
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Valencia leans heavy on the levy
Sayyed Shah | September 19Valencia campus is looking to raise $16 million for infrastructure and maintenance costs, by asking local voters to approve the extension of local taxes.The Advisory Board of Valencia Campus plans to put the question of the extension of an existing mill levy on a February 2015 ballot, along with local school board elections, said Alice Letteney, executive director of UNM Valencia campus,Mill levies are property taxes used to pay for general obligation bonds approved by voters, and are Valencia campus’ most important source of capital income, she said.
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Fall freshman are best prepared in University history
Raleigh Silversmith | September 18This fall’s incoming freshmen are the most prepared for college, boasting the highest average GPAs and ACT scores in UNM’s history.The latest influx of students is entering with an average grade point average of 3.4 and an average ACT score of 23, UNM President Bob Frank said at the September Board of Regents meeting.
