David Herring will resign from his position as the UNM School of Law dean, Provost Chaouki Abdallah announced Wednesday morning. Herring's resignation will be effective July 1, having served as law school dean since May 2013. He will stay with the law school as a tenured faculty member.
Part-time faculty pay has long been a subject of criticism among community colleges and universities, and UNM is no different. According to a report by the American Association of University Professors in 2013, adjuncts typically earn between $20,000 and $25,000 annually, compared to the average salary of $84,303 for full-time instructors and professors.
An epic collapse changed the entire season for the New Mexico men’s golf team. In March, the Lobos blew a 12-stroke lead in the final round of the San Diego Classic and finished in third place. After the tournament, UNM had a team meeting and decided to change its approach.
The UNM School of Medicine made a comeback this year and was recently ranked one of the top 10 schools in the nation by the American Academy of Family Physicians. UNM made the top 10 from 2011 to 2013 but didn’t make the cut in 2014. This year however, UNM made the list once more, according to a press release. The award recognizes the school’s efforts to foster student interest in family medicine and produce graduates who enter the specified field.
Undergraduate students won’t have to visit the SUB to vote in elections for the Associated Students of UNM in the fall. In fact, they won’t even have to be on campus. ASUNM unanimously passed Bill 21S last week at its last Senate meeting of the semester, approving an initiative headed by Sens. Nadia Cabrera and Bisaan Hanouneh that would allow online access to ASUNM elections.
Yellowstone National Park’s bowels are at least 9,000 kilometers deep. Although this may seem like an odd statistic, one of UNM’s assistant professors, who is working in conjunction with the University of Utah, said it was partially expected.
UNM is again planning to pursue a state-of-the-art replacement facility for the overcrowded University hospital after the plan was rejected by the State Board of Finance in 2012. The decision was made public earlier this month by UNM Chancellor for Health Sciences Paul Roth during a board of directors meeting, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The main building is aging and the flagship hospital is unable to meet the demands of the increasing number of patients, he said. “Right now we are in the planning process that includes evaluation of a replacement facility toward the main UNM hospital,” said Dr. Michael Richards, executive physician-in-chief of the UNM Health System. “This is still in the planning stages.”
After nearly three hours of heated discussion, the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico’s senators failed Resolution 12S by a vote of 4-14-2 at their final Senate meeting of the semester on Wednesday. The legislation would have called upon the University to be transparent in its investments, and it specifically urged UNM to pressure companies, such as Hewlett-Packard and Caterpillar contributing to the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Chris Harriman isn’t new to New Mexico and its men’s basketball program. In 2011, Harriman came to The Pit and got his first taste of UNM as a member of the Saint Louis coaching staff.
Representatives from the U.S. Department of Justice visited UNM this week to hear from students, faculty and staff about sexual violence issues on campus. They conducted multiple focus groups that were open to all students as well as a few specifically for student athletes, fraternities and sororities. They also held open office hours.
New Mexico had the second highest total drug overdose death rate in the nation in 2011. In effort to combat the issue, the New Mexico Human Services Department’s Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, announced a new campaign Tuesday called “A Dose of Reality.” The campaign aims to inform teens and parents of the serious risks involved and how to properly handle and dispose of medications. According to the release, 49 percent of unintentional overdose deaths were the result of prescription painkillers.
UNM is akin to a small city, and all great cities include outdoor spaces for recreation and relaxation, said Sue Mortier, a landscape architect at UNM. While the Physical Plant Department overseas many aspects of campus, the grounds and landscaping section maintains the grounds and water features with a staff of about 50.
UNM’s commitment to sustainability has been rewarded by the Princeton Review for the fifth year in a row. The “Princeton Review’s Guide to 353 Green Colleges: 2015 Edition” provides prospective college students with a comprehensive list of schools that offer green campus initiatives.
Three UNM students have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for the academic year 2015-16 to study and teach in Europe and Asia. Anna Adams, a graduate student in the German Studies department; Caroline Muraida, a graduate student in international environmental economics; and William Taylor, a doctoral student in the Anthropology Department have each been awarded one of the highly coveted graduate scholarships.
Despite prevalent disagreement between two student organizations, a divestment resolution intended to encourage transparency in access to UNM investments will be presented and voted on at Wednesday’s Associated Students of UNM Senate meeting after unanimously passing the Steering the Rules committee last week.
As winter draws to a close, so does the snowboarding and skiing season. To say farewell to another winter season on the slopes, NMX Sports and Warehouse 508 hosted the fourth annual Sun Village Rail Jam on Friday. This event marked the final snowboarding and skiing competition of the season in New Mexico.
Albuquerque Rapid Transit made an appearance on campus Thursday in an effort to hear students’ opinions on a new line that will connect Tramway Boulevard and Central Avenue to 98th Street and Central in about 30 minutes. This meeting was one of a series dedicated to receiving feedback from the community, said Dayna Crawford, deputy director for ABQ RIDE. Forty-one percent of ABQ RIDE’s passengers commute along Central, which is why the $100 million project is so important, she said. The line will stretch 17 miles down Central, stopping every seven minutes.
A panel of experts spoke about the process a survivor of sexual assault at UNM would go through at an open forum on Thursday. LoboRESPECT organized the event in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and in perfect timing with respect to the Department of Justice’s visit next week. “I get this question quite a bit: ‘When are you going to be satisfied? When is it going to be enough?’” said Thomas Aguirre, dean of students. “And I always say, ‘Until we don’t have any more sexual violence.’ One is too many in my mind, so we’re just going to keep pushing at this and keep working on this until we have created a culture where everyone feels safe.”
After five years of research, UNM’s Health Sciences Center has created an interactive website to help parents and their daughters make an informed decision about the human papillomavirus vaccine. HPV is common and many types can cause cervical cancer and genital warts. Today, it is highly recommended that girls ages 11 to 13 get the vaccine. At a Communications and Journalism research colloquium on Wednesday, Gill Woodall, a communication professor and researcher, discussed the website and the research that went into building it.
The MiABQ Millennial Project and The Young Professionals of Albuquerque are organizing the first-ever city-wide young professionals mixer event, coming Friday. The event will provide an opportunity for young professionals in the Albuquerque area to meet colleagues, network, mingle and join a new organization if not already involved with one, the organizers said. “This will be a great opportunity for young professionals and UNM community to get involved with the wide variety of organizations in Albuquerque, and network with other professionals and colleagues,” said Jaclyn Myers, social committee chair for the Young Professionals of Albuquerque, a non-profit organization.
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