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Grad students win Ford fellowships
Chelsea Erven | April 21For the first time at UNM, two American Studies graduate students were awarded prestigious Ford Foundation predoctoral fellowships.
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IT balances $2 million cut without layoffs
Shaun Griswold | April 19Information Technologies will see roughly $2 million cut from its budget next year, but no one is getting fired. Instead, the department won’t hire replacements after full-time employees retire or quit.
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C&J creates new major
Chelsea Erven | April 19What do you get when you combine advertising, public relations and marketing? Strategic communication is a new major in the communication and journalism department and will be available to students in the fall.
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Group to find provost
Kevin Forte | April 19Provost Suzanne Ortega will resign from her position in June, and a committee to find her temporary replacement will publicly interview applicants starting next week. President Schmidly announced in his April 4 Monday Morning Message that Ortega opted out of a renewed contract with UNM to take a job offer back East. Schmidly appointed Faculty Senate President Richard Wood to chair the internal search committee for an interim provost. Wood said the committee will replaceme Ortega with a UNM faculty member. He said a joint effort between faculty and administration is crucial to the selection process. “That’s a really important improvement in shared governance of the University — to have the faculty and administration deeply connected as we look for a new provost,” he said.
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WRC hosts event to help rape victims
Shaun Griswold | April 19The ages of sexual assault victims in New Mexico range from as young as 6 weeks to 90 years old, according to data compiled by the Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico, and one in four women in the state will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.
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Report: UNM vital to local economy
Alexandra Swanberg | April 18A Business and Economic Development report provides hard data that proves UNM’s significance to the state economy.
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Police call for info in unsolved UNM murder
Kevin Forte | April 18The UNM Police Department is reaching out to the community for leads in the only unsolved murder in campus history. Lisa Wortman’s body was found in a manhole June 1994 near The Pit.
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Faculty: Penalize absent teachers
Luke Holmen | April 18The Faculty Senate passed a resolution last week to create a harsher disciplinary system for faculty who violate University policy. Faculty Senate President Richard Wood announced the measure at the Board of Regents Audit Committee meeting Thursday.
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Lobo Village
April 15Construction continues at the Lobo Village apartments on south campus. The apartments are slated to be completed by August, and fewer than 30 tenant slots are remaining, according to a Lobo Village e-mail.
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ASUNM approves aide to president
Kevin Forte | April 15ASUNM has a new chief of staff as of Wednesday night. The ASUNM Senate passed a measure 18-1-1 to replace former Chief-of-Staff Michael Thorning with freshman Christopher Romero.
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Engineering fun
Chelsea Erven | April 15Fifth-graders at Monte Vista Elementary school raced mini, balloon-powered racecars Thursday designed with the help of UNM engineering students.
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Guv: Don’t taint NM chile’s good name
Kallie Red-Horse | April 14“Red or green?” may be the state question, but for the local chile industry the question is, “Is it grown here or there?” Gov.
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Cuts likely to cause layoffs
Shaun Griswold | April 14The Board of Regents approved $10.5 million in cuts to the University’s budget Monday, and the Office of Equity and Inclusion was among the hardest-hit programs. Rumored to be cut completely, OEI budget was instead cut by $136,320, meaning it will have to terminate five positions within the department.
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Mayor aims to house homeless
Chelsea Erven | April 14Anthony sits on a bench at the edge of campus with other men, surrounded by a heap of clothing, sleeping bags, a walker and grocery bags filled with old food.
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Tuition hiked, fees frozen
Shaun Griswold | April 13The UNM Board of Regents decided not to increase student fees and approved a 5.5 percent tuition-and-fee increase that will raise costs to students roughly $305 next year. Tuition alone will increase 7 percent next year.
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Undergrad ballot to offer rec center vote
Hunter Riley | April 13ASUNM plans to include two questions on its annual election ballot to determine if students are willing to pay for a recreational facility.
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Former surgeon claims retaliation
Elizabeth Cleary and Kevin Forte | April 12A former UNM Hospital surgeon filed a lawsuit against the University for an alleged breach of contract and violation of the NM Whistleblower Act.
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Regents: Expect more fees
Shaun Griswold | April 12The Regents Finance and Facilities Committee voted Monday to raise student fees by $40 and increase tuition 6.3 percent.
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Brazil program needs nerds
Kevin Forte | April 11UNM offers scholarships to students eager to explore Brazil’s booming job market, but few are taking advantage of the opportunity. Robyn Cote, the Latin American and Iberian Institute’s program director, said the program targets science students, but many aren’t willing to study Portuguese for four semesters, a program requirement. “Language was the major hindrance to engineers,” she said. “Unless they had a real interest in Portuguese, it would’ve been hard for them to add that to their coursework.”
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NM license plate tops national list
Kallie Red-Horse | April 11Of all the license plates in the United States and Canada, why New Mexico? The Automobile License Plate Collectors Association awarded New Mexico first place for its turquoise plates, but some New Mexicans are still bummed about the bumper decorations. Student Adam Rottler said the plate is unworthy of a national award.
