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Green edition: Campus sustainability expo to be lively event

Lena Guidi | April 20

Students will have the opportunity to eat locally grown food, watch live music and dance performances, purchase growing supplies and learn about sustainable practices at the 7th Annual UNM Sustainability Expo. The event, organized by students enrolled in the Growers’ Market Practicum course through the Sustainability Studies program, will host local vendors, farmers and value-added producers. Break dancers and local folk indie band Brush Strokes will perform from noon to 1 p.m. In addition, the event will feature work from the ASUNM arts and crafts studio and various student projects related to sustainability. The expo takes place Tuesday from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Cornell Mall.

UNM Provost Chaouki Abdallah talks about next years budget at the Board of Regents meeting Friday at the SUB ballroom. The regents approved a 3.37 percent increase in tuition and fees.

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UNM regents approve tuition increase, graduation incentive

Lena Guidi | April 13

The Board of Regents approved a 3.37 percent increase in tuition and fees, as well as a tuition plan that incentivizes four-year graduation, during the annual budget summit on Thursday. Both will take effect in the fall semester. The decisions were made in light of a $3.6 million tuition and fee revenue shortfall in the 2015 fiscal year. President Robert Frank attributed a large part of that budget deficit to a 1.5 percent decrease in overall enrollment during this academic year, which he said is part of a larger national trend. The budget plan for 2016 included a projected flat enrollment rate.

Nobel Peace Prize nominee John Dear speaks to a crowd gathered in the SUB Atrium Tuesday morning, discussing topics of world peace and his experiences combatting violence. Dear is a Catholic priest, author, lecturer and peace activist who leads an annual peace vigil at Los Alamos National Labs against the use of nuclear weapons.

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Nobel Prize nominee urges peace

Lena Guidi | April 8

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Father John Dear encouraged nonviolent strategies for grassroots peace and justice movements during a speech at UNM’s Student Union Building on Tuesday. The lecture was followed by a panel discussion with community leaders regarding ways to mobilize people to work for interrelated social, political, and environmental causes.

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Lamphere's lawsuit a landmark for equality

Lena Guidi | April 1

In 1973, Louise Lamphere went up for tenure at the Department of Anthropology at Brown University. A researcher in the budding field of feminist anthropology, she was one of the few women faculty members in a tenure-track position. At the time, 97 percent of Brown’s tenured faculty counterparts were men. When Lamphere was denied tenure in May of the next year, she filed a class action lawsuit against the university on the basis of sex discrimination. The case, Louise Lamphere v. Brown University, paved the way for increased gender equality in academia nationwide.

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Development plans progress

Lena Guidi | March 26

Innovate ABQ is moving ahead with its plans to develop a seven-acre site to create an “innovation district” that ties UNM to downtown Albuquerque’s business community. Lisa Kuuttila, CEO of UNM’s Science and Technology Corporation, said that rather than acting as a final plan, the development framework approved on March 9 provides ideas to developers whose building proposals will be accepted in April. “This is meant to be a living document,” she said. “We can give it to developers in April, and they are going to work within this framework. They are not held to specific ideas on what a building has to look like.”

Dr. Esteban Muldavin catches up on work at his office in Marron Hall Thursday afternoon. Muldavin is the director of Natural Heritage New Mexico which is a division of the SouthWestern Biology Department.

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Biologist studies, saves NM heritage

Lena Guidi | March 20

Esteban Muldavin gained a passion for the natural world — and its conservation — at an early age. The director and senior ecologist of Natural Heritage New Mexico said spending his childhood on a ranch in northern New Mexico deeply impacted his decision to become a scientist. “I grew up, in part, between Santa Fe and Las Vegas on my family’s ranch, and since my early days as a kid I used to wander around,” he said. “It’s like a lot of ecologists and biologists: We grew up outside, and it became part of the fabric of our being.” In addition to having an environment to explore, Muldavin said he was also influenced by his grandmother, who was the first female member of the San Miguel County Water Conservation District. He said she was engaged in environmental efforts throughout the area during the 1960s and ‘70s.

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El Centro de la Raza offers support to Hispanic students

Lena Guidi | March 3

By Lena Guidi When Rosa Isela Cervantes was a senior at Bernalillo High School, her friend brought her to El Centro de la Raza at UNM — known as Hispanic Student Services at the time — to meet with an advisor and get scholarship information.

Patrick Smith, a three-year veteran at the UNM Surplus Department, moves old computer towers into a warehouse Monday. Smith and other workers at the department categorize and store all of UNM's unwanted equipment.

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Surplus Property Department stores, recycles old equipment

Lena Guidi | February 18

In the old Elks Lodge building located on North Campus, a multitude of miscellaneous items are warehoused: computers, old CRT monitors, gym equipment, projectors, furniture, medical tools and framed posters. There are even oddities like a handmade globe, a mysterious medical instrument from the early 20th century and a baby dummy. This is where UNM’s property comes to die — or, ideally, to be resold to a different department.

UNM President Robert Frank speaks to the Board of Regents during Fridays meeting. According to Frank, UNM has made progress on 18 out of the 27 goals in his strategic eight year plan and completed four of them.

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Frank's agenda makes headway

Lena Guidi | February 9

UNM President Bob Frank gave a promising update on his strategic eight-year plan for improving the University during this month’s Board of Regents meeting. According to the presentation he gave during the president’s administrative report, UNM has made progress on 18 out of the 27 goals in the plan, and completed four of them. “There are a couple of places where we’re struggling,” Frank said, “but by and large we’re making excellent progress.”

Carl Agee holds up a meteorite from the collection at Northrop Hall. Agee is currently working on updating the Meteorite Museum for an April opening.

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UNM scientist studies the authenticity of meteorites

Lena Guidi | February 4

In 2011, Carl Agee received a rock in the mail from a meteorite collector in Morocco. At the time, nobody knew what it was or where it had come from. Even for Agee, director of UNM’s Institute for Meteoritics, the rock’s origin remained a mystery for quite some time. At the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, he tested the rock’s chemical composition, isotopic composition, and mineralogy to determine its makeup.