The UNM Department of Theater and Dance’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee engages the crowd through guest audience participants, quick and witty humor and relatable characters. The Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical that relates the live of nine characters and their experience of attending a middle school spelling bee.
Fencing offers its practitioners physical exercise and teaches them the beautiful form of swordplay, but the social culture and fun that comes with it is what keeps UNM Fencing Club members coming back. Fencing is a unique hobby that is available to UNM students through the Fencing Club, whose aim is to create a fun, social environment where students can try fencing or improve on it while going to school.
Movies have become a hobby, a student’s common ritual to enjoy and relax, to learn or find something new, and to analyze through personal critique. Victoria Martinez, a freshman who is working at the Southwest Film Center this semester, shared her top five movies, which she said she finds both entertaining and informative.
The KNOWHERE Concert focuses on UNM students performing new choreography in flamenco and contemporary dance that sets to inspire audiences in the performing arts and build confidence and professionalism in dancers. KNOWHERE allows students to engage and support their fellow Lobos in the dance department.
The UNM Ronald E. McNair and Research Opportunity Program has helped students with financial need and students who are part of underrepresented groups find opportunities in doctoral studies for years. Now, they are opening applications for an program online. The McNair and ROP Program was installed in 2,000 to help students transition from undergraduate to graduate studies. The program provides students with research opportunities from various mentors. By giving the students resources such as mentors, advisers and support from their peers, the program’s goal is to establish students in various graduate programs around the nation, allowing them to pursue their career. “The program works to narrow achievement gaps for people who don’t have a level playing field,” Sr. Student Program Advisor Kyle Farris said. “It is specifically to help underrepresented people have opportunities in continuing on to these levels of education.”
For Parade of Lights the purpose of music is to engage others through their unique rock/electric sound and lyrics in order to relate and inspire others to be empowered to enjoy life. Parade of Lights is a band from the Los Angeles region that is currently on tour across the United States. The band comprises lead vocal and guitarist Ryan Daly, Anthony Improgo on the drums, Michelle Ashley on vocals and keyboard, and Randy Schulte on base.
The UNM Wilderness Alliance and Southwest Film Center hope to bring the beauty, the inspirational and the excitement and thrill of the outdoors through the Telluride Mountain Film Festival, held this weekend. The Telluride Mountain Film Festival is composed of about 15 videos ranging anywhere from two minutes to 45 minutes in length. The content of the films vary their focus on nature’s presence, its beauty a prevalent theme throughout the whole film festival. Topics included in the project range from environmental sustainability to recreational outdoor sports.
After 25 years, a former curator for UNM has returned to collaborate with various artists around the country on projects that help publicize lithography. Diana Gaston recently transitioned from the position of lead curator at Fidelity Investments in Boston, to the director of Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque. Gaston originally started as a curator at UNM and soon found herself working for Fidelity’s Investments Corporate Art Collection as a curator. Gaston now begins the position at Tamarind while enjoying her return to New Mexico.
After having taken a year off from school due to health issues, Audra Lovato will graduate from college. In 2010, Lovato was diagnosed with Ulcerative colitis, and despite the several medications she was taking, had to undergo emergency surgery starting in the fall of 2013. The surgery consisted of three major procedures, all three months apart and done in Arizona.
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