Black History Month events scheduled
Black History Month at UNM will include various events hosted by African-American Student Services, Africana Studies and other student organizations.
- Feb. 5: HIV Testing hosted by Black Greek Letter Organizations SUB, Scholars, 10 a.m. to noon. Brown Bag Discussion in Africana Studies at noon.
- Feb. 6: Black History Month Mixer hosted by the Black Student Union in African-American Student Services at 5 p.m.
- Feb. 7: Film Screening: Fruitvale Station in African Studies at 4 p.m. Time TBA - Black Greek Letter Organizations will be performing during half time of Lobo Basketball game at WisePies Arena aka The Pit.
- Feb. 10: FAFSA Informational Workshop in African-American Student Services at 6 p.m.
- Feb. 11: Identity and Culture Lecture presented by Dr. McIver, African-American Student Services noon to 1 p.m.
For more information, visit afro.unm.edu or call Brandi Wells at 277-2490.
UNM Day at the Legislature
UNM Day at the Legislature is Monday in Santa Fe. According to UNM, it will be held at the Capitol Rotunda, Halls of History, East and Westside.
Every year, UNM has one day reserved solely for UNM tables and exhibits to showcase its schools, campuses and programs. This year all of UNM’s branch campuses will attend. Six graduate students will be presenting projects from UNM, along with students from every other graduate school in New Mexico. UNM’s projects range from an inhalable drug delivery system for chemotherapy to examining different Gallina communities. Graduate and Professional Students Association representatives will be further advocating for graduate education in the state and representing the many graduate programs at UNM.
Space Grant Consortium awards $10,000 each to UNM students
The New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, based at New Mexico State University, recently awarded fellowships to Engineering and Arts and Sciences students at the University of New Mexico. Each recipient receives a $10,000 award.
According to UNM, the NMSGC is a member of the Congressionally funded National Space Grant College Scholarship and Fellowship Program. NMSGC fellowships and scholarships are competitively awarded based on application information, faculty recommendation, GPA, research project and NASA’s Mission.
Students receiving fellowships for work in Engineering include: Elisa Borowski, master’s student, “Engineering Viscoelastic Behavior of Deployable FRP Composites Using Nanoparticles”; David Lidsky, Ph.D. student, “Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Infrared Superlattice Avalanche Photodiodes”; and Corbin Wilhelmi, Ph.D. student, “Multi-Robot Cooperative Intelligence for Selective Search and Exploration Applications on Extra-Terrestrial Surfaces.”
Students receiving fellowships for research in the Arts and Sciences are: Nguyen Phan, Ph.D. student, “Development of Detectors for X-ray Polarimetry and Dark Matter Detection”; and Alison Santos, Ph.D. student, “Examination of an Exotic Igneous Lithology within Martian Meteorite NWA 7034.”
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Young innovators gear up for robotics competition
More than 100 elementary, middle and high school VEX Robotics students and their mentors from all over New Mexico will compete at the Centennial Engineering Center at UNM on Saturday for the VEX IQ and VEX Robotics competitions.
According to its website, the VEX Robotics Design System offers students a platform for learning about areas spanning science, technology, engineering and math by building with VEX Robotics technology. According to UNM, the tournament will feature more than 24 teams who will compete with and against other schools in a series of back-to-back robot challenges. Participants will compete for the championship title by strategically executing the “Skyrise” game, driving robots they designed, built and programmed from the ground up using the VEX Robotics Design System.
The competition is made possible through a collaboration of the Albert I. Pierce Foundation, Los Alamos Technical Associates, the Levitated Toy Factory, NASA and UNM’s School of Engineering.
For more information, contact Stefi Weisburd, UNM School of Engineering at 277-5062 or weisburd@unm.edu, or visit roboticseducation.org
Regents appoint members to Innovate ABQ board
The UNM Board of Regents appointed five new members to the recently formed board of directors for Innovate ABQ, Inc., a New Mexico nonprofit research park corporation.
According to UNM, the new appointees are John Sanchez, New Mexico lieutenant governor; Jessica Eaves Matthews, founder and chief executive officer of Leverage Legal Group; Carlos Perea, board member, former president and chief executive officer of MIOX Corporation; Waneta Tuttle, chief executive officer and president of Southwest Medical Ventures and co-founder of Exagen Diagnostics Inc. and Jeff Apodaca, executive vice president of Entravision Communications.
~ Compiled by Erika Eddy
