Aspiring astronaut Zach Gallegos is one step closer to his dream, but 57.4 million miles away from attaining it. Zach Gallegos, an Earth and Planetary Science graduate student, said he was recently promoted to the third round of selected applicants for the Mars One mission.
One small-town New Mexico business is rising from the ashes of adversity by combining several local southwest businesses in one store. The Jerky Store closed in December after its supplier, Sunset Foods Jerky Processing Plant, burned down. Beatrice Aragon, Jerky Store owner said closing the Bosque Farms store cost her about $40,000 a month.
Editor, The job of the University President is to guide and represent the University and look out for its well-being in a financially, academically and socially conscious way. Sometimes I have to make unpopular decisions.
Many UNM students find skateboarding to be a quick and easy way to get around campus. Bryce Yazzie, a freshman chemical engineering major, shows us how to get started. As always don’t forget to wear protective gear.
Editor, I was very disappointed to learn that President Frank failed to honor an agreement that he made with the ASUNM and GPSA presidents and removed over $5 million of student fees from the purview of the Student Fee Review Board without their knowledge. I think it shows a tremendous amount of disrespect ...
Editor, We are writing with extreme concern about President Bob Frank’s plans to induct a new Student Cabinet. We support increased student participation in important decision-making. In fact, this issue has been at the forefront of our demands to make the administration accountable to student concerns.
Editor, At great risk of losing popularity, and in response to your May 7 front page article entitled “ASUNM parking summit gives drivers a voice,” let me suggest that rather than adding more parking spaces at UNM, we need less. It should be painful to park at UNM for the vast majority ...
Editor, I want to thank UNM professor David Correia for being out on the front lines of social progress for us in the community. As an alumni of UNM, it makes me proud to see one of my fellow faculty leading the movement for justice. I saw the statement from the UNM administration dissociating themselves ...
Love. It’s something that we all want, but sometimes cannot find. I have spent the past year filling the Daily Lobo with stories about my search for love, my failure to find it and subsequent nights spent with boxed wine and friends.
Students said price, efficiency and crowding were their chief concerns with the parking and transportation system at UNM. Sophia Gruskos, a senior psychology major, said she chooses to park off campus because of the price of on-campus parking and because the parking meters on campus where she would park only allow payment by card.
On April 28, the UNM Police Department responded to a report of burglary at the Lomas Parking Structure, according to a police report.
A new UNM website aims to connect students with faculty who can provide research opportunities on campus. Research Match will help students find research positions based on their major and interests, said Kiyoko Simmons, director of the Center for Academic Excellence and Leadership Development.
The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico and Parking and Transportation Services are collaborating to incorporate student voices on the University’s parking availability. Jenna Hagengruber, ASUNM senator and vice-president elect, said when she was elected to the Senate, her most immediate goal was to communicate with PATS about the student complaints she heard regarding a perceived lack of parking and the fines incurred from citations.
The opportunity to compete for a national golf championship is right around the corner for the New Mexico men’s and women’s teams. The Lobo women will play in the NCAA West Regional tournament starting Thursday at the Tumble Creek Club in Cle Elum, Washington.
New Mexico announced the signing of forward Tohi Smith-Milner to a national letter of intent Wednesday. Smith-Milner comes to UNM from New Zealand’s Rosmini College, where he propelled the team to a national championship in 2011.
First, I want to say how proud and encouraged I am by the students who have formed #OurUNM. They are trailblazers who have chosen to look corporate greed in the eye and ask for an accounting. Right now, they are the only reason I am proud to be a Lobo.
In response to today’s headline, “Protesters hijack City Council meeting:” When will the media stop portraying protesters exercising their civil rights as terrorists? And in response to other media accounts that have described the meeting as “descending into chaos:” What is “chaos” and what is “order?”
There is apparently an interesting paradox at the University of New Mexico. On the one hand, a group of students without understanding of the Middle East and the majority of whom have never been there have decided to divest from the State of Israel. The groups are deciding the ‘correct’ borders for the democratic, successful economy of the Jewish State of Israel.
Protesters commandeered the Albuquerque City Council meeting Monday in a bid to highlight a perceived lack of accountability among city officials. The Albuquerque Government Center was shut down and cleared around 6:30 p.m.
A summer camp associated with UNM is offering University students the opportunity to work with kids and teens with who have been diagnosed with autism.
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