Mathematicians are glasses-wearing, pocket-protector-sporting, calculator-wielding geeks. That’s the misconception UNM professors Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner try to dispel in their just-released book, Loving Hating Mathematics.
It’s not in every department that undergraduate students get to perform alongside their professors. But in the Theatre and Dance Department’s faculty show “Strada,” five faculty members will present six pieces, using more than 60 student dancers from the program. Mary Anne Santos Newhall, a rehearsal coach for the first piece “Panorama,” said the department is interconnected. “One of the beauties of our department is that we all do different things, and we really enjoy working together,” she said.
Three times a week, Winning Coffee Co. offers more than food and coffee — it’s got something for the mind, too. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the coffeehouse doubles as a used bookstore. The bookstore, Bradley’s Books, has been operating out of Winning for four and a half years, but owner Bradley Bumgarner-Kirby has been selling books in the UNM area since the mid-70s.
Editor, A bright source of joy and inspiration vanished from the world the day Elizabeth “Lizz” Ketterer died.
Editor, Is the modern definition of a dictatorship, “A government that exports the jobs of average workers to other countries for the benefit of corporations; destroys the economy by converting the stock market from a place to invest for the future to a place where a few speculators can make vast fortunes in a short period of time at the expense of everyone else; bankrupts the school system, pension funds, health care and the country’s infrastructure; and takes away the right to organize from average citizens?” If so, how close is the U.S.
Editor, What does environmental science have to do with the recent uprisings in the Middle East? The technology exists for vehicles that do not consume oil.
Just when you think the UNM men’s basketball team is left for the dead, it comes howling back. UNM shocked the basketball nation Wednesday with a 82-64 upset over No.
Members of a student group want to eradicate student drunk driving while changing negative perceptions about the Greek community. Student Greg Golden founded Greeks Against Drunk Driving last month.
It was 2007, and Joshua Burns had just moved back to New Mexico to start a family in the “booming” film industry. Except, as the Columbia University graduate found out, he couldn’t even find a job holding a boom microphone.
The New Mexico House of Representatives narrowly approved a $5.4 billion budget bill, 35-34, on Tuesday evening. The spending bill includes appropriations of $742 million for higher education, $1.5 billion for health, hospitals and human services, $2.4 billion for public schools and $362 million for public safety.
A bill introduced by state Rep. Dennis Roch would finally bring dental care a whole lot closer to home for thousands of people who live in rural New Mexico communities.
Editor, As a member of the GPSA Council, I am disappointed in the representation of the New York Times proposal in reporter Kallie Red-Horse’s story, “Grads want ASUNM to pay more for Times tab.” The desire to collaborate with ASUNM was repeatedly voiced during consideration of this proposal, but the article presented yet another division between the two student governments.
The UNM men’s basketball team is no longer desperate for a win, but it is dreaming for an upset victory at No.
Who would have thought two stuffed animals and a taxidermy shop could have such deep-seated meaning? Yann Martel’s latest book Beatrice and Virgil uses childlike toys to tell a compelling, suited-for-adults allegory about the Holocaust.
Before she came to UNM, dancer Jeanne d’Arc Casas was a broke, Puerto Rican exchange student in Philadelphia. In a foreign land, Casas wondered how she was going to support herself in the city, so she turned to what she knew best: dancing.
It’s one-act time again at the Vortex Theatre. In an annual competition, the Vortex selected from nationally submitted works (more than 200 this year alone) to show the eight best in a celebratory exhibition of playwriting talents. The entire showcase is called “Don’t Blink,” and each 10-minute act boasts a local director.
Luis Carlos Romero-Davis traveled all over the Southwestern United States, Mexico, Colombia and Chile to tell people his story — or, perhaps, other people’s stories. Romero-Davis spent four and a half years making his documentary, “389 miles,” named for the length of the Arizona-Mexico border fence.
The UNM women’s basketball team said goodbye to its two seniors — Amanda Best and Jessica Kielpinski — who played in their final home game Tuesday. Best scored 10 points and Kielpinski chipped in seven, but it wasn’t enough to beat league-leading Brigham Young.
The Lead and Coal Improvement Project threw a wrench in residents and business owners’ lives when it tore up part of Yale Boulevard last month. Yale Boulevard closed between Avenida Cesar Chavez and Lead Avenue on Feb.
The oil and gas industry in New Mexico contributes a major chunk of money to fund construction projects at public schools and universities around the state — but not quite as much as it claims, according to the chief financial officer of the Public School Facilities Authority. The oil and gas industry “provides over 90 percent of all school capital investment through the Permanent Fund,” according to information on the New Mexico Oil & Gas Association’s website and pamphlets handed out at the Roundhouse during legislative sessions.
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