UNM is launching its inaugural Campus Safety Week this week, with various events and initiative meant to help prepare students for a variety of potential scenarios. Emergency Manager Byron Piatt said he hopes the week of training and awareness becomes a biannual event.
The petition for a on-campus taproom at UNM has gathered much attention recently, and University administration say they are open to a campus-wide discussion on safety and sensibility if students did have the opportunity to drink alcohol on campus grounds. UNM senior Gus Pedrotty started the petition, entitled "Install a Taproom at the University of New Mexico, on Change.org.
UNM has teamed up with La Montanita Co-op to offer a new $1,000 scholarship beginning this month for students minoring in Sustainability Studies in the Department of Biology, according to a University press release.
According to a University release, Duane Arruti, currently Director of IT Applications, has been selected to fill the position of Interim Chief Information Officer at UNM. After conducting a limited internal search, Executive Vice President for Administration David Harris announced Arruti will serve in the interim role, according to the release.
A group from the University has received a nearly $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation for development and research on developing a way to produce solar cells using nanotechnology, according to a UNM press release.
UNM students trying to pay for fall classes found themselves being charged an interest rate to use credit cards through a service called PayPath. It's a new tactic used by the University to "outsource credit and debit card processing" to the external party in order to save costs associated with keeping cardholder information, according to an FAQ on the UNM Bursar's Office webpage.
An early retirement incentive, offering reductions in workloads, has been offered to tenured faculty in all 21 departments of the College of Arts and Sciences, and so far no one has accepted the offer. The incentive was first initiated in 2015 as a trial program to a small number of UNM departments. A memo states that the incentive's goal is to reduce overall payroll costs.
The first ASUNM joint council meeting covered the benefits of residential freshman live in requirement that could start next year and taproom on campus that will incorporate academic learning. “We are trying to make ASUNM as diverse and inclusive as we can,” ASUNM President Kyle Biederwolf said.
On Thursday, UNM's Global Education Office will be holding it’s annual Study Abroad Fair, where students looking to literally and figuratively broaden their horizons can get their questions answered about studying in a foreign country. Students can stop by Cornell Mall between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to experience just a piece of the world and its various cultures, represented by students from study abroad programs.
Over 1,000 former students and employees of UNM recently had their identity stolen from a University database, and after a month of silence, UNM has established a call center to assist victims of the incident. According to a University release, a decades-old UNM database containing names, birth dates, social security numbers, address, emails and other personal information for 1,360 applicants and students was hacked into.
The UNM Business Plan Competition is gearing up for its 12th year of turning students into entrepreneurs. A meeting on Sept. 15 will kick off seven months of entrepreneurial “boot camps” and seminars featuring hands-on mentorship from experienced, market-tested entrepreneurs.
Scribendi – the long-running annual magazine created by UNM Honors College students – finds itself operating on a bit of an empty stomach after having its funding cut by the Associated Students of UNM in the spring. One local business offered its help over the weekend – by filling the stomachs of hungry patrons.
The cohort of new Associated Students of UNM senators elected in the spring have had the summer to prepare for their new roles as representatives of 25,000+ undegraduates on campus. But for three of the news senators, fall classes had already begun, not a thought about being a part of ASUNM on their minds, before the opportunity to fill a seat at the undergraduate student governing body’s table presented itself.
Each year, roughly 3.8 billion prescriptions are written in the United States. However, according to Medscape -- an online heathcare news aggregate -- less than half of prescription drugs are taken correctly, if at all. UNM Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics Jason McConville may have a solution.
Former UNM professor Tim Canova is running for Congress in the state of Florida. Canova will be vying for Florida's 23rd District, running against former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. As a Congressman, Canova said he wants to represent the interests of real people, and not large corporations.
On Sunday evening, advocates of gender equality gathered at the Duck Pond on campus in solidarity with International Go Topless Day, an international event that occurs on the Sunday nearest to Women's Equality Day (August 26). Event organizer Tucker Adlersflügel, said last year’s iteration of the event attracted around 100 people, while a much smaller number gathered on Sunday -- about a dozen.
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Last week the UNM Health Sciences Center hosted famed actor Alan Alda, who presented on a new partnership between Stony Brook University’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science and the HSC.
UNM Athletics is deeper in the red after overspending by a little over $1.5 million last year, according to Andrew Cullen of the Office of Planning, Budget and Analysis and Athletics Director Paul Krebs. That brings the Athletics Department's cumulative budget deficit to $4.3 million.
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