A campus-wide internet outage on the first day of classes caused headaches across UNM for everyone from IT personell, bookstore employees and, most importantly, students and teachers whose access to internet is crucial to learning. “It is very rough for a first day,” said Networks Director Steve Perry.
Libertarian Presidential Candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson returned on Saturday afternoon to host a campaign rally, where he preached a message of optimism for the future of a country he could potentially be the president of. Speakers at the event – which was attended by several hundred supporters at the Albuquerque Convention Center – included Sen.
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UNM’s Political Science Department has partnered with the New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum to allow students the opportunity to earn up to three hours of political science credit for an unpaid internship. The museum has no state or federal funding, instead relying on volunteers, museum representative Jerry Small said.
The UNM Board of Regents convened on Thursday for their final deliberations before students arrive to campus for the fall semester, allowing UNM administrators the opportunity to provide updates on new and ongoing initiatives.
Terry Babbitt of the Division of Enrollment Management formally recommended to the Board of Regents on Thursday that they consider making living on campus mandatory for future first-time freshmen. Babbitt said he and his team have been studying the potential pros and cons of such a mandate by the University, including the impact on enrollment as well as student safety.
Harwood Museum of Art Governing Board Chair Marcia Winter - and other representatives from the museum, which belongs to UNM - appeared before the Board of Regents on Thursday to make their case for an increase in funding that could help the museum's reputation in the long run.
The controversy over alleged illegal use of fetal tissue by the UNM Health Sciences Center continued at Thursday's Board of Regents meeting, where multiple members of the public commented on the issue. Last month, the HSC - along with the abortion clinic at Southwestern Women's Options - was criminally referred to the New Mexico Attorney General for investigation by a panel on the Energy and Commerce Committee, though HSC officials have continually denied the allegations brought forth against them.
The results of a UNM Campus Climate Survey conducted in the spring following a scathing Department of Justice investigation finds that the University still has work to do as far as student safety and resource knowledge. The National Campus Climate Survey assists initiatives that support an inclusive living, learning and working environment through collecting data that inform university administration and staff about student experiences with sexual misconduct, knowledge of campus resources and available support services.
UNM is inventing a new way to store and access data that could render CD’s and conventional computer hard drives obsolete. The goal of the research, headed by Chemistry Professor Jeff Rack and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the W.M Keck Foundation, is to have lasers read data in a 3-dimensional space. This is in contrast with CD’s, hard-drive disks, and other conventional methods of data storage, which rely on two-dimensional surfaces for data transcription.
Underprivileged children with missing limbs potentially face a bill in the thousands of dollars for a prosthetic, but they could soon benefit from a more affordable option. Carrie Tingley Hospital - a UNM medical care facility focused on helping children - is researching the potential uses of 3D-printed prosthetics.
The UNM Health Sciences Committee met on Tuesday and covered a substantial amount of material, including providing updates on the new adult replacement hospital and UNMH patient wait times, as well as highlighting the efforts of UNM health clinics.
New Mexico Lottery on Monday announced a record-breaking uptick in sales, leading to the most money ever allocated to the Legislative Lottery Scholarship in its 20 year history.
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A program designed to give UNM nursing students experience with primary health care in rural communities recently received a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, allowing the program to build on the impact it made a year ago in a small southwestern town. The program was launched in fall 2015 when it sent eight nursing students to Chinle, Arizona - a rural area in the Navajo Reservation.
UNM’s new mandatory employee training on sexual harassment and misconduct covers a wide variety of material with real-life scenarios. Intersections: Preventing Discrimination and Harassment, is the new safety course outlining UNM policies on sexual violence, gender-based discrimination, sexual orientation, health status, race, domestic violence, and stalking. The course is to be completed by all UNM faculty and staff by December 31, 2016. The new course includes artful design and animation and replaced the old Preventing Sexual Harassment training in March 2016. UNM’s Human Resources website states that the State of New Mexico’s Risk Management Division as well as the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires that discrimination and harassment training be provided to employees on at least an annual basis. The one hour training informs employees about their responsibility to report incidents, UNM policies, and available resources.
Students will arrive to campus in droves for the beginning of the fall semester next week, but UNM campus had a more unusual visitor on Sunday evening. Pedestrians gathered around the perimeter of Johnson Field as a Black Hawk rescue helicopter deliver an injured man from the Sandia Mountains at approximately 7:30 p.m.
A copy of the UNM Office of Equal Opportunity investigative report obtained by the Daily Lobo uncovers the specifics and details of the sexual harassment and discrimination case against associate professor Cristobal Valencia, who was recently suspended for the second time since March in light of new information.
The federal Indian Health Services program recently announced a new policy to be implemented when prescribing opioids in IHS-operated facilities. IHS Principal Deputy Director Mary Smith said this involves doctors and other medical practitioners checking State Prescription Drug Monitoring Program databases before prescribing, and even dispensing, opioids for pain treatment lasting longer than a week.
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