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.
NM education missing the mark by a long shot nationally New Mexico’s education system has ranked 50th out of the United States and the District of Columbia, according to a survey conducted by WalletHub.
Generation Justice is a multimedia based project, aiding high school and college students in learning journalistic skills, while committing to social transformation. UNM Chapter President Christina Rodriguez said the organization provides a safe space for students and faculty to think critically.
According to a UNM press release, UNM Chemistry Professor Ramesh Giri has started a program centered around inviting local high school students to his lab to learn about chemistry in interactive ways.
According to a University press release, Provost Chaouki Abdallah announced the launch of a search for a new dean of the School of Engineering, with Graduate Studies Dean Julie Coonrod leading search efforts.
According to a University press release, UNM again been recognized with a prestigious award from the Department of Defense Security Service for Industrial Security excellence. UNM is one of a select number of nationwide facilities to receive the 2016 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award, according to the press release.
According to a UNM press release, John Fleck has been named director of UNM’s Water Resources Program. Fleck, a professor of practice in water policy and governance in the Department of Economics, has been the Water Resources Program’s writer-in-residence since January 2015, according to the press release.
In collaboration with the Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry’s office and ABQ Ride, Albuquerque’s largest architecture firm, Dekker Perich Sabatini, has been brought on to design the landscaping surrounding the upcoming Albuquerque Rapid Transit project. Construction is set to begin this month with the plans focusing on the landscaping of the medians and designing transit system's stations.
The nonprofit organization Heading Home has started a crowdfunding campaign, entitled “Scholar Dollars," to help children who were recently homeless live normal lives. “Kids are young and need to be able to get out there,” said project director Megan McCormick, herself a single mother of three children.
The University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center has received a nearly $2.4 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to conduct a four-year long bipolar disorder study. Bipolar disorder is a lifelong mental illness causing sporadic acute periods of depression and manic according to an HSC press release, and currently around six million Americans are suffering from this condition.
What is your take on a UNM professor coming back to campus to teach classes in the fall after a brief suspension for charges of sexual harassment and discrimination?
Questions abound as to why UNM Anthropology Professor Cristobal Valencia is returning to teaching after being briefly suspended in the spring semester for sexually harassing and discriminating against students. The suspension is outlined in a letter from College of Arts and Sciences Dean Mark Peceny to Valencia at the end of March.
Nursing Schools Almanac recently ranked UNM’s College of Nursing among the very best in the region. Hundreds of nursing schools in the Southwest were ranked by the online publication and, of the schools considered, UNM secured 15th place as the website praised its "innovative education opportunities."
Albuquerque is the 15th-best ran city among 150 of the largest metropolises in the country, according to data gathered from WalletHub, a website which specializes in the gathering of information. Jill Gonzales, an analyst with the site, said for the ranking's methodology, a research team gathers necessary data from mostly government sources. The data is then aggregated to create rankings for each city, based on the methodology WalletHub has elicited in conjunction with academic experts.
The announcement of the Albuquerque Rapid Transit has had a lasting effect on the value of city building permits within five-eights of a mile stretching along the proposed ART corridor. Following the initial announcement of the new transit line, residential and commercial building permits were valued at a little more than $23,200 between March 1st, 2015 to July 20th, 2015. This summer, permits value at $28,478,182, amounting to an increase of 12 percent.
Tension between two panels at a meeting of the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee on Thursday ended with emotional public criticism of UNM’s policies and procedures in dealing with sexual assault. The first panel, fronted by UNM President Bob Frank, provided updates on UNM’s efforts to address and combat sexual assault.
An alumna memorial project at UNM Hodgin Hall's courtyard resulted in what UNM Regent Tom Clifford called an example of "terrible coordination" between the University's Alumni Association and the Board of Regents. The project was proposed to the Board of Regents by the Alumni Association in September of 2015. The regents said the project they approved was a $50,000 maintenance project, but the cost has inflated to a figure between $329,000 and $350,000, a number they said they never saw at the initial presentation.
Since the end of the semester there has been 12 auto burglaries reported to the University of New Mexico’s Police Department at Student Family Housing. As a result, SFH is advising residents to stay cautious and take precautions to keep their belongings and themselves safe. UNMPD Lt. Tim Stump said the stolen items range from cellphones, laptops and backpacks to anything left in a vehicle in plain sight and, unfortunately, sometimes in an unsecured vehicle.
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