Steve McKee started out just as another University of New Mexico college graduate would: looking for a job and trying to figure out his next move. His first job came when he began working for a Pizza Hut account in southern California at an ad agency. From then on he took on multiple jobs until he opened his own firm nineteen years ago.
University President Bob Frank took to Twitter Monday evening to address UNM's official seal and the campaign demanding it be changed. First, Frank provided some history behind the current depiction of the seal - which portrays a frontiersman and a conquistador - emphasizing that it was a Native American that designed it.
Last Friday, students and faculty associated with Red Nation, Kiva Club as well as other members of the UNM community congregated outside of Scholes Hall on Friday to protest UNM’s seal.
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The Associated Students of New Mexico unanimously passed a resolution on Wednesday encouraging the addition of universal restrooms and altering other plans for Johnson Gym’s soon-to-begin renovations. At its final senate meeting of the semester, Sen. Hallie Brown, who sponsored the legislation, said it was born out of a desire for safety and inclusion.
UNM has been honored the 2015 Defense Security Service Award for Excellence in Counterintelligence, which recognizes defense contractors that have the ability to prevent foreign theft of U.S. defense technology. UNM is only the third university ever to be awarded the honor, something Associate Vice President of Research and Compliance said is overwhelming.
UNM researchers are helping miners in New Mexico get treatment for different diseases as well as get compensation from their employers. Researchers are collaborating with Miners' Colfax Medical Center to screen coal and uranium miners in the state for different diseases and to facilitate their treatment. The researchers are also providing education on how to prevent lung related diseases that are associated with mining.
Last Friday, in the wake of severe criticism from the Department of Justice, President Bob Frank outlined the steps UNM is taking to create a safer climate. Several University entities are following suit, saying action is being taken to meet the necessary standards on a campus-wide level.
According to University release, the Anderson School of Management (ASM) is preparing to host its 10th annual Native American Career Fair on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Jackson Student Center.
According to UNM press release, a team of scientists at UNM have been awarded a $7.5 million grant to build on laser projects at the University. Mansoor Sheik-Bahae and Arash Mafi, both from the Department of Physics & Astronomy, along with collaborators from other institutions, were awarded the grant, according to the release.
According to UNM press release, the University's best online courses are being recognized in an awards ceremony on Thursday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the SUB ballroom, sponsored by the UNM Center for Teaching & Learning. In 2012, the University of New Mexico Provost Chaouki Abdallah tasked the Online Course Advisory Council to establish online course standards.
Dr. Nana Osei-Kofi, Director of the Difference, Power, and Discrimination program at Oregon State University, was received last week by members of the Communication & Journalism Department as well as others within the UNM community in the Centennial Building Auditorium. The event, titled “#FightRacism: Educating for Social Justice,” is part of the 2016 Interdisciplinary Insights Lecture Series. The Daily Lobo caught up with Osei-Kofi afterwards for a Q&A.
Junior journalism major David Lynch was selected on Friday last week to be the next editor-in-chief of the Daily Lobo. Lynch, who has served as managing editor and news editor, said applying for editor-in-chief felt like the natural next step for him. In his 18 months at the Lobo, he said he has accumulated a lot of experience in both journalism and in running a paper.
The Department of Communication and Journalism hosted a speaker on Friday who presented on an increasingly utilized tool of social change. Arvind Singhal, a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, discussed a new approach called positive deviance, which is the belief that, in every community, there are some people who learned how to solve problems against all odds. Those individuals are deviant because they are not the norm, and they are positive because they solved a problem, he said. The idea is to look at other individuals or groups who are using uncommon strategies or behavior, but are resolving problems with better solutions than others with the same resources.
On Friday morning the Department of Justice revealed their findings regarding UNM’s handling of sexual assault causes, saying the University is not up to code because of confusing policies and outdated procedures. But at a press conference later that day, University officials emphasized that there is more to the issue than the DOJ report suggests. Informational posters were set up in the room, illustrating a timeline spanning the past three years and a checklist of key tasks that arose out of a University commissioned report in February of last year.
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Three men who were accused of raping a UNM student in 2014, only to have the charges dropped, are suing the University. In the lawsuit, the men allege that UNM’s investigation, conducted by police as well as the University, was flawed. The men claim they were presumed guilty because they were black, and that investigators failed to interview witnesses or obtain evidence that would have cleared them. Attorney George Anthony Bleus represents Ryan Ruff, a CNM student, as well as Crusoe Gongbay and SaQwan Edwards, who were both UNM football players.
Kelly Speer, a UNM alumni, is one of four new students who was recently accepted year into the American Museum of Natural History's prestigious program for comparative biology. Kelly studies at the Richard Gilder Graduate School located in the American Museum of Natural History, working alongside internationally recognized staff of scientists and curators as she conducts research on the role of habitat fragmentation of blood-borne parasites.
The University of New Mexico’s Health Sciences Center has created Project ECHO in an effort to improve access to high quality specialty health care in underserved and rural areas. The center recently hosted the second global MetaECHO Conference in Albuquerque, gathering together nearly 500 people from around the world involved in the global ECHO movement, all committed to the goal of impacting one billion lives by 2025.
Associated Students of UNM has made a stance representing UNM undergraduates who feel their voice wasn’t heard before the Regents passed a2.5 percent tuition increase last month, as well as a and 10.5 percent fee increase for the 2016-2017 school year. Last week the undergraduate student government unanimously approved a resolution pushing for stronger communication between the student body and the Board of Regents. The legislation proposed that the student academic calendar be lined up with the Regent’s meetings to avoid future issues.
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