The Global Education Office is bringing together different cultures during the 2016 International Festival on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Cornell Mall, according to a UNM press release. There will be more than 30 booths with food, crafts and information available during the free event, according to the release.
Aleemud Din, a resident of UNM Student Family Housing, used to work in his gardens in Pakistan for hours to grow flowers and vegetables. When he left Pakistan to join his family in the U.S., he thought he would have to give up having a garden of his own. He said he could not even imagine having a garden in America, since his wife was a student, and knew living in America was expensive. “I missed organic food. I thought I (wouldn't) be able to buy organic food or grow some for myself and my family,” he said.
In life, Anthony Hopper’s father never wanted to discuss the end. When he passed away, Hopper said his family was unsure of his father’s wishes and faced interpersonal tensions while trying to make decisions on his behalf. Stories like Hopper’s inspired the creation of National Healthcare Decisions Day, which was established to provide valuable information and tools for individuals to use as they begin advanced healthcare planning . According to a study on the NHDD website, although many Americans were aware of living wills and had considered end-of-life preferences, only 29 percent actually had a living will. “There’s still an underlying feeling: did we do just what he wanted us to do or not?” said Hopper, PE/MOSSA Determiner for the Affordable Care Act Team at UNM’s Community Engagement Center.
Members of the UNM Veterans Resource Center, alongside Student Veterans of UNM, held a “Veterans Sound Off” day at the SUB on Friday. The event was a unified effort to combat stigmas surrounding the student-veteran community and gain scholastic engagement through reaching out to the on-campus veteran community.
Last Friday evening, Hadley and Peter Arnold, co-directing founders of the Arid Lands Institute, a research, education, and outreach institute based in Los Angeles, California, returned to Albuquerque to deliver a lecture on campus. Their lecture stressed the importance of enacting policies that would revolutionize the means by which society conducts hydrology. The Arnolds are considered among the most transformative figures in the field and are often regarded as leading proponents of hydrologic theoretics. A few hours before the start of their presentation, the Arnolds sat down for a brief interview with the Daily Lobo.
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A petition urging state lawmakers to introduce additional clean energy legislation at the next state legislature found its way onto campus last week, and the Daily Lobo spoke with founder and head of the UNM Sustainability Studies program, Bruce Milne, about the future possibilities of clean energy for NM.
Glenda Lewis of the College of Education will be the next president of the Graduate and Professional Student Association, according to a GPSA announcement. Lewis said she plans to bring a lot to the position and intends to foster relationships between UNM administration and departments as well as graduate and undergraduate students. “My campaign slogan was ‘Re-Thinking Engagement,’ and I firmly believe that we, as a Division I research institution, have to reconsider what engagement really means and come together as a community,” she said. “If we only stay within our departments we are missing out on the opportunity to not only network, but engage in interdisciplinary scholarship and research."
Associated Students of UNM, in collaboration with UNM Police, held Safety Day on Wednesday, an opportunity for the student government to directly reach out to students about their most pressing concerns regarding security on campus. ASUNM officials said the initiative was something being planned for a few months as a chance for students to have their voice heard. “It’s been one of the bigger outreach events we’ve had all semester,” said ASUNM Legislative Coordinator Noah Michelsohn. “I don’t think many students know about UNMPD, so it’s good to get students talking to them as well so that they know what their actual purpose is.”
This year, UNM is one of 10 schools nationwide to participate in the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Recruitment Challenge, which is facilitated by EdVenture Partners, a “match-making nonprofit” that hosts annual collegiate competitions.
UNM Hospitals has been declared one of the 496 leaders in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, in its 2016 Healthcare Equality Index. UNMH was recognized as a leader in LGBTQ equality for the fourth consecutive year. The organization recognized UNMH for meeting non-discrimination and training criteria and showing commitment to “equitable, inclusive care for LGBT patients, and their families,” according to a statement.
Scribendi, a nonprofit, annual magazine of creative works developed by undergraduate honors students since 1986 has been officially defunded by Associated Students of the UNM after it requested money from this spring’s ASUNM budget. The amount of funding requested by UNM student organizations amounted to more than $1 million. However, less than seven hundred thousand was actually available, resulting in funding reductions for nearly every organization applying.
Scott Shane is a reporter with the New York Times in Washington D.C., where he covers national security issues. Before that, he was with the Baltimore Sun for 21 years, contributing to various types of coverage, including being a Moscow correspondent.
The UNM Hospitals administration has selected a team that will determine the scope, space and staging requirements for an acute-care replacement hospital at UNM, according to a University release.
A UNM faculty member has been selected for three “highly-coveted” fellowships for 2016-17, according to a University statement.
A team of UNM researchers is trying to reduce inflammation in the stomach that can later lead to stomach cancer.
The UNM Retiree Association held a memorial on Saturday to honor the services of late UNM professor Lee Zink, who co-founded the association and served as its first president. He passed away in 2014 As a tribute to the services of Zink, the UNMRA inscribed a tile with a picture of Zink on the ceremonial wall. Members of the association also installed a bench with a memorial plaque in Terrace Mall near Hogdin Hall.
The UNM Board of Regents Academic/Student Affairs and Research Committee heard a series of action items, information items and a faculty presentation at Thursday’s meeting. They also shared updates on each member’s designated boards/committees as well as a monthly report on academic affairs. Here are the four things to know:
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Kyle Biederwolf said the Associated Students of UNM was his first taste of student politics. It was in his second freshman semester that the junior business major ran for ASUNM senate. During his two terms in the senate, he has sat on the finance committee and outreach committee.
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