At the 88th Academy Awards last month, the Oscar for Best Documentary Short was awarded to “A Girl in the River: the Price of Forgivenes." The film chronicles the intense struggle of Saba, a Pakistani woman who, after being shot in the face by her father and uncle, was ordered to make legal reconciliations with her would-be murderers.
How do you plan to get back into the swing of school after Spring Break?
UNM’s School of Medicine Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations collaborates with Albuquerque Academy to create “Your Dazzling Brain—Keep it Bright.” As part of the Albuquerque Academy “Community Academy” lecture series and International Brain Awareness Week, the event was located at the Albuquerque Academy Simms Center for the Performing Arts.
The University of New Mexico Board of Regents approved changes, with one exception, to several policies pertaining to the governance of the Health Sciences Center, despite strong opposition by a large coalition of HSC staff and faculty. According to a UNM press release, the motion, introduced by newly-elected Board Vice President Marron Lee, was approved.
In a move that surprised members of the UNM Faculty Senate and Health Sciences Center, the Board of Regents announced on Friday a proposal to absorb the HSC Board of Directors, a decision that will be discussed at Monday’s Regents meeting. In addition to relegating the HSC Board of Directors to a committee under the Regents, the proposed change in policy would also demote HSC Chancellor Paul Roth to an executive vice president position that reports to University President Bob Frank.
The last 30 days have not been ideal for amidst New Mexico football's offseason. Towards the end of February, the UNM Police Department excersized a warrant to search the apartment of cornerback Nias Martin for an alleged rape on a 19-year-old UNM student.
The Associated Students of UNM struggled this week to allocate funding across campus. The undergraduate student governing body's finance committee spent 17 hours finishing the spring 2016 budget, granting student organizations funding for projects and events, only to have full senate table the budget, and send it back to the committee to reevaluate numbers.
A concrete building stands behind a sign that reads “CEIRA”, trees and glass windows adorning it. Through its entrance and down a flight of stairs are secured doors, access through which can only be obtained via key card. Dozens of shelves holding jarred snakes, rodents, fish and insects lay beyond the door. Looking to the second floor, one can see the northern hemisphere’s third largest collection of mammals. Acorns larger then footballs and mushrooms larger than human fists can be found on this level. Underneath its foundation are teams of researchers behind microscopes inspecting parasites from the arctic. A location that is comparable to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Smithsonian has a home in the heart of UNM’s main campus.
Students for Life, a pro-life student group at UNM, demanded that UNM Health Sciences Center administration disclose all the relevant information concerning fetal tissue research via subpoena to the Congressional Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives. Students for Life President Sadé Patterson responded in an email statement to HSC employees and stated that HSC Chancellor Paul Roth and the administration “(Have) not provided the Select Panel with the names of faculty or learners who participated in fetal tissue research at this time.”
City officials arranged the last of special Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) public meetings at the Kiva Auditorium Tuesday evening to let people ask questions and voice opinions about the project, set to start in a few months. Participants had the opportunity to meet with ART project contractor Bradbury Stamm along with some of the managers associated with the project, while the ART team obtained input from residents and property owners in the area on how ABQ RIDE can mitigate project construction issues, according to a statement issued by city officials.
The National Security Studies Program began their seventh annual symposium Tuesday with Stanford Professor Siegfried Hecker presenting on North Korea's nuclear capabilities. Hecker said that it is important for people to understand how nuclear power, and the capability of creating nuclear weapons, is uniquely dangerous.
Brandon Aragon, a senior political science and communications major, was elected the first president of the Southeastern Interfraternity Conference outside that particular region of the U.S., according to a UNM press release.
According to a UNM release, Sigma Xi will hold a Science and Society Distinguished Public Talk, entitled ‘The Mathematics of Crime,’ on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the UNM Conference Center Auditorium.
According to a UNM press release, the Native American Studies program at UNM was recently ranked as one of the best in the country in terms of value and research by Great College Deals. The list placed UNM at No. 15 out of 20 colleges.
According to a UNM press release, Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao is the 2016 Jeff Harnar Award Lecturer, presenting “Working for People” on Friday, March 4. The lecture will follow a presentation of the Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture, according to the release. The event will start at 5:30 p.m. in the UNM School of Architecture and Planning’s Garcia Honda Auditorium and is free and open to the public.
What is your opinion on Sex Week and how it should be approached?
Another sex week is coming to campus, but this one bills itself as a bit more conservative than other events. Sadé Patterson has attended many Sex Week events at UNM over the past two years and said she felt some misleading information was given on abortion and birth control.
The Anderson School of Management recently launched its first Business Community Open House on campus. The dean of the Anderson School of Management, Craig White, said Friday's drop-in event was open to the public, and attendees were given the opportunity to speak with Anderson faculty and staff to learn more about what the business school has to offer.
In February, Gov. Susana Martinez signed a piece oflegislationthat will make it easier for veterans and service members to earn college credit for the training they received in the military. Senate Bill 153, which the House and Senate unanimously approved, was sponsored by Sen. Craig Brandt, R-Rio Rancho. Brandt, a veteran himself, said in a press release that SB 153 will help veterans achieve credit towards a degree — whether a bachelor’s or graduate degree — rather than just earning credits towards courses that count as electives.
The University of New Mexico’s Brain Injury Resource Center, or BIRC, held it’s first Unmasking Brain Injury event earlier this semester, meant to create awareness of brain trauma from first-hand accounts of afflicted individuals. Janelle Torres-Groover, a health educator with BIRC, said the center held a “mask making party”, and welcomed anyone in the community who had suffered a brain injury to make a mask. “The idea started with the Veterans Administration. They were doing this mask making project with veterans who were coming back from the war with brain injuries,” Torres-Groover said.
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