This year marks UNM Children’s Hospital’s 12th annual Radiothon fundraiser, hosted by 100.3 The Peak, to raise money for the children’s hospital. The two-day event raises about $200,000 every year by broadcasting patients, families and medical professionals sharing stories of medical miracles that occurred at the children’s hospital.
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Greek life is switching its focus for community service day during Greek Week by teaming up with the Physical Plant Department to beautify UNM campus. "Community service will kick off the very first day of Greek Week right here at the University on February 20th. We are contributing the time and energy of about 200 students in the morning at the UNM campus. We are going to be removing graffiti, doing some mulching and some recycling projects as well," said Greek Advisor Greg Golden. The idea to bring Greek life's community service day to UNM came from brainstorming ways the volunteers could impact their community the most, he said.
David Makovsky, director of Project on the Middle East Peace Process, visited the Hibben Center yesterday to talk to UNM students in a speech entitled, “Seeking Justice: Strengthening the Prospects for Middle East Peace.” Makovsky is the Ziegler distinguished fellow at The Washington Institute in addition to being an adjunct professor in Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H.
Participants in a biodesign course at UNM have received the Innovation & Commercialization Award of $50,000, administered by the National Institute of Health and the Dean’s Office in the School of Engineering after brainstorming proposals for two inventions meant to solve clinical issues in the operating room.
Applications are still open until the end of today for the fourth annual Perry Initiative workshop held on March 19 at the University of New Mexico. The workshop, a Perry Outreach Program (POP), invites 40 high-school-aged young women to spend a day complete with hands-on mock surgeries, lunch and engaging lectures from prominent women in engineering and orthopaedics, Manuela Restrepo, a Program Coordinator for the Perry Initiative, said. Restrepo said the non-profit is a national organization that holds annual programs in over 30 cities across the U.S.
The Associated Students of UNM passed a bill last week to change the method in which an election tie is settled. The new bill calls for a coin flip to settle the matter in the event of a tie for a final senate seat. ASUNM President Jenna Hagengruber said prior to this piece of legislation, a tie was regularly settled through a run-off election. That means if two senators tied for the same seat they would have to campaign by themselves for the next week until the run-off election.
UNM Police Department officials deemed threats made to Cullen Neal as “of a serious nature and entirely consistent” with head coach Craig Neal’s description last week, UNMPD Chief Kevin McCabe said in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon. During his pregame press conference last Thursday, Craig Neal said that Cullen Neal, his son and the starting point guard on the New Mexico men’s basketball team, had received death threats that caused him to switch phone numbers and delete his accounts on social media platforms.
In their last meeting on Wednesday, the Associated Students of UNM passed a bill that will affect ASUNM elections going forward. The bill reduces the number of polling stations by getting rid of certain locations based on voter turnout number, as well as encourages further online voting with an emphasis on allocating funds to be used elsewhere.
The UNM School of Law has received a grant to attract, prepare and mobilize lawyers to work for the health and well-being of the underprivileged communities of New Mexico. The $2,652,487 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) is a collaboration with strategic community partners, including UNM’s Health Sciences Center (HSC), to address unmet legal needs that harm the health and well-being of children and families living in poverty in New Mexico, according to a UNM press release.
Clothing drive at the University of New Mexico Children's Hospital helps those in intensive care. This year’s second annual, two-week Lovin’ on Little Lobos drive successfully benefited children admitted to the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the University of New Mexico Children’s Hospital, according to event coordinators. UNM Staff Councilor Jodi Perry said dozens of items, including: newborn and preemie onesies, socks, booties, newborn/children’s board books and Halo SleepSacks were donated this year.
The UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center has started phase 2 clinical trials, targeting glioblastoma patients. Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive type of brain cancer. Only about one fifth of adults diagnosed with it survive two years or more after their diagnosis, UNM researchers said. “Unfortunately, it is also the most common form of primary brain tumor, about 70 percent of newly diagnosed primary brain tumors,” Omar Chohan, director of Neurosurgical Oncology and a part of the clinical trials team said. A new two-drug combination, currently in use in the clinical trials, might help people diagnosed with glioblastoma to fight the disease, according to a UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center press release.
The Manzanita Counseling Center allows students and residents alike in the Albuquerque metro area to receive professional counseling services at no charge. Director Rhonda Neswald-Potter said Manzanita has the CACREP (Council for Accreditation of Counseling & Related Educational Programs) accreditation, which is the highest standard for a counseling supervision program. "Other counseling centers across the country would aspire to the standard we hold here,” she said. “There is so much need in our community for free or reduced fee care.”
University of New Mexico’s financial and enrollment officials have proposed to the Board of Regents that the University shift online course fees from students taking online classes to all students attending UNM. “The funding source that we are using wasn’t matching up with what the money was being used for. We are charging students $100 for an online course and then we’re taking it and supporting the Learn system so that every student can see their syllabus, course materials and grades online,” said Andrew Cullen, associate vice president of Office of Planning, Budget and Analysis. “We feel that it should be a mandatory fee because all students are benefiting from it.” The proposal disperses the cost of online classes to all UNM students with a mandatory online delivery fee.
The UNM Board of Regents approved recommendations for the establishment of a university-wide, sustainable, interdisciplinary Global and National Security Policy Institute. The board also voted, on Thursday, for the creation of an interdisciplinary, nontraditional, module-based masters program in Global and National Security, an interdisciplinary undergraduate National Security Certificate (already in place) and an interdisciplinary graduate National Security Certificate (preliminary stages).
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Now that nearly $70 million in federal funding has been approved for Mayor Richard Berry’s passion project, it’s full steam ahead on a new bus rapid transit system that will run down Central Avenue from Unser to Tramway Boulevard. However, many small business owners along the proposed route believe the Albuquerque Rapid Transit, or ART, spells an end to their shops, as well as the quirky personality of the Nob Hill area in particular. “I’m thankful for living in a country where I don’t go to jail for fighting my government, but on the other hand, I shouldn’t have to fight my government. So that’s what we’re doing...because they’re not listening to us,” said Steve Schroeder, owner of Nob Hill Music.
Use of excessive force and the handling of mentally ill individuals have been significant issues for law enforcement in Albuquerque, but despite national attention and heavy scrutiny, Albuquerque Police Department, the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department and UNM personnel have steadily corrected the issue.
The New Mexico Senate confirmed two regents to the UNM Board of Regents on Monday, according to a UNM press release, “in a process that turned out to be not quite smooth.” The pair confirmed by Senate, are current Student Regent Ryan Berryman of Sandia Park, an MBA student at the Anderson School of Management. The other is current Regent Marron Lee, who comes from “a Cibola County ranching family that has long supported UNM and in fact gifted the University with its first live Lobo,” according to the release. Berryman said that he was both humbled and honored to be confirmed by members of the New Mexico Senate.
Tuesday afternoon Dr. Tyson E.J. Marsh discussed the history of African-American culture, neoliberalism and, ultimately, what it means to be Black, in his lecture, “Everybody Wants to be Black Until It’s Time to be Black.” “The talk is informed by the appropriation and commodification of Black culture and the critical need to reclaim cultural tools of resistance in the struggle for racial and economic justice against what Bell Hooks has aptly named imperialist-White-supremacist-capitalist-patriarchy,” Marsh said, prior to the lecture.
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