UNM has postponed all study trips to West African countries as part of ita precautionary measures to minimize the threat of Ebola.Cancelled trips included those for humanitarian programs like Project Helping Hands, an organization that provides medical care and health education for people in developing nations.
Twitter isn't just for funny hashtags anymore.The New Mexico News Port used the social media site Thursday in a new way: to host political debate.
UNM Student Cabinet’s first meeting scheduledThe newly-formed UNM Student Cabinet will hold its first meeting on Friday. According to a UNM press release, a wide range of topics will be discussed, including transparency, communication and student support services. The meeting is based on a focus group model to facilitate student-administrator discussion.UNM President Bob Frank created the “think tank” group to gather more input on campus issues.ASUNM President Rachel Williams and GPSA President Texanna Martin will serve on the Cabinet. The function of the Student Cabinet is to operate separately from student government.
The General Medical Sciences portion of the National Institutes of Health has given UNM’s Spatiotemporal Modeling Center more space and time for its research. Spatiotemporal research, also known as spatial-temporal, is the study of time and space as a whole. The STMC uses this method for cellular biology and aims to find better treatments for fighting ailments such as colon and pancreatic cancers. The Center’s $12 million grant has been renewed for another five years, raising the STMC’s hopes for recruiting up-and-coming researchers.“Our research emphasizes the development of new single-cell and single-molecule technologies to generate improved quantitative data for modeling,” the STMC website states.
It might have been any group of settlers that brought the genetic mutation, unaware that it would pass from generation to generation. Now, hundreds of years later, many in New Mexico are still living with this incurable “family curse.”Dr. Sarah Youssof, a physician in the UNM Department of Neurology, is laying the groundwork for human clinical trials for this rare genetic disease known as oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD).
UNM energy engineers at the Physical Plant Department were recognized by the New Mexico Association of Energy Engineers with two prestigious awards for decades of achievements in increasing energy efficiency on campus. The PPD’s Engineering and Energy Services division won the Corporate Energy Management award for “outstanding accomplishments in developing, organizing, managing and implementing their corporate energy management program,” according to the NMAEE website.And Donald Swick, University facilities engineer, was honored with Energy Engineer of the Year award for his lifetime achievements.
On Sept. 29, UNM Police Department took a report in reference to harassment and battery.
By Marielle Dent�UNM is getting a jump-start on its budget planning process this year in order to make it more responsive and efficient, according to a recent press release.Normally this work is done in the weeks between the end of the legislative session and the date for budget approval.
A Nobel Laureate is coming to main campus to speak today.John C. Mather, an American astrophysicist and cosmologist known particularly for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006, is doing a free public talk tonight at 7 p.m. in Keller Hall, according to a UNM press release.
UNM does not make the grade when it comes to liberal arts offerings, according to one non-profit educational institution, but some said that grading criteria is broken.
By Tomas LujanThe Internal Revenue Service may be forfeiting billions of dollars in taxes from some of the nation’s largest companies.
Eleven community colleges – including UNM’s four branch campuses – in New Mexico will receive $15 million in federal funding to create innovative training programs in partnership with local businesses to get New Mexican adults into the workforce.This funding allows colleges across New Mexico to provide workers with quality job training to help fill New Mexico’s expanding health care and technology workforce needs, U.S.
If Democratic candidate Deb Haaland is elected as New Mexico’s lieutenant governor on Nov. 4, she will be the first Native American to hold the position. Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, has spent most of her life in Albuquerque and said her values remain rooted in her native traditions.Haaland has been involved in political campaigns for the past 10 years. In 2004 she worked as a full-time volunteer for the John Kerry campaign. She also worked for the Barack Obama campaigns of 2008 and 2012 alongside her daughter, who has assisted with political campaigns since she was nine years old.
In 2003, Jason Moore was on a walk with his parents along the Idaho-Wyoming border when he noticed pieces of bone sticking out of a hillside. Moore became immediately interested and began to search the rock face for more fragments. He and his parents soon discovered that the bones belonged to a dinosaur skeleton buried beneath the rock outcropping.Not only did the discovery double the number of dinosaur bones found in Idaho, but the dinosaur turned out to be a new species entirely. Further excavations revealed the specimen to be a type of nodosaur, an armored dinosaur that walked on four legs, had a clubbed tail and lived during the mid-Cretaceous period, Moore said.
This November, Republican incumbent John Sanchez hopes to win his second term as lieutenant governor of New Mexico. And his prospects look good.His fate is tied to that of his running mate, Gov. Susana Martinez, who is leading in the polls against the Democratic ticket of Gary King and Deb Haaland.Sanchez said he has always had a passion for helping people and wanting to make New Mexico a better place to live. He said it emerged as a desire to serve publicly after his being a business owner for more than 20 years.
Even with a Hispanic Republican governor in the midst of a re-election bid, more of New Mexico’s Latino voters side with Democrats at the ballot box, political experts said. Gov. Susana Martinez in 2010 became the nation’s first Hispanic woman to win a gubernatorial election, but data from the research website Latino Decisions suggests she accumulated 38 percent of the Hispanic votes during that race against Diane Denish, who generated 61 percent. Martinez netted more Hispanic voters in 2010 than Republicans in other races nationally, but she did not draw a majority, said Gabe Sanchez, a UNM political science professor.
The Howl is a weekly online newscast produced by the Daily Lobo. On this week's show: Susana Martinez and Gary King get set to debate; Michelle Lujan Grisham and Mike Frese prepare for a forum of their own; Brianna Serna talks to students about marijuana policy; Brianna Gallegos goes to a demonstration against Columbus Day; Micaela Eldridge-Lane talks to a group of UNM students about their independent study; Expectations are set for the men's and women's basketball teams; The football team travels to Colorado Springs.
On Friday, October 17, a female UNM student was groped on campus. The suspect was caught by UNMPD shortly after. The Howl's Brianna Serna and Michael Sol Warren have the story.
UNM’s International Business Students Global is empowering students to make meaningful contributions in emerging economies by sending them to developing countries where organizations are making positive social impacts. IBSG officials desire to build robust relationships with businesses throughout the world, each in emerging economies, so that UNM will have developed strong and lasting relationships to guide cutting edge scholarship on the economies of the future, Audriana Stark, program manager of IBSG’s Ivan Karp Emerging Economies Program said.“Our 10-year goal is to have the most robust archive of student-led international consulting projects in the Western United States, oriented specifically to understanding how to build business relationships with economies that will dominate in the 21st century,” she said.
One University-area church is attempting to stem the stigma of homelessness by breaking down barriers.The Central United Methodist Church holds a service every Sunday called Community of Hope that invites everyone to worship together. Associate pastor Greg Henneman said when the program began; its aim was to break through the stigma and generalization set upon a majority of the homeless population.“If you’re not familiar with a group of people, it’s easy to be uncomfortable or feel threatened. That’s part of why we’re trying to build relationships and build communities, for those barriers to come down,” Henneman said. “Our whole motivation for starting it was to bring people together.”
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