Keeping and graduating Native American students has a problem for some time, but the source and solution have not yet been found.
A group of activists and students is urging UNM President Bob Frank to sell off all University investments in fossil fuel companies within the next five years -- and UNM administration is listening.
Students and faculty crammed into a crowded conference room in the Student Union Building to discuss the “continued practice of keeping students of color out of the University.”
UNMPD reported that the “prickly pear cactus” suspect had created more graffiti around campus using the juice of prickly pears.
UNM scientists, in collaboration with the University of Maryland, have received a $6 million grant from the federal government to study electronics in highly electromagnetic environments.The grant was awarded to create an Air Force Office of Scientific Research, which is a basic research funding agency.
Campus researchers are developing a smarter way to power the future by providing buildings with the ability to communicate.Known as a “smart grid,” the experimental system was installed at UNM’s Mechanical Engineering building in 2005.
This is not Tim Eichenberg’s first rodeo.After a short hiatus from state politics, the 62-year-old Eichenberg is looking to make his return to the political arena.
Rick Lopez is running against Democrat Tim Eichenberg to be the first Republican state treasurer New Mexico has seen since 1948.The treasurer serves as the state’s banker and is responsible for handling its finances and investments.
Early-morning rain clouds parted and the sun illuminated psychics, gypsy dancers and henna healers who all came together to celebrate the autumnal equinox. Albuquerque Pagan Pride Day took over Baatan Park on Sunday to educate the public about pagan traditions, encourage community service and bring food to those in need during the harvest season, said Ramona Stipe, event coordinator and president of the board for Pagan Pride Day.The event was one of 115 that took place nationwide over the past week, all of which were aimed at helping others in a loving way and spreading awareness, Stipe said.
State Sen. Tim Keller may look like the image of an All-American guy, with his side-swept blond hair, polo shirt and nicely manicured nails.But he has a dark secret.He loves heavy metal music.
A neuroscience researcher at UNM has found that mothers who drank water containing even moderate amounts of arsenic were more likely to birth children with depression and learning memory deficits later in life.Christina Tyler, a biomedical sciences graduate student, has developed a model using mice to measure the negative effects of exposure to arsenic and ways to counter those effects.Tyler’s pregnant mice were given access only to water that contained 50 parts per billion of arsenic – the same levels the average American adult drank prior to 2006.
Like most choices in Robert Aragon’s life, the decision to run for state auditor was not made in an office or at a meeting, but at his dinner table.That’s because, Aragon said, he doesn’t do anything without his family’s support, because his family comes first.“I’m a dad – and that sounds really corny, but one of the best things I’ve done in my life and the best things when I’m breathing my last breath will be raising our children,” he said.The 57-year-old father of three had had a promising political career at an early age.
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Albuquerque will host the inaugural Southwest Regional Socialism Conference this weekend, presented by The Party for Socialism and Liberation.
Talk of drones can conjure concerns about privacy, safety and ethics for many, but one man has a different worry.
No, Bob Davie hasn’t forgotten about last year’s 69-28 beatdown at Fresno State.
Due to the ongoing construction on Avenida Cesar Chavez Avenue, UNM fans attending Friday night’s football game against Fresno State are advised to take different routes to University Stadium.UNM’s T Lot, located on University and Lomas Boulevards, will be used for shuttle transportation, according to a release from the Athletics Department.
The magnet is perhaps best known for its role in sticking things to the fridge, but scientists at UNM believe they may have a better use: treating cancer. At the Health Sciences Center, the laboratory of Dr. Pavan Muttil is making strides in developing a new method to target tumor growth within the lungs by using the simple power of magnets.Muttil and his students have developed a magnetic vest that, when worn by a cancer patient, may help direct cancer drugs to their intended target without damaging the rest of the body, he said.
With strong poll ratings and loads of money, first-term Gov. Susana Martinez seems poised to withstand a challenge from the well-known but not-as-well-funded politician hoping to unseat her. The Republican governor holds a 54 to 36 percent advantage over Democrat Gary King in the latest Research and Polling, Inc., poll published in a copyrighted Albuquerque Journal article on Sept. 14.
A UNM professor of medicine has received a $4.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop tools to link information about drugs, diseases and genes. Dr. Tudor Oprea, chief of the Division of Translational Informatics in the Department of Internal Medicine at UNM’s School of Medicine, said the award is a part of the NIH Common Fund initiative called Illuminating the Druggable Genome.“Our aim is to try and make sense of all this information and put it together in an organized fashion in order to establish new relationships between medicines, drugs and drug targets,” he said.
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