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Grant gives colleges tools to help workers

Sayyed Shah | October 21

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.

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Haaland: Culture big part of campaign focus

Kyle Tomasi , Micaela Eldridge-Lane and Hayley Mitchell | October 20

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.

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Prof.'s curiosity led to new dinosaur discovery

Lena Giudi | October 20

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.

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Urge to serve paves path for Sanchez

Kyle Tomasi , Micaela Eldridge-Lane and Hayley Mitchell | October 20

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.

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Despite Martinez, Hispanics stick with Dems.

J.R. Oppenheim , Priscilla Banuelos and Marcus Jaramillo | October 20

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.

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The Howl: Oct. 18, 2014 episode

October 18

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.

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Female student is groped In campus parking lot

October 17

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.

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Student program strives for positive social influence

Sayyed Shah | October 17

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.

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Church provides sanctuary for homeless community

Matthew Reisen | October 17

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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Crime briefs for Oct. 17, 2014

Erika Eddy | October 17

Phallic symbol scrawled on instructor’s windowOn Oct. 2, UNMPD was dispatched by an instructor in reference to a phallic symbol drawn on his window. According to the report, an unknown person drew the symbol in the dust of the victim’s interior office window. 

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Researcher pitches in to develop Ebola vaccine

Sayyed Shah | October 16

A UNM scientist is attempting to modify experimental Ebola vaccines to make them more effective. Dr. Steven Bradfute, research assistant professor in the UNM Department of Internal Medicine and Center for Global Health, is working in collaboration with other scientists on vaccine development for the Ebola virus, Marburg virus (Ebola’s closest relative) and a group of other hemorrhagic fever viruses classified as New World Arenaviruses.“We take existing experimental vaccines and try to improve them,” Bradfute said. “There are several Ebola vaccines that are effective in monkey studies.”

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Colorado activists seek fetal rights

Daniel Montaño | October 16

The battle over abortion is raging again in the southwest. Just a year after Albuquerque struck down a late-term abortion ban, Colorado voters are facing a proposed amendment to the state constitution that has the potential to ban all abortions, according to election documents.The proposed Amendment 67, titled “Protection of Pregnant Mothers and Unborn Children,” seeks to change the definition of “person” and “child” to include “unborn human beings,” according to the amendment.

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Campus briefs for Oct. 16, 2014

October 16

Latino AIDS awarenessUNM Truman Health Services, along with New Mexico agencies and advocacy groups, kicked off a series of activities to promote HIV/AIDS education. According to UNM, this year’s events are free and open to the public:Today from 7 to 10 p.m., the 6th Annual Queenceñera and Kingceñera will be crowned in a competitive drag show at N’MPower, 136 Washington St. SE, Suite E.

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Grants gives DataONE wings

Tomas Lujan | October 16

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $15 million grant to researchers at the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences to continue developing its Data Observation Network for Earth, or DataONE, project. DataONE is a multinational cyber-infrastructure with the aim of consolidating environmental data from around the world. Researchers said the long-term benefits of creating such a resource are potentially limitless.Professor William Michener, DataONE principal investigator, said the project currently has three components composed of coordinating nodes, member nodes and the investigator tool kit.

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Expert talks trash in lecture series

October 15

On Tuesday a community panel met on campus with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes and kicked off the lecture series “Talkin’ Trash.”The panelists discussed garbology, the study of trash, as well as how New Mexico could move toward becoming a zero-waste state.The Office of Student Academic Success is hosting the lecture series as part of the Lobo Reading Experience, a community-building program created for all students to share a common reading experience.

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Water summit discusses care solutions

Jonathan Baca | October 15

A diverse group of engineers, business people, scientists and politicians crowded into the SUB Ballroom on Tuesday to discuss the future of New Mexico’s most important resource ? water.The Water Innovation Summit was hosted by U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., with the goal of bringing together people from every side of the water conservation issue to discuss new technologies, innovations and policy changes that could be used to continue meeting the state’s water needs.

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Criticism doesn't deter David Correia

October 14

It was a late summer afternoon when 32 protesters crowded in City Hall to demand justice for victims of APD shootings.

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Assistant professor puts 'obesity gene' in new light

Lauren Topper | October 14

The Many Roles of NPC1By Lauren TopperTwo friends share a diet of fast food and sugary desserts.

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Students rally against Columbus Day

William Aranda and Jonathan Baca | October 14

To many students, Columbus Day is just another Monday. But to others, it is a sanctioned holiday celebrating the oppression and genocide of indigenous peoples, and on Monday they took to campus and demanded change.Around noon, a group of students from numerous organizations and clubs, carrying signs with “F**k Columbus” written in bold letters, led a tour of campus to celebrate sites of past campus resistance and to point out examples of what they called UNM’s “complicity in colonization and oppression against native peoples.”

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Student leaders seek sex crime response reforms

Marielle Dent | October 13

The University’s student governments are working to change the way UNM deals with sexual assault on campus. The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico and the Graduate and Professional Student Association proposed Friday that UNM be proclaimed a Start by Believing campus at this month’s Board of Regents meeting.Start by Believing is a public awareness campaign designed by End Violence Against Women International to change the way people respond to reports of sexual assault and rape.