The Democratic National Committee has launched a new initiative that aims to increase the number of voters nationwide. During a press conference call Tuesday, DNC Director of Voter Expansion Pratt Wiley said the Voter Expansion Project aims to make sure that every eligible U.S. citizen can register to vote,
On March 6, UNMPD dispatched an officer to the area around the A and R Lots to assist a detective in identifying a woman loitering around vehicles. According to the report, the responding officer identified the woman and determined through a National Crime Information Center check that she had an outstanding misdemeanor warrant for her arrest.
For the second consecutive school year, President of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico Isaac Romero will file a bid for the undergraduate student government presidency this spring.
For Associated Students of the University of New Mexico Senator Ayham Maadi, the commitment to being a student goes far beyond showing up for class, completing assignments and receiving grades.
The UNM Board of Regents on Monday heard a proposal that could give students the option to choose a slightly higher but fixed tuition rate for the following four years.
Queer-Straight Alliance Advocacy Chair Johny Golightly said that universal restrooms on campus are a basic student right. “When we’re using the bathroom, we’re really vulnerable,” he said. “We should all be free to pee. We should have this safe space where we could relieve ourselves.
The UNM Board of Regents will hear about a potential new tuition model today that could help students dodge tuition increases. In an email sent to the Daily Lobo, Regent Bradley Hosmer said the UNM Board of Regents requested a guaranteed tuition model so students can pay a slightly higher, guaranteed amount for tuition each year.
The Arab League in Cairo on Sunday announced its backing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s rejection of Israel as a Jewish state. Amid peace talks between Israel and Palestine led by the United States
Seven months into fiscal year 2014, financial loss at the Sandoval Regional Medical Center remains steady at $5 million. SRMC’s loss has stayed at that amount since the first quarter of this fiscal year, UNM Hospital CEO Steve McKernan said in a report at a UNMH Board of Directors meeting Friday.
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UNM will continue to reach out to its southern neighbor this summer. The University is working with the City of Albuquerque to establish an educational office and a trade office in Mexico City to help prospective American and Mexican entrepreneurs collaborate and connect
A group of third graders were caught smoking marijuana at school, according to the Los Angeles Times. Another student discovered two 8-year-olds and a 9-year-old smoking weed in a Sonora Elementary School bathroom on Feb. 27. The superintendent did not divulge how the students will be disciplined and probation officials are investigating who supplied the drug.
After acquiring land late last year, UNM Hospital officials continue to advance plans for the North Fourth Street Clinic. UNMH CEO Steve McKernan said the hospital successfully acquired the property in December, and that at the moment, the hospital is working on a master plan for the facility. UNMH aims to present the plan to the UNM Board of Regents in April or May, McKernan said.
Associate Provost Greg Heileman teaches about 40 students per semester at UNM, but in about two weeks, he’ll be instructing thousands. Beginning on Mar. 17, Heileman will teach UNM’s first Massive Online Open Course.
Researchers in UNM’s anthropology department are helping an indigenous group combat and overcome flood devastation in Bolivia. Daniel Cummings, a graduate student pursuing his doctorate in anthropology at UNM, is part of the Tsimane Health and Life History Project, whose primary purpose is to study the Tsimane people in order to supply data for health and anthropological research, he said.
Student Vanely Salinas said she never had the opportunity to ask her mother for help with her homework. Salinas, an undocumented student who has plans on being the first in her family to graduate from college, said her mother stopped attending school after second grade.
While her competitors have been donning makeup since elementary school, Gabrielle Torres said she was never the typical pageant girl. “I actually started competing when I was 16, so I wasn’t a pageant girl all my life,”
In 1889, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico passed a bill to create UNM. Three years later, the school opened its first building, Hodgin Hall, to a class of 108 students, said UNM Alumni Association Director Karen Abraham.
After UNM President Robert G. Frank’s State of the University address, University and student officials feel positive that UNM can raise $1 billion by 2020. In his address in Keller Hall on Friday, Frank announced “Changing Worlds 2020: The Campaign for UNM.”
UNM President Robert Frank’s administration is seeking a University faculty member to take over the recently vacated chief of staff post. Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Cinnamon Blair said the University has began an internal search for chief of staff after former UNM Chief of Staff Dorothy Rodriguez resigned for personal reasons.
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