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.
The Chinese government is continuing its search for attackers that killed 29 people in a stabbing rampage in a train station in the province of Yunnan. The government has claimed the attackers were part of a separatist group from Xinjiang, according to the Agence France-Presse.
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Parishioners of UNM’s Aquinas Newman Center continued to fight for the future of the Dominicans in the parish in a rally Thursday afternoon. Catherine Loweree, a UNM alumna and a parishioner who organized the event, said she started planning the rally in the end of January after hearing news of the Dominicans’ upcoming eviction.
The University’s undergraduate student government on Wednesday addressed the removal of parishioners in UNM’s Aquinas Newman Center. The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico Senate passed Resolution 7S a vote of 12-7 with one abstention at a meeting that night.
After about four decades of trying to acquire land on south campus, UNM sealed a $1.2 million deal for property last month. UNM has obtained 23 lots along Sunshine Terrace, after reaching an agreement with the family that privately owned the lots early in January.
The Legislative Lottery Scholarship is effective at getting students through college, a new study has found. According to a UNM study conducted by the Office of Enrollment Management, 62 percent of New Mexico high school graduates who receive the scholarship graduate in six years,
After months of investigation, UNM’s Internal Audit Department has decided that a Law School group’s case regarding public money misspending deserves a criminal investigation.
UNM sits at the lower end of a ranking regarding return on investment for top-tier universities in the region. According to BestValueSchools.com, UNM ranks 11 out of 13 among “number one schools” in the western region for ROI.
UNM’s Anthropology Department Professor Cristobal Valencia will discuss political views regarding fracking in New Mexico on Thursday at 5:15 p.m. in George Pearl Hall, room P104.
Parties on both sides of the immigration debate voiced their opinions through two different film screenings Tuesday night at the Student Union Building Ballrooms. The UNM Conservative Republicans showed “They Come to America II: The Cost of Amnesty,” a documentary-style film that provided information on amnesty for undocumented immigrants.
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