A national foundation has awarded UNM $800,000 to help some graduate students complete their dissertations. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the five-year grant to UNM in order to fund 20 dissertation completion fellowships.
Undergraduates will now need to take fewer credit hours in order to graduate. The UNM Faculty Senate cut the minimum number of credit hours required to graduate from 128 to 120 at a meeting at the end of last month.
Starting Thursday, some UNM students may be able to ditch the instant ramen diet at least once a month. The University has cooperated with the Roadrunner Food Bank to launch the Lobo Food Pantry, a mobile food warehouse that would provide free healthy food to UNM students monthly.
On Feb. 15, an officer was dispatched to the UNM Psychiatric Center in response to an agitated and combative man tearing up one of the rooms, according to a police report. The medical staff told the officer that the patient had damaged the door to the holding room and punched a hole in the wall;
As this year’s state legislative session enters its last week, UNM community members continue to voice grievances about increasing the Legislative Lottery Scholarship’s GPA requirements. About 100 people gathered in the Student Union Building ballrooms for a Scholarship forum Monday afternoon.
Children in brightly colored gomesis sail seamlessly across the stage. The kids leap, sing and chant to a crowd of more than 100 people in a small church. The Watoto Children’s Choir, an evangelist group from Africa, dances and sings to raise awareness of orphaned children in Uganda.
True to the various colorful personas she has assumed in the past, UNM professor Dorothy Baca proves to be a master of disguise. “I got into television; I did a lot of early rock and roll-like music videos. My brother and I were at one point designing for Bette Midler’s world tour, ‘Divine Madness,’” Baca said.
A local frozen custard joint was robbed Saturday night of money and valuables. Justin Carson, the owner of Chillz Frozen Custard located on Central Avenue in the University area, said he got a call Sunday morning from an emergency operator informing him that the door to his establishment was open.
Student leaders are striving to ensure that their constituents will continue to have a say in the majority of student fee allocations in the future. Officials from the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico and the Graduate and Professional Student Association have teamed up
After various Associated Students of the University of New Mexico slates played their best cards in November’s senate election, fate would have it that the assembly got reshuffled.
An explosion on a tourist bus in Sinai on Sunday killed three people, including the Egyptian bus driver and two South Korean tourists. According to Reuters, another 24 people were wounded by the bomb after it detonated inside or near the bus, security officials said.
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UNM and Bernalillo County have kicked off renovations to the UNM North Golf Course. Maggie Hart Stebbins, chair of the Bernalillo County Commission, said reconstruction on the golf course started Monday.
UNM students showed up in force to voice their displeasure at what they believed was a lack of representation regarding the Legislative Lottery Scholarship’s solvency issue at Wednesday night’s Associated Students of the University of New Mexico Senate meeting.
For the second time this semester, police are investigating racially motivated graffiti in the dorms. On Feb. 5, a UNMPD officer was dispatched to Coronado Hall in reference to a report of criminal damage to property. According to the police report, “unknown offenders etched ‘fuck white people’ along with possible gang symbols resembling Sureños 13
By next week, UNM’s School of Engineering will seek new leadership. This week, UNM Provost Chaouki Abdallah said he had decided to relieve current engineering Dean Catalin Roman of his position. “I decided to replace him due to a divergence of opinions on changing direction for the school of engineering,” Abdallah said.
On Friday afternoon, police responded to a call regarding potential misconduct, said UNMPD Public Information Officer Tim Stump. A female student was studying in Mesa Vista Hall, when an East-Indian man came up to her and asked for directions. After she gave them to him, he held out his hand and gave her a kiss on the cheek.
A UNM organization insists that the use of the term “illegal” in reference to people offends certain students on campus. Ramiro Rodriguez, “our-storian” and finance chair for MEChA de UNM, said he is opposed to people using the term “illegal” when referring to undocumented immigrants.
Despite a delay with the regents’ vote on Innovate ABQ at a meeting in December, the project continues to progress. At the first UNM Board of Regents meeting of this semester Tuesday, UNM Director of Real Estate Thomas Neale told the regents that project leaders and various city institutions are setting up an environmental agreement deal with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co.
On Feb. 2, an officer was dispatched to the Chama building in the Casas del Rio complex in response to a reported burglary. Roommates living in a double room told police that they had left their room door open slightly while one was taking a shower and one was in the bathroom.
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