UNM’s Graduate and Professional Student Association Lobby Committee is working on how best to brand their bill, the SEED Act, in order to garner legislative support. The goal of the Statewide Entrepreneurial Economic Development Act is to create an appropriation for investments on behalf of the state by using a portion of state funding.
For one former UNM president, reinstatement “would be a wonderful holiday gift.” F. Chris Garcia, who faced charges of promoting prostitution in 2011, said that although he is not yet planning to file a formal letter of reinstatement to the University any time soon, he expects UNM to restore all his privileges on campus as a faculty member. “In fact, this was supposed to be a temporary situation,” he said. “The suspension should be short-term.
UNM Hospital employees will not have to receive mandatory flu shots — for now. On Tuesday, the Second District Judicial Court granted a temporary stay of disciplinary action with regard to employees’ complaint about UNMH’s implementation of mandatory flu shots.
Innovate ABQ, already more than one year in the making, might take a bigger step forward by the end of this week. UNM’s Board of Regents will hold a meeting from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Friday in Scholes Hall’s Roberts Room. The board will conduct an “Innovate ABQ Examination,” which will include looking at the economics of the project
A student was shot outside an Orlando-area high school after a fight broke out near a bus stop on Wednesday, according to Reuters. The wounded student was alert and was taken to the hospital for treatment.
On November 25, UNMPD officers were dispatched to the Anderson School of Management upon a report of a suspicious-looking man loitering in the building. According to the caller, the man had been loitering in and around the building off and on for about a week. Though the man identified himself by another name, a responding officer recognized the man
For at least the third time this calendar year, an on-campus bomb threat that shook up the University turned out to be a hoax. UNM Police Department public information officer Lieutenant Tim Stump responded to the bomb threat early Tuesday morning immediately after UNMPD received an anonymous call warning of potential blasts.
Tuesday’s performance of “The Nutcracker” at Popejoy Hall by the New Mexico Ballet Company was cancelled due to a bomb threat early that morning. Emily Fine, executive director of the New Mexico Ballet Company, said her dancers were minutes away from warming up for their production of the Nutcracker in the building when they were evacuated.
Innovate ABQ gathered more funds to support itself last week. According to a news release, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration awarded a $1.5 million grant to UNM’s Science and Technology Corporation (STC), the University department leading the Innovate ABQ effort.
At about 10:15 a.m., UNMPD Operations Lieutenant Trace Peck said APD bomb squad officials cleared inspection of the Popejoy, Ortega and Mitchell Halls. Peck said three teams of bomb squad officials entered each building with one sniffing dog each. None found anything suspicious in any of the structures, he said. UNMPD public information officer Tim Stump said classes will resume in the buildings at 11 a.m.
A UNM professor aims to inspire students and faculty to study in central Europe. The Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) selected Angela Wandinger-Ness, a UNM professor of pathology, as a research ambassador to Germany.
On Wednesday night, a few UNM students will celebrate their identities through art. About 80 students taking a Freshman Learning Community course will present their poetry, posters and digital artwork at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, said Chicano and Chicana Studies Department Director Irene Vasquez.
Students have signaled interest in starting a bike-share program on campus. According to the results of a recent bike-share survey conducted by ASUNM’s Green Fund Committee earlier this semester, 81.7 percent of respondents said they would like to see such a program on campus. 18.3 percent said they wouldn’t.
Right before Thanksgiving break, property crime on campus was on the rise. UNM Police Department Operations Lt. Trace Peck said that the number of backpack and bicycle thefts increased by more than half the usual number the week before the four-day weekend. But he said the department saw this coming.
Catholic Croats flocked to the capital city Zagreb Sunday to vote on a referendum that would ban same-sex marriage in the Balkan state. Because the Croatian constitution does not define marriage, the referendum seeks to change the constitution to define marriage as a “union between a man and a woman,” Agence France-Presse reported.
The bell rang and the second round began. Alpha Tau Omega member Callen Lovett got fired up. Noticing that his opponent, Sigma Chi member Jeff Doerr, wasn’t guarding his head enough, Lovett delivered a massive blow to Doerr’s face. Doerr’s leg jiggled.
Ginaveve Pepin, a freshman studying architecture at UNM, said she was charged by the University for a summer class that she didn’t have to take. When she went to the financial aid One Stop office at Mesa Vista Hall to clear up her account, she said she felt uneasy.
For Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly, the future of that nation’s economy depends on investments in technological infrastructure in his community. “Navajo residents live in a remote area,” he said. “Their roads are bad, they have very poor connectivity. When someone gets hurt, they call 911, and by the time the person gets there, the person is gone.
Craig Kief munched on a slice at a pizza party in the headquarters of UNM’s Configurable Space Microsystems and Innovations and Applications Center Tuesday night. As the clock struck 6 p.m., Kief’s and other attendees’ gaze stayed frozen on a large screen.
UNM and PNM Resources, Inc. have teamed up in their search for an efficient and low-price energy systems. The two organizations announced last week that they would collaborate on the Cloud-based Energy Resource Scheduling (CERES) Initiative.
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