Due to changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, the UNM Hospital has decided to extend the availability of the UNM Care Program for another year. At a UNMH Board of Directors meeting on Friday, UNMH CEO Steve McKernan said thousands of New Mexicans were affected by the Affordable Care Act.
The graduate student government made a case for re-blocking tuition on Thursday. At a UNM Board of Regents’ Academic Student Affairs and Research Committee meeting, Matthew Rush, chief of staff of the Graduate and Professional Student Association, presented a recommendation to provide fixed tuition rates for students taking 12 credit hours or more.
The Copenhagen Zoo put down Marius, a healthy two-year-old giraffe, on Sunday in front of an audience to prevent inbreeding of giraffes in the facility. Zoo staff killed Marius using a bolt pistol and skinned him in front of the crowd before feeding his carcass to the zoo’s lions, according to the Associated Press.
Freshman Rebekah Bibb is no stranger to moving. Raised in an Army family with four other siblings, Bibb lived in Virginia, Alabama, Washington, Oregon and several towns in New Mexico before her moved to Santa Fe, just in time for her to enter kindergarten.
Now that the deadline for introducing new legislation has passed, state legislators must now begin debate on a large number of bills. Below is a breakdown of four bills relating to higher education, transparency and economic development, including their sponsors, topics and locations in the legislative process.
Cinnamon Burton had just finished doing her laundry in the Laguna 2 dormitory last Friday. She had no idea that upon returning to her dorm, she would see that someone had scrawled a racial slur on a white board on one of her suite-mate’s doors.
SANTA FE – The last senate bill to be introduced in this year’s legislative session reached the New Mexico Senate floor by the end of UNM Day. And it came in time to address a statewide higher education issue.
Three men and a woman were arrested with more than 350 bags of heroin on Tuesday evening in lower Manhattan, according to the New York Times.
A coalition of students from different colleges across the state has decided to offer its support to a long-term solution for the Legislative Lottery Scholarship’s solvency issue. Isaac Romero, president of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico and a member of the work group, said he supports Senate Bill 150 because it would provide a long-term solution to the shortage in funds for the scholarship.
About two-thirds of UNM students’ parents advocate raising the Legislative Lottery Scholarship’s GPA requirement to ensure its solvency. According to a survey conducted last June by the University’s Parent Association, 64 percent of the 468 respondents are in favor of increasing the scholarship’s minimum GPA requirement from a 2.5.
On January 28, officers arrived at UNMH on a report of a woman who said she was in fear of being followed. According to the report, Claudia Molina said she was at a gym when her boyfriend called her and asked her where she was, intending to visit her.
A woman in blue latex gloves placed an orange stress ball in Janet Frank’s right hand in the Student Union Building Ballroom C on Monday morning. As Frank squeezed, the woman inserted a needle attached to a clear tube into her arm. Moments later, the tube turned dark red.
UNM might help to create a new university in Asia in the next few years. University President Robert Frank on Thursday returned from a six-day trip to China, during which he met with national administrators about the possibility of collaborating with a Chinese university to form a new higher education institution in the country.
UNM’s Athletics Department might receive $4 million in student fees from the University next fiscal year. The University’s Student Fee Review Board elected to respect in full the department’s budget request during the board’s second round of deliberations Saturday.
After almost eight years, UNM is still uncertain about plans for a new wellness center on campus. UNM President Robert Frank said his administration would conduct a public dialogue to figure out what the next step for the proposed wellness center will be.
After surrendering to the African Union during the weekend, about 200 militia fighters with the Muslim group Seleka fled the capital of Bangui on Saturday. According to the Agence France-Presse, Central African authorities claimed that the fighters left for the city of Kaga Bandoro, which is north of Bangui.
The Daily Lobo's new weekly online show, The Howl, made its debut this weekend. It will provide a recap of the week's top stories.
With only three weeks left in this year’s legislative session, Lottery Scholarship-related bills are pouring in. Three bills were introduced into the state Senate that attempt to address the lack of sufficient funds to power the Lottery for the next fiscal year.
Another body of student government at UNM has decided to lend their support to undocumented students at the University. The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico passed a resolution that supports the, “rights of all undergraduate students at the University of New Mexico to apply for and obtain a state-issued drivers’ license.”
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