Innovate ABQ is taking another step toward readiness, this time with regard to how students and non-students alike can get directly involved in entrepreneurship. As part of the larger technology incubator, the newly conceived Innovation Academy, which is undergoing planning at the moment
On Jan. 13, a UNMPD officer was dispatched to the Cornell Parking Structure to investigate graffiti. Upon arrival, the officer met with a female witness who told him that the suspects used chalk to scribble the graffiti, which stated “Money is not real” and “you watch the wind blow but little do you know,”
A fraternity at Arizona State University has been suspended after members planned an offensive party that was “Martin Luther King Jr.-themed,” the Los Angeles Times reported. Photos posted during the weekend showed students dressed in baggy basketball jerseys, loose pants and baseball caps while drinking out of watermelon cups.
Out of 43 cases of the flu found at UNM Hospital so far this flu season, more than half have been confirmed as swine flu. Dr. Meghan Brett, the leading epidemiologist at the hospital, said 81 percent of the cases reported from late fall to early spring were caused by the H1N1 virus.
The Signed Language Interpretation Program at UNM has received a 10-year accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Interpreter Education. Rebekah Miller, an SLI program applicant, said this achievement is the product of work by both the faculty and the students of the SLI program.
A bid to make marijuana legal will begin as the New Mexico Legislature opens this week. State Joint Resolution 10 would amend the state constitution to make the sale, consumption and growth of pot legal, said Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, who sponsored the proposal.
The upcoming state legislative session may determine how much some UNM students pay for school this semester. According to an email sent out by the UNM Financial Aid Office, the New Mexico Higher Education Department believes “current available funds for the Legislative Lottery Scholarship may be insufficient to cover the spring 2014 semester.”
An agreement signed by UNM last week will reduce the red tape between the University and Sandia National Laboratories. University and Sandia administrators on Friday signed the Inter-Institutional Visitor Agreement, which will allow UNM faculty members and certain graduate students to conduct experiments and research while on the national laboratory’s property.
As the spring semester kicks off, the New Mexico State Legislature will have to confront the issue of the Lottery Scholarship, which they postponed from last year’s legislative session. New Mexico’s 30-day legislative session begins today, and while many legislators and state bodies have found it urgent to find a solution to preserve the Lottery Scholarship
Even after limiting its uranium enrichment to 20 percent concentration on Monday, Iran will continue to incur Canada’s sanctions in their totality. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in an address to the Israeli government Monday that “Canada’s own sanctions will remain fully in place,”
Despite an internal fiasco last month, the new director of UNM’s El Centro de la Raza is revving up for the spring semester. Rosa Isela Cervantes, who had her first day in office Jan. 6, said that despite complaints against her appointment from some members of the El Centro community late last year, she is still excited for the semester to begin.
The governor has proposed initiatives that would grant millions to higher education institutions in the state. At a press conference last month, Gov. Susana Martinez announced proposals that include appropriating $7.5 million to the higher education endowment fund for New Mexico universities.
A UNM alumna has announced that she will make a ballot bid in 2014’s state elections. Democrat Debra Haaland said at a press conference in early December that she intends to run for her party’s nomination for lieutenant governor of New Mexico.
The Albuquerque Fire Department responded to a “bush fire” in the area in front of George Pearl Hall late Friday afternoon. AFD public information officer Melissa Romero said authorities, who arrived at the scene at about 4:30 p.m., were able to contain the petite blaze in about 15 minutes. She said the incident was “nothing major,” and that the building, which houses UNM’s architecture department, was n
New Mexico became the 17th state in the nation to allow same-sex marriages on Thursday. After months of deliberation, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state government “is constitutionally required to allow same-gender couples to marry and must extend to them the rights, protections and responsibilities that derive from civil marriage under New Mexico law.”
A charter school associated with UNM presented University regents with a national award on Tuesday. Kathy Sandoval-Snider, director of the Albuquerque Institute for Math and Science (AIMS) at UNM, presented the Blue Ribbon Shield award to the UNM Board of Regents at a meeting.
UNM officials are working to help students graduate on time, while saving the University money. University Provost Chaouki Abdallah said it would cost the University about $50,000 to graduate a student who takes the minimum 128 total credit hours within four years. But for a student who graduates after six years, it costs UNM about $91,000 to produce a degree.
Four months into fiscal year 2014, UNM’s consolidated Health Sciences Center divisions have earned $4 million dollars more than they spent, combined. According to a report presented by HSC administrators in a UNM Board of Hospital Directors meeting on Friday, HSC’s divisions brought in a total of about $520 million by the end of October
A UNM regent has decided to make a bid for a State House of Representatives seat in 2014. According to the Albuquerque Journal, UNM Regent Conrad James announced Monday that he has decided to run for the House District 24 seat next year.
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.
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