UNM’s Graduate and Professional Student Association Lobby Committee is working to pass new state legislation that would give recent graduates a leg up on funding for their in-state businesses. The Statewide Entrepreneurial Economic Development (SEED) Act would create an appropriation for investments on behalf of the state by using a portion of funding from the state
Interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour passed a law on Sunday that outlawed public gatherings of more than 10 people without government permission in an effort to limit protests in the country. The new law requires protesters to request a protest permit three days in advance
The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico senate passed an emergency resolution on Wednesday concerning the Lottery Scholarship. In a full senate meeting, ASUNM senators enacted a resolution that calls for Gov. Susana Martinez to give a special message that recommends all legislation on the Scholarship to be considered during the state Legislature’s 30-day session. The legislative session begins in January.
UNM might be able to continue development of Innovate ABQ for much cheaper by next month. Mesa del Sol developers have offered the Aperture Center, a 78,000-square-foot building in east Albuquerque, to UNM for $4.5 million as part of the University’s push for a two-site Albuquerque business and innovation hub.
As the debate whether to prioritize students’ merit or need when it comes to the Lottery Scholarship continues, some state lawmakers have officially refuted raising the grade point average requirements for the scholarship.
Protesters in black lined up along the sidewalk outside the Bernalillo Public Schools District Office in a rally Wednesday as part of a statewide movement by teachers and other education employees to protest a new teacher evaluation system.
UNMH will not negotiate with a union of employees that filed a complaint regarding mandatory flu vaccines for hospital staff last month, according to a counter-statement filed by the hospital. In the counter-statement to the UNM Labor Management Relations Board on Monday, UNMH argues that “the union wholly fails to demonstrate that the union or its members will suffer irreparable injury by implementation of the policy”
Convicted serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin was executed Wednesday morning by lethal injection, according to CNN. The execution was delayed because of court appeals. Franklin, a reported white supremacist, was sent to death row for the murder of Gerald Gordon
On Nov. 14, the parent of a UNM student called the UNM Police Department with regard to a possible larceny. A 2006 Hummer, which the student borrowed from her parent that day, was missing a spare tire valued at more than $1,000, according to the report.
Albuquerque voters snubbed a citywide ordinance in the city’s runoff election Tuesday that proposed to prohibit late-term abortions. Voters took to the polls to weigh in on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance, which would have banned abortion after 20 weeks, excepting situations in which the mother’s life is endangered by the pregnancy.
This year, more voters showed up at the polls during Tuesday’s runoff election than did for October’s citywide mayoral election. According to data from the Office of the City Clerk, 87,296 registered Albuquerque voters cast their ballots during the runoff election, representing a 24 percent citywide turnout.
A man who was arrested for shouting on campus last week returned to the University on Tuesday to continue his anti-abortion protests. Rives Grogan, 48, carried a sign that said “Ban Late Term Abortion in Jesus’ Name,” and shouted about abortion and religion in front of the Student Union Building.
Karla Molinar said her father had to change his career in 2007 after moving from Mexico to the United States. “My dad used to have his own job, his own company. Things just went wrong,” she said. “It got to a point where it was very hard for us to sustain ourselves.
A major New Mexico finance institution has decided to invest in UNM’s Innovate ABQ. According to a press release, the New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union committed $3 million to the project earlier this month.
A UNM college that has been three years in the making is now looking for student input. This semester, various University professors who have been spearheading the formation of a College for Social Transformation will gather suggestions from the University community said Tiffany Lee
Albuquerque voters will decide today whether to pass an ordinance that would increase regulations on abortions in the city. The Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance could ban abortion after 20 weeks, except for situations in which the mother’s life is endangered by the pregnancy.
With the citywide abortion ban vote set for Tuesday, UNM has become a battleground for abortion activists, both from in and out of state. Following last week’s string of abortion protests, StopPatriarchy.org, a national pro-abortion choice organization, protested in front of the UNM Bookstore Saturday afternoon.
While sequestration and funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health have heavily affected scientific research across the U.S., the UNM Health Sciences Center has seen an increase in NIH research funding and in additional extramural funding overall.
A group of undocumented student supporters continues its push for affordable education for students who qualify under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals memorandum. Last Wednesday, the UNM Dream Team created an online petition addressed to UNM President Robert Frank
An abortion protester was arrested on campus Thursday afternoon in the midst of recent weeks’ abortion debates on campus. The UNM Police Department arrested Rives Grogan, 48, at the south side of Zimmerman Library, according to the police report.
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