After more than a year of discussion, UNM Hospital has yet to settle on a solution to its high occupancy rate. William Sparks, executive director for communication and marketing at UNM Health Sciences Center, said UNM officials began to focus on the issue late in 2011. He said the debate began because the occupancy rate at UNMH exceeds typical levels.
Local pornography film festival Pornotopia will be showing off the best in independent pornographic flicks after being stalled out for nearly four years, said Molly Adler, co-owner of Self Serve Sexuality Resource Center and co-founder of Pornotopia.
After decades, UNM’s art arena reopens to showcase student projects, and to vie against each other for prizes. Paintings, photographs and other artworks were displayed in the John Sommers Gallery in the Art Building Friday night as part of a juried art exhibit.
UNM slipped two spots on an annual best universities list, but some university officials have shrugged off the ranking. U.S. News and World Report ranked the University as number 181 in the 2014 edition of its Best Colleges Rankings.
For about two decades, Jerome Romero has been raising awareness of the dangers of consuming alcohol during pregnancy. As program manager for UNM’s Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions, Romero focuses on preventing fetal alcohol syndrome,
On Sept. 14, the Associated Student of the University of New Mexico organized a summit in which state and student officials convened at the Student Union Building to discuss possible solutions to the Lottery Scholarship solvency issue. If you could attend a similar summit, what ideas would you suggest?
Red balloons floated over a parallel parking space filled with chairs and tables Downtown as UNM students converted the space into a seating area last week.
Candidates continued to compete with each other on how to make Albuquerque richer and safer in a televised mayoral debate Sunday afternoon. KOAT hosted the first televised mayoral debate of this year’s election cycle.
In the two years before I took office as mayor, we lost 22,000 jobs in the city. In the last 12 months alone, we’ve gained 7,000. We’re adding jobs, and that’s good news …
Two men held up a human-sized cardboard cutout of President Barack Obama in front of the SUB Friday morning. A crowd of about 100 faced the cutout and pointed their fingers at the faux United States leader.
After over a month of planning, UNM’s 2013 Homecoming will kick off next week. The annual weeklong event will start with an atrium-decoration party on Monday. This year’s homecoming royals will be decided Wednesday.
While you can totally rock a beret while kneading, creating a perfectly authentic French croissant is difficult in New Mexico. And it’s not just because of the temperature, the humidity and the altitude. There is an unfortunate shortage of French bakers in the state.
As early voting for the Albuquerque mayoral election begins, one candidate continues his support for the National Rifle Association. At a ceremony at the Shooting Range Park Monday, incumbent Richard Berry extended an agreement between the city of Albuquerque and the National Rifle Association’s Enforcement Division.
Despite facing major financial and institutional setbacks, the University’s branch campuses continue to strive for improvement. UNM Los Alamos continues to plan how to maintain its campus offerings going into the future after the Los Alamos community rejected on Tuesday a mill levy tax increase that would have supported the branch.
On Sept. 12, police were dispatched in response to a UNM student’s report that she had been scammed online. According to the report, the woman said she received a check in the mail after responding to an ad on Craigslist and then cashed the check.
After years of replacing hip bones and patellas, the UNM Hospital has finally gained recognition for its work. The Joint Commission, a not-for-profit organization that accredits and certifies more than 20,000 health care organizations and programs in the country, awarded a certification to UNMH for its hip and knee replacement programs at the end of July.
About 30 members of the UNM community collected near the Duck Pond Tuesday night for a gathering called “Spread the Light: A Candlelight Vigil for Syria.” The vigil, hosted by the Canterbury Campus Ministry, was intended to bring together community members of all faiths to pray for peace in Syria
Jeremy Edwards has worked at UNM for eight years — his next three will be spent mapping the human genome. Edwards, a professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at the UNM Cancer Center, won a grant for his upcoming research earlier this month from the National Institutes of Health
There wasn’t a cake with 50 candles at the UNM Art Museum on Thursday, but there was a crowd of hundreds, a large cheese platter and art along the walls.
In a letter addressed to his constituents on Sept. 9, New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich expressed his official support for President Barack Obama’s plans for military intervention in the Syrian civil war. How do you feel about this?
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