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Prepping for stepping
August 20Members of the UNM chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, an intercollegiate fraternity for African-American students, practice stepping near Mesa Vista Hall on Monday.
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UNM gets $2.8M to study diabetes
Chloe Henson | August 20UNM recently accepted millions of dollars to study diabetes. The National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases awarded a $2.8 million grant to the UNM Health Sciences Center earlier this month.
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Monday on the street
Jamillah Wilcox | August 19What campus issue do you want to see the UNM administration address this school year?
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UNM to back small, emergency student loans
Jamillah Wilcox | August 19A new needs-based microlending program at UNM will allow students to pay back their loans by doing well in school. UNM will collaborate with the New Mexico Educators Federal Credit Union on a program called “Powering Success: Micro Aid for Educational Achievement,”
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UNM graduation rates up
Ardee Napolitano | August 19UNM awarded more diplomas this year than in each of the past 24 years. According to a document from the office of the provost, the University’s six-year graduation rate, which is at 47.3 percent, is its highest since it first released numbers in 1989.
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A look at ABQ mayor candidates
Ardee Napolitano | August 19In less than two months, Albuquerque will have to decide whether to keep its current leader or to select a new one.
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South campus project inches on
Ardee Napolitano | August 19As the fall semester begins, UNM continues to push for more commercial spaces on south campus. At a Board of Directors of Lobo Development meeting held Friday morning, Amy Coburn, director of design and development for the Lobo Development Corporation, said UNM has hired Dekker/Perich/Sabatini, Bohannan Huston, Inc.
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Lobo Spotlight: David Whitten
Ardee Napolitano | August 12David Whitten stood beside an autoclave, a gray, box-shaped machine that looked like a top-load washing machine, in a laboratory in the Centennial Engineering Building Friday morning.
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Miller censured for obese tweet
Ardee Napolitano | August 12After more than a month of investigation, UNM has censured a controversial psychology professor for a fat-shaming post on Twitter.
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Frank meets with NAACP
Jamillah Wilcox | August 12UNM is working to improve campus safety in response to concerns from the African American community regarding hate crimes on campus.
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Miller formally censured for controversial tweet
Ardee Napolitano | August 7After more than a month of investigation, UNM has decided to censure a controversial psychology professor for a fat-shaming post on Twitter.
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Regents OK hospital partnership
Ardee Napolitano | July 27A bid by UNM’s Health Sciences Center to manage a community hospital in Gallup moves forward as the Board of Regents approved Tuesday a motion to uphold community health in the state.
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Lobo Spotlight: Dawinder Sidhu
Ardee Napolitano | July 22Maryland native Dawinder Sidhu said he has spent most of his life close to the Atlantic Ocean. So after he snagged a job at UNM Law School three years ago, Sidhu decided to stay in sunny Albuquerque for a change.
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Slashed funding for mental health sparks protest
Ardee Napolitano | July 22A New Mexico Legislative Finance Committee meeting in which the committee was supposed to discuss behavioral health in New Mexico drew hundreds into UNM’s Student Union Building Wednesday afternoon.
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Program to improve NM schools proposed
Jamillah Wilcox | July 22Last year, New Mexico had a National Blue Ribbon School. Central Elementary in Artesia received the national recognition as an honor school in 2012 for showing dramatic improvement in student performance.
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Student success a priority at UNM
Ardee Napolitano | July 22As the fall semester nears, UNM continues to develop initiatives in hopes of improving student success on campus.
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Student loan fix in the works
Nicholas Salazar | July 22UNM students, along with others nationwide, might face higher interest rates on federal student loans, as efforts in Congress to keep the rates at their current levels remain uncertain.
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UNM, CNM advise STEM students
Jamillah Wilcox | July 22UNM and CNM continue to strive to increase graduation and retention rates of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors.
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Golf course face-lift on its way
Jamillah Wilcox | July 22UNM’s 76-acre golf course could become more eco-friendly by next spring. After the Bernalillo County Open Space Fund and the University agreed to allot $1.5 million to renovate UNM’s North Golf Course last year, the University is now taking those plans into action.
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Lobo Spotlight: Anny Chung
Ardee Napolitano | July 15Anny Chung, Ph.D. student, knows that not everybody would understand cell lysis, cytokinesis and biomes offhand. So Chung, who is in the third year of her doctorate in biology, and does understand this jargon, thinks it’s important for others to be familiar with it too.
