Christina Rosado-Maher, an immigration attorney in Albuquerque, said that because she grew up near the Mexican-American border in San Diego, Calif., she understands that people immigrate to the United States to improve their lives.
Negative feedback followed a performance at UNM that aimed to introduce international students to New Mexico.
Although the Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention was denied state funding last year, the organization introduced a new anti-drunk-driving program with minimal student fee funding.
Despite low high school GPAs, students applying to UNM can still be accepted if they have experienced exceptionally difficult circumstances.
UNM Cancer Center patients’ personal information may have been accessed by hackers, who attacked the center’s server in July. Center officials said as many as 2,365 patients’ information, including Social Security numbers, names and addresses, may have been accessed.
The life of a former UNM law professor will be celebrated by the UNM School of Law. Ann Scales, 60, was a professor at UNM until 1998, when she left to join the law department at the University of Denver.
Rather than spending about $250,000 to perform a national search to find the University’s next provost, an internal search resulted in the full-term appointment of Chaouki Abdallah to the position.
The death of a UNM foreign exchange student host parent initially believed to be a suicide is now being investigated as a homicide. In July, Marc Herrera, 37, died at a foreign exchange student party held at his home in Northeast Albuquerque.
There are two main categories of beer, ales and lagers. Ales are generally made with top-fermenting yeast — which means that when the fermentation nears completion, the yeasts rise to the top of the tank — and lagers are made from bottom-fermenting yeast.
Following the re-opening of Hodgin Hall last year, the UNM Alumni Association plans to bring back a former tradition by building a giant, bronze “U” in front of the building.
Beside master printer Bill Lagattuta’s office desk is a wall of whitewashed Polaroid photos, a collection of Andy Warhol-esque snapshots. Lagattuta said he takes photos of the many artists he’s worked with while at Tamarind Institute, after establishing the creative relationship between artist and printer.
A four-day fundraiser, which includes a five-legged-monster race and water balloon toss, will help raise money to fight cancer and hunger.
Carol Bemis, the mother of UNM student Daniel Bower, reported to UNMPD that her son’s laptop was stolen while he was living at Lobo Village. She reported on Aug. 30 that the laptop was stolen on July 31.
Two narcotics officers, one in a black mask revealing only his eyes and mouth, while the other spoke on his phone, seized marijuana from an infant’s stroller on the corner of Cornell Drive and Central Avenue on Tuesday.
Although the UNM administration has increased security measures at Lobo Village, the Board of Regents questioned whether the efforts have gone too far.
UNM graduate student Sarah Coffey said she’s always had a knack for winning arguments. “I’ve always been annoyingly argumentative,” Coffey said.
Although the UNM Parent Association bylaws state that electing board members is the responsibility of the association’s board of directors, the University has made an effort to re-form the association.
Mercedes Pratt, a full-time student at UNM, works every day to help people in third-world countries gain access to better health care and other essential needs.
The provost appointed the first dean for the University’s new Honors College. On Aug. 15, UNM Provost Chaouki Abdallah appointed UNM economics professor Catherine Krause as interim dean of the Honors College
Following an appeal of the city’s approval of building renovations to the rundown Vagabond Inn near south campus, plans for development have stalled.
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