Lobo football player Devonta Tabannah was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated on Sunday and was immediately suspended from the football team. According to APD, the sophomore cornerback was driving a black Chevrolet and ran a red light to make a left turn onto Lomas Boulevard from Second Street.
In response to a congressional decision to deny graduate students subsidized student loans, GPSA raised $49,000 in scholarship money that will be allocated to graduate students this semester. Beginning July 1, graduate students are no longer eligible for federal subsidized loans, which are loans from the government that don’t have an interest rate and don’t have to be paid back until six months after graduation.
The city of Albuquerque is hosting a $30,000 app design contest. At an Aug. 24 press conference, city of Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry announced the beginning of the ABQ Data competition, a city of Albuquerque app-development contest aimed to improve Albuquerque community members’ and visitors’ experiences in Albuquerque.
On Aug. 27, construction will begin on a $9 million collaborative-learning building that studies show will help students better retain information they have learned in class.
The commanding officer of the largest naval station in the world is a former Lobo. Capt. David A. Culler Jr. became commanding officer of Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Va., on Aug. 2. Culler said the naval station houses 63 warships and about 180 aircraft.
Dean of the UNM School of Law Kevin Washburn has been nominated by President Obama to be the assistant secretary for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Although ASUNM President Caroline Muraida hired 35 people this summer to fill student positions on various University boards and committees, 20 positions have yet to be filled, meaning the student voice is still silent on some aspects of the University. Muraida said that throughout the summer, she held more than 100 hourlong interviews and that as part of her presidential duties, she needs to continue to fill the empty board and committee positions.
Eight UNM students spent the summer preparing to interact directly with national leaders and policymakers at a public-policy conference in Las Cruces.
Actor Kal Penn, best known for his role in “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” signed autographs outside the SUB Tuesday.
Despite claims from UNM Parent Association Board members, a UNM spokeswoman said the parent association won’t disband and will work with the University to resolve recent disagreements.
Young undocumented immigrants in New Mexico and across the country can now start an application process that will allow them to work legally and remain in the country with temporary protection from deportation.
Even though UNM employees’ health insurance premium costs have increased, employees earning less than $50,000 per year won’t pay for the full amount of the increase out of pocket.
All members of the UNM Parent Association Board of Directors have resigned, following a dispute between the board and the UNM administration. One of the Parent Association board members, Grant Kitting, said the board has chosen to disband because the UNM administration wanted a say in the selection of the association’s next president.
A new social networking site called “At The Pool” launched at UNM this week, and aims to give students with similar interests a tool to find each other.
A new instructor-aided, self-paced learning program for Intermediate Algebra, Math 120, is expected to remedy the high failure rate for the course.
Twenty ranches from New Mexico and Texas participated in the annual Guadalupe County Fair in Santa Rosa, from Aug.
With a flick of his pen, one member of the 2011 UNM Presidential Search Committee was no longer legally bound to the same confidentiality agreement other members of the committee had agreed to.
Students will be greeted by plenty of entertainment during the first week of school with the help of “Welcome Back Days,” an event that aims to bring the Lobo community together at the beginning of every school year.
A partnership between UNM and Bernalillo County will protect UNM’s North Golf Course as the only open green space in District 3, the county district that includes the University Area and Southeast Heights.
A partnership between UNM and Bernalillo County will protect UNM’s North Golf Course as the only open green space in District 3, the county district that includes the University area and south east heights. The partnership, which will protect the 76-acre golf course from development for the next 15 years, was unanimously approved by the Board of Regents and the Bernalillo County Commission at meetings held June 14.
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