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Group hopes to ease traffic congestion near UNM
Avicra Luckey | July 2About 45 percent of UNM students ride a bike, walk or use public transportation to travel to and from school every day.
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UNM, CNM collaborate on STEM advisement
Avicra Luckey | July 2A $3.4 million grant will fund additional advisement at UNM and CNM for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) majors.
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Career Profile: Rock band tour manager
Avicra Luckey | June 25Shahin Yazzie said she grew up surrounded by studious and athletic people in her family, so when it was time for her to attend college it was only natural that she wanted to study exercise science.
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Speedy sessions, lack of structure plague advisement
Avicra Luckey | June 25One of the top 10 reasons students do not return to UNM is inadequate academic advising, according to the Division of Enrollment Management.
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Judge: Internet not a place, prostitution can’t happen on it
Elizabeth Cleary | June 25The former UNM president accused of running an online sex ring could be off the hook after a judge ruled June 18 that brothels can’t exist in cyberspace.
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A step closer to the DREAM Act
Svetlana Ozden | June 25Undocumented students are now eligible to work legally in the U.S. and will no longer be sought out for deportation.
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Judge: Brothels can't exist in a computer
Elizabeth Cleary/Daily Lobo | June 19The former UNM president accused of running an online sex ring could be off the hook after a judge ruled Monday that brothels can’t exist in cyberspace. New Mexico law defines a house of prostitution as a “place where prostitution is practiced, encouraged and allowed,” and according to court documents from Monday’s hearing, a website, online message board or computer is not a place of prostitution. The case is on hold following Monday’s ruling.
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Depth of the Field
Junfu Han | June 18Linda McCormick, a pollution-prevention expert with a biochemistry degree from UC Berkeley, said recycling was not a priority at the University when she first became a resource conservation manager for the UNM Recycling Program in 2003.
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Incoming president talks diversity, challenges
Svetlana Ozden | June 18Because he wasn’t available to talk to a reporter in person, The Daily Lobo conducted an interview via email with UNM President Robert Frank, who took office June 1.
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Youth camp overcomes cuts
Avicra Luckey | June 18Despite losing federal funding six years ago, A Healthy U at the U, a summer youth sports camp at UNM, has been able to sustain itself while helping Albuquerque kids stay in shape.
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Regents raise cost of health insurance
Svetlana Ozden | June 18Students who purchase health insurance from UNM will pay 22 percent more next year.
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Depth of the Field
Junfu Han | June 11In 1987, the College of Fine Arts celebrated its 50th anniversary with a flamenco performance organized by part-time dance instructor Eva Encinias-Sandoval.
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Provost seeks money for faculty retention
Elizabeth Cleary and Svetlana Ozden | June 11UNM is millions of dollars behind its peers in terms of faculty pay and as a result is at risk of losing faculty members, administrators say.
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New president still has a lot to learn
Svetlana Ozden | June 11UNM President Robert Frank began his first week as president June 4. In President Frank’s Weekly Perspective, Frank said the first 120 days of his presidency will include a listening campaign
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UNM leaders to advise students
Svetlana Ozden | June 11UNM President Robert Frank will act as an academic coach for incoming freshmen to improve student success and retention rates.
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Sex ring case to go before grand jury
Svetlana Ozden | June 11Charges of promoting a prostitution ring, conspiracy and tampering with evidence against former UNM president and professor emeritus F. Chris Garcia will be heard by a grand jury in the next month
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UNM welcomes new president
June 5UNM President Robert Frank began his first week as president today. In President Frank’s Weekly Perspective, Frank said the first 120 days of his presidency will include a listening campaign, a campaign to improve all aspects of UNM by including the voice of UNM staff, students and faculty.
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Photo Column: Homelessness
Tom Hilsee | June 4I spent 24 hours in the “Albuquerque Oval” of homeless shelters and aid services to live a day in the life of a person experiencing homelessness.
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CNM adviser talks on transfer process
Avicra Luckey | June 4About 42 percent of UNM transfer students transfer from CNM, according to the Office of Institutional Research’s fact book for the 2009-2010 school year. To find out how UNM and CNM have collaborated to make the transfer process easier on students, the Daily Lobo talked to the Director of Academic Advisement and Job Connection Services at CNM, Tammy Strickler.
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‘Late Night’ bus schedule returns to ABQ RIDE
Avicra Luckey | June 4UNM students can safely and cheaply experience more of Albuquerque’s nightlife this summer with ABQ RIDE’s 66 Late Night service.
