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GPSA: Students left out of budget
Chris Quintana | September 27In a GPSA meeting rife with budget cut concerns, Provost Suzanne Ortega said cutting graduate student jobs is likely.
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Graduate students feel sting of budget cuts
Chelsea Erven | September 24Since last spring, UNM administrators have been developing a plan to help the University cope with more than 3 percent in budget cuts.
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PIRG: Health bill benefits students
Ruben Hamming-Green | September 24Student activists dressed in hospital scrubs worked to spread awareness about national health care legislation that went into effect Thursday.
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Backstage: Firefighter
Junfu Han | September 23No matter what firefighter José Sedillo is doing at the time, if an emergency call comes in, Sedillo has to sprint to the fire engine and pile into the truck with his coworkers. “The most calls we get are about people having drug or alcohol problems.
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Transplant among colleagues a success
Shaun Griswold | September 23Gary Small celebrated his birthday Wednesday in a hospital bed. The UNM Physical Plant Department (PPD) employee agreed to donate a kidney to Alex Garcia, a friend and colleague, with one stipulation: the surgery take place on Sept.
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Students burrow for artifacts
Ruben Hamming-Green | September 23Beyond the volcanoes near Albuquerque, there is an archeological dig site where UNM students uncovered evidence of one of the oldest cultures in the Americas. It’s called Deann’s site, named after Deann Muller, a student at UNM, who discovered it in 2001 with professor Bruce Huckell while the two were doing a study of the area. Huckell said the site was an old campground for the Folsom people, who date back to the ice age. “We rely on a very distinctive spear point that these guys produced (to identify them),” he said.
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Ongoing effort aids NM refugees
Barron Jones | September 23In April, Nkazi Sinandile starved herself for 16 days to raise awareness about the problems facing Albuquerque’s refugee population.
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Seminars help market ideas
Laurel Brishel Prichard | September 23Attention students: This fall, STC.UNM offers inventors and entrepreneurs seminars that teach business and marketing skills. Lisa Kuuttila, president and CEO of STC.UNM, said that seminars, which are free but require registration, help students evolve and understand how to start their own businesses or market their own inventions. “So you have an idea now?
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The AFRO American Experience
Eva Dameron | September 23UNM science and biology graduate Justin Aderhold works as a research assistant at the Heart Station at UNM Hospital. He shared his wisdom on the nature of racism from his couch, where he sat with his foot in a post-surgical boot.
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State fair closures cut costs
Sean P. Wynne | September 21Since most patrons visit later in the week, officials at the New Mexico State Fair decided to close on Mondays and Tuesdays this year, said Craig Swagerty, the fair’s general manager.
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UNM: Donation decrease no big deal
Ruben Hamming-Green | September 21The UNM Foundation, an independent institution responsible for much of the University’s funding, has seen a $15 million drop in donations this year.
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Education proposal tackles big picture
Laurel Prichard | September 21UNM’s College of Education dean announced an education reform that will take a “holistic” approach to teaching students throughout the state’s school systems. Dean Richard Howell encouraged the N.M.
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Faiths unite to plan Peace Day festivities
Chelsea Erven | September 20When the United Nations declared Sept. 21 the International Day of Prayer for Peace in 2002, it said the day should be “reminding us that our permanent commitment, above all interests or differences of any kind, is to peace.” That’s why UNM’s Inter-Religious Council (IRC) is putting aside its differences and working together to bring the Day of Peace to campus, said Andrea Schoeny, campus minister of communications for the UNM Aquinas Newman Center. “The IRC coming together on this event is a showing that peace is possible between people,” she said. Today, UN representatives of all religious backgrounds from the IRC will be in tents under the northeast grove near the Duck Pond from 9 a.m.
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Sex scandal still stings after three long years
Shaun Griswold | September 20The Chronicle of Higher Education, a national publication, wrote an article about the breakdown of UNM’s shared governance after photos featuring an English professor and several graduate students surfaced on a sadomasochist website in 2007. The Sept.
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Cyclists ride for safety across city
Andrew Lyman | September 19Hundreds of bicyclists, escorted by Albuquerque Police, whirled down Central Avenue on Sunday to help promote bicycle safety. Organized by Bike ABQ and the Duke City Wheelmen Foundation, the second annual “Can You See Us Now?” ride started at Copper Avenue and Jefferson Avenue and went to Tiguex Park in Old Town. Jennifer Buntz, Duke City Wheelmen Foundation president and member of Bike ABQ’s Board of Directors, said the ride raises awareness about bicycling accidents.
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Series of brief talks forms giant brainstorm
Sofia Sanchez | September 19Seems like study guides exist for everything these days, even life. Tim Nisly, the curator and host of TEDxABQ, said the short, carefully prepared talks given at Saturday’s event at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino are “the Cliff’s Notes for life.” “The idea is if you put a lot of intelligent people in a room and help them share ideas … the conversation as a result will make a major difference in the world,” Nisly said. TED, a non-profit organization that began nearly 25 years ago, brings the brightest minds together to spark innovation, Nisly said, and he hoped the ignition would occur in Albuquerque.
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Tragedy at UNM inspires peers to educate
Chelsea Erven | September 19Ever since professor Hector Torres and graduate student Stefania Gray were killed on a quiet Sunday in March, students, family, friends and colleagues have been tackling the issue of domestic violence.
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Summit addresses race, immigration
Laurel Prichard | September 16The Coalition for Immigration, Race and Social Justice is sponsoring a summit Saturday to focus on understanding and educating students on immigration issues. Christopher Ramirez, the project assistant for the Office of Equity and Inclusion, said a variety of people are affected by issues that will be covered at the Back2School Summit, even if they don’t realize it. “Immigration, race and social justice impacts all of us.
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Plagiarism up, punishment down
Ruben Hamming-Green | September 16Statistics released by the Dean of Student’s office show some surprising numbers: While the number of punished cases of academic dishonesty is going down, the number of unpunished cases is going up. From 2000 to 2005, a student faced disciplinary action in only slightly more than 10 cases per year on average.
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Construction not waste of money, project officials say
Ruben Hamming-Green | September 16The Office of Capital Projects said UNM has seven construction projects underway on main campus, all set to be completed in October. Will Turner, director of the Office of Capital Projects, said there are 23 construction projects have been approved on main campus. “There’s more work out there to be done than we can ever finish,” he said.
