For the first time in its history, UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning has a woman as its new dean. Geraldine Forbes Isais, the architecture program director since 2005, was promoted to dean at the end of spring 2010 semester and assumed her role this summer. She succeeds Roger Schluntz, who served as dean for UNM’s School of Architecture and Planning for more than a decade.
Gov. Bill Richardson introduced a $50,000 Recovery Act fund Aug. 24 to encourage low-income households to shop at farmers markets.
Career Week at the Anderson School of Management, an event to meant to help students jump into the work force, began Tuesday and will run through Sept.
Behind Quarters restaurant at Avenida Cesar Chavez and Yale Boulevard, a storage shed exploded and damaged nearby buildings Thursday evening, according to Albuquerque Fire Department Commander Kerry Horton. Dan Harmeyer, who was working in an office building in front of the shed at the time of the explosion, said he heard a loud boom and saw drywall flying before running out of the building to call 911. “The storage shed back there just blew up.
He had a high spirit and was inclined to help others. Now, John Robert Anczarski will be remembered with a memorial “ghost” bike, just a few feet away from the pavement where a motorist struck and killed the young man June 22. The 19-year-old died after a motorist struck his bicycle in Laguna, N.M., along State Highway 124. “The driver and the bikes were headed west.
Behind Quarter’s restaurant on the corner of Avenida Cesar Chavez and Yale Blvd. a storage shed exploded, sparking a fire that damaged nearby buildings Thursday evening, according to Albuquerque Fire Department Commander Kerry Horton.
Faculty members in the Psychology Department housed in Logan Hall have started the semester with a shortage of offices, labs, computers and furniture, in the aftermath of the Aug. 8 flood that left 35 rooms unusable. Trish Aragon-Mascarenas, a Psychology Department administrator, said other faculty members have offered space to those who lost offices while construction is ongoing.
ASUNM’s first meeting of the school year commenced Wednesday evening, with senators tackling subjects including printing costs and new student housing. Kim Murphy, director of Real Estate, discussed new student housing projects on main campus.
The Board of Regents Finance and Facilities Committee faced the looming possibility of University-wide budget cuts, new construction and increased tuition during its Wednesday morning meeting.
UNM central administration and faculty routinely quarrel, and a survey released Wednesday proves there is discontent over budget and communication issues between the two parties.
Research done by the Mind Research Network is having such an impact that it now has to be published online more than once a year.
The room was packed, as a large contingent of architecture and planning students, along with others not attending UNM, listened intently to Duane Blue Spruce speak Monday evening in the Pearl Hall Auditorium. People sat on the descending stair walkways, notebooks in hand, hoping to learn about a relatively unexplored subject: modern Native American architecture.
GPSA held an appeal review meeting Tuesday to determine several applicants’ futures for summer 2010 grant applications that were denied. Three graduate students who applied for the Student Research Allocation Committee grants and Specialized Training grants presented their cases in front of a four-member graduate panel.
After a long silence, peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine will take place this week in an effort to find a solution to the long-felt conflict between the two states.
At a Lobo Development Corporation meeting Monday, board members unveiled plans that detailed future dormitories and Athletics facilities construction at UNM. Paul Krebs, vice president of Athletics, said Athletics needs new tennis courts, a renovation of UNM’s baseball field and improvements to the existing parking lots. Krebs said the baseball field renovation carries a price tag of $4 million.
The Provost’s Office is reviewing the viability of a part of UNM that may come as a surprise to many: University College.
More than 200 people showed up last week for the grand opening of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender and Questioning Resource Center. The center, which operates under the Office of Equity and Inclusion, opened Friday.
At a somber service Aug. 27, former UNM professor Ferenc “Frank” Szasz’s life and achievements were honored. The ceremony featured a bagpiper and a recitation of “Auld Lang Syne.” Szasz, 70, died June 20.
UNM is always bustling with students during the first week of classes, but this year the campus may seem more crowded than usual. UNM’s enrollment grew nearly 6 percent, from 26,187 students to 27,700 students, since last fall, said Carmen Alvarez Brown, vice president of Enrollment Management.
For four years, Alex Garcia has known his kidneys were failing. For the last four months, Garcia’s “part-time job” has been undergoing dialysis three times a week.
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