About six months ago, a female UNM student walked into Care Net Pregnancy Center on Candelaria Avenue expecting to get a pregnancy test.
On Wednesday, Jan.13, Iraq war veteran Kenneth Ellis was killed in a confrontation with Albuquerque police officers.
On top of wrestling with the budgetary deficit during the legislative session, New Mexico policymakers need to find time to confirm Regent Jamie Koch for another six-year term. Staff Council President Elisha Allen said Koch’s reappointment is probable.
Two break-ins in a month at the Student Support and Success Center resulted in thousands of dollars in damage, and the alleged thieves had access to confidential student information. Kathleen Sena, the University registrar, said academic transcripts and other documents containing sensitive student information could potentially have been left on the printer and in open bins in their printer room, which was visited by thieves during a break-in Dec.
College Republicans focused on educating students about New Mexico candidates and issues at their welcome back week booth in the SUB ballroom Wednesday.
More than 200 UNM students and community members came to the UNM School of Law last Thursday to decide which Democratic lieutenant governor candidate they would support.
Mitchell Hall is now open – new, improved and odorless. “We believe we got that (the smell) taken care off,” said Jep Choate, an associate registrar.
The Haitian government is bracing for an estimated 200,000 deaths, and organizations like the Red Cross, Partners in Health and Doctors without Borders are in Haiti providing limited aid.
New student housing is now a step closer to springing out of an empty lot on south campus. The Board of Regents approved the preliminary materials for the south campus housing development at their Jan.
The UNM administration is waiting with bated breath to hear what cuts or increases will come out of the New Mexico legislative session, which begins today.
Daily Lobo: Do you know what you want to study in medicine yet? Megan Brown: I’m pretty sure I want to do family practice.
KUNM is trying to find a balance between old, established programs and the need for student input. On Jan.
“Feminicide” addressed by relatives of missing, murdered women Women bound together by tragedy reached across borders to join forces last week. The Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice hosted a press conference on Jan.
A UNM student was killed Dec. 18 in a head-on collision by a suspected drunk driver near Cuba, N.M. According to a statement released by Lt.
Voluntary questionnaire placed online to increase user response Starting Jan. 19, UNM students, faculty and staff will be prompted to provide their race and ethnicity. The race and ethnicity data collection is a requirement for educational institutions that receive government support, Linda Johansen of UNM’s ITS Department said.
UNM is teaming up with two other research institutions to determine why an estimated 40 percent of women leave academic medicine before they’ve spent seven years in the field. The study will evaluate the effectiveness of three national programs that aim to give women resources to succeed as teachers in the medical field.
The Student Fee Review Board delayed voting on a policy amendment that would allow it to reduce any department’s student fee funding up to 50 percent.
On Friday, panelists from the Department of Health’s Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee approved four new conditions for DOH Secretary Alfredo Vigil to consider adding to the program. Jose Pacheco, a medical cannabis card holder, attended the meeting to petition for cluster-type headaches and migraines to be eligible for treatment with medical cannabis. “Seven moths ago I underwent brain surgery,” Pacheco said at the meeting.
Like everyone else, President Schmidly doesn’t know what kind of budget cuts the State Legislature will mandate at its January session. However, he does know how to deal with the cuts when they arrive. At the Board of Regents’ Finance and Facilities committee meeting Thursday, Schmidly outlined his priorities in budget reductions and reallocations.
A UNM graduate student is fighting to complete his master’s degree after he was deported in August.Immigration offcials arrested student “Juan Santiago” on campus this summer, Santiago said. Santiago requested his name be changed to avoid repercussions as he tries to return to America. Enrique Lamadrid, chairman of Spanish and Portuguese, said Santiago is not the only student who left UNM because of deportation issues.
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