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.
Philip Bock protested outside of Popejoy Hall on Wednesday just like he did 40 years ago. Bock, a retired anthropology professor, held basically the same sign and had the same message, while the same performance went on inside Popejoy — Johannes Brahms’ “A German Requiem.” Forty years ago, Bock said he and a dozen other protesters stood outside the performance hall to speak against the Vietnam War. “We didn’t argue with people,” he said.
Thanks to a design by students for students, the dirt field outside the Centennial Engineering Building will no longer be an eyesore next semester. Tapy Hall housed the civil engineering department until Aug.
The pot pioneers of New Mexico are meeting in Santa Fe on Friday to show support for the Department of Health’s Medical Cannabis Program. The DOH is holding the meeting to consider approving new medical conditions, including Hepatitis C, that could warrant patients having a cannabis I.D.
Pre-historic caverns in Carlsbad may have put the small city on the map, but locals are concerned a man-made cavern might take the city off it. Salt mining has left a cavity beneath a main intersection on the south side of town that threatens to collapse any day, said George Veni, member of a city committee working on the issue. “What we have right now is a cavity down below.
In a few short months, students living in the Hokona residence hall will have fresh vegetables growing outside their windows. Alex Borowski, a freshman living in Hokona, planted a garden in the courtyard about a month ago, and he said most of the produce should be ready by March or April. “It used to just be this big patch of dirt.
By the end of this week, the Agora Crisis Center may reach a record 10,000 calls for the year, said Jeremy Jaramillo, ACC director of public relations. Jaramillo said when he first started working at Agora nine years ago, the center received about 1,200 calls per year. “We’ve been increasing steadily,” he said. The Agora Crisis Center is an all-issue hotline that community members can call to talk about issues from everyday stress to suicides in progress.
The launch of the UNM Foundation’s fundraising campaign next fall will coincide with a transition of the organization’s administration. Foundation President John Stropp announced Friday that he plans to retire at the end of this fiscal year, after a replacement is found and trained for his position. In January, the Foundation should launch a nationwide search for a replacement who can take over the campaign, Stropp said. Stropp, 65, became Foundation president in June 2008.
The number of requests for public records has increased more than twofold this year, forcing the University Custodian of Public Records to ask for narrowed searches and extended deadlines. Between 2005 and 2008, the average number of Information and Public Records Act requests was 65.
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