This summer I looked into someone’s eyes and saw fear, honest fear. I accompanied the UNM Cross-Border Issues Group to Mexico in July. The group, led by Communication & Journalism Professor Richard Schaefer, works primarily in Cuernavaca, Mexico, researching immigration. This year’s research led us to Oaxaca City, Ixtapec, and Acapulco.
The future of UNM’s campus could be in students’ hands. The Master Plan of Development, a long-term plan of construction projects and projected growth, has been in the works for several years, said Mary Kenney, UNM planning officer.
Republican Richard J. Berry has been a member of the New Mexico State House of Representatives since 2007.
UNM is the first university to create an online, 3-D virtual training program for the H1N1 influenza virus. Adel Saad, who created the program on Second Life, an online, 3-D virtual-world Web site, said it teaches users how to organize a mass preventative clinic.
President David Schmidly has a to-do list for the 2009 school year. In Schmidly’s Monday-morning message Aug.
UNM took a step toward reducing its carbon emissions this week by introducing the Veggie Bus, a shuttle powered entirely by waste vegetable oil. The oil comes from the kitchens of La Posada, the SUB and the cafeteria of UNMH.
Martin Chávez is running for a third consecutive term as mayor of Albuquerque. Look for interviews with Chávez’s opponents, Richard Berry and Richard Romero, later this week.
Martin Chávez is running for a third consecutive term as mayor of Albuquerque. Look for interviews with Chávez’s opponents, Richard Berry and Richard Romero, later this week.
A UNM student and professor are requesting assistance from the administration and the community at large after their apartments burned down earlier this month. Charles Truxillo, who teaches religious studies, and Robert A. Gutierrez, a pre-med student, lost all of their possessions, including clothes, textbooks and computers, when the Castle Apartments on Central Avenue burned Aug. 4. It appears to have been an electric fire, but the cause of the blaze is still under investigation, Truxillo said.
Sign language interpreters had a hard time translating simultaneous applause and jeers at Saturday’s Health Care Town Hall meeting. Congressman Martin Heinrich hosted 600 passionate Albuquerque citizens, many of whom had waited in line for more than five hours, during the forum at UNM’s Continuing Education building.
Locally-owned Satellite Coffee shops are replacing national chain stores in two locations on campus.
A UNM surgeon was the first to reconstruct a pediatric patient’s dysfunctional kidney without even touching him. Jason Wilson, associate professor of surgery and section chief of pediatric urology, used a surgical robot for the 3-year-old boy’s procedure at UNM’s Children’s Hospital this summer.
UNM Hospital health care workers have reached an agreement with hospital administrators granting employees a 2.7 percent annual wage increase. Nearly 45 health care employees picketed outside the hospital on Aug. 10 for improved wages and benefits…..
The UNM School of Medicine enrolled nine Native Americans this year, though it’s never had more than four per year in the past.
Mary Domski specializes in the history of modern philosophy, Newtonian science and the philosophy of science.
As more and more people turn to walking and bicycling for their daily commutes, pedestrian alternatives become even more important, according to several local groups that are working toward safer streets for pedestrians and cyclists.
While most 16-year-olds play Minesweeper on the computer to cure boredom, UNM student Rishin Behl designed a device to aid in the real-world navigation of minefields.
Last spring, a rumor circulated on campus that an influx of on-campus residents would result in dorms with three students to a room.
After months of debate, the UNM campus-wide tobacco ban will become a reality on Aug. 1. President Schmidly announced the ban as a priority in November of last year.
Last spring, a rumor circulated on campus that an influx of on-campus residents would result in dorms with three students to a room. Michael Thomas, faculty adviser for the third floor of Hokona Hall, heard from residents that two rooms on the third floor - including a study lounge - were to be converted into triple rooms for the Fall 2009 semester.
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