Danny Granger, arguably the most gifted UNM men's basketball player to ever come through Albuquerque, is making the largest financial gift in Lobo Athletics history. Granger, who played for UNM in the 2004 and 2005 seasons, will make a $500,000 donation to the athletics program, Athletics Director Paul Krebs announced Wednesday.
Information Technology Services is trying to prevent viruses from infecting students' computers through their UNM e-mail accounts. To prepare for National Cyber Security Awareness Month, which begins in October, ITS held Security Days events last week, where students learned to protect their computers and had their laptops checked at a wellness clinic.
Senior faculty members stood up during President David Schmidly's meeting Tuesday to say they are distressed by the dwindling number of tenured professors at UNM. The meeting addressed issues that have festered since April, when faculty members circulated a petition questioning the use of University funds and the growth of UNM's upper administration.
At Tuesday's faculty meeting, President David Schmidly said his focus this year is to improve communication and diversity in the administration and faculty. He appointed an executive team to evaluate these issues that includes Josephine De Leon, vice president for equity and inclusion.
David Sklar faced the impossible: suturing wounds, delivering babies and attending the sick of a rural Mexican village in the '70s - and then he went to Stanford Medical School. Sklar, now associate dean of graduate medical education at UNM, will talk about his recently published book, La Clinica: A Doctor's Journey Across Borders, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center tonight.
The Daily Lobo sat down with anthropologist David Dinwoodie to find out why some people help others and expect nothing in return. Daily Lobo: Why do people engage in philanthropy and charity? David Dinwoodie: People like Andrew Carnegie, who gave money he made in business for institutions like libraries - his idea was that the purpose of money was to establish an active citizenry.
Electrical and computer engineering students built and programmed robots for the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Centennial Engineering Center on Sunday. The center is the second largest building on Main Campus, after Zimmerman Library, UNM spokeswoman Karen Wentworth said in an e-mail.
UNM freshman Jake Wellman was honored last week by President Bush and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his work with the Boy Scouts' ArrowCorps5 project. In December, Wellman's peers elected him to be national chief of the Order of the Arrow, which allowed him to help oversee five nationwide service projects this summer.
Daily Lobo Staff Report The UNM Technology Business Plan Competition begins today with a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Paul R. Jackson Student Center in the Anderson School of Management. Students with common interests should attend to create teams and vie for the $25,000 prize, said Leslie Venzuela, spokeswoman for the Anderson School of Management.
UNM Mailing Systems has set up an opt-out program for employees who want to stop receiving inter-campus flyers. However, students and most student employees can't take advantage of the program. Before the program started Sept. 3, Mailing Systems generated lists targeting specific employees, assistant postmaster Alisha Foster said.
Daily Lobo: So, what's your major? Alyssa Adams: I'm actually undecided. I feel like I'm a professional soul-seeker. DL: Are you confused about what to choose as a major? AA: No, I'm just really interested in taking a lot of different classes. I like to have the different experience.
Dr. Paul Magarelli is on a mission to reduce the cost of in vitro fertilization in New Mexico. Magarelli, one of about 600 board-certified doctors of reproductive endocrinology and infertility, founded his clinic at UNM Hospital five years ago. Since then, more than 100 babies have been born in New Mexico to parents who used IVF.
English department chairman David Jones resigned Wednesday after battling turmoil within the department for nearly a year. The department is looking for one of its full-time faculty members to replace Jones by the end of this week. Jones, who presided over the English department for the past three years, was chairman during the controversy surrounding creative writing associate professor Lisa Chavez, who posed in sexually suggestive photos with a student.
Tennis legend Pete Sampras faced rising star Sam Querrey in an exhibition match at The Pit on Friday. The professional duo played the best of three sets - with Sampras defeating Querrey 6-5, 6-3 - and raised at least $15,000 for the UNM Children's Hospital, said Hazel Tull-Leach, the hospital's executive director.
Author Anna Baltzer spoke Wednesday about the conflicts Palestinians face with the Israeli government on the West Bank. But some students who attended the event thought the presentation was one-sided. "I want to debunk the myth that this is Jews versus Muslims.
Do you think student groups should be able to exclude people based on religion? Patrick Dylan Sophomore History "Yeah, I think they should be able to. I mean, it's their group. They have a special interest and it's whatever they are involved in. How can you have someone in your group that isn't even involved in what the group stands for?" Samuel Combs Senior Africana Studies "First off, me being an African-American student and one of the few of them around here, I would absolutely say that that's not right.
UNM and CNM joined APS this semester in an educational partnership to encourage children to prepare for college as early as kindergarten. President David Schmidly, CNM President Katharine Winograd and APS Superintendent Winston Brooks gathered at Sombra del Monte Elementary in August to sign the agreement.
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