New Mexico Youth Organized has come to UNM this semester in hopes of creating a statewide environmentally conscious workforce. Bruce Milne is the director of UNM's sustainability studies program and offered to be the faculty adviser for UNM's chapter of NMYO.
Congressional candidate Martin Heinrich is counting on the Albuquerque community to help in his grassroots campaign as Election Day nears. Heinrich said he is running for the sake of UNM students and young people in particular, because they will feel the effects of this race for decades to come.
In Tuesday's story "Engineering center a versatile addition," Tamara Williams should have been identified as the marketing director for the School of Engineering; New Mexico Rep. Larry Larranaga as a proponent of the building; and April Davidson as the administrator for the School of Engineering.
Students are now paying for education outside the classroom. Parking and Transportation Services is using funds from parking permit sales to teach students how to check their tire pressure. PATS has pitched a Tire Pressure Tent on parking lots near campus where students who commute can have their tires checked and filled to the appropriate pressure level.
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.
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