Scientists eye White Sands for Mars tech testing ALAMOGORDO (AP) - NASA scientists need a place to practice for more explorations of Mars and, after a visit to New Mexico, three of them think they may have found just the spot to test their theories: White Sands National Monument.
The Children, Youth and Families Department of New Mexico honored juvenile officers earlier this month during National Probation and Parole Officers Week. The CYFD hosted a banquet to recognize the more than 200 officers who work with New Mexico's youth.
The UNM chapter of Lambda Theta Phi fraternity recently received an award from its national headquarters for chapter of the year. Lambda Theta Phi was founded in 1975 and was the country's first recognized Latino fraternity. In 1998 the UNM chapter was chartered on campus.
The Board of Regents voted Aug. 12 to change University policy to comply with the Inspection of Public Records Act, ending months of deliberation on the issue. The IPRA is a state law that says all documents created by a public body such as UNM are eligible for inspection.
Albert Palma and Zachery Watkins are the latest of more than a dozen Fulbright Scholars to come from UNM in the last five years. The Fulbright Scholar Program has promoted international exchanges at UNM since the program was founded in 1946. Watkins was awarded the grant in order to travel to Germany to be a teacher's assistant in a high school English class.
Starting Aug. 25, students will have a place to study 24 hours a day, five days a week. The Parish Memorial Business and Economics Library, located north of Zimmerman Library, next to the Anderson School of Management, is extending its hours at the start of the fall semester.
You may hear a constant pounding sound when you return to campus this fall. Don't worry - it's not all in your head. UNM is working to upgrade its water system and give the campus a face-lift by the end of this semester. Two large construction projects will upgrade the campus water infrastructure and Castetter Hall in the coming months.
Congress approved a new GI Bill in July, which will take effect in August 2009. The bill includes changes that will add more benefits for veterans who want to go to college. Darrin Kowitz, a graduate student who established a support group for veterans at the University last year, said the new GI Bill is long overdue and has almost double the funding of the previous one.
Sept. 17 Turan O'Henry Johnson, a 34-year-old transient from Chicago, is charged with battery and held without bond in a mental health unit at the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center. Johnson was charged in the case of attacks on more than 20 male Indian students on and around campus.
The University administration and faculty will try again to address proposed policy revisions designed to comply with the Inspection of Public Records Act at the regents meeting on Aug. 12. President David Schmidly sent an open letter to the UNM community July 24, after the IPRA Compliance Working Group proposed revisions to three policies concerning the Act.
UNM engineering graduates are impressing international automotive companies with their competition-winning race car designs. In this year's Formula Society of Automotive Engineers competition, the UNM team placed eighth in acceleration, 17th in design and 24th overall out of more than 80 teams from across the globe.
Changes will be made to the New Mexico Lottery Scholarship this fall - some of which will make it available to a wider range of students. Reed Dasenbrock, state secretary of higher education, said there are four major changes to the Lottery Scholarship criteria.
Sen. Pete Domenici has long been an advocate for mental health, and the Mind Research Network considers him a pioneer for its cause. "We wouldn't be here if it weren't for Pete," laboratory manager Marilee Morgan said. Domenici and a few researchers from Los Alamos National Labs founded the MRN a decade ago.
Electronics plant could stimulate NM growth LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - A Taiwanese electronics manufacturing plant just south of the Mexican border could be a major catalyst for economic growth in southern New Mexico, state officials say. Construction began this past week in San Jeronimo on the first phase of the sprawling complex, that, when completed in three to four years, will employ 20,000 people.
In a visit to Albuquerque on July 16, Republican presidential candidate John McCain discussed U.S. involvement in the Middle East and suggested students should join the armed forces or the Peace Corps to pay increasing tuition prices. Before giving the floor to audience members for questions, McCain spoke about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Junior Psychology Daily Lobo: Are you from Albuquerque originally? Dhara Shah: Yeah. DL: How do you like it? DS: I like it. I miss it. Like, the nature and the hiking and you can see everything around you, because I live during the school year in DC. I go to college there.
Border arrests down in El Paso area Las Cruces (AP) - The U.S. Border Patrol's El Paso sector, which includes all of New Mexico and two west Texas counties, has apprehended 25,466 illegal border crossers nine months into the current fiscal year, 58 percent less than this time last fiscal year.
Last week, UNM men's basketball coach Steve Alford got caught between the athletics department and Sheriff Darren White, who is running for Congress. White's campaign released invitations to an event hosted by a UNM lobbyist, advertising photos with Alford for a $1,000 donation.
On Friday, anti-war protesters from the Year Five Coalition met on campus to march a $200 reimbursement to the Student Activities Center. The payment was for campus property damage that occurred during a spring break protest. Over spring break, protesters left red handprints on UNM signs, sidewalks and streets near the Public Policy building on Sigma Chi Road.
The Emancipation Network charities and Proclaim the Name clothing are teaming up to bring the Dreams of Freedom fundraiser to the Southwest for the first time. On July 12, more than 200 people will come together to raise awareness about human trafficking.
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