UNM broke ground Wednesday on a $6.4 million indoor football practice facility. Although the football team can usually practice outside, it's still important to have the option to play indoors, said Paul Krebs, director of athletics.
It wasn't the cakewalk some people might have expected. After the UNM women's basketball team throttled Colorado State in a 31-point win on the road last month, Wednesday's rematch at The Pit was a battle until the final minutes.
If UNM wants to increase enrollment, it has to build a better community on campus, not pour money into athletics and marketing ploys, said Joseph Garcia, president of GPSA.
For some who live in America, the land of opportunity becomes the land of obstacles. Illegal immigrants face hardships under U.S. systems of higher education, said Andrew Gonzalez, a student programs specialist at El Centro de la Raza.
Concerns about a lawsuit involving UNM presidential candidate David Schmidly dominated the open question portion of the faculty's meeting with him.
Daily Lobo: What do you think is the most important issue facing higher education? David Schmidly: I actually think there are four, and they're all interrelated, and you have to balance them. They are access, affordability, excellence and student success. Those are the four issues driving higher education ...
The University of Hawaii-Manoa named UNM Provost Reed Dasenbrock as a finalist for its vacant chancellor position Feb. 12. Dasenbrock was nominated for the position by a professor at the university. He will visit the university Feb. 26 and 27 to meet with faculty, staff and students. The chancellor functions as a president for that university branch and reports to the president of the University of Hawaii System.
David Schmidly, the final presidential candidate to visit UNM, met with students, staff and faculty Tuesday. Schmidly has been the president and CEO of the Oklahoma State University System since 2002. The regents will name the president by Feb. 23. Here's a look at each of Schmidly's meetings:
Special UNM Weather Closure Notice -- February 14, 2007 Effective at 3 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 14, classes at UNM for the remainder of the day, including evening classses, will be canceled. In addition, UNM employees in non-critical areas, unless otherwise specified by their respective supervisors, may also leave for the remainder of the day.
Mayor Martin Chávez signed a bill Wednesday that bans cell phone use while driving a vehicle unless a hands-free device is used. The Albuquerque Police Department will issue warnings for the first 60 days after the law takes effect Saturday. Starting April 18, it is $100 for the first citation and $200 for each citation after that.
A.J. Tongate Junior Psychology and communication Daily Lobo: What's the most interesting psychology class you've taken so far? A.J. Tongate: Positive psychology. DL: What was that about? AT: Encouraging positive characteristics instead of focusing on what's wrong with people. It develops what's ...
An ASUNM senator is gathering signatures for a letter to the Board of Regents stating that students were not given enough time for meetings with presidential candidates. Sebastián Pa°s, who started the letter, said he is unhappy with the amount of input students were given.
As a child, the president of Sandia National Laboratories did not understand engineering. "I lived in a small town, so I had this vague idea that an engineer had something to do with trains," Thomas Hunter said. "I had no sense of what an engineer was or what an engineering education entailed. But I did know what Sputnik was."
High school students gathered at UNM from Thursday to Saturday to try to solve the world's problems. The topics included Darfur, North Korea and climate change. UNM's Model U.N. team hosted the conference to give them a realistic view of the U.N.'s procedures.
Robert McGrath, the fourth of five candidates for president of UNM to visit campus, met with faculty, staff and students Friday. McGrath is the senior vice president for research at Ohio State University. Candidate David Schmidly will visit campus Tuesday. Here's a look at each of McGrath's meetings.
Daily Lobo: What do you think is the most important issue facing higher education? Robert McGrath: Within New Mexico and here at UNM, I think it's the graduation rate. The six-year graduation rate has to go up. I'm looking forward to having the opportunity to work on that if selected for this important ...
Unplug your Ethernet connection and get ready to roam. UNM is going wireless. By the middle of 2008, ITS plans to have about 85 percent of Main Campus covered with free wireless Internet, said Moira Gerety, director of ITS.
Sony announced its partnership with UNM on Feb. 2 to provide students with the skills they need to be ahead of the game in graphic and animation design. Imageworks, the division of Sony that makes movies, needs graduates with a wide range of skills, said Christopher Mead, dean of the College of Fine Arts. Imageworks started a program called IPAX, the Imageworks Professional Academic Excellence program, to work with colleges.
Most Americans are buried or cremated after they die. For those who want something less clichÇ, there's the Maxwell Museum's Laboratory of Human Osteology. The lab stores about 250 modern skeletons that were donated. It is also home to historic and prehistoric remains from about 3,000 people. Heather Edgar, curator of the collection, said she has an exciting job. "There are days when people call and say, 'Oh, I found this skull out in the desert,'" she said. "They're freaking out, and then it turns out to be a piece of dog skull or something. When I come to work, I might have a plan, but I never know what's going to happen."
Brandon Rael Senior Art studio It's kind of bullcrap. I think it's terrible. You can't drive around talking on the phone. Sometimes it's hard. There might be an emergency or talking on an important call or something. It's kind of hard to do it when you're not driving - to pull over. It's kind of expensive ...
Solutions by The State News
