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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Black Men in Motion kicked off its first Madden football video game tournament Wednesday in the SUB. Jason Goodman, president of the community outreach organization, said he wanted to have an event that was unique. Most events on campus aren't exciting enough to draw people in, he said.
Condoms, circumcision and sex education have been used in an attempt to prevent the spread of AIDS. The TV station MTVU is trying something different - an online video game. The station is asking college students nationwide to submit ideas for a game that will raise awareness and educate people about HIV.
Boston's will no longer serve circular pizzas starting Friday. Instead, the restaurant and sports bar will serve heart-shaped pizzas as a Valentine's Day fundraiser for the Children's Miracle Network. "We want to be involved with the community, so we thought of something more creative," general manager Henry Buckner said. The restaurant and the 42 others in the nation will give $1 from each pizza they sell to the Children's Miracle Network.
Students will get a chance to try stress- and anxiety-relieving tactics today at the Focused Awareness Workshop.
For the last 75 years, Maxwell Museum has been UNM's time machine for experiencing human evolution and learning about societies of the past.
Daily Lobo: What do you think is the most important issue facing higher education? Herman Lujan: I think it's funding. In an information economy, every change is important. If you don't keep pace, you lose, and you may never truly regain your footing. So, I think funding is important. The cost of education ...
Herman Lujan, presidential candidate for UNM, visited campus Tuesday to meet with faculty, students and staff. Lujan is the provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University-Los Angeles. Candidate Robert McGrath will visit campus Friday. Here's a look at Lujan's meetings:
Mary Catherine Senior Biology Daily Lobo: Where did you go to high school? Mary Catherine: Actually, I'm an exchange student. I went to high school in Quebec. DL: When did you move here from Quebec? MC: Only for this semester. DL: So, you'll be going back home after this semester? MC: Yeah. DL: ...
The president of UNM is supposed to define the mission of the institution and gather resources for achieving the University's goals. Students have a chance to meet the finalists in the presidential search to ask questions and learn more about candidates.
Student Jerome Baca wasn't prepared for college when he graduated from high school, but it wasn't because his high school did a poor job. "I wasn't ready to study or take the time to study," he said. "I wanted to party." A report from the Graduation Task Force states that many students are not prepared to go to college after they graduate from high school, and that hurts retention and graduation rates.
Students preparing for the real world have a helping hand at UNM. The University's Career Services Office in the Student Services Building offers guidance for finding employment upon graduation.
Student Travis Cole said he's not worried about being arrested for traveling to Cuba and delivering humanitarian aid. "It's an open form of civil disobedience," he said.
Gov. Bill Richardson appointed attorney Carolyn Abeita to the Board of Regents on Jan. 26. She will replace Regent Sandra Begay-Campbell. Abeita, who graduated from UNM with a bachelor of arts in 1983 and received her law degree from the UNM School of Law in 1988, said she will bring her experience working with minority issues to UNM.
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