A former UNM History Department chairman who died in 2000 will be honored today when the University presents his widow and the department with a book of essays commemorating his studies, writings and works. Gerald Nash worked at UNM for more than 30 years and is considered by many of his former colleagues to be a leading scholar in the field of the American West.
Iraq British military battles toward center of Basra g NEAR BASRA, Iraq (AP) - Led by more than three dozen tanks and armored cars, British forces battled toward the center of Basra on Sunday in their biggest incursion yet into Iraq's second-largest city. British officials said they had managed to set up base at a former college inside Basra's city limits, but did not yet control the city of 1.
Graduate Professional Students Association presidential candidate Aaron Kugler, a second-year law student, says he would like to increase GPSA visibility on campus and make funding more accessible to graduate and professional students. "GPSA has been stuck in the basement of the old bookstore for over a year now," Kugler said.
Local Gulf War Syndrome study team asks for more funds ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Albuquerque medical researchers are asking the U.S. Army to continue funding their investigation of Gulf War Syndrome. The team from Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute has already published the results of its first four-year study of the long term effects of low-level exposure to sarin gas.
April is national occupational therapy month and UNM is doing its part to provide the best occupational therapists possible. UNM's Occupational Therapy Graduate Program, offered through the School of Medicine, is an accredited program that began three years ago, said Terry Crowe, the founding director of the program and a medical professor.
The Associated Press Army forces launched a nighttime attack on Saddam International Airport just outside Baghdad on Thursday and fought running battles with Iraqis along the city's southern fringes. "A vise is closing on the regime," President Bush told cheering Marines stateside.
Staff Report Gov. Bill Richardson named the new member of UNM's Board of Regents Thursday, appointing a prominent business and civil leader to fill the vacancy left by the death of Reg. Donald Salazar. John "Mel" Eaves, an Albuquerque lawyer and former state legislator, is faced with several immediate tasks, including helping select a new president of UNM.
One in four college students has chlamydia, according to a 2001 survey conducted at UNM, and college-aged people are at greater risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases than any other members of the population.
Staff Report U.S. Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., announced this week that the House of Representatives easily approved legislation designed to ensure U.S. military reservists called to active duty are not forced to make payments on student loans while deployed overseas.
Highjackers threaten to kill ferry passengers HAVANA (AP) — Armed hijackers seized a ferry off Cuba’s coast Wednesday and threatened to toss passengers overboard if they cannot go to the United States, setting off a negotiating drama on the high seas. The FBI said the ferry was drifting in international waters about 60 miles off Key West and was sending hostage negotiators to the scene by helicopter to rendezvous with a U.
Members of the UNM Inter-Fraternity and Panhellenic Councils will look to pick up new ideas for recruiting, programming and increasing diversity at the Western Regional Greek Leadership Conference April 4-5. UNM will send a delegation made up of executive members from both councils, led by presidents Josh Parsons and Jennifer French, to the weekend conference in Burlingame, Calif.
Staff Report A research assistant professor in the Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at UNM has been selected as one of 20 women to receive the 2003 Governor’s Award for Outstanding New Mexico Women. Deborah Ulinski Potter, who works full time for the federal government and holds faculty appointments at UNM, is someone that women aspiring to achieve greatness in their lives can look up to, according to Adelaide Collins, president of New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering, who nominated Potter for the award.
Dinko Cvitanovic, a former UNM professor of Spanish who taught from 1973-1980, died Feb.19 from a heart attack at age 64 in Bah°a Blanca, Argentina. He is survived by his wife, Nilsa, and his son, Gast¢n Mauricio. Born in Croatia, Cvitanovic and his family immigrated to Argentina when he was very young.
Vandals looking to express themselves by coating graffiti on UNM property should expect to suffer stern consequences if they are caught and convicted, said Randy Boeglin, UNM’s dean of students. “It’s illegal, plain and simple,” Boeglin said. “It has no aesthetic value and anyone who considers pursuing such an activity on campus is taking an incredible risk with their academic future here at UNM.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) The United States is withdrawing warplanes from a Turkish air base that has been used for patrols over northern Iraq and sending them to the Persian Gulf for the war, U.S. officials said Tuesday, a sign of the growing distance between Washington and Ankara.
UNM Dean of Students Randy Boeglin said that this year's winners of the Clauve Outstanding Senior Award are five of the University's most accomplished students in the classroom as well as the community. The 2003 recipients are Rosalyn Nguyen, Heather Gabel, Gil Morales, Sarah McKinney and Angie Wilcox.
Mayor Martin Chavez defended a measure aimed at increasing the severity of registration laws for criminal sex offenders at a panel discussion at the UNM School of Law Tuesday. In addition to the mayor, Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White, former State Supreme Court Justice Gene Franchini and American Civil Liberties Union Treasurer Tova Indritz also participated in the discussion.
by Jodi Hunley Daily Lobo A UNM program director has been selected as a member of the board of directors for a national organization influencing advisement at colleges and universities across the country. Elaine Borrelli, director of engineering student programs, will be working on the board of directors for the National Academic Advising Association in order to improve the undergraduate experience at UNM.
A nationally renowned historian lectured at UNM Monday about the effects on land in the southern United States during the slave trade and proliferation of plantation farming that are still being felt today. Roger Kennedy, who has served as director of the U.
Newly appointed UNM Regent Donald H. Salazar, 56, died Friday after a battle with thyroid cancer that had spread throughout his body. Salazar, who was a lawyer in the Santa Fe law firm of Rubin, Katz, Salazar, Alley, Rouse and Herdman, was appointed by Gov.
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