Workers from Silver Construction Company of New Mexico, Inc. have been given seven days to leave campus after their contract to build the new SUB was terminated by University administrators Thursday.
ASUNM senators exchanged suggestions and questions with two new members of the UNM Board of Regents concerning topics such as the presidential search, tuition increases and faculty and staff salary increases. Newly appointed Regs. James Koch and Donald Salazar were guest speakers at the Associated Students of UNM meeting, Wednesday, and took the opportunity to acclimate themselves with the senators’ concerns.
UNM alumnus Justin Delacour has gathered some international publicity lately by questioning the practices of Venezuela's best-known polling companies. In an online report, "Can You Believe Venezuela's Pollsters?" Delacour accuses Venezuela's largest polling firms of being against the country's president, Hugo Chavez.
Construction is underway for a new entry forecourt at the North end of the Zimmerman Library. "I wanted to enhance the north-side entry, it had been on my list of things to do for a while, it will be just as much a front door as the South-side entry," said Gil Berry, associate director of Facility Planning.
The efforts made by a coalition of students and community members to delay the search for a new director of the Chicano/a Studies Program seems to have attracted the attention of UNM administrators throughout campus. Roberto Ibarra, special assistant to the president for Diversity Issues, said he was at Wednesday’s meeting between University College Dean Peter White and the coalition to collect feedback and information for both Garcia and his own work regarding campus diversity initiatives.
Recent winter storms on the East Coast dealt a harsh blow to UNM’s 21st Century Speakers Series. Award winning historical documentary filmmaker Ken Burns was set to give a presentation titled “Telling American Stories” at Popejoy Hall, Thursday night, but flight cancellations kept him in the Northeast.
Staff Report The New Mexico Legislature passed several education reform proposals designed to secure funding for a professional licensure program in public education and increase minimum salaries for teachers statewide. "For years, we have lagged behind our neighboring states in teacher salaries, and we're paying a price," Rep.
Staff Report New Mexico taxpayers without social security numbers are one step closer to being able to obtain driver's licenses thanks to the passing of House Bill 173 by the state House of Representatives Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Miguel Garcia (D-Albuquerque), would allow residents who work in the state to obtain a driver's license and auto insurance.
The UNM Board of Regents voted Tuesday to appoint a new regent, Maria Griego-Raby, to head the Presidential Search Committee, even though Griego-Raby has not been involved in the current search process. Larry Willard, the board's president and a search committee member, nominated Griego-Raby to replace former Reg.
UNM Police detectives are investigating an alleged incident of forgery that may have been committed by an Athletics Department employee. According to a UNM police report, filed by Sylvia Lopez, personnel coordinator for the Athletics Department, an employee allegedly forged a physician's signature to use as a documented excuse from attending work, while at the same time receiving sick leave benefit pay worth more than $2,500.
The UNM Presidential Search Committee spent an hour and a half Monday narrowing down its list of applicants from last week's figure of 83 to a "number fewer than 15." "That number could increase or decrease," said Larry Willard, acting committee chairman.
The Intel Corp. announced Friday that it is donating $17.5 million worth of computer manufacturing equipment to Next Generation Economy Inc., an Albuquerque economic-development group. A portion of the donated equipment will soon be set up at UNM’s Manufacturing Training and Technology Center.
UNM is now investing nearly $82 million in utility and construction projects across campus. However, University officials say the end is near for many of those on-going campus projects, eliminating the orange flags, heavy construction equipment and safety barricades that have become an-all-too familiar sight for the UNM community.
With his short hair, plaid shirt and wire-rimmed glasses, soft-spoken Trey Smith seems an unlikely leader of student peace activists. But that is the idea. "There's people who say, 'Well, I saw someone holding a sign about Bush being Satan,' and that sign alone is what keeps people from joining us," Smith said.
Staff Report Reg. Larry Willard said that the presidential search committee is continuing to narrow down its list of candidates for the next president of the University. The committee met Thursday in a nearly three-hour long closed session and Willard said that there are still about 80 candidates.
A UNM Health Sciences Center administrator has been selected by Attorney General John Ashcroft to be on a 20-member national committee that identifies solutions for domestic violence. Pamela Galbraith, administrator of the Behavioral Health Hospitals and Programs at UNM's Health Science Center, accepted the nomination to be on the U.
Several organizations from campus and the Albuquerque community celebrated the holiday of the heart by focusing on its health during a national Heart Health Day celebration at UNM Thursday. "Heart Health Day is in recognition of American Heart month, which is designed to raise awareness on nutrition, fitness and everything else that contributes to overall heart health," said Brianne Schneider, one of the event's coordinators and a UNM senior majoring in biology.
A coalition of students and Chicano community members has managed to accomplish two of its major goals in delaying the process to select a new director of the Chicano/a Studies program. The group got the verbal support of nine of the 13 members of the program's steering committee and has been a second presentation scheduled for the position's lone candidate, to take place later in the month.
Staff Report Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, an authority on the psychology of creativity, will present a free lecture titled "The Creative Person and the Creative Context," today. Csikszentmihalyi, director of the Quality of Life Research Center at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif.
Staff Report UNM Religious Studies Professor Emeritus Shlomo Karni, has spent the last four years compiling data for a book of common Hebrew words and terms used in the Bible. The book, titled Dictionary of Basic Biblical Hebrew, which will be published by Carta, The Israel Map & Publishing Company, will be an essential tool for students interested in uncovering the deeper meaning of the Old and New Testaments, Karni said.
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