Paul Nathanson, director of the UNM School of Law's Institute of Public Law, was elected in December as chairman of the board of directors for the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. "The issue is important," Nathanson said. "It's a way to have an impact.
UNM's annual Space Technology and Applications Forum has raised questions about whether the military nuclear research plays a part in the program. The forum is set to begin Sunday and is sponsored by UNM's Institute for Nuclear Space Power Studies.
UNM architecture student Robert Williams was elected to the board of directors for the American Institute of Architecture Students Jan. 2. Williams, a third-year architecture student who serves as president of the UNM chapter, will represent all of the Western colleges in the United States to the national board on which five other students from other regions sit.
The only candidate named after a search for a new director of the Chicana/o Studies program at UNM said Tuesday that recent decisions regarding affirmative action and Hispanic population growth within the United States provide for unique opportunities for the program.
Two UNM linguistics professors, both Fulbright Scholars, are offering courses this semester that emphasize the importance of multilingualism as an instrument to understanding foreign people and cultures. Visiting Lecturer Zouhair Maalej, a Tunisian native, has previously lectured at a British university and is working on a book titled, "The Contemporary Cognitive Metaphor Theory: Arabic Data.
UNM student Paul Smith doesn't have things easy when it comes to getting around campus. In the place he used to park near his class in the Center for the Arts sits a big hole in the ground where UNM is building the Cornell parking structure.
UNM Law Professor James Ellis has been named the 2002 "Lawyer of the Year" by the National Law Journal, an award he admits he never would have received without help from a tireless group of students and colleagues. Ellis received the award for successfully arguing before the U.
UNM President Chris Garcia said during the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday that he has met with Gov. Bill Richardson recently and will support a two percent increase in staff compensation. "There seems to be at least a hopeful spirit that with the new administration will come better things for the state of New Mexico and for higher education in particular," Garcia said.
Despite assurances that the Parking and Transportation Services Department takes every precaution to ensure a fair parking situation on campus, official numbers show that the department oversells permits for a number of UNM parking lots. Clovis Acosta, director of the department, said that while parking at UNM has always been tight, officials physically count the number of parking spots needed in a given semester.
The Student Fees Review Board met with about 15 students Monday in a town hall meeting to get input for its recommendations to the UNM Board of Regents. The SFRB is comprised of seven undergraduate and graduate students and hears allocation requests from University departments and organizations.
The UNM student who was found dead Oct. 4, in his SRC dorm room, died from an overdose of morphine, according to a state medical investigator's report. Frank Baca, 47, died from an overdose of morphine, according to a toxicology screen report released last week by the Office of the Medical Investigator.
Vercye Thompson, an Albuquerque community member, said Friday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Service in the Alumni Chapel that America is still plagued by racism, unwilling to act because people's situations are "comfortable." Thompson said that though countless people lost their lives in the fight for King's dream -- a dream of equality, where people would be judged on character and not the color of their skin -- she is baffled why people are willing to let racism go by simply because things are better than they were 30 years ago.
An exhibit recognizing the more than 60 years worth of work by Armand Winfield, director of the UNM Training and Research Institute for Plastics, is on display in the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Library this semester. "I am very pleased to be able to show a few of my interesting and unusual projects, which include images of the world's first soft bathroom, uses of atoms for peace, low cost housing for developing countries, work at the New York World's Fair (1963) and in the 1970's, amusement parks and sets for the Metropolitan Opera," Winfield said in a UNM press release.
Last November, Sen. Manny M. Aragon (N.M.-D) donated a collection of political archives documenting years of legislative work to UNM's General Library, which already houses the complete archives of many New Mexican politicians. Rose Diaz, a research historian and 20-year veteran of the library, has been working closely with Aragon during the past three years to compile and organize the archives.
The UNM Department of Music was recently approved for a 10-year re-accreditation by the National Association Schools of Music Commission on Accreditation. According to the report submitted by the commission, "The commission commends the institution and the music unit for an excellent self-study and optional response, noting in particular its progress in meeting technology standards and in increasing support for athletic bands.
A team of five UNM undergraduate students will make history in March by becoming the first group ever to conduct nuclear-based research with NASA's KC-135 microgravity program. The KC-135 is a plane, developed and operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which flies parabolic arcs over the Gulf of Mexico and, during its descent, has brief periods of microgravity, or weightlessness.
Anthropology Professor Lawrence Guy Straus first became familiar with the cave El Miron in Cantabria, Spain in 1972 when he fell into one of its many holes. He was working on his dissertation and visiting cites, when he first spotted a huge cave in the mountain.
A UNM senior who received five criminal citations for an art project gone bad in December says he plans to take his case all the way to trial. "It was not my aim to get involved with any legal issues," said Sean Winkless-Hall. The five misdemeanor charges against Winkless-Hall come from an installation art project that turned into a major fiasco when gas began to leak from a car he and his project members pushed onto campus Dec.
SANTA FE -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson appointed four new regents for the University of New Mexico Wednesday, replacing three regents whose terms had expired and one who resigned. He also named regents for the seven other universities and colleges in New Mexico.
A foreign minister from the former Soviet Union said Wednesday during a talk in Dane Smith Hall that there needs to be an increased collaboration between Russia and the West. Andrei Kozyrev, who became foreign minister of the Soviet Union in 1990, oversaw the entire spectrum of foreign policy making for the country until the fall of the communist regime and his departure from the position in 1995.
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