Grants benefit students, state
Iliana Limn | January 18Graduate student Jennifer Follstad Shah would not have been able to conduct research about Rio Grande water use and how its movement affects wildlife without outside funding.
Graduate student Jennifer Follstad Shah would not have been able to conduct research about Rio Grande water use and how its movement affects wildlife without outside funding.
About 1,650 letters left the Roger Williams University mailroom on Friday as part of the school's recent announcement that it is challenging all institutions of higher learning nationwide to follow its lead and offer academic scholarships to Afghan women.
The UNM community will celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday by participating in variety of activities this weekend.
UNM Democrats and Republicans are compiling information and scheduling candidate visits to educate students about the gubernatorial race in November.
In what is becoming a semi-annual ritual, the student government Finance Committee began the process Wednesday of raising the ASUNM fee paid by students from $14 to $20.
Students interested in deciding where their student fees go will have the opportunity to share their opinions during a Student Fee Review Board town hall meeting Friday afternoon.
In the basement of the renovated bookstore, boxes and unplugged computers sit atop desks in cubicles where student organizations moved after SUB construction began nearly a year ago.
While campus construction remains a perennial inconvenience, University officials insist the orange cones, detours, dust and noise are all for a good cause.
For years they've warned of schoolyard pushers, of liquor stores that don't check IDs, of new drugs popping up in teenage bloodstreams.
About 40 people shared stories about how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has affected their lives during a commemorative service in the UNM Alumni Chapel Tuesday.
UNM faculty and staff health insurance plans are up for bid after eight years of the same service, giving the University an opportunity to change employee benefits.
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Two middle school boys were arrested Tuesday in the slaying of an Albuquerque woman who was moving from her apartment because she no longer felt safe after a break-in.
While most UNM students are busy acclimating themselves to class schedules and part-time jobs, one is kick-starting his political career by throwing his hat into a nearby town's mayoral race.
Larry Crumpler, research curator at the Museum of Natural History, has proposed a landing site for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers mission, which aims to learn more about water on the planet by studying its rocks.
WASHINGTON - Although it has involved little fighting, the military effort to scour and close a network of 50 caves in the Zawar Kili region of eastern Afghanistan has turned out to be one of the most extensive operations of the 100-day-old war in Afghanistan.
SANTA TERESA, N.M. (AP) - The Santa Teresa port of entry into the state needs more inspectors and a new booth to accommodate a growing number of passenger vehicles, U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici said.
After a lethargic, shaky start, the UNM men's basketball team used a late run keyed by a four-guard retooled lineup to propel it past the Air Force Academy 50-47 late Monday night in The Pit.
In a move aimed at curbing the University's limited main campus parking, the Board of Regents recently approved funding for a parking structure southwest of Johnson Center.
The Native American Diabetes Program, a division of UNM's Internal Medicine Department, was recently awarded a $1 million National Institutes of Health research grant for a five-year study to focus on diabetes prevention and education of American Indian women.
UNM senior John Probasco, who was recently chosen as one of 32 American Rhodes scholars, says he plans to return to New Mexico as a physician after completing his studies in England.