UNM signed an agreement with Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories Aug. 7 that pledges the institutions’ commitment to researching nanoscience.
Food ranging from green chile stew to ice cream, local bands and student organizations recruiting members are a few of the things that will greet new and returning students during Welcome Back Days.
Marceil DeLacy will deliver a talk about healer, educator and writer Mary Baker Eddy’s life and legacy Tuesday from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Kiva Lecture Hall.
A delegation of 30 visitors from Thailand, including representatives of Naresuan University, the Thailand Office of Medical Education, Ministry of Public Health and various affiliate hospitals recently toured the UNM School of Medicine. The medical school was one of four U.S. medical schools, along with Harvard, John Hopkins and Stanford, selected for the tour because of its reputation for progressive, high-quality education, clinical care, biomedical research programs and community outreach.
Iowa State University student Tim Lappe feels like a rock star every time his solar car team rolls into a new town that serves on a checkpoint on the trek from Chicago to Los Angeles.
While most UNM students are still enjoying their summer, a group of 28 freshmen are completing their fourth week of intensive academic study.
The Management Development Center at UNM’s Anderson Schools of Management is offering seven certificate programs in Albuquerque this fall.
Bulldozers continue to reign at UNM as a variety of prominent construction projects are well under way.
An external review of the UNM General Library and Dean Robert Migneault found a lack of substantive strategic planning, low staff morale, deteriorating physical facilities, a problematic management structure and a questionable salary structure.
Despite being shuffled around campus, Agora Crisis Center and Students Educating Peers About Sex both have found shelter at the Psychology Clinic, are seeking volunteers and are available to help community members. The Agora Crisis Center is the oldest crisis center in the country and was started in 1970. Molly Brack, Agora’s professional director, said professors and students established the organization because they were concerned that no crisis intervention services were available in Albuquerque.
Provost Brian Foster announced that Robert J. Desiderio, dean of the UNM Law School for the past four years, will resign from his position effective June 30, 2002.
UNM professor David Dunaway said with the upcoming 75th anniversary of Route 66, Americans should take a look at the memorable road and realize that there are many more stories still to be made and told.
UNM President Bill Gordon announced today he has named Julie C. Weaks to serve as vice president for Business and Finance effective immediately.
The lush meadows of the Jemez Mountains were dotted with 18 tents on a sunny Saturday morning. Erica Dennison sat by the campfire as Ashley Sarracino braided her hair. Brian Mann sat on a log nearby, observing the setting.
Solar-powered cars competing along a 2,300-mile course and famed Mexican folkloric dancer Miguel Caro-Zarigoza are set to make appearances at UNM’s free festivities for the Route 66 Diamond Jubilee.
A 21-year-old woman said in a UNM police report that she was raped while at a bachelor party at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house, which has led to the emergency suspension of the fraternity and one of its members.
New Mexico’s economic expansion slipped a bit in the first quarter of 2001, according to a report recently released by the UNM Bureau of Business and Economic Research.
I would like to make one correction in you article entitled, “Unions accept 6.5 percent increase.” Your final comment, “....but we have shut down merit pay and are now on a level playing field,” is not a fair representation of the union position during the recent contract negotiations.
Local groups staged two different rallies June 21 to illustrate their opinions of President Bush’s proposed energy policy.
Faulty wiring caused a power outage that affected 10 buildings on the southwest corner of main campus Wednesday. Bill Tryens, a UNM facility engineer, said an old cable likely blew a fuse in one of three main lines, which caused a transformer to overheat. “It blew smoke into the Civil Engineering Building at about 8 a.m. this morning, which prompted the fire department to treat it like a fire,” he said.
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