The UNM Scholarships Office and the Student Government Accounting Office now require more documentation from organizations that want to issue awards or grants to individual students.
UNM President William Gordon has created a new position that will enhance recruitment and retention efforts of women and minorities in faculty and staff jobs on campus.
UNM Hospital has received its first PET scan device, a state-of-the art machine that will be used for diagnostics and training in a number of health fields.
Leave it to the punk trio Green Day to give a follow-up “non-hit” album on the heels of its greatest hits album. The band, with members Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt, released Shenanigans this month to complement last year’s International Superhits.
UNM senior Abby Dickenson, left, sophomore Kristen Carrillo, and Andrea Cavallo assend the rock climbing wall in the Outside Adventure Village during the Jeep World Outdoor Festival at the Journal Pavillion Sunday.
Mr. Shapiro had a letter published complaining of how the Pepsi vending deal is disloyal to UNM vending employees as jobs are lost. I'm glad Mr. Shapiro enlightened me.
I want to applaud Don Shapiro's stand against UNM becoming "corporate bed-partners" with Pepsi, published in the July 11 Daily Lobo. I would also like to add a few ironic twists that may not have been considered by some of your readers.
Charin Yuthasastrkosol can't be much more than five feet tall, or weigh more than 90 pounds - but this vibrant woman has a commanding presence when she is in a room. She strolls in dressed flamboyantly and the people around her erupt into a flurry of activity.
In a move to improve building facilities on campus, the Physical Plant Department is renovating and remodeling several high-traffic restrooms on campus.
Neil Gaiman, the macabre author of "Neverwhere," "American Gods" and the popular "Sandman" graphic novel series, has struck gold again with his latest novel, "Coraline."
Of course there is, and has always been, racism in the recording industry. This is America, isn't it? In the early days of the 20th century, there was a popular record called "Pickaninny Paradise" instructing black youngsters how to be subservient to their white overlords and thus earn a place in heaven - or at least that section known as Pickaninny Paradise.
While UNM football season is just around the corner, Lobo men's basketball took center stage last week. Thursday, Athletic Director Rudy Davalos and head coach Ritchie McKay announced this season the University would mark the 100th season of UNM men's basketball.
You could say the world doesn't need another Gorillaz remix album. The "band," or brainchild of Blur's Damon Albarn and "Tank Girl" creator Jamie Hewlett, was well-represented by the CD G-Sides that came out last year.
Students who make appointments at the Student Health Center will now have to pay a fee for each visit.
Tuatara - a band featuring members of R.E.M. and the Screaming Trees - will be playing at the Launchpad on Saturday with three other acts in an uninterrupted four-hour show.
Redondo Road South will be closed to through traffic between Martin Luther King Drive and Yale Boulevard July 29 through August 18.
Alan Greenspan has coined a new phrase - "infectious greed." In a time of grand corporate scandal, it seems that the Federal Reserve chairman hit right on the money, no pun intended.
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