After nearly sweeping the weekend, New Mexico turns its attention to the Sunshine State to partake in the USF Tournament. The tournament will consist of Stetson, South Florida and Western Carolina in Tampa, Florida. Stetson will be first on the horizon for the Lobos, with first serve scheduled for 9 a.m. MT.
Bob Davie knows who will take the first snap for the Lobos in its season opener Thursday, but fans and the opposing team will not find out until kickoff. The New Mexico head coach declined to name a starter in Monday’s press conference, but did say that both Lamar Jordan and Austin Apodaca would see time on the field.
While I am upset that Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback Tony Romo is sidelined because of a back injury, I find myself more upset by the fact that the Turkish government has sent its military into Syria.
An early retirement incentive, offering reductions in workloads, has been offered to tenured faculty in all 21 departments of the College of Arts and Sciences, and so far no one has accepted the offer. The incentive was first initiated in 2015 as a trial program to a small number of UNM departments. A memo states that the incentive's goal is to reduce overall payroll costs.
The first ASUNM joint council meeting covered the benefits of residential freshman live in requirement that could start next year and taproom on campus that will incorporate academic learning. “We are trying to make ASUNM as diverse and inclusive as we can,” ASUNM President Kyle Biederwolf said.
On Thursday, UNM's Global Education Office will be holding it’s annual Study Abroad Fair, where students looking to literally and figuratively broaden their horizons can get their questions answered about studying in a foreign country. Students can stop by Cornell Mall between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to experience just a piece of the world and its various cultures, represented by students from study abroad programs.
Over 1,000 former students and employees of UNM recently had their identity stolen from a University database, and after a month of silence, UNM has established a call center to assist victims of the incident. According to a University release, a decades-old UNM database containing names, birth dates, social security numbers, address, emails and other personal information for 1,360 applicants and students was hacked into.
Hi my name is Kyle Laktasic, I was one of the two co-founders of BLACKPIN Inc. which was recently acquired by Innovo Technologies in Irvine, California. About a year and a half ago another UNM Student Jordan Medlock and I decided to start a company based on the idea we could use advance programing techniques to make the "things" around us much more capable then in their current state of not being interconnected.
The UNM Business Plan Competition is gearing up for its 12th year of turning students into entrepreneurs. A meeting on Sept. 15 will kick off seven months of entrepreneurial “boot camps” and seminars featuring hands-on mentorship from experienced, market-tested entrepreneurs.
A coalition of local vendors, crafters and artists gathered over the weekend amid upbeat live music and the smell of roasting chile to celebrate the 19th Annual Chile Festival, an arts and crafts fair focused on giving back to the community in a uniquely New Mexican way.
Scribendi – the long-running annual magazine created by UNM Honors College students – finds itself operating on a bit of an empty stomach after having its funding cut by the Associated Students of UNM in the spring. One local business offered its help over the weekend – by filling the stomachs of hungry patrons.
The cohort of new Associated Students of UNM senators elected in the spring have had the summer to prepare for their new roles as representatives of 25,000+ undegraduates on campus. But for three of the news senators, fall classes had already begun, not a thought about being a part of ASUNM on their minds, before the opportunity to fill a seat at the undergraduate student governing body’s table presented itself.
Aaron Herrera started his 2016 fall campaign on a high note. The sophomore defender for the UNM men’s soccer team was named Conference USA Defensive Player of the Week after his performance during the Lobos’ season-opening weekend at the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament.
Each year, roughly 3.8 billion prescriptions are written in the United States. However, according to Medscape -- an online heathcare news aggregate -- less than half of prescription drugs are taken correctly, if at all. UNM Associate Professor of Pharmaceutics Jason McConville may have a solution.
Former UNM professor Tim Canova is running for Congress in the state of Florida. Canova will be vying for Florida's 23rd District, running against former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the Democratic primary on Tuesday. As a Congressman, Canova said he wants to represent the interests of real people, and not large corporations.
On Sunday evening, advocates of gender equality gathered at the Duck Pond on campus in solidarity with International Go Topless Day, an international event that occurs on the Sunday nearest to Women's Equality Day (August 26). Event organizer Tucker Adlersflügel, said last year’s iteration of the event attracted around 100 people, while a much smaller number gathered on Sunday -- about a dozen.
Two games, two losses. Both for the same reason. The Lobos fell 1-0 to the No. 9 Notre Dame Fighting Irish on Sunday, in what was the second game they lost on the weekend due to a penalty kick, having also fallen to the Indiana Hoosiers 1-0 on Friday.
New Mexico put on a scoring clinic as it cruised past Pacific 5-2 Sunday afternoon in the team’s last game of the California road trip, picking up its first win of the season in the process. The Lobos scored the most goals on the road since 2009 with the huge margin of victory.
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