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Network studies brain shifts

Lauren Topper | October 31

After the successful completion of the human genome project in 2003, scientists turned their attention to the wiring of the human brain, considered the next unmapped frontier. At UNM’s MIND research network, the lab of Dr. Vince Calhoun is making headway on a project investigating the “chronnectome” of the brain — an in-depth look at how regions of the brain change in connection with one another, and how that may relate to different diseases, particularly mental illness. The brain can be divided into many different regions, each having their own unique functions.

Soobak Korean Seoul Food employee Ann Atkinson, far right, hands food to UNM sophomore Jolynn Alarid, far left, and UNM senior Jabez Ledres during the Food for Thought Drive at Cornell Mall on Thursday afternoon. GPSA and UNM Foods sponsored the food drive to fund the Graduate Summer Scholarship.

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Food trucks benefit GPSA scholarship program

David Lynch | October 31

UNM’s Graduate and Professional Student Association utilized something all college students would gladly spend money on in order to fund a new scholarship – food. On Thursday four food trucks from local businesses settled in Cornell Mall for GPSA’s Food for Thought fundraiser. The event was sponsored by GPSA and UNM Food.

Culture

Ghosts on campus and where to find them

Mateo Rocha | October 30

Temperatures drop as the fall season progresses, leaving a sense of frigidness that gets stronger day after day at UNM, a climate for the supernatural to emerge.

Culture

Five & Why with Jenna Crabb

Skylar Griego | October 30

There is a myriad of reasons to love Halloween. Candy, costumes and creepiness bombard us with the spirit of Halloween. There’s also an abundance of reason to get scared on Halloween. Jenna Crabb, career services director said she loves to be freaked out by what she calls “psychological thrillers.”

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Campus briefs

October 30

Halloween Blood DriveASUNM Community Experience is hosting a Halloween Blood Drive in partnership with United Blood Services.

Byron Herrington conducts the New Mexico Philharmonic during Breaking Boo on Saturday evening at Popejoy Hall. The orchestra played Halloween-themed music wearing Halloween costumes throughout the event.

Culture

New Mexico Philharmonic, audience get into Halloween spirit

Moriah Carty | October 30

With eerie sounds and low-lit lighting, the New Mexico Philharmonic brought some spooky holiday fun to its recent concert. The New Mexico Philharmonic brought Breaking Boo to Popejoy, Saturday night, and Concert goers and musicians were given the opportunity to dress up in their Halloween costumes.

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Marsupial's murder remains a mystery

Ryan Lotz | October 30

Local businesses and private citizens are pitching in with the city to try to find the person or people who killed a rare animal at the city zoo.In addition to a large cash reward, local restaurant Pizza 9 has announced that they are offering free pizza for up to a year to the person who can lead police to those responsible for killing “Jasper,” one of ABQ BioPark’s Tasmanian devils.

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Project targets rural patients

Lena Guidi | October 30

In 2003, the wait to see Dr. Sanjeev Arora for Hepatitis C treatment was eight months long. At the time, the clinic at UNM Hospital where Arora worked was one of only two in New Mexico that offered treatment for the disease. Arora said he realized that untreated Hepatitis C was not only causing patients to develop liver cancers and cirrhosis — it was killing them.

Patrick Gozur, a volunteer with the Rio Grande Community Farm, applies zombie makeup on Tuesday night for the farm’s haunted maze “Quarantine: Collapse.” Gozur is one of hundreds of people volunteering as zombies for the event. “Quarantine: Collapse” has its last official fright night on Nov. 1.

Culture

Inside the mind of a hungry zombie, a fictional account

Graham Gentz | October 30

There is an undying dark here.The wind curls over the corn, a hissing sea of empty black air.The moon gleams baleful, white light across the flow of autumn leaves.

Culture

Hauntings, doughnuts at historic theater

Jonathan Baca | October 30

The Duke City is more than 300 years old, full of history and legend. One of the oddest and most enduring of these legends is the tragic tale of 6-year-old Bobby Darnall, who believers say still haunts the halls of Albuquerque’s oldest performing arts center, the downtown KiMo Theatre.On Friday, Halloween night, the city is hosting a sold-out tour of the KiMo, where they will discuss the history of the theater and of little Bobby’s death.

Opinion

State auditor candidate scarily unscrupulous

October 30

Editor,On Nov. 4, we have the opportunity to elect our next state auditor. It may not be the sexiest office or the most publicized.

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Crime briefs for Oct. 29, 2014

Erika Eddy | October 29

Three vehicles were stolen and two were damaged on campus between Oct. 17 and 21.Window broken out of pickupOn Oct. 17, UNM Police Department was dispatched to the Lomas Parking Structure in reference to damage to a vehicle. According to the report, the victim parked his vehicle on the ground level at about 8 a.m. When he returned to his vehicle at about 5:30 p.m., he noticed someone had broken out a window of his Ford pickup. The suspects did not enter the truck and nothing else was damaged.

Opinion

Scamming landlords crush students with lifelong debt

October 29

You would think that feudalism is a thing of the past, when land-owning lords rented out to peasants who did all the work and the landlords just sat back rubbing their fat bellies while counting out their money. You would be wrong.Today there is a resurgence of feudalism in all but name, and it is right here in the U.S. of A., and it is people who to this day call themselves “landlords.” The only difference is they rent out apartments and houses and parking lots, and where they are making their killing is around college campuses.For one thing, they serve a transient population of students who would rather not take the landlord to court because they are going to leave sometime soon, and they are young and are looking forward, however illusorily, to a materially successful future after graduation.

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Business brings smiles (and food) to kids

Marielle Dent | October 29

A local sandwich shop has teamed up with an Albuquerque charity to give a slice of happiness to homeless children. Which Wich Superior Sandwiches has been donating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to the CLNkids since May in participation with the chain’s national initiative Project PB&J.The project was created by Which Wich founder, Jeff Sinelli in Dallas. For every peanut butter and jelly sandwich sold, the franchise donates two of them to people in need.

Kathryn Frietze, post doctoral fellow in molecular genetics microbiology, pipettes vaccine candidates in a laboratory on Tuesday. Researchers at UNM have developed a new strategy for the creation of vaccines that use virus-like particles, which can be attached to molecules that the body wouldn’t normally identify as a threat.

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Researchers find alternative to vaccine creation

Lauren Topper | October 29

A team of researchers at UNM has developed a new strategy for the creation of vaccines with near limitless applications, from malaria and cancer to high cholesterol. The project is spearheaded by Health Sciences Center professor Dr. David Peabody and assistant professor Dr. Bryce Chackerian.Typically, vaccinations involve injecting someone with a harmless version of the virus, teaching their body to recognize and quickly destroy that virus. Instead, this new strategy employs proteins that simply look like a virus, termed virus-like particles, which can be attached to molecules that the body wouldn’t normally identify as a threat.

Blood-shot eyeball appetizers (eggs tossed in paprika and dressed up with black olive slices).

Culture

Column: Easy illusion foods to freak out party-goers

Steve “Mo” Fye | October 29

If something looks like it was pulled out of a dark black hole, served on a fancy plate and called food – it must be time for Halloween. Weird or creepy appetizers and party foods are de rigueur for a successful Halloween party, but illusion food is by no means a new invention.In the middle ages, cooks would often show their skills through subtleties, or presentation foods. The rear half of a suckling pig might be stitched onto the front half of a goose and roasted, then presented as a cockatrice (a mythical beast).

Opinion

Paying federal taxes supports the murder of innocents

October 29

When would it be right for an enemy nation to murder your family?If never, how can it be right for the United States to murder the families of people in our enemy nations?Would I, as an openly gay man, fight to be accepted into the mafia? Would I, as an openly gay man, fight to be accepted into a violent street gang? Would I, as an openly gay man, fight to be accepted into a band of drug dealers or bank robbers?

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Grant allows Cancer Center to reach rural patients

Sayyed Shah | October 29

The UNM Cancer Center has received a $7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute’s National Community Oncology Research Program to expand the clinical trials network in New Mexico. As the parent institution for the NCORP grant, UNM Cancer Center will work closely with the New Mexico Cancer Care Alliance, the statewide health care partnership for cancer clinical trials, according to a press release issued by UNM Cancer Center.“We serve all New Mexicans and this NCORP grant will help us reach more of our rural and underserved population,” said Cheryl L. Willman, director and CEO of the cancer center.

Marina Resh holds a duck near a farm house during the Haunted Barn & Fall Festival fundraiser at Mandy’s Farm in southwest Albuquerque on Oct. 18. Mandy’s Farm provides support to people with disabilities, such as residential, supported employment and day services.

Culture

Mandy's Farm aiding those with disabilities

Mateo Rocha | October 28

The cool autumn breeze brings the fragrance of a growing pasture, community and positive energy emanating from a local farm.

Culture

Play review: Adapatation's wish unfulfilled

Graham Gentz | October 28

With a lesson so blatantly stamped across its forehead, “The Monkey's Paw” could be easily be confused for “The Gift of the Magi” or an Aesop's Fable.