There are people who believe that the best books are those that challenge perspectives and introduce new ideas. Books that capture histories of lives, theories, events and controversies are some of the novels enjoyed by Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Chaouki Abdallah.
Sharon Lokey needed a way to cope when her husband was diagnosed with a life-threatening disease. After spending some time looking, she found her escape in a familiar place: her sewing machine.Lokey, a caretaker and professional seamstress, started to release her anxiety by creating intricate costumes and stylized corsets. She sold them to family, friends and whoever else wanted them.In 2013 her husband Todd was diagnosed with liver failure. He has a rare congenital disease called hemochromatosis, which causes the body to absorb too much iron, overworking the liver and causing cirrhosis, or liver failure.
The General Medical Sciences portion of the National Institutes of Health has given UNM’s Spatiotemporal Modeling Center more space and time for its research. Spatiotemporal research, also known as spatial-temporal, is the study of time and space as a whole. The STMC uses this method for cellular biology and aims to find better treatments for fighting ailments such as colon and pancreatic cancers. The Center’s $12 million grant has been renewed for another five years, raising the STMC’s hopes for recruiting up-and-coming researchers.“Our research emphasizes the development of new single-cell and single-molecule technologies to generate improved quantitative data for modeling,” the STMC website states.
By Peggy Spencer, M.D.You know those moments in life that hit you upside the head and brand your brain?
Don’t count on New Mexico’s quarterback situation changing much after its bye week.Signal-callers Cole Gautsche and Lamar Jordan have split most of the playing time the past three games and that trend will likely continue. Gautsche has started all three contests but has been pulled for Jordan at some point during each game.
UNM does not make the grade when it comes to liberal arts offerings, according to one non-profit educational institution, but some said that grading criteria is broken.
Editor,Nutritionist Roger Williams in the 1950s proved that not enough nutrients causes alcoholism.In experiments with rats, only 10 percent of those with full nutrition became alcoholic.
A Nobel Laureate is coming to main campus to speak today.John C. Mather, an American astrophysicist and cosmologist known particularly for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006, is doing a free public talk tonight at 7 p.m. in Keller Hall, according to a UNM press release.
By Marielle Dent�UNM is getting a jump-start on its budget planning process this year in order to make it more responsive and efficient, according to a recent press release.Normally this work is done in the weeks between the end of the legislative session and the date for budget approval.
Editor,The U.S. government does itself no favors when it supports tyrants overseas. Rather than droning on about how other nations, groups and individuals are “jealous of our freedoms,” we should learn a lesson from what is unfolding in Saudia Arabia.
On Sept. 29, UNM Police Department took a report in reference to harassment and battery.
Leaving past performances in the rear view mirror is what the New Mexico volleyball team hopes will get it back on track.In a 3-0 sweep against New Mexico State (11-8, 5-2 WAC), the Lobos snapped a four-match losing streak with one of their better offensive performances of the season, hitting above .225 in each of the three sets.
It’s Monday morning. The outfit is complete. Colors and patterns match perfectly and everything seems to be in place.Wait a second — it’s time to accessorize.
This year marks the 50th anniversary for the Wilderness Act signed in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, and some enthusiasts took time to educate people about the Great Outdoors. The Get Wild Festival, celebrated Saturday at the Civic Center, drew attention to the act that helped protect 9.1 million acres of wilderness lands.
If a subject can be taken to its irrational extreme and then blended with the most disturbing imagery possible, Chuck Palahniuk will find the way.His latest novel “Beautiful You” does just that with arousal addiction, and more broadly, manufactured experience versus actual experience.
Editor,While I have no intention of starting a debate via opinion letters, I do feel that I should speak out against the personal slander from Sade Patterson’s Amendment 67 article response, in which she referred to me as “uneducated.” Regarding the issue, I am in fact quite well versed in the facts and have not only read Amendment 67 in full (that is, not picking out a select few words of it and espousing that single point), but I also explained in the article what the law would actually mean for Colorado voters.
By Tomas LujanThe Internal Revenue Service may be forfeiting billions of dollars in taxes from some of the nation’s largest companies.
Eleven community colleges – including UNM’s four branch campuses – in New Mexico will receive $15 million in federal funding to create innovative training programs in partnership with local businesses to get New Mexican adults into the workforce.This funding allows colleges across New Mexico to provide workers with quality job training to help fill New Mexico’s expanding health care and technology workforce needs, U.S.
Colorado is on the move to define an unborn human being as a “person” via Amendment 67 “Protection of Pregnant Mothers and Unborn Children,” which will be up for vote on the Nov. 4 ballot.
Walking around campus this past year and a half, students may have noticed something a little different about senior guard Hugh Greenwood. That something? He has been growing his hair past his shoulders.He said he grew the long locks because his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer more than 18 months ago.Other members of the Lobo men’s basketball team got on board to help, too. Head coach Craig Neal and his son, sophomore guard Cullen Neal, have also been growing out their hair to show support for Greenwood’s family.
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