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College
of Arts and Sciences
Dean
Reed Dasenbrock
Ortega Hall Rm.
201
505-277-7381
rdasenbr@unm.edu
The College actively
engages in departmental level outreach and service efforts to the community
on a broad scale. The following are examples from the many and varied
departments in Arts and Sciences.
Anthropology
 Maxwell
Museum of Anthropology
- The Museum provides educational opportunities to the community
through a wide variety of public programs and cultural outreach collaborations.
Maxwell Museum
of Anthropology Docents - This service arm provides docent-guided
tours of the Museum's permanent exhibits and curatorial tours of its
collections; traveling trunk exhibits presented by docents and featuring
museum collections; and slide presentations and check-out kits for use
by schools and community groups.
Alfonso
Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies - The Alfonso Ortiz Center
for Intercultural Studies is a new program established by the Department
of Anthropology and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology. The Center promotes
the participation of community scholars, artists, healers, performers,
and writers at the university through collaborative projects with faculty,
museum professionals, and students. It provides a forum for the exchange
of ideas, creativity, and new research evolving from community partnerships.
Biology
Museum of Southwestern
Biology - Guided tours for K-12 students and their teachers give
all of them the opportunity to have hands-on access to the university's
collections of mammals, fish, birds, insects and plants. The museum
web site, available to the public, shows natural history information
about New Mexico plants and animals.
Sevilleta Long
Term Ecological Research Program (LTER)
The new teaching laboratory at the Sevilleta is now open and operating
as a training center for K-16 science students. Teachers and students
from all over New Mexico come to the field station, and usage is expected
to increase dramatically over the next few years as more teachers "discover"
the Sevilleta facilities.
The Sevilleta LTER
Program is collaborating with the BBC and the UK's Open University to
create a "virtual field trip" series on DVD for college students.
The program will be interactive, and allow students to investigate field
ecology studies and learn about different ecosystems in the United Kingdom
and the American Southwest. Filming for this project took place in August
2001 at the Sevilleta refuge. Final production should be completed in
early 2002.
Chemistry
Faculty Outreach
- Faculty from the Department of Chemistry conduct demonstrations and
presentations to various elementary, middle, and high school students
in the Albuquerque and throughout the state.
Student Outreach
- Through the UNM Chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS), graduate
students perform magic shows for Albuquerque and Rio Rancho elementary
and middle school students; they also set up a mentoring program for
undergraduate students interested in chemistry.
English
The Writers Inn
- This program encourages writers, from elementary school children to
senior citizens, to submit their poetry and fiction by e-mail to the
Writers Inn for a professional writing response from English Department
faculty. These faculty are also using the Blue Mesa Review (anthology
of creative writing) to link to area high schools by establishing a
prize for the best story by a high school student and inviting high
schools students to sit in on the editorial process.
Writers' Harvest
Reading - This annual fund raising event to combat hunger features readings
by local high school students as well as by UNM creative writing graduate
students.
Medieval Studies
Outreach to the Secondary Schools - The Medieval Studies Outreach Program
to the Secondary Schools is the curricular-enhancement arm of the Institute
for Medieval Studies. The program also seeks to support secondary school
teachers' professional development by providing scholarly and community
resources that can enrich their learning and teaching.
Foreign Languages
& Literatures
New Mexico Olé
- Language Expo - This Saturday of immersion in foreign languages
for high school students and their foreign language teachers from throughout
the state of New Mexico includes games, video clips, riddles and sing-a-longs
in different languages. It also includes food from other countries prepared
by some of the faculty and the teaching assistants of the department.
The Atlantic
Bridge on the Camino Real (ABCR) - The ABCR, in conjunction with
Continuing Education, arranges visits to Germany for high school teachers
and interested community members in order to familiarize them with the
vocational training in that country. The agenda includes visits to Mercedez
Benz, BMW and other large manufacturers. (See also Continuing Education
- International Activities)
Linguistics
The Department of
Linguistics is involved in serving the various language communities of
New Mexico According to their needs.
Native American
Communities - The work done in Native American communities is, out
of necessity, a combination of service and research. Work includes consultation,
text collection, lexicography, and grammar writing, which contribute
both to the communities in which they are conducted and to the body
of scholarly research on languages and linguistics.
Community outreach
work is also done in the area of Native language revitalization language
planning, and teacher training. The current status of Native language
vitality is at a critical stage for many Native language communities
here in New Mexico. When requested by tribal or community leaders, the
department's role has been to help facilitate training for fluent speakers
in these communities who are interested teaching their native languages,
to work with native communities in aspects of language planning and
establishing native language programs. The goal has been to help tribal
communities build the internal expertise that would enable them to continue
long-term language revitalization and maintenance work on their own.
Deaf Community
- Faculty of the Signed Language Interpreting Program are active in
several organizations and task forces serving the Deaf Community, including
the New Mexico Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf and legislative
and gubernatorial taskforces studying the feasibility of teaching American
Sign Language in the public schools and other issues affecting this
group. The Program has also been instrumental in the creation of a statewide
interpreter referral agency as well as sponsoring workshops for interpreters
and the Deaf Community alike.
As part of their
training, students are asked to visit local elementary schools to teach
signs and give deaf awareness lectures. They participate in community
events, distributing information about deafness and how the program
serves this group. And last, but not least, students volunteer their
time and services in areas such as reading to and providing transportation
for deaf/blind members of the community, assisting certified interpreters
with assignments, aiding students in classrooms, and providing assistance
at meetings, conferences, and other public events.
Physics and Astronomy
Physics and Astronomy
Open House - Area high school students and undeclared undergraduates
are invited to the department for an evening of demonstrations, lab
and observatory tours, poster displays, and presentations by students
who are majoring/concentrating in physics, astrophysics, and optical
sciences. The Open House is held each fall…oh, and there's free
pizza!
Colloquia -
Speakers from all over the world present their work every Friday, September
through April, 4:00-5:00 p.m. at Dane Smith Hall on campus. The topics
are diverse, essentially spanning all of physics and astrophysics. The
colloquia are open to all interested parties - the schedule is maintained
online at http://panda.unm.edu/acadadv/PandAProp/newsonline.html.
Campus
Observatory - The UNM Observatory is located about one city
block north of the intersection of Yale Blvd. and Lomas in Albuquerque.
It is open to the public every Friday night during the academic year
(September through April), as well as during special celestial events
and to K-12 classes by appointment.
 LodeStar
Astronomy Center - LodeStar's Planetarium is the first planetarium
in the world to showcase high-definition video imagery covering an entire
domed projection screen. With clarity of image better than Omnimax,
it represents the next stem in the evolution of the planetarium. On-site
programs include High School Mentorships, Star Parties, and Astronomy
Odyssey Summer Camp (ages 4-14). Lodestar is located at the New Mexico
Museum of Natural History and Science.
StarLab Portable
Planetarium - LodeStar's Portable Planetarium is a teaching tool
that can be brought right into the classroom or community event. Children
view realistic constellation simulations, the planet positions at night,
and the sky as it changes through the seasons during a star show in
the planetarium. Staff astronomers explain and interpret the night sky,
answer questions, and shows can be coordinated to coincide with school
curriculum.
Political Science
Undergraduate Internships
- The department currently sends 12 -15 undergraduates to Santa Fe each
spring to intern at the New Mexico State Legislature.
The
Institute for Public Policy (IPP) - The IPP is a non-partisan
forum for social scientific research and education. Since its founding
in 1985, the IPP has helped inform public officials, citizens, and students
about current public policy issues. The Institute's staff, resources,
and research efforts incorporate the diverse perspectives of political
science, economics, psychology, communication, engineering, and geography.
The Institute conducts survey research, focus groups, and public meetings
to help private and public decision-makers design policies that are
informed by the public's values and concerns. The Institute also teaches
seminars and courses on public policy and social research.
Psychology
AGORA
- Agora is the oldest volunteer-run crisis center in the nation.
Started in 1970, volunteers provide the Albuquerque area with a crisis
hotline, information and referrals, and educational opportunities.
Alcohol &
Drug Abuse Studies Program - In collaboration with the UNM Division
of Continuing Education Community Behavioral Education, this program
consists of thirteen two-day courses that cover all aspects of alcohol
and drug counseling. In existence for ten years, the program has been
designed to provide the highest quality of counselor training. This
year the program will be offered in Albuquerque and Las Cruces.
Center
for Family and Adolescent Research - CFAR is a free-standing
clinical and research facility that provides free treatment services
to adolescent substance abusers and their families, training opportunities
for undergraduate and post-graduate students in clinical psychology,
counseling, addictions, and related fields and drug awareness training
for parents and staff in community organizations providing services
to adolescents. Treatment and evaluation services are provided in English
and Spanish by trained therapists.
Department of
Psychology Clinic - Individual adult therapy remains the primary
service of the Clinic, with a patient/client population that is varied
in terms of age, ethnicity, employment status, education and presenting
problems. The clinic's referrals come not only from within the University,
but also from other agencies and practitioners, the Court, and self-referrals.
Spanish and Portuguese
Spanish and Portuguese
Open House and On-Site Visits - Area high school classes visit for
a full day in the department to sit in on Spanish classes at all levels,
participate in discussions, have lunch with faculty and graduate students
and learn about the study of Spanish. Faculty also participate in various
area high school language and culture fairs.
Amigos de las
Americas Program - UNM faculty work with this national organization
which sends American high school and college students to perform rural
development service in Latin America. UNM faculty meet with the volunteers
prior to their departure and offer them courses in order to ensure that
they have the appropriate Spanish language skills.
Language Odyssey
Expo 2001 - The Language Expo is an opportunity for middle, high
school and college students to experience languages such as Spanish,
French, German, Italian, Russian, Greek, Latin and Japanese. Ten languages,
and the cultures of the regions where the languages are spoken, are
represented at the Expo and students from all over the state attend
and participate. Students receive a passport for entrance into a number
of activities in a specific language, although they will be encouraged
to participate in all language events. Some activities include cultural
demonstration classes, folklore performances, movies, games, trivia
contests, information scavenger hunts, poetry and poster contests, and
more. Students who successfully fill their passports are eligible to
win prizes in a drawing. Language teachers are encouraged to give students
extra credit for turning in passports as proof of participation.
Encanto às
Cinco - This weekly gathering is open to anyone interested in learning
the Portuguese language. Its purpose is to create a friendly and informal
atmosphere for those interested in speaking Portuguese. It is held on
the main campus of UNM and activities include: conversation, watching
Portuguese language movies, reading and reciting Portuguese poetry,
reading and discussing Portuguese literature, and reading and singing
Portuguese music.
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