UNM Staff Picnic Tickets on Sale

Tickets for the 2009 UNM Staff Picnic are now on sale. Tickets are $5 and include all-day access to the Rio Grande Zoo, Botanical Gardens and Aquarium and to the picnic at the zoo from 6:30-9:30 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 1. To purchase tickets, staff must show a Lobo ID. There is no limit on the number of tickets each person may purchase. Tickets will be available at a number of locations throughout campus.

Civil Engineering Professor’s Pavement Study Fueled by NSF CAREER Award

It’s the complexity of asphalt pavement that fascinates Rafiqul Tarefder, assistant professor of Civil Engineering. It is the variations in load as the flow of traffic cycles from bicycles to cars to pickups to heavy tractor trailers, and the physical changes as the pavement heats, cools, oxidizes, ages and cracks. His interest in pavement is now paying off with a National Science Foundation CAREER grant.

Photo: Rafiqul Tarefder

UNM Plans to Test Campus Warning Siren

Systemwide test scheduled

The University of New Mexico is planning an exercise of its Campus Warning Siren System on Monday, July 6. At 11:02 a.m., the sirens will be sounded for approximately one minute. There will be a one-minute pause of the sirens, followed by an "all clear" siren. The “all clear” siren will sound for approximately one minute.