In Brief
Town
Hall on global response to terrorism
Richele
Keller, diplomat in residence for the United States Department
of State at UNM, and Mark Peceny, UNM associate professor of
political science, will present at a town hall, A Global
Response to Terrorism, Thursday, Oct. 24. The event begins
at
7 p.m. at the Catholic Center, 4000 St. Joseph Place, NW in
Albuquerque.
As part
of Worldwide United Nation Day, Keller will discuss the United
States position as it relates to the topic. Peceny will discuss
the role of the United Nations.
Eric Sirotkin,
lawyer for the international monitor of South Africas
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Emad Fraitekh, executive
web producer for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs,
will present alternative views to the topic.
UNM
hosts Hispano Day
El Centro
de la Raza and Recruitment Services at UNM will host Hispano
Student Day Friday, Oct. 25, from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at
Johnson Center in the main gym on campus.
Approximately
800 Hispanic high school juniors and seniors from throughout
New Mexico will be on campus to learn about UNMs application
process and college life. Hispano Student Day at UNM is
a special day for students who often do not have the encouragement
to go to college, said John J. Lopez, committee member
and teacher at Albuquerque High School. It is a day when
our students can get on a college campus and realize that it
is not an insurmountable task for them to be there in a year
or two.
Call 277-5020.
New
Mexico economic growth slows
Growth
in the New Mexico economy continued to slow during the second
quarter of 2002 due to several factors according to the University
of New Mexicos Bureau of Business and Economic Research
(BBER).
A weak
national economy, numerous layoffs and firm closings and a tourism
sector still impacted by the events of Sept. 11, 2001, are among
the causes of anemic growth. A statewide drought has also contributed.
Very modest
growth is in store for the New Mexico economy during the next
four quarters, with an acceleration in growth expected to begin
in the second half of 2003.
Linguistics
conference draws national speakers
Distinguished
linguist Dr. Ronald Langacker, University of California at San
Diego, a specialist in cognitive grammar, will be a keynote
speaker at the Fifth Annual High Desert Linguistics Society
Conference Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2, at Dane Smith Hall
and the Anderson Schools of Management.
Presenters
from across the United States and a dozen other countries will
give talks.
Twenty-minute
presentations kick off the conference Friday morning at 8 a.m.
followed by 10-minute Q&A sessions.
Speakers
are scheduled on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Keynote addresses
begin at 1:30 p.m. each day.
Visit www.unm.edu/~hdls/conf2002
or call 277-6353 by Oct. 15 to register.
Loendorf
to head telecommunications
Paula Loendorf,
director of Tele/Video Communications Customer Support at Duke
University since 1996, has been named UNM Telecommunications
director effective Dec. 9.
Loendorf
will oversee planning, development, coordination and management
of telecommunications and alarm services for UNM.
Grants
available for spring feminist events
The UNM
Feminist Research Institute has established a new, small grants
program to fund campus events focused on gender, sexuality or
feminist theory/practice.
The institute
is offering several grants of up to $1,000 for spring semester.
UNM faculty or graduate students may submit proposals. Proposed
events may include, but are not limited to, mini-conferences,
exhibits, speaker or film series, performances, panel discussions
or workshops. Events focused on scholarship, artistic/creative
work or investigations of policy and practice are eligible.
Proposals
(roughly two pages) are due Nov. 1. Awards will be announced
Nov. 11. For information, contact the Feminist Research Institute
at femresin@unm.edu.
Retiree
survey yields HSC prizewinner
Associate
Dean Emeritus for Clinical Affairs Albert Vogel recently was
selected as the winner of a UNM Bookstore certificate for the
Summer 2002 Retiree Survey drawing. The drawing was held in
conjunction with the recently completed survey of retired UNM
faculty and staff sponsored by the UNM Staff Council and the
Retiree Ad-hoc Committee.
Professor
Vogel retired in July of 2000 from the School of Medicine, where
he continues to work quarter time. The Ad-hoc Committee will
have an executive summary of the survey available shortly. For
information, call 277-1532 or email retired@unm.edu.
Mediation
course offered
A UNM Continuing
Education Mediator Certification course will be
presented weekdays from Oct. 28 through Nov. 4 from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m.
Employees
may use tuition remission benefits.
Call 277-0077.