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UNM Accomplishments
Chronological (July 1, 2002 - August 23, 2002)
- Researchers from
UNM and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography gained a novel glimpse
into fundamental Earth processes after studying a chain of Central America's
most active volcanoes. Their research, published in the Aug. 16 issue
of the journal Science, gives new insight into the past and possibly
the future of elements cycling between Earth's underlying mantle and
surface reservoirs such as the crust, oceans and atmosphere. (8.21.02)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/02-08-15volcanos.htm
- Ric Richardson,
associate professor in the UNM School of Architecture and Planning,
has been awarded a visiting fellowship at Curtin University of Technology
in Perth, Australia. While in Perth, Richardson will also work with
the City and Regional Planning Department at Curtin University. He will
look at the parallels between Perth's and Albuquerque's citizen involvement
and neighborhood redevelopment. (8.21.02)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/02-08-20richardson.htm
- The UNM School
of Medicine and Cancer Center received a three-year, $1.12 million planning
grant to become one of five major National Centers of Excellence in
Complex Biomedical Systems Research. Janet M. Oliver, Regents' Professor
of Pathology and associate director for research in the UNM Cancer Research
and Treatment Center, leads the new center. The goal of the centers
is to encourage computational approaches that will deepen understanding
of biological processes. (8.21.02)
- Judy Cartmell,
associate controller of the UNM Health Sciences Center, will chair a
newly-formed Project Management Team that will implement the financials
component of the Electronic Management Information Systems (EMIS) project.
EMIS is a University-wide effort to reengineer and automate various
University business and administrative processes to make them more efficient
and customer focused. (8.21.02)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/02-08-21emis.htm
- The UNM Foundation
received more than $40 million in private funds during the 2001-02 fiscal
year to establish a new standard for private giving to the University.
The amount was 6.7 percent more than its goal of $37.3 million and constitutes
a 13.5 percent increase over the previous fiscal year, which brought
in a then-record $35.3 million. (8.14.02)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/02-08-13foundation.htm
- Three new officers
have been elected to the UNM Health Sciences Center (HSC) Clinical Operations
Board for three-year terms. The officers are: Paul Donisthorpe, chairman;
Alberto Gutierrez, vice-chairman and Christina Campos, secretary. The
nine-member board oversees the non-research and non-educational clinical
operations of clinical facilities at the HSC. (8.14.02)
- UNM Physics and
Astronomy Professor Michael Zeilik received an astronomical prize -
the American Astronomical Society 2002 Education award recently. (8.14.02)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/02-08-05zeilik.htm
- The Water Resources
Program at UNM will soon begin a two-year collaborative program with
the Escuela Agricola Panamericana (Zamorano) in Honduras to establish
a Central American Water Resources Development Center. The center will
create a regional, national and local entity for the integrated management
of water resources. (8.7.02)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/July31water.htm
- Dr. Paul Roth,
dean of the School of Medicine, was recently presented with the 2002
Governor's Award for the New Mexico Emergency Medicine System. Roth
was one of the nation's first full professors of emergency medicine.
(8.7.02)
- New Mexico native
Andres C. Salazar was selected to fill the PNM Chair in Microsystems,
Commercialization and Technology at UNM. The PNM Chair is a joint appointment
between the School of Engineering and the Anderson Schools of Management
funded by the PNM Foundation to help provide world-class instruction
in the commercialization of and advanced training in microsystems technology.
(7.24.02) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/July19pnm.htm
- Sanjay Krishna,
an assistant professor in the UNM Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department, received a Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge
Associated Universities (ORAU) for the 2002-2003 academic year. ORAU
is a private, non-profit corporation and a consortium of 86 doctoral-granting
colleges and universities. UNM is one of two universities in the state
to participate in the consortium. (7.24.02) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/July22krishna.htm
- Jill Morford has
been awarded a grant by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship
Board. Morford, an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics,
will lecture and carry out cross-linguistic research on American Sign
Language and German Sign Language. (7.24.02) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/July22morford.htm
- Political Science
Ph.D. candidates Jeff Drope and Christina Schatzman have been awarded
highly-competitive dissertation fellowships from the National Science
Foundation (NSF). Both are advised by Professor Wendy Hansen. Eric Jepsen,
also a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, has been awarded Fulbright
and Social Science Research Council dissertation fellowships, in addition
to an NSF fellowship awarded last year. (7.24.02)
- Robert A. Ibarra,
former vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
has been named special assistant to the president for diversity initiatives.
He will direct and coordinate the University's strategic diversity initiatives,
to include recruitment and retention efforts for women and minorities
in underutilized faculty and staff job categories. (7.10.02) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/July8Iberra.htm
- UNM is involved
in a joint transboundary water quality and quantity monitoring project
in the Kura-Araks river basin of the South Caucasus with the former
Soviet Republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. UNM and the three
countries are seeking funding under the NATO Science for Peace Program,
which supports scientific research that will foster cooperation among
nations. (7.10.02) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/July3water.htm
- Gil Berry, associate
director of Facility Planning and campus landscape architect, has been
honored with the designation, "Fellow of the American Society of
Landscape Architects," an honor accorded very few people for distinguished
service to the landscape architecture profession. (7.10.02)
- Fourteen incoming
students, 12 from local high schools and one each from Farmington and
Las Cruces, are recipients of the UNM Regents' Scholars, a full-ride
academic scholarship. The most prestigious of all UNM scholarships,
it is designed to attract the brightest and most talented. (7.10.02)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/July10Scholars.htm
- John A. Pieper
has been named dean for the College of Pharmacy. He is chair of the
Division of Pharmacotherapy in the School of Pharmacy at the University
of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Pieper, who will assume deanship on
Oct. 1, replaces Dean William Hadley, who retired from the College of
Pharmacy after 30 years of service. (7.10.02)
- The UNM College
of Education (COE) raised more than $1 million in private donations
for fiscal year 2001 - nearly doubling its goal. The largest donations
came from corporate and foundation sources, including the Hewlett-Packard
Company, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Intel Corporation, Kellogg
Foundation, Wells Fargo Bank, Spencer Foundation and McCune Foundation.
(7.10.02) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/July1coe.htm
Health Sciences Center Director of Public Affairs Sam Giammo has been
awarded the Vista Award from the New Mexico Chapter of the Public Relations
Society of America. The award honors visionaries in the public relations
field in the state. (7.10.02)
Past Accomplishments:
(July
1, 2001 - June 30, 2002)
(July
1, 2000 - June 30, 2001)
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