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Past UNM Accomplishments
(July 1, 2000 - June 30, 2001)
Administration
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Three
professors have been designated as "Distinguished Professors."
Regents' professor of Anthropology Louise Lamphere and Regents' professors
of Biology James Hemphill Brown and Randy Thornhill received the designations
based on nominations from their respective departments. The designations
are the highest faculty title the University bestows and are used
only for a few of its most prominent faculty. (5/23/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May22distinguished.htm
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UNM
awarded honorary doctorates to author and artist N. Scott Momaday
and architect Antoine Predock, both of whom have earned international
distinction, at the 2001 Spring Commencement ceremony on May 12. A
total of 2,491 degrees were projected to be conferred upon main campus
graduates. (5/2/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May3commencement.htm
- The UNM Alumni
Association Board of Directors honored four distinguished alumni at
its annual awards ceremony. They include: Dennis Jett, who will be presented
with the James F. Zimmerman Award; Karen Glaser, who will receive the
Bernard S. Rodey Award; Archie Westfall, who will receive the Erna S.
Fergusson Award; and Mary Bess Whidden, who will receive the Faculty
Teaching Award. (2/28/01)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Feb28alumni.htm
- UNM Regents' Professor
of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering and the founding Director of the
Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies Mohamed S. El-Genk has
been selected as the University's 46th Annual Research Lecturer, the
highest honor UNM bestows upon members of its faculty. (2/28/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Apr18elgenk.htm
- UNM was one of
54 organizations that received a certificate of appreciation from the
City of Albuquerque for its demonstration of positive corporate citizenship.
The City recognized the companies and organizations that signed an ACT
Now Agreement promoting alternative modes of transportation such as
riding the bus, carpooling, bicycling and walking during the Big I construction
project. (2/7/01)
- Four UNM faculty
members have been named to the Fulbright International Education Exchange
Program for 2000-2001. They are Elen May Feinberg, Peter J. Smith, James
L. Thorson and Samuel Jefferson Truett. (1/31/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Jan31fulbright.htm
- Four Academic Advisors
from UNM - Joanne Silva, Roxanne Littlefield, Mayna Benally and Anne
Marie Ornelas - are the recipients of the first Outstanding Advisor
Awards established by Peter White, dean of University College. (12/20/00)
http://www.unm.edu/news/news/news_releases/Dec14advisors.htm
- Five UNM employees
were honored during the 2000 Gerald W. May Staff Recognition Awards
including Administrative Assistant Frances Duran, Senior Student Advisor
Andrew Gonzalez, Program Assistant Lisa McHale, Food Service Site Operator
Genevieve Padilla and Remodeling Supervisor Jerry Pilkinton. (12/13/00)
http://www.unm.edu/news/news/news_releases/Dec13may.htm
- UNM awarded the
UNM Regents' Meritorious Service Medals to Assistant to the President
Marilyn A. Burrows and Associate Vice President Emeritus for Research/Business
and Government Relations Lee B. Zink and the Regents' Recognition Medal
to former Governor Bruce King at UNM's 2000 fall commencement ceremonies.
(12/13/00) http://www.unm.edu/news/news/news_releases/Dec8medals.htm
- New Mexicans voted
their approval of State Bond Issue B, which will provide UNM with $8
million for a new Architecture and Planning building, $1 million for
patient care equipment and will allow KNME-TV to convert to digital
TV. (11/8/00)
- "UNM Voices,"
a call-in talk show, debuted as part of the "City Talk" program
of KBTK-AM radio station, 1310. The program is co-hosted by Art Schreiber
of KBTK and Carolyn Gonzales of UNM's Public Affairs Department and
features UNM faculty and staff speaking about topical subjects. (10/11/00)
- Liza Kerr, manager
of the Tax and Property Accounting Department at UNM, has been appointed
to the National Committee on Education for the Institute of Management
Accountants. The committee is the world's largest association for financial
professionals. (10/3/00)
Anderson Schools
of Management
- UNM'S Robert O.
Anderson Schools of Management Foundation Board has selected Suleiman
Kassicieh, professor in the Management of Technology program and chair
of the Department of Finance, International and Technology Management,
for the Faculty Leadership Award. The award is based on service to the
community and teaching and research excellence. (3/28/01)
- The UNM Anderson
Graduate School of Management was named one of the Top-10 business schools
in the country for Hispanic students by the Hispanic Business magazine.
Recognition was based on enrollment, faculty, student services, retention
rate and reputation. The ranking is the first-ever for ASM that is truly
representative of the strengths of the school. (9/13/00)
- Four staff were
the recipients of a new EMBA scholarship opportunity. Clara de la Cruz
Watral, General Library; and Chris Vallejos, FRS Control, received full
scholarships valued at $18,350. Stacy Heimer, Fine Arts; and Don Butterfield,
HSC Public Affairs received $1,000 book scholarships. Funding is provided
by collaboration between Business and Finance, ASM and Health Sciences.
(8/16/00)
Arts and Sciences
- The UNM Physics
Department was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for $366,000
for three years to conduct theoretical research on quantum dynamics
of electrons in organic materials. V. M. Kenkre, physics and astronomy
professor, serves as principal investigator and David Dunlap, physics
and astronomy associate professor, is co-investigator for the research.
(6/20/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Jun15nsfgrant.htm
- Dr. Reed Dasenbrock
was appointed dean of the UNM College of Arts and Sciences, UNM's largest
college, effective Aug. 15. Dasenbrock, who is currently the associate
dean of Arts and Sciences and director of the Arts and Sciences Research
Park at New Mexico State University, was selected through a national
search process. He succeeds Dr. Fritz Allen, UNM chemistry professor,
who has served as interim dean since June 2000. (6/8/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Jun8dasenbrock.htm
- UNM biology professor
James Brown received the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Eugene
P. Odum Award for Excellence in Ecology Education. The award was given
for a project titled "Scaling of Biodiversity: Physical and Biological
Foundations of Ecological Principles," with UNM biology professor
Bruce Milne and Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Geoffrey West
as co-private investigators. (5/2/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May2odumaward.htm
- John A. Connor,
Ph.D., is the 2001 recipient of the A. Earl Walker Award at the UNM
School of Medicine (SOE). Named after the late A. Earl Walker, M.D.,
Professor Emeritus of Surgery, Neurosurgery and Neurology at the SOE,
the award recognizes outstanding achievement in basic or clinical neuroscience
research by a UNM faculty member. (4/25/01)
- UNM assistant professor
of Biology Richard Cripps was awarded a five-year, $1.05 million grant
from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (National Institutes
of Health) to study the development and diversity of muscles in Drosophila,
which are small fruit flies used in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance.
The goal of the research is to define mechanisms, which control skeletal
muscle fiber diversity. (3/21/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Mar15muscle.htm
- UNM'S Center on
Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions is one of 11 centers nationwide
participating in a new study, Combining Medications and Behavioral Interventions
(COMBINE), that targets individuals diagnosed with alcohol dependence.
(3/14/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Mar9combine.htm
- A memo of understanding
has been signed between the New Mexico State Land Office and the UNM
biology department. It concerns critical information about the health
of the plants and animals on state trust land. (1/31/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Jan26memo.htm
- UNM biochemistry
student Jennifer Halbleib was one of 40 students selected from colleges
and universities across the United States to receive a Marshall Scholarship,
announced Sir Christopher Meyer, British Ambassador. The recipients
will each receive a scholarship worth approximately $50,000 distributed
over two years. (12/20/00) http://www.unm.edu/news/news/news_releases/Dec18halbleib.htm
- Five UNM faculty
members and teaching assistants in the College of Arts and Sciences
have been named recipients of the Gunter Starkey Awards for Teaching
Excellence for 2000-2001. They are Aparna Huzurbazar, Sharon Warner,
Warren Smith, Mary Rooks and Elizabeth Malloy. (12/20/00) http://www.unm.edu/news/news/news_releases/Dec20gunterstarkey.htm
- UNM's Institute
of Meteoritics and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, in conjunction
with the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute, has received a three-year,
$402,000 grant from NASA for a new program titled "Stars on Earth."
The program provides underrepresented high school students with research
experience in space science and technology-based academic preparation
in math, science, engineering and technology. (12/20/00) http://www.unm.edu/news/news/news_releases/Dec14stars.htm
- Anthropology professor
Lawrence Straus, an expert on the Solutrean culture from Spain, was
quoted in the December issue of National Geographic on the hypothesis
for the settlement of North America by Solutrean people and the 5,000-year
time difference between the Solutrean disappearance and the generally
accepted dates for Clovis sites. (11/29/00)
- The National Science
Foundation has awarded the New Mexico Alliance for Graduate Education
and Professoriate, a five-year, $2.5 million grant to increase the number
of graduate minority students pursuing advanced degrees in science,
math and engineering, and entering the professoriate over the next five
years. (11/22/00)
- The Department
of Physics and Astronomy has received a three-year, $605,000 grant for
the project, "Neutron and High Energy Particle Detection with Cryogenic
Calorimetry," from NASA's Cross-Enterprise Technology Development
Program. The goal of the project is to develop a new kind of sensor
for detecting subatomic particles. (11/15/00)
- UNM graduate student
Anastasia Steffen is among seven students nationwide to receive $75,000
each to conduct doctoral studies and research in America's National
Parks. Steffen's research, "The Dome Fire Effects Study: An Archaeological
Investigation of Fire and Obsidian," will focus on the way heat
damage may alter current methods of dating obsidian artifacts. (11/1/00)
- The Department
of Linguistics' Signed Language Interpreting Program, one of only a
handful of such programs in the United States, has a new and improved
space in the UNM Humanities Building and a new state-of-the-art laboratory
in the UNM Language Learning Center. (9/27/00)
- Undergraduate minority
students in the biological sciences at UNM are the beneficiaries of
a five-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Institute of Health.
The Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program is designed to
identify talented students interested in research and to provide them
with the training and experience necessary to successfully enter graduate
school. (9/27/00)
- Anthropology professor
Lawrence Straus completed the fifth, two-month campaign of National
Science Foundation-sponsored excavations in El Miron Cave in northern
Spain. Among his 20 student crew were seven UNM graduate and undergraduate
students. The excavations concentrated on very rich layers dating back
to the early-Magdalenian period, about 14-16,000 years ago. (8/23/00)
- Dr. James Thorson,
English, received a Fulbright Fellowship for the 2000/2001 academic
year. This is Thorson's third Fulbright. He and Dr. Gisela Hermann-Brennecke
will exchange positions. Thorson will teach at the Martin Luther University
in Halle, Germany. (8/2/00)
School of Architecture
- The Design and
Planning Assistance Center (DPAC) of the School of Architecture and
Planning, won the Award of Distinction for the Mountain West Region
of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Dick Nordhaus, DPAC director,
says the award recognizes the impact of architecture on communities,
not something AIA usually acknowledges with awards. (10/25/00)
- Teresa Cordova,
associate professor in Community and Regional Planning, received a grant
of nearly $400,000 from the Housing and Urban Development's Hispanic-serving
Institutions Assisting Communities program. The grant allows Cordova
and the Resource Center for Raza Planning within the UNM School of Architecture
and Planning to assist with business and community planning. (10/11/00)
- The New Mexico
Board of Finance approved UNM's new Master's in Landscape Architecture
(MLA). The MLA program is headed by internationally renowned landscape
architect Alf Simon, associate professor, who comes to UNM from the
University of Manitoba. Simon and Baker Morrow, an instructor in the
program, are beginning the process to achieve formal accreditation (8/23/00)
College of Education
- College of Education
Dean Viola E. Florez has launched a campaign to create the first endowed
professorship and chair for the college. The Chester C. Travelstead
Professorship in Teacher Education honors the former dean (1956-1968)
and VP/Provost (1968-1977) for his contributions to the College and
UNM. (5/30/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May25ttravelstead.htm
- UNM'S College of
Education has received a $65,000 grant from the New Mexico State Department
of Education to assist the state in widespread efforts to improve education
and school participation for students with disabilities. The grant will
help New Mexico comply with requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act by helping teachers educate students in more inclusive
environments. (1/24/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Jan24coe.htm
- UNM's College of
Education was awarded a $1.18 million federal grant for the "Math
and Science Teacher Academy" within the college. The goal of the
Academy is to increase the capability of New Mexico's public school
teachers to deliver appropriate, high quality math and science education.
(12/20/00) http://www.unm.edu/news/news/news_releases/Dec19coe.htm
- UNM'S College of
Education has received a $109,000 grant to launch the "Intel Teach
to the Future" program, which is designed to help the state's teachers
more effectively use technology in their classrooms. It makes New Mexico
the sixth state to join the national rollout of this major effort to
support the professional development of teachers. (12/13/00) http://www.unm.edu/news/news/news_releases/intel.htm
- Academic Affairs
was awarded a $31,000 Title V Planning Grant from the U.S. Department
of Education. The grant will be used to address the needs of Hispanic
students at UNM, one of only two Carnegie I Research Institutions in
the country also ranked as Hispanic-serving. (8/2/00)
College of Fine
Arts
- The UNM Arts of
the Americas Institute of the College of Fine Arts has received a two-year
$150,000 grant from the Educational Foundation of America to develop
a new Museum Studies Program with a strong Native American component.
(3/28/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Mar28museum.htm
- UNM music professor
Bradley R. Ellingboe received an award from the American Society of
Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). The cash award is granted
by an independent panel and based upon the unique prestige value of
each writer's catalog of original compositions as well as recent performances
of those works. (9/13/00)
- The Arts Technology
Center of the UNM College of Fine Arts has teamed with UNM's Albuquerque
High Performance Computing Center to design and build a new multi-disciplinary
artists' studio. The Arts Technology Center, led by Interim Dir. Tom
Dodson, CFA dean, and Assoc. Dir. Danae Falliers, encourages creative
use of new and emerging computer technologies. (8/23/00)
Development/UNM
Foundation
- Leslie Elgood was
appointed to the position of Director of Development and President of
the UNM Foundation, Inc., effective immediately. The UNM Foundation,
Inc. is an incorporated not-for-profit organization with the responsibility
to receive, invest and distribute gifts of private support to UNM. (6/8/01)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Jun8elgood.htm
- The Crown Prince
of Spain, Felipe de Borbon y Grecia, Prince of Asturias, visited UNM
on Friday, Oct. 20, 2000, to participate in a ceremony announcing the
establishment of a new endowed chair in information science and technology
bearing his name. The $1.5 million endowment is funded by Iberdrola,
one of Spain's largest power companies. (10/18/00)
- UNM President William
Gordon says the University will identify a world class scholar to fill
the chair. The chair is unique among American universities. Two other
universities, Tufts University in Boston and Georgetown University in
Washington, D.C., have chairs in humanities that bear the name of the
Prince of Asturias; Asturias is a region in Spain. UNM is the first
endowed chair by a Spanish company in the area of information science
and technology to honor the Crown Prince. (10/18/00)
- UNM's Harwood Museum
of Art in Taos, has received an anonymous cash gift of $1 million, the
single largest cash gift ever made to the museum and the largest on
the records of the UNM Foundation, Inc. (8/30/00)
Engineering
- Engineering Research
Professor Arthur H. Guenther of UNM's Center for High Technology Materials
has been awarded the New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Award by
Governor Gary Johnson. Guenther has been influential in the promotion
of optics/photonics, not only as an academic discipline, but also for
its potential to impact economic development in New Mexico. (6/6/01)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May30guenther.htm
- Joseph L. Cecchi
has been appointed dean of the UNM School of Engineering (SOE). Cecchi
has served as chair of the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department
at UNM since 1994 and as interim dean of SOE since November 2000. (5/30/01)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May25cecchi.htm
- UNM Civil Engineering
Professor and Regents' Lecturer Timothy J. Ross has been named to the
Fulbright International Education Exchange Program for 2001-02. Ross
is one of only eight American senior scholars receiving Fulbright grants
for study in Canada next year. His project, "Safety Assessments
for the Canadian National Railroad System: A New Hybrid Approach,"
is a collaborative effort with the University of Calgary. (5/30/01)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May22fulbright.htm
- Marc Ingber, Professor
and Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, has been elected
as a Fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
This is the highest honor given by the governing body of ASME, which
consists of more than 130,000 members. Only two percent of its members
are elected as Fellows. (5/23/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May22Ingber.htm
- Sang M. Han, assistant
professor in Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, has received a National
Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grant for a research
project titled, "In Situ, Real Time Monitoring of Interfacial Phenomena."
Han's research will focus on growing light emitting semiconductors,
developing faster microprocessors and prolonging the lifetime of microelectromechanical
systems. (4/18/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Apr18nsfcareer.htm
- The Applied Electromagnetics
Group at UNM's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering was
awarded a five-year, $5 million Multidisciplinary University Research
Initiative grant from the Department of Defense. Edl Schamiloglu, Gardner-Zemke
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is the principal investigator
for the grant, titled, "Basic Research Leading to Compact, Portable
Pulsed Power." (3/21/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Mar15muri.htm
- The UNM Engineering
Alumni Association Board honored six alumni at the Third Annual Distinguished
Engineering Alumni Awards ceremony. This year's honorees are Nasir Ahmed,
Kenneth Donald Hansen, Bijay Rajbajhbhandry, Randy Velarde, James Ernest
Warne Jr. and K. Dane Wittrup. (3/7/01)
http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Feb28engr.htm
- UNM School of Engineering
professors David A. Bader and Hy D. Tran received the National Science
Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Awards. Bader,
an assistant professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been
awarded the grant in High-Performance Algorithms for Scientific Applications.
Tran, an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering, received his
in micro-electro-mechanical systems. (2/21/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Feb20nsf.htm
- The Electrical
and Computer Engineering Department was accepted as a member of the
"Global Wireless Education Consortium" designed to increase
the quality and quantity of students in the wireless and information
technology field. Members of the consortium include Lucent, Ericsson,
Motorola, Vodafone, Verizon, AT&T Wireless, Nortel Networks, Telcordia
Technologies, Raytheon and Agilent Technologies. (2/7/01)
- The UNM Institute
for Space and Nuclear Power Studies received a three-year, $1,006,673
grant from NASA's Cross-Enterprise Technology Development Program. The
goal of the project, spearheaded by Regent's Professor of Chemical and
Nuclear Engineering Mohamed Shafik El-Genk, is to develop and design
a high efficiency radioisotope power system for future NASA planetary
exploration missions. (11/29/00) http://www.unm.edu/news/news/news_releases/Nov27nasa.htm
- UNM will be the
state's lead institution in a new fellowship program called New Mexico
One. The program links universities in an effort to increase diversity
in the fields of nuclear engineering and nuclear science. The multi-year
program, which will link UNM and New Mexico State, is one of three nationwide.
(11/22/00)
- The Autonomous
Control Engineering Program at UNM was awarded a five-year, $5 million
grant from NASA. The grant will be used to promote minority education
and work on cutting-edge technology. (10/25/00)
- Joseph Cecchi was
appointed interim dean at the UNM School of Engineering. He will serve
as interim dean while a national search is conducted to fill the position
vacated by current dean, Paul Fleury, who leaves UNM in mid-November
to assume a similar position at Yale University. Cecchi has served as
chair of the UNM Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department since 1994.
(10/3/00)
- Engineering professors
Bernard Moret and David Bader received an estimated $452,051, three-year
award from the National Science Foundation's Information Technology
Research (ITR) program. The continuing project, "Algorithms for
Irregular Discrete Computations on Symmetric Multiprocessors" and
other collateral activity with biology, are influential in leveraging
all the facets of high performance computing at UNM. (9/27/00)
- IBM announced the
opening of the industry's first Linux supercluster briefing center for
customers developing scalable applications on Linux systems. The briefing
center will be based at UNM's Albuquerque High Performance Computing
Center (AHPCC), and complements the existing briefing facility at the
Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC). The new briefing center
will assist customers in planning their Linux and Linux clusters plans
with IBM, and allow them to benchmark and "test-drive" key
applications. (9/13/00)
- Electrical engineering
(EE) graduate student Balaji Srinivasan, Center for High Technology
Materials, is one of five $20,000 winners in the Collegiate Inventors
Competition, designed to encourage students in math, science, engineering,
technology and creative invention while stimulating problem solving
skills. Additionally, EE Professor Ravinder Jain, who works with Srinivasan,
will receive a $10,000 award. (8/23/00)
- The Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office has
awarded $7.123 million to the Center for High Technology Materials.
UNM serves as the lead institution for the four-year multi-university
partnership project, "High-Capacity Optoelectronic Interconnects."
(7/19/00)
Health Sciences
Center
- Children's Hospital
of New Mexico, a component of the UNM Health Sciences Center, took part
in the annual Children's Miracle Network Telethon last weekend. The
telethon was a huge success and logged in more than $1.35 million in
donations - all of which stays here to help the children and families
of New Mexico. The single largest donation was $500,000 from the UNM
Hospital Service League. (6/6/01)
- Jesse Summers,
professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at
the UNM School of Medicine, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Members are chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing
achievements in original research. Election to the Academy is considered
one of the highest honors given to a scientist. (5/16/01)
- The UNM Health
Sciences Center honored several nurses during National Nurses' Week.
Six nurses were presented with Outstanding Nurse Awards including Brenda
Sanchez, Intermediate Care Nursery; Suzanne Sperry, Pediatric Subacute;
Cynthia Martinez, Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit; Carla Rodriguez,
General Pediatric Unit; Lois Ames, RN Resident, and Julie Makatura,
Women's Care Unit. (5/16/01)
- The UNM Center
for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention launched the first statewide
tobacco project directory. Approximately 170 organizations conducting
tobacco use prevention, cessation, advocacy and other tobacco-related
projects are now available on-line. (4/18/01)
- The National Institute
of Nursing Research awarded a $150,000 grant to Dr. Roberta Rehm, assistant
professor at the UNM College of Nursing, to fund a study about how families,
schools and medical services coordinate efforts to make it possible
for medically fragile children to attend school. (4/11/01)
- U.S. News &
World Report ranked the UNM College of Nursing Graduate Program among
the top 10 percent in the U.S. The ranking is part of the magazine's
2002 "Best Graduate Schools" issue. (4/11/01)
- The American Cancer
Society has awarded a three-year, $247,500 Institutional Research grant
to support cancer research by young faculty in all UNM schools and colleges.
The renewal of the grant will bring 10 years of continuous funding and
more than $700,000 to UNM's cancer research programs. (4/4/01)
- UNM's College of
Nursing received the Regional Educational Technology Award from Sigma
Theta Tau International, the honor society of nursing. The college was
selected for its outstanding use of a computer for student learning.
The organization presented the award to Dr. Roberta Rehm at a recent
conference in San Francisco. (3/28/01)
- Carolyn Montoya,
director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at the UNM College
of Nursing, was selected for a six-month Public Health Service Fellowship
with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (3/7/01)
- The UNM School
of Medicine, ranked among the nation's best medical schools and recognized
for its progressive, high-quality education, clinical care, biomedical
research programs and community outreach, is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
(2/21/01)
- The UNM Health
Sciences Center received an $825,000 award from the American Legacy
Foundation to implement new and innovative tobacco cessation programs.
This award is one of 13 conferred as part of the cooperative American
Legacy Foundation's Tobacco Use Cessation and Prevention Initiative
and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation's Community Voices Initiative. (2/7/01)
- Five radiology
residents in UNM's School of Medicine (SOM), including Kathryn Bossolt,
Cecilia Coutsias, John DeLacey, Greg Kenyherz and Patrick O'Brien, passed
the American Board of Radiology clinical written exams with the highest
scores in the nation. It marked the third time in the past 12 years
that SOM students have topped the ABR clinical exam. There are 212 radiology
programs in the U.S. (1/24/01)
- Robert Glew, professor
in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UNM School
of Medicine, was recently awarded the Paul Brindley Distinguished Professorship
in Pathology by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
The professorship recognizes academic excellence in the study of pathology.
(1/24/01)
- UNM'S School of
Medicine (SOM) was awarded a $921,000 federal grant recently to rapidly
identify possible victims of harmful new diseases. The grant will fund
an Emerging Infectious Diseases Center at the SOM and will increase
collaboration with Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories and the
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in the field of emerging diseases.
(1/3/01)
- Melanie A. Dodd
has been named the New Mexico Society of Health-System Pharmacists Pharmacist
of the Year. Dodd is a research assistant professor at the College of
Pharmacy and serves as the clinical pharmacist for the New Mexico Medicaid
Retrospective Drug Utilization Review Program. (1/3/01)
- Bernalillo county
voters approved a new mil levy that provides money for the operation
of UNM Hospital and the Mental Health Center in the November general
election. The approval of the levy at 6.5 mils will help offset rising
healthcare costs and increased cutbacks from Medicare, Medicaid and
HMO's. (11/8/00)
- Two UNM School
of Medicine faculty members received prestigious honors. Dr. Victor
Strasburger, professor of pediatrics and family medicine, will receive
the Adele Delenbaugh Hofmann Award and the Holroyd-Sherry Award from
the American Academy of Pediatrics. The New Mexico Chapter of the American
Academy of Family Physicians named Dr. Arthur Kaufman, professor and
chair of Family and Community Medicine, as the Family Physician of the
Year at its annual seminar. (10/18/00)
- The UNM Health
Sciences Center received a one-year grant for $894,956 from the Office
for Advancement of Telehealth, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
and Health Resources & Services Administration. The grant is for
PROJECT TOUCH (Telehealth Outreach for Unified Community Health), a
collaboration between UNM and the University of Hawaii. The goal of
the project is to demonstrate the feasibility of employing advanced
computing methods to enhance education in a problem-based learning format
currently used in a medical school curriculum, applying a specific clinical
case (brain-injury) as a model, and deploying to remote sites / workstations.
(9/20/00)
- Scientists in the
UNM School of Medicine's Infectious Diseases and Inflammation Program
have developed the first test for the effects of the Sin Nombre hantavirus
in living animals. The Sin Nombre virus is the agent responsible for
hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in humans, a disease that causes
death in about 40 percent of its victims. (9/20/00)
- The UNM College
of Nursing received a $306,495 grant from the National Institute of
Health and the National Institute for Nursing Research in a collaborative
contract award with Boston College that will measure the effects of
teasing in 11-14 year olds from multi-cultured backgrounds in Albuquerque
and Baltimore, Md. Dr. Karen Carlson, professor and associate dean for
Academic Affairs, is the principal investigator for UNM. Other UNM faculty
involved include Joan Bradley, Carolyn Montoya, and Dr. Ken Miller,
professor and associate dean for research and clinical scholarship.
(9/13/00)
Interdisciplinary
- A $676,100 grant
from the New Mexico Commission on Higher Education will help UNM extend
instructional programs beyond main campus to anywhere a student has
Internet access with its new Internet Instructional Pilot Project, a
Web-based education program. (5/9/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May8cirt.htm
- UNM, Albuquerque
Technical-Vocational Institute and Albuquerque Public Schools are joining
together with students, parents and businesses to help increase the
number of Hispanic students earning high school and college degrees
through a four-year, $2.3 million initiative from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
(5/9/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May8enlace.htm
- KUNM was recently
named radio station of the year by The New Mexico Press Association.
KUNM also received several other awards, including first for general
news and documentary. KUNM is a National Public Radio (NPR) station.
(5/2/01)
- UNM honored three
recipients with awards for outstanding contributions to international
education and programs on the UNM campus. The recipients are professor
Peter Pabisch, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; Lawrence
Carreon, physician assistant at the Student Health Center; and Alyssa
Cymene Mathilde Howe, doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology.
(4/25/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Apr20awards.htm
- Three individuals
with UNM ties received Bravos 2001 awards including faculty member Eva
Encinias-Sandoval, who received an award for Excellence in Dance; Professor
Emeritus Rudolfo Anaya was honored with the award for Excellence in
Literary Arts; and Tom Dodson, College of Fine Arts dean, received the
President's Award for Lifetime Excellence in the Arts. (4/25/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Apr24brazos.htm
- UNM'S Tamarind
Institute received a $50,000 grant from the Trust of Mutual Understanding
in New York to conduct lectures and workshops in Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo,
Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. Artists from each of the regions will
also participate in a month-long residency at Tamarind next summer.
(4/18/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Apr12tam.htm
- UNM student John
Probasco, a junior majoring in biochemistry, was one of 80 students
nationwide named as a 2001 Truman Scholar. The prestigious scholarship
carries a $30,000 award. (4/11/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Apr11truman.htm
- U.S. News and World
Report ranked several UNM programs among the best in the nation its
annual rankings of the Best Graduate Schools. UNM's rural medicine program
is ranked second, the primary care curriculum is third and the family
medicine program is sixth. The clinical law training program is ranked
seventh, the School of Engineering tied for 48th and the School of Law
was ranked among the top-100. (3/30/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Mar30usnews.htm
- A new UNM Women's
Resource Center scholarship campaign will help single mothers who attend
UNM complete or begin a degree. The center is seeking funds to provide
two $500 scholarships per semester beginning this fall. (3/28/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Mar28singlemom.htm
- The recipients
of the 2001 Clauve Outstanding Senior Award at UNM are Kanika Chawla,
Shanti Frausto, Irvin Harrison, Jennifer Ca-fen Liu and Barbara Tapp.
The students will be honored at a recognition reception. (3/28/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Mar27clauve.htm
- UNM is ranked eighth
in Hispanic Magazine's top 25 Colleges and Universities for Hispanics
March, 2001 issue. The issue lists institutions that are succeeding
in recruiting and retaining Hispanic students. (3/21/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/Mar16ranking.htm
- The National Educational
Telecommunications Association (NETA) honored KNME-TV producer Cindy
Gaillard for her documentary "Gustave Baumann: Hands of a Craftsman,
Heart of an Artist." The program, originally broadcast last winter,
won second place in the documentary/biography category at NETA's annual
program competition held in Savannah, Ga. (1/24/01)
- For the fifth consecutive
year, UNM was recognized in the annual report for America's 100 Best
College Buys designating the school as one of America's best colleges
based on tuition cost. (11/22/00)
- The "Con Sentimiento
Desde Nuevo Mexico" exhibit opened at the Museo de America in Madrid,
Spain and was on display through mid-November, 2000. The exhibit was
originally conceived in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month. It
featured three exhibits created by UNM faculty and staff including MariLyn
Salvador, "Cuando Hablan Los Santos"; Miguel Gandert and Enrique
Lamadrid, "Pilgrimage to Chimayo"; and Jim Jacob, Caminos
y Corazones." (10/3/00)
- Three UNM Press
books took first place at the Latino Literary Hall of Fame Second Annual
Book Awards in Chicago, IL. "CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse"
by Juan Felipe Herrera was number one in the Best Poetry category. "Capirotada:
A Nogales Memoir," by Alberto Alvaro Rios took Best Biography and
"Sor Juana's Second Dream: A Novel" by Alicia Gaspar de Alba,
was named Best Historical Fiction Novel. (7/5/00)
Library
- The UNM General
Library has received a $400,000 commitment from the Ford Motor Co. to
help fund the Information Commons in Zimmerman Library. (5/9/01) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/May7ford.htm
- Money for journals
became available through the Regents Challenge Grant, a three-year commitment
to raise money specifically for journal purchases for the library. The
library raised the necessary $200,000 by June 30 to qualify to receive
$100,000 in matching funds from the Regents. Intel, Ford, Pepsi, alumni
and others helped raise the $200,000. (8/16/00)
From July 1, 2000
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