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UNM Accomplishments
by Department
(January 1 - March 19, 2007)
• Administration • Anderson Schools of Management • School of Architecture and Planning • College of Arts and Sciences • College of Education • School of Engineering • College of Fine Arts • Health Sciences • School of Law • School of Public Administration • Staff • Students • University College • Interdisciplinary/Miscellaneous •
Administration
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Service To Honor UNM's 1st Provost
Chester C. Travelstead, the University of New Mexico's
first provost, was remembered during a memorial
service on campus.
Travelstead died of natural causes Dec. 27, 2006. He was 95.
The service and reception honoring Travelstead took
place in the UNM Student Union Building.
Travelstead began his 21-year career at UNM in 1956 as the
dean of the College of Education. He became the school's
vice president for academic affairs in 1968 and then was
named provost in 1976. He retired a year later. (3.2.07)
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The University of New Mexico Board of Regents named David J. Schmidly UNM President with a unanimous vote. Mr.Schmidly is the 20th president of the university. The announcement was made at a special meeting of the regents on the main UNM campus in Albuquerque. (2.17.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001731.html
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Duane Arruti was named associate vice president for Human Resources at the University of New Mexico. He will be responsible for providing strategic leadership, integration and coordination of the Human Resources information technology and finance functions as of Feb. 1 st. (1.11.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001636.html#more
Anderson Schools of Management
School of Architecture and Planning
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Various aspects of Albuquerque’s history, from the development of its metropolitan area to community activism in Martineztown, were articles in the New Mexico Historical Review's Winter 2007 issue, a must-read for Albuquerqueans. Stephen Wheeler, formerly of the School of Architecture and Planning, teamed up with Wade Patterson on the lead article, "The Rise of the Regional City: Spatial Development of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area." (2.8.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001698.html#more
College of Arts and Sciences
- Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" was presented in dramatic
fashion on February 12 by Bruce Noll, a faculty member in the Educational Leadership
Program, who also teaches in the Freshman Learning Communities. The event was a benefit for the Communication and Journalism
graduate student organization, "Commgrads." (2.13.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001700.html#more
- Sixteen student teams from New Mexico and Colorado showed
their proposals for a Mars mobile laboratory in the 19th Annual Space
Design Competition at the Hotel Albuquerque on Monday, February 12. The competition was just one element of the 2007 Space
Technology and Applications International Forum, organized by UNM's
Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies. The 2007 theme was
"Space Renaissance: Inspiring the Next Generation." (2.8.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001688.html#more
- Kirsten Pai Buick received the University Libraries Faculty Acknowledgement Award. Buick is an assistant professor of Art History and the associate director of African American Studies at UNM. As part of the event, Buick will deliver a talk titled "Writing the Woman Artist: Mary Edmonia Lewis." (1.11.07) http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001639.html#more
College of Education
School of Engineering
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Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Julie Coonrod, received a faculty acknowledgement award from University Libraries on Thursday, February 15 in the Willard Room of Zimmerman Library. As part of the
event Coonrod presented a short talk on "The Rio Grande, a River of
Contrasts." The Middle Rio Grande, a strip of oasis in the desert, is
the subject of ecosystem restoration, water supply and flood control. (2.16.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001689.html#more
College of Fine Arts
- Muralist Joe Stephenson presented "Making Murals/Making Community" on
Tuesday, February 13 in the UNM Art Museum. Stephenson gave
a visual tour of community murals he has worked on that span a 25-year career starting in Berkeley, California in the early 1970s. (2.14.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001709.html#more
- UNM became the most recent member of the Imageworks Professional
Academic Excellence program, called IPAX. The announcement was made at the New Mexico MISP (Media Industries Strategy Project) Conference at UNM on
Friday, February 2 nd. The IPAX membership will support the interdisciplinary Film and
Digital Media Program that is being developed at UNM. Other
noted academic IPAX members include USC, Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon, and
MIT. However, UNM has the only membership given to an entire university. (2.8.07) http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001692.html#more
- The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology celebrates 75 years in 2007. The
Directors Lecture kicked off the yearlong celebration on Thursday,
February 8, with "The Search for Sir John Franklin," presented by John Martin "Jack" Campbell, Maxwell director from 1969-1972. (2.5.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001676.html#more
Health Sciences
- University of New Mexico Doctor Honored for Work at
Young Children's Health Center in Albuquerque
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) honored
University of New Mexico pediatrician Lance Chilton, MD,
FAAP, for his work with the Young Children's Health Center
(YCHC) in Albuquerque, N.M. Dr. Chilton's work grew out of
an AAP CATCH Planning Fund grant. Awarded on a competitive
basis each year, CATCH (Community Access to Child Health)
is a national AAP program designed to increase access and
improve the quality of medical care for children across
the United States. (3.8.07)
http://digital50.com/news/items/PR/2007/03/07/NYW104/university-of-new-mexico-doctor-honored-for-work-at-young-childrens-health-center-in.html
- Health care coordinator Betty Jo Ciesielski and author
Sharon Oard Warner took center court Feb. 10 at half time
at University Arena to receive the University of New
Mexico's Sarah Belle Brown Community Service Award.
Former Regent Doug Brown established the award in 2006 in
honor of his wife, Sarah, a public servant for 30 years,
and to honor UNM staff and faculty who serve as examples
of social responsiveness, and who donate considerable time
and effort advancing UNM's public service mission.
The Browns joined acting president David Harris in
congratulating the second-annual recipients. Harris
presented Ciesielski and Warner each with a plaque
featuring artwork by local children and $2,500.
Ciesielski is a coordinator in the UNM Maternity and
Family Planning Department. She developed health policy at
the national level, secured funding and created education
and accreditation for lay health workers. She coordinated
training for New Mexico community health workers reaching
20,000 patients in 2006 to provide education on diabetes,
the flu epidemic, mental health, teen suicide prevention,
heart disease and more.
Warner, a book author, has been an English professor at
UNM for 12 years. In 1999, she established the Taos Summer
Writers Workshop, attracting writers from 34 states and
four foreign countries. She was chief organizer of the
Albuquerque Tricentennial Matanza in honor of Rudolfo
Anaya and is a volunteer teacher at New Futures High
School. In her nomination of Warner, author Joy Harjo
writes, "(Sharon) has opened many doors for New Mexicans,
particularly in the writing community." (3.4.07)
- Albuquerque high school students literally learned
something about broken hearts when UNM students and professors met with them on Wednesday, February 14 to talk about tissue engineering. About 100 AHS
students attended this special UNM Bioengineering Outreach
program to interest minority students in engineering. (2.8.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001695.html#more
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Senior Vice President John Lumpkin joined with Acting UNM President David Harris and other university leaders today to announce the establishment of a national center for health policy at the University of New Mexico. Started with an initial commitment of $18.5 million, the interdisciplinary center willhave dedicated leadership and staffing as well as its own physical location on UNM's main campus. (1.11.07) http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001638.html#more
- School of Medicine faculty member Brian Gregory Solan was selected as a finalist for the 2006 Association of American Medical Colleges Humanism in Medicine Award, presented by the AAMC through the support of the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative. Solan is currently an assistant professor in the department of Family & Community Medicine. He is one of 52 honorees from across the nation nominated by the Organization of Student Representatives chapter of each U.S.medical school. (1.11.07) http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release&EntryID=5584
School of Law
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On Monday, February 12, School of Law Professor Sherri Burr's “Arts Talk” on Channel 27 featured an interview with author Melody Groves, and was co-hosted by UNM law student Lee Gentry. (2.13.07) http://lawschool.unm.edu/announcements/arts-talk/index.php
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Todd Larson presented "An Introduction to the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) - its History, Mandate, Status as a United Nations Entity and Current Areas of Focus" at the UNM School of Law
on Monday, February 12. Larson is the senior counselor at the New York Coordination Office of the World Intellectual Property Organization. Based at United Nations headquarters, Larson undertakes extensive outreach throughout North America on behalf of the WIPO. (2.5.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001686.html#more
School of Public Administration
Staff
Students
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UNM Women's Basketball: Lobos win MWC tourney and bid
to NCAAs with 63-49 victory over BYU Marsh lead Lobos with 20 points, earns MVP honors
BYU made one big mistake.
The Cougars upset Lobos forward Dionne Marsh, unwittingly
inspiring one of her top performances of the season.
Marsh scored 20 points, leading the University of New
Mexico women's basketball team to a 63-49 win over BYU and
the Mountain West Conference tournament title.
With the championship, UNM also earns the conference's
automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. It will be the
Lobos' sixth consecutive appearance in the NCAAs. (3.11.07)
http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/mar/10/unm-womens-basketball-lobos-win-mwc-tourney-and-bi/
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Service To Honor UNM's 1st Provost
Chester C. Travelstead, the University of New Mexico's
first provost, was remembered during a memorial
service on campus.
Travelstead died of natural causes Dec. 27, 2006. He was 95.
The service and reception honoring Travelstead took
place in the UNM Student Union Building.
Travelstead began his 21-year career at UNM in 1956 as the
dean of the College of Education. He became the school's
vice president for academic affairs in 1968 and then was
named provost in 1976. He retired a year later. (3.2.07)
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Graduate student Lisa Gill recently received one of the nation's top awards for poets - the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry. She was one of 50 selected from a pool of 1,056 applications to receive this two-year, $20,000 fellowship. She was chosen based on poems from her first book, "Red as a Lotus." (1.11.07) http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgibin/archives/001634.html#more
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The winners of the L.F. "Tow" Diehm Inspirational Award for 2005-06 were Chris Carlson and Lars Loeseth, while Maja Kovacek was the recipient of the Leslie Self Inspirational Award. Started in 1997-98, the awards are presented annually to University of New Mexico male and female student-athletes based on leadership, character, determination and commitment to team. (1.11.07) http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001643.html#more
University College
Interdisciplinary/Miscellaneous
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State Archives develops online archive
Wyoming is participating in the creation of the Rocky
Mountain Online Archive.
The Rocky Mountain Online Archive is an extensive source
of information where more than two thousand archival and special collections from
cultural institutions in Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming
are described. Joining in the project are the Wyoming
State Archives, the University of Wyoming, University of New
Mexico Libraries and the Colorado Collaborative
Digitization Project. The Rocky Mountain Online Archive is
available to the public at http://rmoa.unm.edu. (3.5.07)
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Sen. John Pinto, a member of the Navajo Nation, was
honored for his 30 years of service in the Legislature.
On Wednesday, Feb 28, senators applauded the Tohatchi Democrat for
his work on a range of issues, including obtaining
financing to improve the road system and other
infrastructure on tribal lands.
Pinto is second in seniority in the Senate. Each session
of the Legislature, he sings the "potato song" in Navajo
for lawmakers.
Pinto, 82, has a master's degree in education from the
University of New Mexico and worked more than 20 years in
the Gallup-McKinley school district. He served in the
Marines during World War II and was trained as a Navajo
Code Talker. The war ended before he was shipped overseas.
Pinto told senators that after being elected, he was
hitchhiking to Santa Fe and got a ride from a man who
turned out to be Sen. Manny Aragon, an Albuquerque
Democrat. (3.2.07)
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Michael Morris and Sally Seidel were 2006-07 Fulbright recipients.
Morris, a research professor and director of the College of Education
Office for Community Learning and Public Service, received a New
Century Scholars award, the Fulbright's global program where scholars look at large issues impacting education and/or health for a year in a cohort
group. Seidel, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, lectured and conducted research on "Mapping and Research: Mapping the Strong Potential, The Subatomic Frontier," at Lund University, Lund, Sweden. (2.8.07) http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001693.html#more
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The UNM Alumni Association bestowed its four annual major awards
to outstanding alumni and faculty on Thursday, February 8, at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town. This year's recipients included Judith Rogala,
James F. Zimmerman Award; Warren J. Baker, Rodey Award; Jim Hinton, Erna S. Fergusson Award; and Leslie Donovan, UNM Alumni Association Faculty
Award. (2.8.07) http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001691.html#more
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The UNM Teachers' Institute offered a multi-disciplinary series
of workshops on climate change. The institute drew upon expertise
across the academic spectrum to educate and inform teachers about a topic of broad community and global interest, said Wanda Martin, associate
professor of English and a founding director of the institute. (2.8.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001682.html#more
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The Sarah Belle Brown Community Service Award was presented at a
reception Saturday, February 10 in the Tow Diehm President's
Pavilion. The award recognized UNM faculty and staff who dedicated substantial time to volunteer activities and demonstrated a high level of commitment to public
service. (2.8.07)
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UNM Warm Weather concerts organized by a member of the Staff
Council's Work + Life Committee have become a mainstay on the UNM campus. In
January, the full council voted to honor the concerts' founder, titling the events the "Greg Johnston Summer Concerts." (2.5.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001684.html#more
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UNM Career Services hosted the largest career fair in state
history, "Career Expo 2007," on Tuesday, February 6 in the Student Union Building ballroom. More than 110 local and national
employers had exhibits. Representatives from state and federal
agencies, television media, homebuilders, bankers and business
organizations were there to share information about employment opportunities. (2.5.07)
http://www.unm.edu/~market/cgi-bin/archives/001674.html#more
Last updated March 19, 2007
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