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UNM Accomplishments
(July 1, 2001 - August 23, 2002)
Administration
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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
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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
Anderson
Schools of Management
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
School
of Architecture and Planning
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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
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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) http://www.unm.edu/news/Releases/July19berry.htm
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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
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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
Development/UNM
Foundation
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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