 Sandoval-Strausz’s Book on History of Hotels Wins National Award
Associate Professor of History Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz is the winner of the 2008 American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch Book Award for his book Hotel: An American History, Yale University Press, 2007.
The prize is awarded for the best first book in any field or period of history by a scholar living in the United States west of the Mississippi River or in the provinces of Canada west of Ontario.  [More] |
Sterling Van Deren Coke, Unit IT Support Manager wins 2008 Arts & Sciences Dean's Award.
As everyone knows Sterling works between the Department of Mathematics & Statistics and The College of Arts & Sciences designing and keeping up with the ever changing information on the web sites. Sterling was presented this generous award yesterday afternoon by Dean Brenda Claiborne at the 2008 Staff development luncheon. Keep up the good work Sterling.
The other winners included Shirley Ray Lovato from Communication & Journalism, she was presented the Chair award, Karen Majors from Sociology was presented the DA award and the staff development committee also presented a special lunch to the English Dept staff whom was nominated by their DA. Three special thank you awards were presented to Vicki Hall, Florence Gonzales and Barbara Busch.
Lots of other nice door prizes were also given away to all the staff that joined us.
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Professor Jesse Alemán speaks at the panel on “Redefining National Literatures in the Americas |
Department of English co-hosted Summer Seminar West
During June 23-26, the UNM Department of English co-hosted the annual Summer Seminar West of the Association of Departments of English (ADE) at La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe.
Along with co-hosts Arizona State University, UNM and ADE played host to 120 English chairs and graduate directors from across the country.
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| The panelists on “Redefining National Literatures in the Americas”: (L-R) Jesse Alemán (UNM), Elizabeth Archuleta (Arizona State), and Robert Schwartzwald (Université de Montréal) |
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The four days of the conference included panels, plenary addresses, and breakout sessions. Gerald Graff, President of the Modern Language Association, spoke on “Involving Students in Critical Conversations.”
Reed Way Dasenbrock, former UNM Provost and N.M. Secretary of Higher Education, gave a dinner address outlining various crises in higher education locally and nationally.
Panels addressed the situation of non-tenure-track faculty and outcomes assessment. And workshop discussions covered such topics of interest to administrators as “Running Effective Department Meetings” and “Troubled and Troubling Faculty Members.”
Local faculty making appearances included Professor Gary Harrison, who co-hosted the workshop for Directors of Graduate Study and ran a discussion group on how to prepare graduate students for the job market; and both former Assistant Professor Elizabeth Archuleta (now of ASU) and Associate Professor Jesse Alemán, who took part in a plenary panel on “Redefining National Literatures in the Americas.
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UNM Promotes Three A&S Faculty Members to Rank of Distinguished Professor
Patricia Crown, professor, Anthropology
Barbara McCrady, professor, Psychology
Gerald Vizenor, professor, American Studies
Distinguished professors are individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievements and are nationally and internationally renowned as scholars.
Interim Provost Viola Florez said, “The rank of Distinguished Professor is the highest faculty rank at the university. It is reserved for a very small number of individuals who have made major scholarly contributions to their fields.
This year we had a very strong group of nominees, and we are proud of the accomplishments of each of them. The new awardees join a very select group of our faculty.” [More]
For a complete list of UNM’s Distinguished Professors, visit: DistinguishedProfessors
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Professor Philip Ganderton appointed as Interim Associate Dean for Research
I am pleased to announce that Professor Philip Ganderton has been appointed as Interim Associate Dean for Research. As you may know, Phil has served as Chair of the Department of Economics and is a dedicated member of the faculty. We look forward to his valuable contributions as we move into the next academic year.
In addition to his new duties as Interim Associate Dean, he will continue to fulfill his responsibilities as Director of the BA/MD program. Please stop by the Dean’s office and welcome Phil to the group.
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Professor Sherman Wilcox appointed as Interim Associate Dean for Instruction and Curriculum
Dean Brenda Claiborne has appointed Professor Sherman Wilcox as Interim Associate Dean for Instruction and Curriculum for 2008-09. Dr. Wilcox is formerly chair of the Department of Linguistics. The author of several books and articles, Wilcox has lectured and taught extensively on signed languages, gesture, and the evolution of language in Brazil, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
His scholarly research focuses on the gesture-language interface. Professor Wilcox serves on the editorial board of several international journals, including Gesture, Signed Language Studies, and Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics. |
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 CNM, UNM Sign Transfer Agreement
Photo: Susan Murphy, left, CNM vice president for Academic Affairs; and Brenda Claiborne, dean, UNM College of Arts and Sciences, sign copies of a transfer agreement that will help students transition seamlessly from CNM into UNM's College of Arts and Sciences.
Representatives of the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College signed a transfer agreement today that allows CNM students who earn an associate degree in liberal arts to transfer into UNM’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Students will be able to apply credits and courses from CNM directly toward graduation requirements in the UNM College of Arts and Sciences. For CNM students who follow the course and credit requirements, they can enter the UNM college as juniors. [More]
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