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 Dr. Sherri Burr to give the Math & Stat departmental convocation address May 15th
Dr. Sherri L. Burr is our featured guest speaker at this year’s Spring 2009 convocation ceremony for the department of Mathematics and Statistics. Dr. Burr, a Yale Law School graduate, is currently a professor at the UNM law school where she teaches courses in international law, intellectual property law, art law, entertainment law, and wills and trust. She also serves as Acting Director of the Africana Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences here at UNM.
Dr. Burr is an internationally renowned lecturer who has spoken at universities throughout the world including Barbados, Canada, Chile, France, Greece, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and South Africa. Within the United States, she has lectured at various universities including Yale, New York University, University of Iowa, and UNM.
Dr. Burr has a wide range of accomplishments including that of producing and hosting a weekly television show called ARTS TALK that runs on Thursdays from 10:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Channel 27 here in Albuquerque, NM. She has written many books and numerous scholarly articles in the area of intellectual property, art law, and international law that have been published in journals in the United States, Spain, Japan, and the United Kingdom. She is a former weekly columnist for the Albuquerque Tribune and currently writes the "Minding Finances for Writers" column for the Southwest Sage. |
 State Historian's Heritage Preservation Recognition to be Awarded to the Pasó Por Aquí Series of UNM Press [UNM Press Web Site]
State Historian's Award for Excellence in Heritage Scholarship to be Given on Saturday, May 2nd Santa Fe, NM- May 1, 2009
On Saturday, May 2, 2009 the Cultural Properties Review Committee (CPRC) will host its annual Heritage Preservation Award Ceremony recognizing the outstanding achievements made by organizations and individuals statewide for their work in heritage preservation.
Twelve awards will be given on this day and among them, the State Historian's Award for Excellence in Heritage Scholarship.
This award recognizes outstanding achievement in New Mexico heritage scholarship that resulted from original research that provided new and important insights into the state's heritage in archaeology, history, architectural history, or cultural history. The 2009 State Historian's Award will be given to the Pasó Por Aquí Series of UNM Press. [More] |
 ‘Vision and Visionaries’ Focus of 24th UNM Medieval Studies Lecture Series
The University of New Mexico’s Institute for Medieval Studies hosts its 24th Spring Lecture Series, April 27-30. This year’s series includes six lectures and a concert around the theme Vision and Visionaries in the Middle Ages.”
The final lecture incorporates a performance with actors and a choir. All sessions will take place in Woodward Hall Room 101 on the UNM main campus.
The lecture series, supported by a grant from the New Mexico Humanities Council, is free and open to the public. [More] |
| Zandbergen Chosen as University Libraries' Faculty Acknowledgement Award
Associate Professor of Geography Paul Zandbergen will be honored as a recipient of the University Libraries Faculty Acknowledgement Award on April 29 at 2 p.m. in the Willard Room in Zimmerman Library. He will present a lecture, "Everybody is Watching Everybody: Privacy Implication of Geospatial Technologies." [More] |
College of Arts & Sciences 2009 Award for Teaching Excellence.
The award is given competitively to College faculty members and graduate teaching assistants who have made contributions to the College's instructional mission. Faculty nominees, who receive $2000, are evaluated on the basis of the breadth and the quality of their instructional contributions with preference given to those who have demonstrated instructional excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, through both classroom instruction and supervision of student research, and who have integrated their research and scholarship into their teaching.
Graduate students, who receive $1500, are evaluated primarily on the quality of their undergraduate teaching and the strength of their contributions to their department's instructional mission. [More]
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This year's winners are
Faculty:
Margaret Connell-Szasz, Professor of History
Mary Domski, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Graduate Students:
Jennifer Richter, American Studies
Leigh Johnson, English.
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 University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of Biology Eric Charnov Honored as Fellow in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of Biology Eric Charnov has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Professor Charnov's research combines ideas from ecology, economics, and evolution to understand the life history, reproductive, and foraging decisions of plants and animals, including humans.
For the past 30 years Charnov has been a world scientific leader, and his ideas have produced many of the most cited publications in evolutionary ecology. More... |
 Hibben Senior Scholars Honored
When Anthropologist Frank Hibben set up a trust to fund scholars in the UNM Department of Anthropology before he died in 2002, he wanted to find a way students who intended to pursue graduate degrees in Southwestern Archaeology, Anthropology and culture could be reimbursed for living expenses as they learned.
The trust has donated $1.5 million to the Anthropology Department over the last five years as dozens of anthropology students have used the scholarships to complete their degrees. More... |
 Borderlands Lecture Features UNM’s Sarah Cornel
The fourth and final lecture in the 2009 Borderlands Lecture Series features Sarah Cornell, UNM assistant professor of history, presenting “From Borderlands to Transnational History: Race, Slavery, and Freedom in the U.S. South and Mexico, 1810-1910,”
Thursday, April 30, at 3 p.m., in the UNM Student Union Building, Santa Ana A and B. More...
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Goldwater Scholars: This scholarship encourages outstanding students to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
Congratulating are due our UNM students who were recently named as Goldwater Scholars - Jessica Martin, a senior pursuing her B.S. in Biology, and Anna Vestling, also a senior pursuing a B.S. in Biochemistry. Junior Abdullah Feroze, working on a B.S. in Biology, received an honorable mention in the tough national competition for this scholarship.
We’re proud of you all for showing the nation once again that UNM students stand with the best and brightest. |
 UNM Anthropologist Keith Prufer and Students Research Mayan Mystery in Beliz
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Keith Prufer has to carefully schedule his spring workload so he can get to Belize and complete preparations for his excavations in Uxbenká, the remains of a small city in one of the most rural areas in the country.
UNM graduate and undergraduate students and students from four other participating universities will join him at the end of spring semester. [More] |
 Goodman Named Fellow at the University of Edinburgh
Regents Professor of Philosophy Russell Goodman has been named a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. He will spend the summer of 2009 working on philosophers of the "Scottish Enlightenment" of the mid-18th century, including David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid and Francis Hutcheson.
“These European figures are important influences on 18th century American thinkers, including the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Benjamin Franklin,” Goodman said. He will write about them in a new history of American Philosophy Before Pragmatism that Oxford University Press asked him to write. |
 Tiano Named Director of UNM’s Latin American & Iberian Institute
Deputy Provost Richard Holder announced that Susan Tiano, professor of sociology, has been appointed director of the University of New Mexico Latin American & Iberian Institute effective immediately.
Tiano has been serving as interim director of LAII since January 2008, and was selected as director through an internal search chaired by Holder, and Brenda Claiborne, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. [More] |
 Szasz Named UNM’s 54th Annual Research Lecturer
Regents’ Professor of History Ferenc Szasz has been named the University of New Mexico’s 54th Annual Research Lecturer.
Szasz will present, “Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends,” Tuesday, April 14, 7 p.m. in the UNM Continuing Education auditorium.
The lecture, preceded by a 6 p.m. reception, is free and open to the public. |
 Maxwell Museum Offers a Place at Mother Earth’s Table
Free event allows opportunity to learn about, sample native plants
On Saturday, April 18, the Maxwell Museum will celebrate wild plants of the Rio Grande region in an event that will allow visitors to learn about health benefits of local plants and sample them. Sample modern recipes that use ancient ingredients when you try chia smoothies, mesquite flour cakes, rice grass crackers topped with prickly pear jelly, sumac lemonade or cota tea. The event will be from 1 - 4 p.m. on the UNM campus. More... |
Modern-Day Slavery in the Americas Focus of Conference
The Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico presents, “Modern-Day Slavery in the Americas: A regional approach to a global epidemic,” Wednesday-Friday, April 1-3, at the Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown Hotel, 2600 Louisiana Blvd. NE.
The event is free, but registration is required. [More] |
 Center for the Southwest - Lecture 2 in the 2009 Borderlands Lecture Series
Thursday, March 5, 2009, 3:00 p.m. SUB
For more information on the 2009 Borderlands Lecture Series, or other events sponsored by the Center for the Southwest, contact us at 277-7688, or email: cntrsw@unm.edu
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 Miguel Gandert’s Photography on Exhibit at RWJF Center
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at UNM hosts an opening reception for the exhibit, “Sacred and Secular: Photographs by Miguel Gandert,” on Thursday, Feb. 26 from 4-6 p.m.at the Center, located on the top floor of Jonson Gallery, 1909 Las Lomas, on the UNM campus.
Gandert, a native New Mexican, is an internationally acclaimed photographer, and a UNM professor of Communication and Journalism. The exhibit features 20 of his award-winning works capturing the health and vitality of New Mexico cultures.
The exhibit will run Feb. 26 to June 30. Call 277-0130 for more information. |
 Transnational Americas UNM Lectures 2008-2009 a joint American Studies/History series
Transnational Americas is as year-long symposium (2008-2009) in which faculty and students in American Studies and History are exploring the historical connections and transnational imaginaries linking the United States and Latin America. Symposium organizers seek to expose faculty and graduate students in American Studies and History to each other¹s work and build closer working relationships between the participating departments.
The symposium also engages a critically important topic for scholars of the United States and Latin America that helps us to consider the role of transnational scholarship in our work. See Schedule Here
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 UNM Research Team Finds Evidence Cacao Ritually Used in Chaco Canyon
Inhabitants of Chaco Canyon apparently drank chocolate from cylinders like these about a thousand years ago. That’s the finding in a paper published this week by PNAS, a publication of the National Academy of Science and written by Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Patricia L. Crown and her Collaborator at the Hershey Center of Health and Nutrition W. Jeffrey Hurst. [More] |
 Sexual Encounters of the Third Kind: Darwin’s Beetles Still Producing Surprises
On the eve of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, researchers at the University of New Mexico and University of Montana report a new twist in sexual selection theory – the realm of evolutionary science that Darwin founded alongside his more generally known theory of natural selection. This news, which appears in the February 6th issue of Science Magazine, is particularly propitious because the discovery was made during studies of some of the same species that Darwin used to develop his ideas.
As part of National Science Foundation-funded research on the evolution of male dimorphism in insects, biology professors J. Mark Rowland, UNM, and Douglas J. Emlen, UM, were surprised to find that many species of beetles are capable of producing not only two, but three different types of males. [More] |
 UNM Center for the Southwest Presents 2009 Richard W. Etulain Lecture
Sylvia Rodriguez, University of New Mexico professor of anthropology, presents the 2009 Richard W. Etulain lecture, “Acequia Communities and the Struggle for Water,” Thursday, Feb. 19, 5:30 p.m. in the UNM Student Union Building, Santa Ana Rooms A & B. More... |
 UNM Center for the Southwest Presents Spanish Language Lectures on Colonization
The Center for the Southwest, within the University of New Mexico Department of History, announces the 2009 Borderlands Lecture Series, four lectures by scholars working in the United States and Mexico.
The first lecture combines the work of two Mexican historians, on Thursday, Feb. 5 at 3 p.m. in the Student Union Building Santa Ana rooms A&B. More... |
| UNM Historian Ferenc Szasz Connects Burns and Lincoln
Once upon a time, Burns was as popular in the United States as he was in his native Scotland. Jan. 25, 2009 is the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth. One of his biggest fans was Abraham Lincoln, born 50 years after Burns.
Their lives never overlapped – Burns died in 1796 at the age of 37, more than a dozen years before Lincoln’s birth. Following closely behind Burns’ anniversary is Lincoln’s 200th, on Feb. 12.
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 Anthropology Guest Lecturer to Discuss Stone Tools for the Hunt
Paola Villa, one of the world’s most insightful researchers on early human behavior in Africa and southern Europe, presents, “Stone Tools for the Hunt: Weapons of Neandertals and Early Modern Humans” Thursday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m.in the Anthropology Lecture Hall rm 163.
The lecture is part of the Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the Journal of Anthropological Research. [More] |
| Africana Studies Kicks Off Black History Month Jan. 31 [More]
For more information, contact Africana Studies at 277-5644 or afamstds@unm.edu or visit Africana Studies. |
 English Faculty Release New World Literature Anthology
Gary Harrison, University of New Mexico professor of English and Presidential Teaching Fellow, and his emeritus colleagues Paul Davis, David M. Johnson and John Crawford co-edited a new compact edition of their two-volume anthology, “The Bedford Anthology of World Literature/ Compact Edition.” [More] |
 Humans More Apt to Share Genes than Language, says UNM Anthropologist
Anthropologists explored the genetic and linguistic diversity in Northern Island Melanesia, in the Pacific islands off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, and discovered that humans from different populations shared genes much more easily than cultural or linguistic information.
A team of anthropologists, including Keith Hunley, University of New Mexico assistant professor of anthropology, published their research in the journal PLoS Genetics. [More] |
LTER Partnership with CSU Awarded $12.5 Million NSF Grant for Environmental Literacy 
UNM to create clearinghouse of opportunity for research for students and teachers
Researchers from four Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites, 11 universities, and K-12 school districts from across the nation are partnering in a $12.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Mathematics and Science Partnership program to create a dynamic teacher development program targeted at middle school and high school teachers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. [More] |
Field Guide to Middle Rio Grande Bosque Released by UNM Press and UNM Biology Researchers
 A new book, titled “A Field Guide to the Plants and Animals of the Middle Rio Grande Bosque,” released by UNM Press recently, is a first-of-its-kind book that provides an informative and in-depth guide to identifying plants and animals in the nature-rich ecosystem.
Penned by biology researchers at the University of New Mexico including Jean-Luc E. Cartron, David C. Lightfoot, Jane E. Mygatt, Sandra L. Brantley, and Timothy K. Lowrey, several book-signings have been scheduled to help promote the handy guide.
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 Ancient Fossil Teeth Hold Answers for UNM Anthropologist
UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Sherry Nelson spends as much time peering at teeth as a dentist, but her time is in the laboratory looking at teeth of animals who roamed the earth in the Miocene era between 6.3 and 12 million years ago.
Nelson’s fascination with this era is because that’s when the earth’s climate and ecology were changing into something close to the world we see now. [More] [Department of Anthropology] |
| Journal of Anthropological Research Dedicates Special Issue in Memory of UNM Professor
The fall 2008 issue of UNM’s internationally-known “Journal of Anthropological Research” is dedicated to the memory of the late Robert Santley, a professor of Anthropology from 1978 – 2006. Colleagues say Santley was controversial, flamboyant and brilliant, an irascible iconoclast, as well as hard working and productive as a Mesoamerican prehistoric archeologist.  [More] [Department of Anthropology] |
| Geography Lecture Explores Caribbean Communal Land Use
Land-use and environmental impact throughout Latin America and the Caribbean have been shaped by transnational communities in recent years. Andrew Sluyter will address this topic Monday, Nov. 17 at 11 a.m. in room 105 of Bandelier Hall East, as the second lecture of the University of New Mexico Department of Geography’s Fall 2008 lecture series. [More] [Department of Geography] |
The Building Blocks of Life and the Energy to Lay Them; Fuel for Growth in Birds and Mammals
 UNM Distinguished Professor of Biology Dr. James Brown second author on paper
In the October 31 issue of Science, National Science Foundation funded researchers report on a model that shows that the food baby mammals and birds use to grow always stay proportional to how fast they are growing.
The paper, titled "Energy Uptake and Allocation During Ontogeny" says this relationship stays remarkably stable for all sizes and types of animals. [More] [Department of Biology] |
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 UNM Bookstore Celebrates Native American History Month
The first author event features UNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Louise Lamphere, who will discuss Weaving Women’s Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family Thursday, Nov. 6, at 2 p.m. at the UNM Bookstore, Central and Cornell NE.
Emphasizing the vibrancy and strength of Navajo culture, Weaving Women's Lives illustrates the process of incorporating new practices and ideas while retaining distinctive Navajo beliefs, values and orientations. [More] [Department of Anthropology] |
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 UNM-led NASA-Enhanced Dust Storm Predictions Will Aid Health Community
NASA satellite data can improve forecasts of dust storms in the American Southwest in ways that can benefit public health managers, according to University of New Mexico Geography Professor Stanley Morain, as scientists announced the finding as a five-year NASA-funded project nears its conclusion. [More] [Department of Geography] |
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The American Studies Department is hosting a book signing on December 4, 4-5pm, at the UNM Faculty Club, to celebrate the publication of Rebecca Schreiber's new book, Cold War Exiles in Mexico.
You can find information about the event here.
 Cold War Exiles in Mexico
New Book by Rebecca M. Schreiber, Assistant Professor of American Studies
The onset of the Cold War in the 1940s and 1950s precipitated the exile of many U.S. writers, artists, and filmmakers to Mexico. Rebecca M. Schreiber illuminates the work of these cultural exiles in Mexico City and Cuernavaca and reveals how their artistic collaborations formed a vital and effective culture of resistance.
Schreiber recounts, the first exiles to arrive in Mexico after World War II were visual artists, many of them African-American. [More] |
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 University of New Mexico Mourns Hillerman’s Death
Nationally acclaimed author and long-time UNM faculty member Tony Hillerman died in Albuquerque on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 83 years of age.
In 1963, he came to graduate school in English at the University of New Mexico. He was an assistant to University President Thomas Popejoy at the same time. He joined the UNM journalism faculty in 1965 after receiving his M.A. He taught until 1987, serving as department chair from 1966-74.
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 Hutton Receives Award of Merit
Paul Andrew Hutton, Distinguished Professor in the history department has received the Award of Merit from the Western History Association.
The award is given to an individual in recognition of outstanding service to the field of western history and to the Western History Association. [More] [Department of History] |
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 Former UNM Visiting Faculty Member Receives Nobel Prize in Literature
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, formerly a visiting faculty member at UNM, is the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Le Clézio has written more than 30 books since 1963.
Le Clézio was visiting faculty of modern and classical languages at UNM, 1977-78 and 1984-85, and visiting faculty in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1992-93, when he also held the PNM Endowed Chair. [More]
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 ‘Psychology of Genocide’ Focus of UNM Bookstore Lecture
Clinical psychologist Steven K. Baum uses eyewitness accounts in his book “The Psychology of Genocide,” which he will discuss and sign Friday, Oct. 10 at 4 p.m. at the UNM Bookstore, 2301 Central Ave. NE, at the intersection of Cornell and Central. Parking will be validated in the parking structure for up to one hour with purchase.
In the last century, 262 million people have been victims of genocide, with Jews, Armenians, Cambodians, Darfurians, Kosovons and Rwandans among them. The horrors of genocide are more poignant as patterns emerge. There are those who commit brutal acts, there are those who resist genocide and help victims, and there are those who position themselves in the middle, taking neither side. Baum reveals what patterns of personality and psychology emerge during wartime that give rise to these conditions. [More] [Department of Psychology] |
  Cross-Border Group Travels to Chiapas
Richard Schaefer, associate professor, Communication & Journalism, led his UNM Cross-Border Issues Group from their base in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, to the state of Chiapas to further their research on immigration.
Schaefer’s group last year focused on Mexican immigration to the United States. This year, the perspective was expanded to include immigration from Guatemala to Mexico as well as intra-Mexico migration.
The trip included crossing the Mexican-Guatemalan border seeing the difference between that international border and the muro, or wall, being erected between the U.S. and Mexico. [More] |
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UNM faculty members Keith M. Prufer (anthropology) and Yemane Asmerom (Earth and Planetary Sciences) were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation program Human and Social Dynamics.
Their project, Development and Resilience of Complex Socioeconomic Systems: a Theoretical Model and Case Study from the Maya Lowlands, focuses on modeling human responses to environmental transformation by linking together processes of settlement, resource exploitation, agricultural intensification, competition, and polity stability.
The project will test the model using archaeological data from Uxbenka, a Maya polity that formed in southern Belize 2,000 years ago, and develop a climate record for southern Belize spanning 2500 years.
The interdisciplinary award for $899,089 was made to UNM and collaborators at University of Oregon, University of California at Davis, University of Southern California, University of South Florida, and the Government of Belize with UNM receiving $274,305.
Human and Social Dynamics is an NSF priority funding area that fosters breakthroughs in understanding the dynamics of human action and development, as well as knowledge about organizational, cultural, and societal adaptation and change. |
 Danizete Martinez wins CRS Graduate Fellowship
Danizete Martinez, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English, received a $15,000 UNM Center for Regional Studies Graduate Fellowship for 2008-09. The CRS fellowships foster studies about New Mexico and the Southwest that bring together historical and contemporary questions/issues/problems concerning the people of New Mexico, as well as projects that connect New Mexico to other cultures and regions of the Americas, Spain and Québec.
Martinez’s dissertation, “The Chicana/o Grotesque: National Origins, Subversive Traditions, and Bodies of Resistance in U.S. Southwestern Literature,” directed by UNM English Professor Jesse Alemán, investigates the origins and influences of the Chicana/o grotesque and how it functions in Chicana/o literature. [More] |
 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] |
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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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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.
Dean Brenda Claiborne |
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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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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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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. |
 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] |
Two A&S students awarded Fulbright Scholarships to study abroad
Albert Palma and Zachery Watkins are the latest to carry on UNM's tradition of providing exceptional students excited to serve as Fulbright scholars. In the last five years, UNM has produced 13 Fulbright scholars in a variety of fields going to a number of different countries.
"I'm proud of the precedent our students are setting," UNM President David Schmidly said. "Year after year, they grasp opportunities and succeed. These students are among our best at UNM and I know that they will represent our university and the state of New Mexico well as they take their scholarship and service out into the world as Fulbright scholars."
The Fulbright Program pays all expenses and provides a stipend, insurance and travel costs for a full academic year, according to Ken Carpenter, associate director, International Programs and Studies. [More] |
| Schaefer Teaches Cross-Border Issues Program in Mexico
 Immigration focus of summer program
Richard Schaefer, associate professor, Communication & Journalism, is in Mexico for the first UNM summer school session with the Cross-Border Issues Group, a class designed to give undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to explore immigration in depth and in Spanish.
“Last year we looked primarily at immigration from Central Mexico into the United States. This year we’re expanding our focus to include immigration within Mexico and from Guatemala into Mexico,” Schaefer said. The group produced radio programs that aired on KUNM last summer. This year, plans include television segments. [More] |
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NSF Awards UNM Mathematics and Statistics $750,000 Grant
Grant to help build community of mathematicians in Southwest
The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of New Mexico Department of Mathematics and Statistics a three-year, $750,000 grant titled, "Attracting, Motivating and Preparing Mathematics Students in the Southwest by Building an Energetic Community."
The grant will enable undergraduate and graduate students at UNM and in the Southwest, an opportunity to jointly immerse themselves in mathematics and learn about a range of topics in pure and applied mathematics. The grant will also help students to get involved in mentored research projects.
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Vicky Kauffman (Mathematics and Statistics Lecturer) wins Arts and Sciences William P. and Heather W. Weber award for excellence in teaching.
 This award honors Lecturers or Part Time Instructors who exemplify excellence in teaching in any science or math discipline within the College at the undergraduate level.
Nominees were evaluated on the basis of the breadth, as well as the quality of their instructional contributions. Preference was given to those who have demonstrated instructional excellence both inside and outside of the classroom. |
| UNM Professor Elected Chair of the United States Square Kilometer Array Consortium
 The United States Square Kilometer Array (USSKA) Consortium has elected UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy Associate Professor Patricia Henning as vice chair.
The USSKA Consortium consists of U.S. universities and research institutes that are studying and prototyping technologies under development for the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), a next-generation international radio telescope for the 21st century. Henning's three-year term begins July 1, 2008.
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 UNM Assistant Professor Receives 2008 Powe Award
John Grey, assistant professor of chemistry, was named the recipient of a 2008 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enrichment Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities. Grey plans to use the money from the award to continue his research in the field of photovoltaics.
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 UNM Maxwell Museum of Anthropology given prestigious award for web design
The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology is proud to announce The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr. web site has been named the winner in the online exhibition category of the Museums and the Web 2008 international conference held April 9-12th in Montreal , Quebec , Canada.
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 Department of Communication & Journalism at UNM Earns Accreditation
The Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC) has unanimously approved the accreditation of the journalism and mass communication programs in the Department of Communication & Journalism at the University of New Mexico.
“We are elated with the decision of the Accrediting Council,” stated John Oetzel, department chair. “They found us in complete compliance with all of the standards validating the excellent work of the faculty and department." [more] |
 Gary Harrison Appointed 2008 UNM Presidential Teaching Fellow
English professor Gary Harrison is the 2008 Presidential Teaching Fellow, the highest teaching honor the University of New Mexico bestows. One of his students wrote on the nomination for the award, “Dr. Harrison's ability to cultivate a classroom where all have a voice in an ongoing dialogue is one of the greatest aspects of his teaching, as is his facility in constantly challenging his students to think, explore and discuss.”
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 Gregory Martin (English, Associate Professor) Named UNM 2008 Outstanding Teacher of the Year
“Most students of creative writing are too good at being students. They are cautious and risk averse. They have not learned to welcome failure and despair. I want them to stop thinking of themselves as students – with assignments and deadlines imposed by some professor or program – and begin to see themselves as artists, as writers,” says Associate Professor of English Gregory Martin.
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 Catherine "Kate" Krause
(Economics, Associate Professor)
is UNM Outstanding Teacher for 2008
“When I first began teaching, I worried about myself. Had I prepared enough material? Was I smart enough? Was my slip showing?” says Catherine "Kate" Krause. But she adds that over the years she realized that it wasn't about her.
It was about her students, and slowly she began teaching in a fundamentally different way.
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| UNM Arts & Sciences Teachers' Institute Offers Summer Seminars
Focus is on Engaged Literacy for Teachers of 7th – 12th Graders
To succeed in college, students must be able to apply reading and writing skills to a variety of problem-solving tasks across disciplines. For Summer 2008, the University of New Mexico Teachers' Institute offers two seminars designed to help teachers help their students develop higher-level literate capabilities.
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New Arts and Sciences Development Officer Announced
Bill Uher recently joined the College of Arts and Sciences as the Senior Development Officer. For the past twenty months, he served as the Development Officer for the UNM School of Law. Bill brings over twelve years of non-profit and fundraising experience to his new role.
He spent eight years working for Presbyterian Healthcare Services and the Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation where he oversaw Corporate and Annual Giving for the hospital's foundation. Prior to coming to UNM, Bill was the Executive Director of the American Heart Association where he was responsible for all of the organization's development activities in New Mexico .
"I'm very excited about my new role with Arts and Sciences. As an alumni of UNM (Communication and Journalism), I am so pleased to help further the mission of the College. The greatest joy of my job comes from connecting a donor's passion back to the University. "
Bill is a native New Mexican, born and raised in Albuquerque. [Development Web Site]
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 Truett Featured as a Top Young Historian on History News Network
Sam Truett, associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been selected for inclusion in the History News Network's Top Young Historians feature. Truett has taught at UNM since 1998. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Finland and a Mellon Research Fellow at the Huntington Library. http://hnn.us/roundup/49.html
Photo: Associate Professor Sam Truett
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 UNM Distinguished Professor of History Dr. Linda Hall to Present Lecture Titled “Images of Women and Power”
Lecture series highlights Distinguished Professors
Dr. Linda Hall, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, will present “Images of Women and Power,” the second in a series of lectures in the Distinguished Professors Lecture Series at UNM. The lecture will be held Thursday, May 8 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Acoma room in the UNM Student Union Building. The series is sponsored by the UNM College of Arts and Sciences. More... |
 Distinguished Professors Lecture Series
Images of Women and Power
Distinguished Professor Dr. Linda B. Hall
Thursday, May 8, 2008 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Acoma Room, Student Union Building, UNM Main Campus
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UNM Teaching Awards to be Presented on Wednesday
Gary Harrison, professor in the Department of English, is the 2008 recipient of the UNM Presidential Teaching Fellow Award. UNM President David J. Schmidly will present the award in a ceremony on Wednesday, May 7, at 2 p.m. in SUB Ballroom C.
The award is the university's highest recognition for teaching. More...
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 American Studies Class To Hold E-Waste Recycling Event
UNM students will offer the campus an opportunity to get rid of non-functioning or no longer needed electronic devices by bringing them to an E-Waste recycling event Thursday, May 1 from 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Cornell Plaza, between the Student Health Center and the Student Union Building. The E-Waste event is organized by the students in American Studies 182, “Science, Technology and Environment.” More... |
New Scholarships Announced
Hearty congratulations to Stephanie Moquin and Benjamin Ediger, our two newest Goldwater Scholars. UNM can now boast a dozen Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship winners since 1999.
This scholarship encourages outstanding students to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. Ben is majoring in biochemistry and mathematics, while Stephanie is majoring in biology and anthropology. Great work! UNM is proud of you both.
David J. Schmidly, President of UNM |
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