El Centro de la Raza presents “Latinas/os and Education,” part of the Latina/o Faculty Brown Bags, on Tuesday, March 24, noon-1 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room at Zimmerman Library. Roberto Ibarra, associate professor of sociology, will speak on “Context Diversity and Latinos in Higher Education” and Diane Torres-Velasquez, associate professor of teacher education, on “Making Science Come Alive in a Spanish-English Dual Language Middle School Classroom.”
The El Centro de la Raza Latina/o Faculty Brown Bags highlight the research of UNM’s Latina/o faculty and pairs faculty from different academic disciplines to present timely research about or affecting the Latina/o community. El Centro de la Raza co-sponsors the spring 2009 Latina/o Faculty Brown Bags with the University Libraries Chicano, Hispanic and Latina/o Collection (CHIPOTLE) and Division of Latin American and Iberian Research Services (DILARES).
The next brown bag, to be held Wednesday, April 22, noon-1 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room, focuses on Latinas/os and the arts, with presentations by Ray Hernandez-Duran and Brian Herrera.
Contact El Centro de la Raza at elcentro@unm.edu or (505) 277-5020.