Two University of New Mexico students are among a select group receiving the nation's most prestigious scholarships, UNM President Louis Caldera announced today.
Jesse E. French, a UNM undergraduate on National Student Exchange at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named a 2005 Truman Scholar.
French, a junior majoring in economics and political science, is among 75 recipients from 65 U.S. colleges and universities.
A second UNM junior, Frank Hemingway, has been selected as a 2005 Goldwater Scholar. He is among 320 recipients in the U.S. who will be juniors or seniors during the 2005-2006 academic year.
“We are delighted that Jesse French and Frank Hemingway have been named Truman and Goldwater scholars, respectively,” said Caldera. “These prestigious awards recognize the high caliber of students who attend UNM and the exceptional education they receive from our world-class faculty. This is the sixth Truman and seventh Goldwater to be awarded UNM students since 1998. In that short time UNM students have also won two Rhodes scholarships and two Marshall scholarships.”
Students are elected for the Truman by 19 independent selection panels on the basis of leadership potential, intellectual ability and likelihood that they will make a difference.
French is on exchange with the U of M for the 2004-05 academic year. His scholarship application emphasizes an interest in addressing the cultural, socioeconomic and political causes contributing to poverty. French's related policy proposal focuses on creating a new kind of homeless shelter in Albuquerque to effect a long-term decline in the city's panhandling population.
“Studying at U-Mass Amherst this year has contributed greatly to my academic and personal development,” French observed. “I have been exposed to new ideas and a rich culture, and the personal guidance provided by U-Mass faculty and staff was invaluable as I prepared my application. The entire process helped me examine who I am, what I stand for, and what I want to accomplish.”
French plans to use his scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in economics, studying neo-classical theory regarding price, money and income. In addition, he would like to study political economy theories on exploitation. He gained hands-on experience in national politics interning in the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman.
Each Truman Scholarship provides $30,000 for graduate study. Scholars also receive priority admission and supplemental financial aid at some premier graduate institutions, leadership training, career and graduate school counseling, and special internship opportunities within the federal government. Congress established the Truman Scholarship Foundation in 1975 as the federal memorial to the 33rd U.S. president.
“To become a Truman Scholar is an extraordinary achievement, and Jesse is a most deserving recipient,” said Susan Krauss Whitbourne, who directs the Office of National Scholarship Advisement, which assisted French in preparing his application.
The 2005 Truman Scholars will assemble May 15 for a weeklong leadership development program at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, and receive their awards in a ceremony at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, on May 22.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships were established by Congress in 1986 to foster and encourage excellence in science and mathematics. Goldwater scholars were selected from a field of 1,091 mathematics, science and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of colleges and universities nationwide. Awards are made on the basis of merit. The scholarships cover the cost of tuition, fees, books and room and board up to $7,500 per year.
“A lot of weight is placed on research experience so by winning the scholarship I hope to bring well deserved attention to the quality of research at UNM, including the opportunities for undergraduates to conduct research,” Hemingway said.
Hemingway is an electrical engineering major and regents' scholar from Las Cruces. He is also a member of the UNM track and cross-country teams. He plans to pursue an MBA at UNM's Anderson Schools of Management and later a Ph.D. in electrical engineering.
Past UNM recipients of the Truman Scholarship include: Sean Murray, 2004; Elizabeth Peck, 2003; John Probasco, 2001; Juana Chamiza Atencio-Pacheco, 1999; and Manuel Montoya and Fred Melendres, 1998. Montoya and Probasco were named Rhodes Scholars in 1999 and 2001, respectively.
Louis Metzger is the most recent Goldwater recipient from UNM, having earned the scholarship in 2003.
Contact: Laurie Mellas-Ramirez, (505) 277-5915
For centuries, the Zinacantec Maya women of Mexico have woven and embroidered textiles that express their social and aesthetic values and embody their role as mothers and daughters. A book by Patricia Marks Greenfield, “Weaving Generations Together: Evolving Creativity in the Maya of Chiapas,” boasts more than two hundred striking and detailed photographs of Zinacantec textiles and their makers. It provides a rare long-term examination of the cognitive and socialization process involved in transmitting weaving knowledge across two generations.
Photo: Mayan textile.
Greenfield will lecture and sign her book, Friday, April 15, 6 to 7:30 p.m., in UNM’s Hibben Center, room 105. Refreshments will be served. The event is free and sponsored by the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies at the University of New Mexico.
Greenfield combines a scholarly study of the impact of commercialization and globalization on textile production and sales, acculturation, and female socialization with poignant personal reflections on mother-daughter relationships, creativity and socialization, the life cycles of material culture, and the anthropology of the Maya people. Weaving Generations Together will appeal to both the academic specialist and anyone who admires Maya weaving and culture.
For additional information call (505) 277-1936 or email kklein@unm.edu.
Contact: Greg Johnston (505) 277-1816
The LodeStar Astronomy Center announces the premiere of a dazzling new planetarium feature, "Passport to the Universe." The cinematic, full-dome production was created by the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, in collaboration with NASA; written by Ann Druyan and Steven Soter, the co-authors of the classic PBS series Cosmos; scored by film composer Stephen Endelman; and narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks.
"Passport to the Universe" debuts in LodeStar's world-class digital theater on Saturday and Sunday, April 2-3. LodeStar's planetarium is equipped with a million-dollar projection system and, at 55 feet in diameter, the biggest screen in New Mexico.
On opening weekend, Passport will play on the hour beginning at 10 a.m. through 4 p.m. Admission to opening weekend shows will be half-price: $3 adults, $2.50 seniors, and $1.50 children ages 3 to 12. Admission includes access to two floors of interactive astronomy exhibits, along with telescope viewing of sunspots on LodeStar's second-floor observing deck.
"Passport to the Universe" is a 20-minute grand tour of the observable universe. In three leaps of scale, the audience explores the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy, and the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies. The familiarity of Earth's planetary neighbors gives way to a sense of discovery as viewers leave the solar system to float into the depths of the Orion Nebula's glowing gas clouds, passing scores of tadpole-shaped 'proplyds'--cocoons of gas that swaddle infant stars and perhaps even fledgling planets.
The journey continues on outside of the Milky Way, where the sprawling spiral structure of our home galaxy is revealed. Speeding through intergalactic space at millions of light years per second, the audience next sees that the Milky Way is but one galaxy in many in the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies. Finally, the journey ends at the edge of the known universe, and the audience learns that the Virgo Supercluster is but a small knot in a colossal web of galaxies.
"We're thrilled to bring Passport to New Mexico," said David Beining, LodeStar director. "It takes you on a journey that's scientifically and visually accurate, as well as intellectually and artistically unforgettable. You'll never forget when Passport flies you into the star-producing Orion Nebula to witness its beauty and power. The scene is a perfect balance of art and science, blending very sophisticated astronomy research and supercomputing visualizations with a symphonic musical score."
Each Passport show is preceded by a 20-minute live prologue that uses the concept of a 'cosmic address' to help audiences understand their place in the cosmos. The prologue closely examines some of the fascinating celestial objects found in the solar system, Milky Way, and Virgo Supercluster.
LodeStar's presentation of Passport to the Universe is made possible by generous support from Molina Healthcare and the Albuquerque Journal.
The LodeStar Astronomy Center is a University of New Mexico project in partnership with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. LodeStar is located at 1801 Mountain Road NW in Old Town Albuquerque, and is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For information or group reservations, call (505) 841-5955 or visit LodeStar Astronomy Center.
Contacts:Karen Keese, 841-5972 or 261-0040; Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821
A new exhibit in the Center for Southwest Research, “Blacks in the Southwest,” will hold its formal opening Friday, April 8, in Zimmerman Library located on UNM's main campus. The exhibit is scheduled to be on display through June 25. A reception is scheduled in conjunction with the opening at 5:30 p.m. The lecture will follow at 6 p.m. The exhibit’s curator, Cortez Williams, will speak in the Willard Reading Room in the west wing of Zimmerman.
Photo: “People of Las Trampas,” by Patricia Ryan, is one of the paintings to be displayed in a new art exhibit in the Center for Southwest Research.
The exhibit contains 42 original artworks depicting African Americans in early New Mexico up to the beginning of the 20th century. It provides stories about Blacks who played instrumental roles from the time of the early explorers to contemporary society. From Sebastian Rodriguez, drummer for De Vargas, to Stagecoach Mary, the woman with the strongest right arm in the west, the exhibits provide interesting tales of adventure.
Williams is vice-president of Historical Research Patrons, Inc., a New Mexico non-profit foundation that researches and promotes the history of African Americans in the western territories.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627
New Mexico Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (NM MESA), Inc. 17th Annual Statewide Jamboree is Saturday, April 2, at the University of New Mexico. NM MESA, a year-round program, serves more than 5,000 students in 101 schools and 31 school districts.
More than 2,000 in grades 6-12 will participate in the jamboree. Formal events include: Junkyard Speaking, Lego Robotics, MESA USA National Engineering Design Competition (multi-purpose vehicle made from a mouse trap), On-Site Engineering, On-Site Math, On-Site Science and On-Site Surprise (math, science or English based). Also included is the Spirit Design competition where students create a school banner to show their school and MESA spirit and this year’s Prepared Design, a motorized boat.
An all day event, academic downtime activities are also provided. A number of in-state college recruiters (UNM, NMSU, NMHU, ENMU and NM Tech) will participate. Exotics of the Rain Forest, the Albuquerque Bio Park/Bio Van, NASA White Sands Test Facility, Scholastic Book Fair and more will be featured. All downtime activities will take place at the UNM Student Union Building beginning at 10:30 a.m.
Now in it’s 22nd year, NM MESA continues to prepare pre-college students from underrepresented ethnic groups for college majors and careers in mathematics, engineering and science.
Educational enrichment such as tutoring, community service, field trips to sites related to math, engineering and science and summer enrichment classes helps build the well-rounded, academically involved NM MESA student.
Opening ceremonies begin in Johnson Center at 9 a.m. and event sites are scattered around the university. Events will begin at approximately 9:45 a.m.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of one of the most important published works in the history of the world, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's novel, "El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha." The University of New Mexico Department of Spanish and Portuguese hosts Lecturas Quijotescas/Quixotic Readings, a marathon reading of the novel in Spanish and in English.
The event will take place on the UNM campus in Ortega Hall room 335 and in the third floor lounge starting on Saturday, April 16 at noon and finishing, by best estimate on Friday, April 22 at 3:30 p.m.
On Saturday and Sunday, April 16-17, reading will take place from noon until 8 p.m.; and on Monday through Thursday, April 18-21, reading will place from 1 p.m. until 7 p.m., while on Friday, April 22, reading will start at 1 p.m. and finish at around 3:30 p.m.
"Don Quixote" was rated the world's greatest novel by the Norwegian Book Club, as determined by a survey of 100 well-known authors in 54 countries. Asked to rank the top 10 books in history, Cervantes's Quixote came in with more than 50 percent of the votes and was determined to be the most widely read book in the world outside of the Bible.
UNM President Louis Caldera and Joaquín Garrido, director of the Cervantes Institute in Albuquerque, invite the UNM and local community to join in reading aloud a chapter of this novel.
"The reading celebrates not only the monumental achievement of Hispanic culture and humanity, but also encourages the rereading of classic works in general," said Tony Cardenas, professor, Spanish and Portuguese.
In the spirit of inclusiveness, the invitation to read is extended to those who wish to read in English or Spanish. To nominate individuals, send contact information (e-mail address, address, phone, etc.) to quixote@unm.edu. To read in Spanish call, (505) 277-7361, to read in English, call 277-2974.
"In all we need close to 300 participants, so we are really counting on the campus and local community to identify readers for what will be a fitting celebration of this work," Cardenas said.
Readings last between 15 and 30 minutes. Check the Web site for the schedule: www.unm.edu/~quixote.
Other scheduled events include Romances Cantados with Tomás Lozano, Recitador de Romances to take place Monday through Friday, April 18-22 from 12:30 p.m. - 1 p.m., prior to the readings in Ortega Hall 335.
The Alfredo Rodriguez distinguished lecturer, Professor James A. Parr, University of California-Riverside, will present, "Some Recent Soundings in Quijote Criticism," also in Ortega Hall 335, on Friday, April 22 from 4-5 p.m.
On Saturday, April 23 at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St. S.W., a symposium featuring UNM professor emeritus Alfredo Rodriguez is featured.
For more information, visit http://albuquerque.cervantes.es.
President Louis Caldera will lead a discussion of the Fiscal Year 2005-06 Budget Summit Friday, April 1, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The UNM Board of Regents must make critical decisions within the next few weeks about faculty and staff compensation, budget priorities and possible tuition increases. The administration recommendations will be put together after the Budget Summit discussion.
If you are not able to attend the summit personally, you can listen to the discussion on the internet via a webcast. Details about how to access the webcast are available at Budget Summit Webcast or by clicking on the Budget Summit link from the UNM main web page and scrolling to the bottom of the page.
The university administration has created various possible budget scenarios for the campus constituency groups to work with. The campus constituency groups will be making recommendations about the FY 2005-06 budget. Both scenarios and the constituency group recommendations are posted on the Budget Summit Web site at Budget Summit.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627
“The Snowbowl Effect,” a documentary exploring recent controversy over sacred land protection, will be shown in the UNM Student Union Building Ballroom B at 7 p.m. on April 12. The showing, sponsored by the UNM Kiva Club, will include a talk by director Klee Benally and a performance by the award-winning band Blackfire.
“The Snowbowl Effect” offers a compelling and moving view of contemporary conflicts between the National Forest Service, Native American sacred sites, the environment and business interests.
Despite opposition from 13 Native American tribes who hold the mountain sacred, the National Forest Service recently approved the Arizona Snowbowl Ski Resort's plan to use reclaimed wastewater to make artificial snow on the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, Ariz. “[The] decision flies in the face of facts in their own Draft Environmental Impact Statement, respect for ancient traditions and sound ecological and economic judgment,” Benally said.
Through interviews with tribal officials, Forest Service officials, ski resort representatives, environmentalists and other experts and concerned citizens, “The Snowbowl Effect” explores concerns of sacred lands protection, pollution of Flagstaff's water supply, environmental threats and economic misconceptions.
Benally is a member of the Dine Nation, project director of Indigenous Action Media and guitarist/vocalist of Blackfire. Blackfire's music combines traditional Native American, punk rock and “Alter-Native” styles to convey sociopolitical messages about human rights, indigenous rights and environmental issues.
Contact: Sari Krosinsky, (505) 277-5813
The fall 2004 graduate landscape architecture studio in the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning took part in the national AIDS memorial competition.
Student Tawny Allen, received an honorable mention. Four other UNM students’ submissions were designated “selected entries” to be published in “Emergent Memories,” a book about the competition. The four are Sasha Needham, Kristen Kornienko, Kari McGuire and Brooke Tarelli.
Joni M. Palmer, visiting associate professor, was the studio instructor.
The National AIDS Memorial Grove, located in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, is a dedicated space in the national landscape where millions of Americans touched directly or indirectly by AIDS can gather to heal, hope and remember. For all the promising prospects on the horizon, AIDS continues to invade our lives, violate our past, and rob us of our comfortable assumptions about the future.
The sacred ground of this living memorial honors all who have confronted this tragic pandemic both those who have died and those who have shared their struggle, kept the vigils and supported each other during the final hours. The National AIDS Memorial Grove signifies that the global tragedy of AIDS will never be forgotten.
“The students are designing professional quality work that is being recognized locally, regionally and nationally. Participating in a national design competition of this caliber helps the students compare their landscape architecture to designs being created professionally,” Palmer said.
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920
UNM Telecommunications and CIRT will begin testing a new voicemail system that may be permanently installed throughout the University to replace the current aging system. The trial period will begin on April 1 and is expected to last 30 days.
When calling individual users in either department during this trial, please note the following information:
· To by-pass the personal greeting and leave a message, press the pound (#) key.
· Voicemail messages forwarded or sent from your voicemail box to a user on the new system will end up in the users voicemail box on the current voicemail system. Most users involved in the trial will only be checking messages on the current system periodically.
If you have questions about this trial, please contact Telecommunications at 7-1111, option 2.
The lower level of Centennial Library on the UNM Main Campus has been reopened, and science and engineering books are once again accessible to library patrons. The library’s lower level was damaged over the Christmas break by a burst water pipe. There was limited damage to books and periodicals, but the damage to the building was substantial.
Repairs to the building are still in progress.
Periodicals and other library services remained open during the renovation phase. Maps that were damaged in the flood will be returned to the Map and Geographic Information Center within the next few days.
While the lower level of Centennial was under repair, books had to be removed and stored. The books have been reshelved by library workers.
Offices on the lower level are still undergoing repair.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627
Join in the celebration of “Los Comanches en Nuevo México” with Native American Studies and Chicano/Hispano/ Mexicano Studies Thursday, March 31 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the SUB, Lobo Room A and B. More events follow in the evening at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
The New Mexico Humanities Council funded the event, which features lectures, panels and performances reflecting on the cultural and historical encounter of tribal Comanches, Rio Grande Pueblos and Spanish Mexicans during the 18th century.
Academic and community scholars will discuss themes of conquest and resistance, cultural hybridity, festival and ritual, and the politics and power of cultural emulation.
Presenters include historian Joe Sando of Jemez Pueblo, Wallace Coffey Chairman of the Comanche Nation, Enrique Lamadrid, director of UNM Chicano/Hispano/Mexicano studies, and author Tom Kavanagh. Greg Cajete, director of UNM Native American studies, and Beverly Singer, associate professor of anthropology and Native American studies, will moderate. Both Dr. Cajete and Dr. Singer are from Santa Clara Pueblo.
The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center will host a reception and feature dance performances from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The dance performers include the Cochiti Pueblo Head Start students and Andy Garcia's dance group "Tewa Dancers from the North" from San Juan Pueblo. Enrique Lamadrid will present a lecture titled "Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption" at 6:30 p.m. in the Chaco Room.
Contact: Mary Bowannie, (505) 277-3917
Teresa Y. Neely was named the new director of Zimmerman Library on the UNM main campus. Neely comes from the University of Maryland, where she was the head of Reference at the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery.
Prior to that she was an assistant professor and reference librarian at Colorado State University Libraries where she held several positions. Neely holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from South Carolina State College and received her M.L.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the school of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.
Neely’s research and scholarly interests include diversity, information literacy, instruction, staff training and development, reference services and management issues. Her publications include: “Diversity Now: People, Collections and Services in Academic Libraries,” co-edited with Kuang-Hwei (Janet) Lee-Smeltzer, “In Our Own Voices: The Changing Face of Librarianship,” co-edited with K.K. Abif and “Sociological and Psychological Aspects of Information Literacy in Higher Education.”
Neely recently completed a book with ALA Editions, titled “Information Literacy Assessment: Standards-Based Tools, Surveys and Best Practices.”
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627
Five members of the University of New Mexico community have been named to receive the 2005 International Excellence Award for outstanding contributions to international programs and education at UNM. The award ceremony is Wednesday, April 13, from 3-5 p.m. in Hodgin Hall, Bobo Room. The event is free and open to the public.
Professor Hillard Kaplan, anthropology, receives the award for groundbreaking interdisciplinary research in demography, health and nutrition, aging and indigenous studies and many other fields. Kaplan has worked in a number of countries including Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Botswana, South Africa and the United States to improve the lives of indigenous peoples.
Nitant Kenkre, professor of physics and astronomy and director of the Consortium of the Americas, will be honored for many years of work in international science education and research. As director of the Consortium of the Americas, a major program funded by the National Science Foundation, he promotes international collaboration among scientists in Latin America and the United States.
In the past three years the consortium has sponsored more than 18 international and interdisciplinary workshops throughout the Americas, and hosted more than 30 visiting international scholars at UNM, ranging from distinguished professors to graduate students.
Dr. Dale Alverson, professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Telehealth, receives the award for his tireless work over many years developing new technological approaches to provide better medical care in underserved rural areas in New Mexico, Latin America, Australia and many other parts of the world. He is currently involved in a major project to bring clinical care and develop interdisciplinary research programs along the Rio Napo watershed in Ecuador, with a focus on such diverse issues as tropical diseases, environmental threats to public health, traditional native healing and use of telemedicine.
Marjorie Devon, director of the Tamarind Institute, will receive the award for her support of international art education. She has worked at the Tamarind Institute since 1978, and has been involved in exhibitions and symposia in countries as diverse as Ecuador, Cuba, Brazil, Japan, India, Botswana, Iceland, and Slovenia. She has brought many distinguished artists from dozens of countries to the Tamarind Institute to study printmaking and lithography.
The International Excellence Award in the student category will be presented to Cally Ingebritson, graduating senior in Latin American Studies and Spanish. In addition to an outstanding academic record, Ingebritson is being recognized for her community service activities, including involvement with grassroots organizations in Albuquerque, Juarez, and Chiapas, Mexico. Dr. Kimberly Gauderman, director of UNM Latin American Studies, said of Ingebritson, “She is truly an inspiring and energetic young woman who merges her intellectual interests with her commitment to social justice at the local, national and international levels.”
For more information contact Ken Carpenter, International Programs & Studies, 277-4032, or email carpenk@unm.edu.
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920
The University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning is hosting a competition for Silver City High School juniors and seniors interested in pursuing a career in architecture.
To compete, students write an essay about the environmental impact of globalization on Grant County. “We encourage the students to think about how MTV, the Internet and even Wal-Mart have changed the way we participate in our environment,” said Tim Castillo, Silver native and UNM assistant professor of architecture.
A second option is to write about Grant County and what it represents, including a description about its architecture. “With the mines closing, Silver City is being transformed into a retirement community. As the community looks at emerging plans for the Big Ditch, sustainable tourism is one topic to be explored,” Castillo said.
Castillo is spearheading a visit by representatives of UNM on Thursday and Friday, April 14-15. Awards for winning entries will be given at an assembly at Silver high on Friday, April 15. Judges will come from the local business community. Following the assembly, the award recipients and their parents will be honored at a luncheon.
To submit an entry, contact Castillo at (505) 277-1063 or timc@unm.edu.
“The competition is a way to draw potential architecture students out of an area of the state underrepresented at UNM and in the School of Architecture and Planning,” said Roger Schluntz, dean.
Work by Castillo’s UNM students will be exhibited at the high school. Included in the exhibit will be proposals for a visitor’s center at the Very Large Array. “The images were created using 3D Studio, a computer modeling program. The exhibit will give students a sense of what architecture is about,” he said. Hand drafted student work will also be exhibited.
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920
Public television station KNME-TV, Channel 5, presents a special Colores! episode honoring The Albuquerque Museum Foundation’s Notable New Mexican, Senator Pete V. Domenici. Colores! explores the remarkable life of “The Senator From New Mexico: Pete V. Domenici” airing Wednesday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Colores! is KNME-TV’s long-running, award-winning cultural affairs series, focusing on the art, music, history and culture of New Mexico and the American Southwest.
Press and colleagues from both sides of the aisle refer to Domenici as a “true legislative craftsman,” and a “consummate legislator” who always knows his subject matter well. Domenici enjoys a universal reputation as one of the Senate’s most influential, hardest working, most intelligent and intense members, and is said to possess a case of “terminal responsibility.”
Domenici, elected to the Albuquerque City Commission in 1966, served as commission chairman, equivalent to the current position of mayor. In 38 years, he was the first Republican from New Mexico to be elected to U.S. Senate (in 1972), and, with his re-election in 2002, became the first New Mexican elected to serve six full six-year terms, serving longer than any other New Mexican in history.
In the documentary, the senator shares his inspirations, triumphs, challenges and goals -- specifically, the lessons he learned growing up in Albuquerque when it was a small town, where he worked as a teacher, pitched for the Albuquerque Dukes baseball team and was a family man.
Colores! spends time with Domenici on Capitol Hill, meeting his peers, and learning firsthand of the hard work and reputation of a man deeply committed to improving the lives of Americans. Colores! Reveals how New Mexico has inspired Domenici through the years.
Entering its 16th season, KNME’s Colores! has received widespread recognition, this year winning three Southwest Regional Emmys and previously receiving a national Emmy Award nomination for community service. Colores! is seen across New Mexico and distributed nationally and internationally. For more information on the series, contact Michael Kamins, Executive Producer, 277-0434 or mkamins@knme.org.
Contacts: Evy Todd (505) 277-1218 or Carolyn Gonzales (505) 277-5920
Paul Clements, a psychiatric forensic specialist and assistant professor at the College of Nursing, has been named associate editor of the Journal of Forensic Science (JFN).
Fueled by an intense demand for information on forensic nursing science, the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) launched the new peer-reviewed scientific journal in March 2005.
The Journal of Forensic Nursing is published quarterly and will feature such topics as interpersonal violence (sexual assault, abuse, domestic violence); death investigation, legal and ethical issues; emergency and trauma; and many other aspects of this multidisciplinary specialty.
The journal’s intended readers are those who work with victims of violence as well as offenders including professionals in health care, law enforcement, legal, psychiatric, psychosocial, public health, scientific, and other settings.
“Our goal is to expand empirical evidence important to our practice worldwide," Clements said. “Not only will the journal advance the science, but it will fill the tremendous need for making multidisciplinary research available to forensic researchers, educators, and administrators, as well as clinicians.”
JFN will present:
• Original research and in-depth analyses
• Continuing education articles
• Current issues, practices, and innovations
• Empirical and methodological studies
• Comprehensive reviews and theoretical articles
• Case studies
Forensic nursing is one of the fastest growing nursing specialties in the world. The nurses are specially trained licensed health care professionals who provide nursing care for victims, survivors, witnesses, suspects, and those convicted of violent crimes. Forensic nurses also bridge the gap between the health care and criminal justice systems by collecting and preserving forensic evidence and testifying in the courts of jurisdiction.
Contact: Angela Heisel, (505) 272-3651
A consortium of New Mexico universities, led by University of New Mexico President Louis Caldera, today announced their intent to join the University of California (UC) in forming an Institute for Advanced Studies to be affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory. The institute would be established contingent on the University of California Board of Regents deciding to compete, and the university winning the contract for continued management of the national laboratory.
UC entered into a teaming agreement with a consortium of New Mexico institutions with UNM leading the New Mexico consortium. Joining UNM in that consortium are New Mexico State University and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The agreement signals their intent, as a consortium and as individual institutions, to exclusively support the UC-led team as it prepares to compete for the LANL contract pending a final decision by the UC Regents.
The institute will provide the basis for cooperative research in the scientific, technological and educational aspects of the LANL operation.
“The University of New Mexico is pleased to lead the consortium of New Mexico universities that will partner with the University of California to promote excellence in science, technology and education at LANL,” said Caldera. “There is no question that this collaboration will be highly beneficial for New Mexico and will serve the nation well.”
Caldera Strengthens UNM-UC Ties
Since coming to UNM in August 2003, Caldera, a former Secretary of the Army and former California legislator, has worked to elevate UNM’s relationship with the University of California. This latest agreement is the fourth agreement between UNM, UC and LANL.
In October 2003, UNM and UC signed one agreement on intellectual property and a second MOU for collaboration on research and education. In October 2004, a third Memorandum of Agreement was signed establishing a special collaboration in research and education between the UC System and UNM. Discussions regarding a UNM role in the re-bid process have been ongoing since the competition was announced.
UNM Role in Idaho National Laboratory
Last November UNM became one of the national university collaborators in the Battelle Energy Alliance that took over the management of the Idaho National Laboratory. That educational consortium is led by MIT and also includes North Carolina State, Ohio State, Oregon State and three Idaho universities. UNM is the leader on space nuclear power and will play a major national role in training the next generation of nuclear engineers.
Role of New Mexico Universities at LANL
The Institute for Advanced Studies, created under the agreement announced today, will be a research and education center providing opportunities for LANL and the New Mexico Consortium to collaborate in research, development and educational activities. It will also provide opportunities for the consortium to provide input to LANL regarding the scope and content of basic and fundamental research.
Examples of areas of research include astronomy, biology, computational science, environmental science, energetic materials, materials science, optics, quantum computing, water and isotopes, but any appropriate field of study will be considered.
The agreement provides qualified students, faculty and staff the opportunity to participate in and contribute to important scientific research and for LANL staff to participate in education activities provided by consortium institutions. This will lead to the overall enhancement of the quality and character of research performed at LANL and at the New Mexico universities.
“Los Alamos National Laboratory is vitally important to New Mexico and to the nation,” said Terry Yates, UNM Vice President for Research and Economic Development. “Although we do not intend to be involved in the day-to-day management of LANL, UNM and our consortium partners can and should contribute substantially to the research and technology component of the laboratory’s mission.”
The agreement between UC and the New Mexico consortium will be made available to interested parties following a final decision by the Department of Energy regarding the future management of Los Alamos National Laboratory. A decision regarding UC’s participation in the competition to manage LANL is expected after the Department of Energy releases the final request for proposals, expected at some time during the spring of 2005.
About UNM
The University of New Mexico is the largest institution of higher education in the state. Founded in 1889, UNM has an enrollment of more than 26,000 students on its main campus in Albuquerque and about 7,000 attending branch campuses around the state. With an undergraduate Hispanic enrollment of 34.5 percent, UNM is designated as a Hispanic-serving institution and is one of only three in the country to be both a Hispanic-serving and a Carnegie Research/Doctoral Extensive institution. The University currently has an active portfolio of contracts and grants of more than $1.3 billion.
The University offers more than 200-degree programs and excels in areas ranging from optics and nanotechnology, to photography and printmaking, to Southwest studies and Latin American studies. UNM has also achieved national recognition in areas like primary care medicine, family medicine, rural medicine, clinical law, art and art history. New Mexico’s only School of Medicine, School of Law, College of Pharmacy and School of Architecture and Planning can all be found at UNM.
About Louis Caldera
On August 1, 2003, Louis Caldera officially assumed his post as the 18th President of The University of New Mexico. He was the unanimous selection of the UNM Board of Regents at the conclusion of a nationwide search.
Before coming to New Mexico, Caldera was Vice Chancellor for University Advancement for The California State University system, the largest four-year university system in the country. Caldera’s multi-faceted career also includes three terms in the California State Assembly representing Los Angeles and two appointed posts in the Clinton administration: Secretary of the Army from 1998 to 2001 and Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service from 1997 – 1998.
Caldera holds a bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Recent honors include the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Award, the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Chairman’s Award, and career achievement recognition from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.
Contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627
Programming note: "Soul of Healing with Deepak Chopra" will air on KNME-TV, Ch. 5: Monday, March 28 at 7 p.m.
Deepak Chopra, best selling author and alternative medicine pioneer, will be the keynote speaker at World Wellness Weekend, April 9-10, 2005 in Albuquerque. Named as “one of the top 100 icons of the 20th Century” by Time Magazine, Chopra will be giving a keynote address at the Kiva Auditorium at the Albuquerque Convention Center on Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 pm.
Chopra's address will be the highlight of World Wellness Weekend, a unique multi-dimensional expo with a collection of more than 100 booths, exhibits and classes on Saturday and Sunday, April 9 - 10 at Johnson Gymnasium on the UNM campus. From 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., there will be five classes per hour (more than 70 classes overall) for the public to choose from on many different wellness topics and movement classes. The fun, interactive day features entertainment for the entire family.
Public television station KNME-TV (PBS – Albuquerque / Santa Fe) is offering a
special package featuring a benefit VIP Reception with Deepak Chopra on Saturday, April 9, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel,
located at 201 Marquette Ave. N.W. It will be followed by premiere seating at the Deepak Chopra Keynote Address / Lecture from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m., at the Kiva Auditorium (2nd Street & Marquette).
The package price is $150 per person and can be purchased at KNME-TV, which is located at 1130 University Blvd. N.E., Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by calling (505) 277-2922. Partial proceeds will benefit KNME-TV.
In addition to the keynote address by Chopra, there will be a special weekend breakout seminar with world-renowned Ayurvedic physician and teacher, Vasant Lad of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque. Titled "VastuShastra: Arrange Your Home and Workplace to Create Positive Energies," Lad will discuss the use of the science of physical space in your home and workplace to improve your health, prosperity, and relationships.
These principles apply to everything from your home, to how best to organize your desk. Continuing Education Units are available. For reservations and information on this special weekend seminar at World Wellness Weekend, please contact The Ayurveda Institute at (505) 291-9698 or online at Ayurveda.
Lad will also give a 30-minute introductory lecture on Ayurvedic Medicine at 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 9 at Johnson Gymnasium, which is included as part of World Wellness Weekend ticket. Others also scheduled to speak include Dr. Arti Prasad, director of Integrative Medicine at the University of New Mexico Hospital and Pulitzer Prize nominated author and Naturopath Howard Peiper. A full schedule of classes and speakers will be available online as they become confirmed at World Wellness.
Regular priced tickets for World Wellness Weekend, including Chopra’s keynote address are $35/$50 in advance. All seats are reserved. All events at WWW Expo, held on the UNM campus, are included with the purchase of the World Wellness Weekend ticket (excluding Lad’s Ayurvedic Institute Weekend Workshop).
Tickets can be purchased at all Wild Oats and Whole Foods Markets (cash only), by calling 1-800-595-4TIX or online at World Wellness (additional service charges apply). Children under 12 are admitted Free at World Wellness Weekend Expo.
Single day admission to World Wellness weekend is available for $15 per day at the door - cash only. There is a $5 discount for students and Albuquerque Journal "Press Pass" subscribers.
Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1218
The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) recently selected University of New Mexico Biologist Mimi Lam for a prestigious two-year fellowship. Lam, an emerging leader in the environmental field, was chosen for her design of meta-institutional, ecosystem-themed research curricula and her research into the epistemological convergence of evolutionary human cognition and traditional ecological knowledge.
ELP welcomed Lam as one of 24 talented leaders in a new class of 2005-2006 fellows from across the country.
“I am delighted to welcome this extraordinary group of fellows from across the nation working on issues from environmental justice, conservation, energy efficiency, education and the protection of threatened ecosystems,” said Paul Sabin, ELP’s executive director. “We are a new generation of activists seeking to create new models for leadership while working to redefine what it means to be an environmentalist.”
The national fellowship annually awards a select group of dedicated environmentalists the opportunity to expand their leadership skills and to be part of a national network of environmental leaders. The program is designed to unite environmental innovators across the country working towards a sustainable future.
Lam, an adjunct assistant professor in the Biology Department, is also a chemistry researcher and educational consultant with Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Wa., and is waiting final approval from the Board of Governors for her appointment as adjunct faculty with the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre. Lam explores the epistemological convergence of evolutionary human cognition and traditional ecological knowledge with her academic training in quantum and statistical mechanics.
Previously, she was a technical writer and business consultant for a start-up telecommunications company. Lam has taught and designed science and mathematics courses that weave traditional ecological knowledge, Native and western epistemologies and cultural influences in human cognition.
“Acceptance into the ELP Fellowship Class gives me national support and recognition for my design of culturally responsive, ecosystem-themed curricula, which I believe to be an educational paradigm that reconnects us with how we first learned as humans,” said Lam. “By creating learning environments that are community-based in natural settings, we give our Native students opportunity to contribute their traditional ecological knowledge and cultural history towards the design of bio-culturally diverse and coexistent futures.”
“The future of environmental leadership in the U.S. depends on the work of groups like ELP,” said James Gustave Speth, dean at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. “The fellowship prepares new environmentalists to work together across boundaries and provides the opportunity to take their visionary ideas and put them into practice.”
Since selecting its first class of fellows in December 1999, ELP’s national fellowship program has brought together an economically, racially and ethnically diverse group of 110 fellows from academia, government, business, and non-profit organizations. ELP currently supports two classes of active fellows and four classes of Senior Fellows working together to demonstrate how people with very different world-views, and working on disparate issues, can collaborate to solve critical environmental problems.
ELP fellows and their peers develop their leadership skills through comprehensive retreats that include training in diversity, communication, coalition building and political strategy. ELP Fellows have used the skills they gained in the fellowship program to redefine career paths, clarify goals, regain confidence and renew passion for their work. Fellows have been inspired by the opportunities for personal reflection fostered by ELP. Many have risen to new leadership positions since starting the fellowship.
Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821
The University of New Mexico Chorus will perform the works of Leonard Bernstein Thursday, April 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Popejoy Hall, UNM Center for the Arts.
Bradley Ellingboe will conduct “An Evening with Bernstein,” featuring the Chichester Psalms and selections from Candide and West Side Story.
Ellingboe is celebrating his 20th year conducting the University Chorus. The Chichester Psalms was commissioned for English cathedral choirs, while Candid and West Side Story were popular musical scores that defined their time and remain timeless.
The University Chorus is a non-auditioned oratorio society. Of the more than 140 members, approximately 25 are UNM students and another 25 are faculty and staff with others from the greater Albuquerque-area.
Ellingboe, a well-known composer and arranger of choral music, has received an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) award each year since 2000. He is professor of music and coordinator of vocal studies at UNM.
Concert tickets are $7, $5, and $3 at the UNM Bookstore ticket office or tickets.com.
Contact: Laurie Mellas-Ramirez, (505) 277-5915
Miguel Gandert, professor of communication and journalism, will lecture on cultural mixing from New Mexico to Bolivia, Friday, March 25, 6 p.m., in room 105 at the Hibben Center. Gandert will present the 2005 Richard Etulain Lecture, titled "Dancing on Hard Ground: Reading Cultural History in Photographs."
The visual presentation will feature Gandert's photographic work on the dances of mixed-blood people in the American Southwest and South America.
An opening reception for Gandert's photo exhibit at the Maxwell Museum will be at the adjacent Hibben Center at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. "Nuevo Mexico Profundo: Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland," features Gandert's documentary photographs of mestizo ritual.
Gandert is an internationally known phoptographer who received his masters from UNM in 1983. He recently collaborated with UNM Professor Enrique Lamadrid on “Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indio-Hispano rituals of Captivity and Redemption” (UNM Press, 2003). The book won the prestigious Chicago Folklore Prize.
For more information contact the Center for the Southwest (505) 277-7688, or Carol Anne Brannan at (505) 277-5963. Events are free and open to the public and sponsored by the Maxwell Museum Association, the Center for the Southwest and UNM Press.
Contact: Greg Johnston, (505) 277-1816
Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven is the focus of a new exhibit in the west wing of Zimmerman Library on the University of New Mexico main campus. Ortiz y Pino is one of the most well-known women in New Mexico public life. The exhibit features archival material related to her life and family.
Ortiz y Pino has been a state legislator, educator, and has fought for the rights of women, children and the handicapped through much of the 20th century. After graduating from UNM in 1943, she served five U.S. presidents on national boards promoting upward bound, the handicapped, health and the humanities.
She is featured in a new biography ¡Concha! Concha Ortiz y Pino, Matriarch of a 300-year old New Mexico Legacy, by Kathryn M. Cordova.
The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627
One of the best loved comic operas ever composed is coming to the University of New Mexico. Don Pasquale, an opera to delight all ages, will be performed by the UNM Opera Theatre cast and the UNM Symphony Orchestra at Keller Hall April 14 - 16 at 7:30 p.m. and April 17 at 2:30 p.m.
An Italian opera with music by G. Donizetti, “Don Pasquale” is a comedy of love and deception. Don Pasquale attempts to maneuver his nephew Ernesto into a wealthy marriage, spurning Ernesto's lover Norina as unworthy. Meanwhile, Norina has her own maneuvers in hand. Posing as “Sofronia,” a beautiful young widow with a mercurial temperament, she beguiles Don Pasquale with a zany plan to secure his nephew and his fortune.
The UNM production, directed by Marilyn Tyler, will be sung in Italian with English titles. Desiree Mays, renowned lecturer for the Metropolitan Opera Guild and the Santa Fe Opera, will give “An Introduction to Donizetti's Don Pasquale” at 1:30 p.m. in Keller Hall prior to the April 17 performance. The lecture and refreshments following the performance are included with Sunday matinee tickets.
Tickets are $15 general admission, $12 for UNM faculty/staff and seniors and $10 for students and children. Tickets are available at UNM Ticket Offices, tickets.com or by calling (505) 925-5858.
Contact: Sari Krosinsky, (505) 277-5813
Undergraduate Researchers Invited to Show Their Stuff
The deadline to register for PROFOUND’s (Program of Research Opportunities FOr UNDergraduates) 2nd Annual UNM Celebration of Undergraduate Research Symposium has been extended to Friday, April 1, 2005. The event will be held Wednesday, April 13, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in Ballrooms B&C in the Student Union Building.
Students interested in participating in the research symposium must complete an on-line registration form, which includes an abstract of 225-words or less, by Friday, April 1, 2005. The form can be located at: PROFOUND.
The event is attractive to both participants and visitors, and will feature, in addition to the research posters, guest speakers including a keynote address by Linda Hall, professor, Latin American History and former director of Latin American Studies. Hall’s published work has focused on the Mexican Revolution and the U.S. - Mexican border and the various roles that the Virgin Mary plays for the people of Spain and the Spanish-speaking New World.
“More formalized attention has been given to undergraduate research this year than in the past,” said Theresa López, PROFOUND Program Coordinator. “President Caldera has greeted incoming freshman groups and high school junior and senior classes telling them about research opportunities available to them as undergraduates at a research extensive university.
Mari-Luci Jaramillo, former Ambassador to Honduras, will be the featured lunchtime speaker. She wrote “Madame Ambassador: the Shoemaker’s Daughter,” an autobiography about perseverance and the importance of education. It reflects her life as a New Mexico woman who overcame her early experiences of poverty, discrimination and prejudice to advocate for those who cannot speak for themselves.
Door prizes, donated from local businesses and campus organizations, will also be awarded throughout the event as part of the symposium. Top presenters in four categories will receive cash prizes with a symposium wide grand prize of a laptop computer. Students present for the lunchtime speakers will be eligible to win a digital camera.
The mission of the PROFOUND office focuses on student employment through research opportunities to increase retention rates; to improve communication and provide unity within the UNM research community; and as a resource for future funding opportunities.
It was established August 2003 by five UNM offices including: Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Dean of the School of Engineering; Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs; Vice President for Research; and Vice President for Student Affairs.
For more information contact Theresa López at (505) 277-0528 or via e-mail at: tlopez@unm.edu.
Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821
Albuquerque’s architecture is a tale of two cities, according to Chris Wilson, J.B. Jackson Professor, University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning. The city’s regional, historical and cultural identity is manifested in UNM, Old Town, Corrales and the North Valley – all areas where we see Southwest regional style.
Albuquerque’s alter ego exists in its contrary impulse toward high tech. “Kirtland, Sandia and Intel reflect the city’s inclination as a regional medical, educational, science, military and semiconductor center,” Wilson said.
Wilson presents, “Albuquerque’s Architectural Identity Crisis” on Friday, April 22, 4:30 p.m., in Northrop Hall on the UNM campus. Wilson will explain the roots and realities of Albuquerque’s distinctive identities.
Wilson will talk about the various buildings and periods that created the skyline, neighborhoods, and streetscapes of the city.
Wilson will point out that the city has reconciled its styles through the work of architects such as Antoine Predock in his 1969 La Luz development on the west side, which reconciles modernism and the regional idiom. His recent UNM parking structure and the soon-to-be-built School of Architecture and Planning, east of the Bookstore continue Predock’s exploration of how to be contemporary and also rooted in the New Mexico.
“They represent negotiations of dueling impulses,” Wilson said.
The two sensibilities explode in Old Town where the rocket was placed outside the Atomic Museum at the heart of the city’s historic center, Wilson said.
“Albuquerque and Santa Fe are not separate cities, but a linked pair with just one hour between them by car; commuters travel between the two to work or to shop. Santa Fe represents the entertainment district; Albuquerque the service center,” Wilson said.
Wilson’s talk is designated the Tricentennial lecture for the School of Architecture and Planning’s John Gaw Meem spring 2005 lecture series.
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920
Ken Carpenter, associate director of International Programs and Studies, has been selected to travel to Japan this summer as part of the U.S.-Japan International Education Administrators Program. The Fulbright Scholarship Board and the U.S. Department of State, program sponsors, announced that Carpenter is one of six U.S. university administrators chosen to spend June 2005 in Japan to participate in seminars and other special programs dealing with the Japanese educational system.
The participants will visit universities and meet with Japanese educators in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto and other cities.
According to Carpenter, the trip to Japan will also provide an opportunity to make contacts with Japanese universities, to promote UNM and New Mexico, and to help recruit more Japanese students to our campus.
“Internationalization has become a major priority at UNM in the past few years,” Carpenter said. “There have been a number of recent initiatives at UNM aimed at expanding our ties with Asia, and we would like to develop new programs with one or more Japanese universities to exchange students and faculty and cooperate on research and cultural programs. I hope the time I spend there will result in some new relationships with Japan.”
The Fulbright program, founded in 1946 to promote international exchanges and understanding, provides funding for the exchange of students, scholars and professionals between the U.S. and more 140 other nations. The Japan Fulbright program was established in 1951, and receives funds from both the U.S. Congress and the Japanese government to give grants each year to Japanese and U.S. students and scholars in a number of different fields of study.
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920
Albuquerque's architecture is a tale of two cities, according to Chris Wilson, J.B. Jackson Professor, School of Architecture and Planning.
The city's regional, historical and cultural identity is manifested in UNM, Old Town, Corrales and the North Valley – all areas where we see Southwest regional style.
Albuquerque's alter ego exists in its contrary impulse toward high tech. “Kirtland, Sandia and Intel reflect the city's inclination as a regional medical, educational, science, military and semiconductor center,” Wilson said.
Wilson presents, “Albuquerque's Architectural Identity Crisis” on Friday, April 22, 4:30 p.m., in Northrop Hall on the UNM campus. Wilson will explain the roots and realities of Albuquerque's distinctive identities.
Wilson will talk about the various buildings and periods that created the skyline, neighborhoods, and streetscapes of the city.
Wilson will point out that the city has reconciled its styles through the work of architects such as Antoine Predock in his 1969 La Luz development on the west side, which reconciles modernism and the regional idiom. His recent UNM parking structure and the soon-to-be-built School of Architecture and Planning, east of the Bookstore continue Predock's exploration of how to be contemporary and also rooted in the New Mexico.
“They represent negotiations of dueling impulses,” Wilson said.
The two sensibilities explode in Old Town where the rocket was placed outside the Atomic Museum at the heart of the city's historic center, Wilson said.
“Albuquerque and Santa Fe are not separate cities, but a linked pair with just one hour between them by car; commuters travel between the two to work or to shop. Santa Fe represents the entertainment district; Albuquerque the service center,” Wilson said.
Wilson's talk is designated the Tricentennial lecture for the School of Architecture and Planning's John Gaw Meem spring 2005 lecture series.
Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920
The University of New Mexico has selected six students as winners of the 2005 Clauve Awards. The awards are given to seniors who are outstanding in community involvement and academics and have strong leadership skills, vision, drive and dedication. The students will all be recognized at an awards ceremony scheduled for April 14 at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Building.
Saraswati Khalsa
Khalsa is a political science major who intends to become a physician. She is the cultural secretary of the India Students Organization and organized two classical Indian music concerts, the Holi Festival, a movie screening and welcome back BBQ in that capacity. She is also serving as the executive director of the ASUNM Community Experience and has organized Spring Storm activities, a blood drive, food drive, a giving tree and Fall Frenzy campus clean up activities.
Khalsa is a counselor for the American Cancer Society summer camp, and is currently co-teaching a class called “Globalization Sucks…or does it?” Although born in Espanola, she has lived most of her life in India, and intends to return to India for a year before pursuing a medical degree.
Onawa Lynn Lacy
Lacy is an English major with a pre-law concentration and a minor in Native American studies. She helped to found the first chapter of a Native American sorority, Alpha Pi Omega at UNM. She led the first pledge class, and has been active in recruiting new members. While attending UNM, Lacy also served as Miss Indian New Mexico and Miss Indian World. Lacy is currently planning for the Miss Albuquerque Scholarship Pageant. Her long-term goal is to become a tribal attorney for the Navajo nation.
Keith Lopez
Lopez is a secondary education major with a minor in communication arts. He will graduate in May with a history of active involvement as an Associated Students of the University of New Mexico senator. Lopez is currently co-teaching a Freshman Interest Group “The Innocence of the Hip-Hop Culture” and has developed presentations for parents about their student’s transition into college. He also worked as a family connection orientation leader and has done workshops on time management for students. His long-term goal is a career in student affairs and higher education.
Benito Martinez III
Martinez is a chemical engineering major active in the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the Society of Mexican-American Engineers. He co-founded the Hispanic Engineering and Science Organization at Highland High School.
He has worked as a peer mentor for the Amistades Peer Mentoring Program and has had several internships in public and private organizations. He has also been active as an assistant baseball coach at Highland High School.
Pedro Arturo Ramos
Ramos is a mechanical engineering major serving as president of the Hispanic Engineering & Science Organization on campus. His research involves mirror turbulence modeling T and I shaped arrays. He has had several summer internships in major corporations. He organized career fairs for high school students and served as a senator for ASUNM.
Ramos is also a member of the Golden Key Honor Society, the Mortar Board Honor Society, the Pi Tau Sigma Mechanical Engineering Honor Society, and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
Kevin Stevenson
Stevenson is an applied mathematics major working as an undergraduate research assistant at the Center for High Technology Materials on experiments concerning the use of a corner-cube retro-modulator for optical communication. He is the ASUNM president and has also served as the president of the Interfraternity Council. He has worked to restore the charter to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and has volunteered for a number of organizations, including Cuidando Los Ninos.
Stevenson led a student lobbying effort to block proposed changes in the New Mexico Lottery Scholarship that would have been detrimental to UNM students and has been an active member of the University Planning Council and the Finance Committee of ASUNM. His long-term goal is to be a college professor.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627
With the end of the 2005 legislative session, the University of New Mexico is generally pleased with the outcome, especially full formula funding of its core operations and academic mission. However, several of the actions taken by lawmakers will present continuing challenges for the university, cautions UNM President Louis Caldera.
Tuition credit increased to 4.5 percent, up from last year's 4 percent and the 3 percent tuition credits of previous years. Because of the size of its enrollment and its higher cost tuition, UNM students account for the lion's share of tuition credit, which minimizes the amount of general fund money the legislature must provide to higher education (and which insures that tuition will rise by at least a corresponding amount.)
Legislators funded 2 percent compensation increases for higher ed faculty and staff, compared to 3 percent last year. "This will add to the difficulty we face in recruiting and retaining the quality faculty and staff needed to achieve our academic goals," says Caldera.
Providing funds for increased compensation above the state-funded 2 percent usually requires passing the burden on to students in the form of higher tuition. Caldera says this is something the university will have to take up with students, faculty and other constituency groups as it seeks input on budget issues during its upcoming budget summit April 1. UNM has a stake in several other legislative outcomes.
Changes to the Lottery Scholarship
The great majority of the bills seeking to change the lottery scholarship were tabled, including a decoupling measure which would have cost UNM students nearly $5 million in lost scholarship funds during the first year alone. "We are pleased that the legislature kept its promise to New Mexico students and families to fully cover university tuition with the lottery scholarship," says President Caldera.
Creation of Department of Higher Education
The university is pleased with the final version of the bill creating the Department of Higher Education, as it reflected many of the recommendations and concerns raised by the presidents and regents of New Mexico's four-year universities. "It is now our hope that the new secretary of higher education will truly champion the cause of higher education in New Mexico, and in particular, we hope the new secretary is someone who understands the role and needs of New Mexico's research universities."
Health Care
Once again, New Mexico legislators showed their support for UNM's Health Sciences Center and its mission. Most significantly, they provided funding for the first year of the BA/MD program, one of the university's top priorities, along with a funding mechanism that will support construction of phase 2 of UNM's Cancer Research and Treatment Center.
Athletics
The legislature was also supportive in meeting the needs of UNM athletics, funding the Tow Diehm weight room HVAC implementation, completion of capital projects for both men's and women's sports, and resurfacing of the track, among others.
Deferred Maintenance
The Council of University Presidents had endorsed a plan that would have created new funding to deal with the growing challenge of modernizing and upgrading facilities on New Mexico's college campuses as well as dealing with a tremendous backlog of maintenance projects. However, House Bill 717, which encompassed this plan was tabled. "The legislature will have to one day come to grips with this issue," says Caldera. "We are going to work diligently during the interim to convince lawmakers that we must find a way to deal with the deteriorating infrastructure on all of our college campuses."
Centennial Engineering Center
This is UNM's top capital outlay project. Last year, UNM requested $10 million for construction and received $4 million in the General Obligation bond approved by voters. This year, UNM requested $21 million to complete the project, and has been given $4.8 million in capital outlay funds.
Though grateful to the lawmakers who provided the funding, Caldera says "we cannot create a high-wage economy in New Mexico without an investment in science, technology and engineering projects at UNM. There are many other important projects in the pipeline that will continue to be deferred until the Centennial Engineering Center is funded."
Contact: Susan McKinsey, (505) 277-1989
The Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico has re-elected Jamie Koch as president, Jack Fortner as vice president and Sandra Begay-Campbell as secretary treasurer. The officers will serve a one year term.
The board has also organized committees for the coming year. The committee assignments are as follows:
Operations Committee
Louis Caldera – President, UNM
Jamie Koch
Mel Eaves
Jack Fortner
Academic/Student Affairs Committee
Douglas Brown – Chair
Raymond Sanchez – Vice Chair
Rosalyn Nguyen – Student Regent
Ed DeSantis – Faculty Senate
Steve Borbas – Staff Representative
Dr. Suellyn Scarnecchia – Dean, UNM Law School
Advancement Committee
Raymond Sanchez – Chair
Jack Fortner – Vice-Chair
Rosalyn Nguyen – Student Regent
Coleman Travelstead – Alumni Board
Robert Goodman – UNM Foundation
Terri Cole – Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce
Development Committee
Douglas Brown – Chair
Michael Carroll – Vice President of Advancement at UNM
Community Members
Bob Bovinette
Gig Brummell
Howard Mock
John Salazar
Bob Stamm
Kyla Thompson
UNM Members
Reed Dasenbrock
Phil Eaton
Rudy Davalos
Finance and Facilities Committee
Mel Eaves – Chair
Raymond Sanchez – Vice Chair
Douglas Brown
Audit Committee
Douglas Brown – Chair
Raymond Sanchez – Vice Chair
Mel Eaves
Louis Caldera – President, UNM
David Harris – Executive Vice President, UNM
Deborah Yoshimura – Director, Internal Audit, UNM
Health Sciences Committee
Jack Fortner – Chair
Sandra Begay-Campbell – Vice Chair
Mel Eaves
Maralyn Budke – Clinical Operations Committee
Don Chalmers – Clinical Operations Committee
Dr. Moheb Moneim
Contact: Susan McKinsey, (505) 277-5627
Linguistics Professor Roseann S. Willink and Diné College Professor Paul Zolbrod will discuss their most recent book, “Weaving A World: Diné Bahane, Navajo Weaving and Spider Womans Gifts,” in a brown bag discussion on March 23. The talk will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room, located in the west wing of Zimmerman Library.
Photo credit: Julia Charley (Shiprock, N.M.)
Willink and Zolbrod will also present a separate panel discussion later in the day from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room.
The Indigenous Nations Library Program is sponsoring the event, which will address themes including: poetics of Navajo weaving, earth, sky and the holy people, exile, return and the outside world, summoning the holy people, keeping the world in balance and living in a dynamic landscape.
Willink and Zolbrod have worked together on projects to bridge the gap between Navajo culture and non-Navajo society for more than 25 years. A native of Pennsylvania, Zolbrod was an English professor at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., for 30 years before relocating to New Mexico. In 1984 he published the monumental work “Diné Bahane’: The Navajo Creation Story” (UNM Press), the most complete version of the story to appear in English.
Raised in Pueblo Pintado on the Eastern Navajo Agency, Willink has served as a faculty member at UNM since 1971. She is a member of the Naakaii din’ é; the Mexican Clan, and born for Kinyaa’aanii, the Towering House Clan. Her maternal grandfather’s clan is Bit’ahnii, the Folded Arms Clan. Her paternal grandparents’ clan is Tlaashchi’i, or Red Streak Bottom Clan.
Both Willink and Zolbrod have written widely on Navajo Language and culture. The brown bag discussion and panel presentation are free and the public is welcome.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627 or Rebekah HorseChief, (505) 277-7433
What materials can you recycle on campus? Where do you drop off that old phone book? Find the answers to these questions and more by joining the recycling listserv, a new resource from the University of New Mexico Recycling department.
Resource Conservation Manager Linda McCormick started the listserv to circulate recycling information more easily. “Using the listserv I’ve been able to find homes for usable or even new items like a fax machine, printer cartridges and fire wood (broken pallets) as well as pass on pure information,” McCormick said.
The listserv provides up to date information on recycling programs, such as UNM’s recent addition of plastic bottles to materials recycled on campus and phone book collection locations in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Los Lunas and Belen.
To join the listserv, e-mail McCormick at lindamcc@unm.edu.
Contact: Sari Krosinsky, (505) 277-5813
University Libraries will honor Philosophy Professor Russell Goodman as part of the Faculty Acknowledgement Series on Wednesday, March 24 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., in the Willard Reading Room in the West Wing of Zimmerman Library. Goodman is chair of the Philosophy Department. As part of the event, he will present a lecture titled, “What is Pragmatism?”
Goodman says he will discuss the tradition of pragmatism as it begins in 19th century America with the work of William James and Charles Sanders Pierce, its development in the educational philosophy, and the theory of inquiry set out by John Dewey and others, and its spread beyond philosophy into thinking about law, literature, democracy and education.
Goodman has specialized in 19th and 20th century philosophy, especially Wittgenstein, American philosophy and pragmatism. He has written a number of books, among them “American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition”, “Pragmatism: A Contemporary Reader”, and “Wittgenstein and William James.” He has also written a number of encyclopedia entries in the field of philosophy.
The Faculty Acknowledgment Series is a way for University Libraries to recognize and honor members of the UNM faculty for scholarly work in their fields of specialization.
The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will follow.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627
The Robert O. Anderson Schools of Management at The University of New Mexico will honor six outstanding alumni at the 16th Annual Hall of Fame Dinner on April 28. Michael D. De Witte, deputy director and group manager for Public Relations and Communications, Sandia National Laboratories; Cindy McGill, vice president of Customer and Market Services, Public Service Company of New Mexico; and Kimberly A. Nunley, managing partner, Grant Thornton LLP, have been selected as this year’s inductees into the Schools’ Hall of Fame.
Corrina Burns, Public Relations and Marketing Manager, Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa; Tina M. Frank, director of Sales, Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center; and Joseph P. Mohorovic, director, Office of International Programs and Intergovernmental Affairs for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission will be recognized as recipients of the second annual Young Alumni Awards.
"I was overwhelmed by the impressive accomplishments of this year's group of nominees," said Danny Sachs, president and general manager of Team Specialty Products and chairperson for this year's event. "All of the alumni we are honoring this year have distinguished themselves in their professions and made significant contributions to the communities in which they live and work."
Michael D. DeWitte (MBA - 1982)
Michael D. DeWitte oversees six departments, 90 managers and staff, and nearly a $10 million annual budget as Deputy Director and Group Manager for Public Relations and Communications at Sandia National Laboratories. De Witte also acts as an executive management consultant and coach in the areas of leadership, customer-centered organizations, and communications.
He chairs the New Mexico Business Roundtable for Educational Excellence and is a member of the Boards of Directors of the Association of Commerce and Industry and Next Generation Economy, Inc. A registered professional engineer and graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, De Witte received his MBA from The Anderson Schools in 1982.
Cindy McGill (BBA - 1980)
Cindy McGill has worked for PNM for nearly 24 years, most recently as Vice President of Customer and Market Services where she manages 400 employees and has implemented process improvements to increase customer satisfaction. She is Chair-Elect of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce for the 2005-2006 term and serves on the Boards of Directors for Presbyterian Hospital’s Albuquerque Delivery System and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
McGill is a graduate of the Leadership New Mexico Class of 2000 and a member of New Mexico State University’s Center for Public Utilities Advisory Council. She received her BBA from The Anderson Schools in 1980.
Kimberly Nunley (BBA - 1985)
Kimberly A Nunley started her accounting career with Arthur Andersen & Co. in 1985 and became Managing Partner when Grant Thornton LLP took over the company in 2002. As a CPA and Certified Internal Auditor, Nunley is responsible for a 40-member staff. She is Vice-Chair and Treasurer of The Anderson Schools of Management Foundation Board, a member of Albuquerque Economic Development’s Board of Directors, and a Trustee of the Albuquerque Community Foundation.
Nunley’s professional memberships include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New Mexico Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the International Institute of Auditors. She received her BBA from Anderson in 1985.
Corinna Burns (BBA - 1999, MBA - '03)
Corrina Burns assumed the role of Public Relations and Marketing Manager for the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa in December 2000. She is President-Elect of the New Mexico Chapter of the American Marketing Association and is also a member of the Public Relations Society of America. In 2003, Burns was named to the New Mexico Business Weekly’s “40 Under 40” list. She holds both a BBA (1999) and an MBA (2003) from The Anderson Schools.
Tina M. Sampson (MBA - 2002)
Tina M. Sampson, MBA 2002, has been Director of Sales for the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida since June 2004. An award-winning hotel sales executive, Frank was named Hyatt Hotels Director of Sales of the Year in 2001. She has been a guest lecturer in business classes at UNM, Colorado State University, Colorado University-Denver and the University of Denver.
Joseph P. Mohorovic (MBA - 2002)
Joseph P. Mohorovic serves as the Director of the Office of International Programs and Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in Washington, D.C. In 1998, Mohorovic became the youngest member of the New Mexico 44th Legislature when at age 27 he was elected State Representative. He was recognized in 2000 by the New Mexico Business Weekly as a top “40 Under 40” community leader. Mohorovic received his MBA from The Anderson Schools in 2002.
The Hall of Fame honorees and Young Alumni Award winners will be recognized at the Hall of Fame dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Albuquerque. The event is Thursday, April 28 with no-host cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. To-date, the sponsors for this year’s event are: Wells Fargo as the lead sponsor; Atkinson & Co., Bank of the West, Charter Bank -Mortgage - Insurance, PNM and Pulte Homes as major sponsors.
Corporate table sponsorships are available at $600 for a table of 10. The cost for individual tickets is $75. To make reservations or to inquire about table sponsorships, call The Anderson Schools Development Office at (505) 277-0880 or e-mail mchale@mgt.unm.edu by Friday, April 22.
Contacts: Lisa McHale, (505) 277-0880; Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821
Public television station KNME-TV, Channel 5 invites all young authors and artists to enter “The Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest!” The contest is open to children in kindergarten through third grade.
The stories can be fact or fiction, prose or poetry, and they can also have math or science themes. This contest encourages, challenges, and rewards children for telling their own stories, in their own words, and with their own pictures.
KNME-TV will award 12 prizes on the local level – to the top three entries from each of the four grade levels. The grand prizewinner in each grade level will be sent on to the national contest. Every contest entrant will receive a special Certificate of Achievement signed by LeVar Burton, the host of Reading Rainbow. The contest deadline is March 31, 2005.
Contest rules and entry forms are available at: KNME-TV, 1130 University Blvd., NE, Albuquerque, N.M. 87102 (between Indian School & Lomas, NE) and at the KNME Web site - Reading Rainbow Young Writers Contest, and at participating Wendy’s locations, Learning is Fun (5000 Menaul NE, Albuq.), Barnes & Noble Bookstore locations, Albuquerque Journal, all Albuquerque / Bernalillo County Public Libraries and various public libraries around New Mexico, including Farmington, Los Alamos, Taos and Santa Fe. For more information call (505) 277-4087.
The prize for the national winners will include a Reading Rainbow library set, featuring 10 Reading Rainbow episodes on DVD and related feature books. Each national winner’s story will be posted on the PBS Kids - Reading Rainbow Web site.
Local contest prizes have been provided by: Learning is Fun, Bound to be Read, pediatric dentists Joseph B. Meckler, DDS and Gary A. Meckler, DDS, children’s book author Ana Baca, and KNME-TV5. It is expected that more prizes will be announced in the spring. Local contest sponsorship was provided by Wendy’s and the Albuquerque Journal.
LOCAL PRIZES
Grand prize – 1st Place (Awarded in each grade level)
· KNME-TV will videotape the child reading his or her winning story for a spot to air on KNME-TV during the Summer months
· Story Writing Kit donated by Learning is Fun
· A Journal donated by pediatric dentists Joseph B. Meckler, DDS and
Gary A. Meckler, DDS
2nd place – (each grade level)
· A Classroom Visit / Reading, plus an autographed book, by local children’s book author Ana Baca
· Story Writing Kit donated by Learning is Fun
· A Journal donated by pediatric dentists Joseph B. Meckler, DDS and
Gary A. Meckler, DDS
3rd place - (each grade level)
· Story Writing Kit donated by Learning is Fun
· Gift Card donated by Bound To Be Read
· A Journal donated by pediatric dentists Joseph B. Meckler, DDS and
Gary A. Meckler, DDS
Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1218
John Nichols, well-known author and activist, will speak Saturday, March 26, at 2 p.m. as part of the “Open Doors: Regional Scholars and Writers Series” presented by the Center for Southwest Research in University Libraries. The talk, titled "Agua, Nuestra Vida: Water and Life in New Mexico," will be in the Willard Reading Room in the west wing of Zimmerman Library.
Nichols, a long-time resident of northern New Mexico says the lecture will be an overview about the way acequias and water distribution has traditionally worked, especially in the area near Taos.
He says “traditional uses—so important to community and culture in our state—have always been under attack by urban expansion, retirement and resort development, and corporate irrigation and conservancy districts that have caused a realignment of natural resources and human demographics that threaten the well-being of our traditional communities as well as the ecosystem that sustains them.”
Nichols adds, “Unless there is a worldwide serious reappraisal of the economic greed and mindless growth driving humanity toward an Apocalypse, we will see the culture, history, landscape, and cohesion of New Mexico destroyed by a local and national and international economic system that robs water from everybody to fuel the plundering of the earth.”
Nichols’ talk is free and open to the public.
Contact: Karen Wentworth (505) 277-5627
The Board of Regents approved a resolution Monday supporting a new charter high school to be located near the university, emphasizing math, science and technology. The school, with the proposed name High Tech High at UNM Albuquerque, will offer an accelerated curriculum and prepare all enrolled students for successful college careers. UNM and the school will work together to develop a curriculum consistent with national and international standards.
“We're excited by this opportunity to help address a critical need in our state," said UNM President Louis Caldera. "This will be a kind of 'lab school' with the potential to improve math, science and technology education for all New Mexico's public schools.”
Caldera said research projects at the school will be designed to study secondary education and will be conducted by faculty, graduate students and teachers at High Tech High. At UNM, the School of Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences and College of Education will provide opportunities for advanced students to be concurrently enrolled in college classes and participate in research projects with faculty and in university laboratories. College of Education students will be able to student teach or intern at the school.
The school’s cofounder and principal Robin Troup said, “This provides a powerful opportunity to prepare all of our graduates for college. By utilizing UNM resources and collaborating with university faculty, our students will graduate from high school having already experienced the next stage of learning.”
Through collaboration, UNM and High Tech High intend to provide an accelerated curriculum, beginning with ninth grade and continuing through a bachelor’s degree. As high school students become familiar with the UNM campus, libraries and professors, they may participate in university research, learn about careers and develop the skills necessary to succeed in higher education.
The High Tech High design is modeled after an exemplary San Diego charter school. In October 2004, the Albuquerque school was selected as an affiliate of the High Tech High Learning Network. Albuquerque founders agreed to adopt their name.
As an affiliate of a nationwide community of progressive schools, High Tech High receives network support services and funds as a sub-grantee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The school seeks a diverse student body, including low-income students, who would become first generation college graduates. The school is under the direction of a nine-member governance council, which will include three UNM faculty members. An advisory committee will also be formed at UNM to assist with curriculum development, innovative teaching strategies and fund development.
High Tech High is currently accepting student applications. Information is available at www.hthabq.org or by calling (505) 401-6131. Interested teachers are also encouraged to visit the site.
Contact: Greg Johnston, (505) 277-1816
Associate Professor Michelle Arthur, Anderson Schools of Management, recently had an article recognized as one of the top 20 research papers for the annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.
Arthur’s paper, “Share Price Reactions to Work-Family Initiatives: An Institutional Perspective,” was selected for the top 20 by a committee of more than 40 scholars from eight countries and more than 2,000 articles published in 52 leading English-language journals in North America and Europe. Sixty papers were nominated in the initial round and the top 20 were identified during a second round of interviews.
“The study was selected because it was one of the first studies to show a relationship between work-family programs and firm value,” said Arthur. “I am delighted to have my paper selected for the award, especially as the body of work addressing work-family issues continues to grow and become more sophisticated.
“Researchers have suggested that work-family programs allow firms to attract, retain and increase the efficiency of employees. This research goes a step further by showing that work-family programs affect the bottom-line. In doing so, this study may provide an added incentive for firms to adopt work-family programs.”
Arthur’s research consisted of a study of 130 announcements in the Wall Street Journal that illustrated a significant, positive relationship between work-family human resource initiatives and share price. Institutional theory provided the theoretical underpinning for such a relationship. Share price reactions occurring both before and after “legitimation” of a program were examined.
Arthur found the work-family initiative and shareholder return relationship was higher in high-tech industries and, to a lesser extent, in industries with higher proportions of female employees. Implications of the results were discussed and suggestions for future research presented in the paper.
The award, sponsored by the Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work and Family, is named for Rosabeth Moss Kanter, identified by leading scholars as the person having the most influence on the modern research literature on work and family. The proposals contained in her 1977 monograph “Work and Family in the United States: A Critical Review and Agenda for Research and Policy” remain timely almost a quarter-century later.
The award is given to the author(s) of the best research paper published during a given year and raises awareness of high quality work-family research among the scholar, consultant and practitioner communities. It also helps to foster debate about what the standards of quality for work-family research should be, and ultimately will raise those standards. And it identifies the “best of the best” on which to base future research.
Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821
Leonard Weinglass, attorney at law and defender of civil and human rights, will speak on “Justice and Hypocrisy: The Case of the Cuban Five,” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 17, at the University of New Mexico School of Law, room 2402.
Weinglass will speak on the case of Antonio Guerrero, one of five Cubans convicted of charges including espionage and conspiracy to murder and serving sentences from 15 years to life. The five Cubans have appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta, arguing that they were in south Florida doing counter-terrorism work against Cuban American organizations with a history of terrorism against Cuba and that an impartial verdict would be impossible for any jury in Miami due to the influence of right wing Cuban Americans there.
Weinglass is nationally known for his role on the legal team of the Chicago 7 in the 1970s. His clients have included Mumia Abdul Jamal and Kiko Martínez, the latter a Chicano activist attorney accused of mailing letter bombs in Denver in 1973, whose papers are available at the Center for Southwest Research in Zimmerman Library.
Join the University of New Mexico Department of Biology in celebrating the scientific achievements of UNM students at its 14th annual research day Friday, April 1. Undergraduate and graduate students will display their original research through oral and poster presentations, followed by a keynote lecture on “Marine Biodiversity: From Coral to Microbes” by Nancy Knowlton, director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation and professor of marine biology.
“You will be quite amazed not only by the broad spectrum of activities of our students, but also by how much they have accomplished, by their enthusiasm and by their ability to explain it all to you,” said Eric Loker, chair of the biology department.
Student poster presentations will be on display in the first and second floor hallways of Castetter Hall from noon on Thursday, March 31 through Friday, April 1, with oral presentations on Friday from 9 to 10:15 a.m. and 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Poster judging will take place in two sessions, from 10 a.m. to noon and 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Knowlton's keynote lecture, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Northrop 122, will address her research in marine biodiversity, drawing on a variety of techniques including molecular genetics, field studies and mathematical modeling. The keynote will be followed by an awards ceremony from 5 to 5:30 p.m.
Contact: Sari Krosinsky, (505) 277-5813
Mary Helen Lagasse is the winner of this year’s Premio Atzlán prize for her novel, “The Fifth Sun,” from Curbstone Press. She will present a talk and receive her prize on Thursday, March 24 at 4 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room of Zimmerman Library. Lagasse will also hold an open discussion with interested students from 10 a.m. to noon on March 25. Both events are free and open to the public.
“We are pleased to reintroduce this literary prize competition in honor of Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya,” said Camilla Alire, dean, University Libraries. “The Anaya's initially established the prize to encourage Chicano and Chicana writers to continue with their work, and it is an honor to be able to support that project.”
Lagasse’s novel “The Fifth Sun” is a story of a young Mexican woman, Mercedes, who leaves her village to work as a housemaid in New Orleans. The fast paced novel takes her through adventures with her struggle to raise her children, her deportation and her attempt to re-cross the river to reunite with her children.
She is currently working on a novel based on the construction of the 1830’s era New Basin Canal in New Orleans where hundreds of Irish emigrants worked and died under harrowing conditions.
A native of New Orleans, La., Lagasse attended parochial schools and received her bachelor of arts from Tulane University in 1978. She is currently working toward a master's of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans. She is bilingual and has worked as a freelance writer in the New Orleans area.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627
New regulations concerning the security of electronic protected health information (ePHI) go into effect April 21, 2005. These regulations are another part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or HIPAA. The first part of the act, known as the HIPAA Privacy Rule, went into effect in 2003.
The HIPAA Security Rule is designed to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of protected health information that is created, maintained, received, or transmitted through computer systems. UNM is required to make sure we safeguard ePHI using technological, physical and administrative security measures.
The purpose is to protect this information against reasonably anticipated threats or hazards to its security and integrity. The HIPAA Security Rule specifies sanctions and appropriate protection for the use or disclosure of this information in a manner that is not permitted by HIPAA.
UNM employees who were required to take the HIPAA Privacy training must also take a HIPAA Security course. This training can be found on the UNM Hospitals training web site at: HIPAA Security Course.
UNM clinical facilities, departments and research units with computer systems that contain ePHI are required to participate in security assessments coordinated by the Health Sciences Center Security Officer, Barney Metzner.
If you have questions regarding these new security measures, please contact the Health Sciences Center Security Officer at itsecurityofficer@salud.unm.edu.
Contact: Sally Bowler-Hill, (505) 272-0691
Prepare yourself, because the man that America has been buzzing about, Jon Heder, the actor who portrayed Napoleon Dynamite in the film of the same name, will be coming to New Mexico for one night. The event will take place in the Ballroom of the Student Union Building on Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 7:30 pm.
How did this movie become such a phenomenon? In June 2004, a new kind of hero was introduced. A hero with a red 'fro and a friend name Pedro. Together, they achieved a triumph in their quest to win the Student Body President election at their school.
Complete with memorable characters and catch phrases such as "Sweet..." and "My lips hurt real bad!," the movie has not only garnered a cult following, but a massive audience, and now many fans wish to meet the man who played their new favorite movie character. ASUNM Student Special Events (SSE) is giving that chance.
The program will include a talk by Heder, a live question and answer session, and a look-alike contest, in which the winner will receive invitations to a private meet and greet with Heder later in the evening.
The event is free for UNM students with a valid ID and $5 for the general public. Tickets will be sold at the door. The fun does not stop with this event. The following Tuesday, March 29, at 7 p.m., ASUNM Student Special Events presents: Allah Made Me Funny! Official Comedy Tour in the Student Union Building Ballroom.
"The concept of this tour is to make a comprehensive effort to provide effective, significant, and appropriate comedy with an Islamic perspective, which is both mainstream and cross-cultural. The idea is to provide a venue whereby
Muslims and non-Muslims can feel safe, relevant, and inclusive of an experience where humor is used to bridge gaps of bias, intolerance, and other social ills that are pre and post 9/11 relevant," says Preacher Moss, co-founder, and one of the featured comedians on the tour. Moss has written comedy for NBC's Saturday Night Live as well as actor Damon Wayans.
The other two comedians featured include Azeem, who has shared the stage with such comics as Steve Harvey and Adam Ferrarra, and Azhar Usman, who is a standup comedian, lecturer and community activist. These three comics
promise a show that is memorable, and a laugh-out-loud experience.
This event is free. For more information on either of these events feel free to contact ASUNM Student Special Events at (505) 277-5602.
Contact: Keith Lopez, (505) 277-5602