Paul Hutton, Distinguished Professor, history, will be featured in "Cowboys and Outlaws" a new special series on the History Channel to air in two-hour segments at 7-9 p.m. (Mountain Standard Time) on consecutive Sundays, Nov. 22, 29 and Dec. 6. Hutton, a frequent contributor to television documentaries, will appear again in January on the American Experience on PBS in a documentary on Wyatt Earp.
Photo: Paul Hutton
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
This week “New Mexico in Focus,” KNME-TV’s weekly hour-long public affairs show, will premiere a documentary on children whose parent’s are in jail. Titled, "Invisible Children," this KNME documentary will show the challenges these children face, how they cope with losing a parent to prison and what they are doing to overcome their parent’s example. “New Mexico in Focus” will air on KNME-TV, channel 5.1 on Friday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. and will repeat on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 6:30 a.m.
After the documentary, host Gene Grant will interview a panel of policy makers and experts to address what New Mexico can do to help these children.
Joining Grant on the first panel will be retired educator Helen Davis, Dr. Julia Klco, Behavioral Health Director for the Juvenile Justice Department, Jennifer Thompson, program director for PB&J Family Services, and Judge John Romero, Jr with the 2nd Judicial District Children’s Court. The second panel Grant will be talking with will include CYFD Secretary Dorian Dodson, Deb Martinez, program director for the Juvenile Justice Department, Patrick Snedeker, warden for the San Miguel County Detention Center and Ron Torres, Chief of Corrections for the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center.
Please note, there will be no “The Line” panel on this week’s episode.
New Mexico in Focus can also be seen on KNME’s Digital Channel 9.1 on Saturdays at 5 p.m. Additionally, viewers can also watch it online at: KNME.
“New Mexico in Focus” is produced by Kevin McDonald and Kathy Wimmer and closed captioning has been made possible by a gift from Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs.
Media Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1812; e-mail: etodd@knme.org
UNM's Parking and Transportation Services will host a grand-opening ceremony for its new one-stop resource for alternative transportation information and trip-planning in the Student Union Building on Tuesday, Nov. 24 at 10 a.m. The Transportation Information Center (TIC), a new service offered by UNM Parking and Transportation Services (PATS), will be staffed Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is intended to enhance and encourage student, staff and faculty use of alternative transportation.
As part of the grand-opening, the first 200 visitors will receive a limited quantity coupon book featuring great deals from local businesses accessible via alternative transportation. Additionally, representatives from ABQRide and the New Mexico Railrunner will be on-hand to answer any questions you may have about their services.
"The TIC will not only make alternative transportation more visible on UNM's campus, but will provide information necessary to make alternative transportation more accessible," said Cynthia Martin, PATS' program planning manager.
Many students, staff, and faculty know all about the ABQRide Free Bus Pass Program, the Zipcar car-sharing program or the benefits of bicycling, but many have never tried these modes of transportation before or thought about how multiple modes of transportation can provide convenient and cost-effective alternatives to driving a vehicle. The new TIC will be the place to reduce user hesitation by providing comprehensive information about how the programs and services work.
At the TIC, students, staff, and faculty can obtain a ABQRide Free Bus Pass sticker, receive one-on-one trip-planning guidance, take advantage of trip-planning tools available 24/7 from the internet and sign-up for the City of Albuquerque's Guaranteed Ride Home, get information on the other alternative transportation programs available to the UNM community including bicycle lockers, bicycle registration, discount bicycle maintenance for the UNM community, carpooling, the Zipcar car-sharing program and more.
For more information contact Danielle Gilliam at, dgilliam@unm.edu or visit: Parking and Transportation Services.
Media Contact: Benson Hendrix, (505) 277-1816; e-mail: bhendrix@unm.edu
University Counsel Patrick Apodaca has announced he has accepted the position of senior vice president and general counsel for PNM Resources, Inc. He has headed up UNM’s legal team since 2006.
“This has been an extremely difficult decision for me, as serving UNM as its University Counsel has been professionally and personally fulfilling,” said Apodaca. "I will sincerely miss my colleagues at this great institution, and especially working with our talented legal staff. It has been an honor and a joy to serve with the University's leadership and so many other dedicated individuals throughout the University community."
Apodaca adds that the position at PNM is a career advancement that will allow him to utilize his skills in the state and federal regulatory arena as well as with transactional work.
UNM President David J. Schmidly credits Apodaca with organizing a highly professional legal office for the university. “A large public research university with a health sciences component is truly a complex enterprise, and our attorneys are called upon to assist in a wide range of issues and transactions. Patrick has built an office with great expertise in a remarkable range of disciplines.”
Apodaca will remain at UNM through the end of 2009. Schmidly said an interim University Counsel will be named shortly.
The UNM Bookstore on main campus will hold an After Thanksgiving sale on Friday, Nov. 27 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Great savings are available to all holiday shoppers.
Door Busters: 10 to 11a.m. only, free Satellite coffee (one tall regular coffee); and the book “Farolitos of Christmas,” by Rudolfo Anaya is available for $7.98, regularly $16.95
Values for Holiday Shoppers: Select Champion sportswear at 50 percent off; and Skullcandy Inkd’ headphones for $9.99, regularly $19.95
Last Game Day Friday: All Lobowear and spirit merchandise 25 percent off, plus holiday shopping for all Lobos on your list.
The UNM Bookstore is located at 2301 Central Ave. NE at the intersection of Cornell and Central. Parking will be validated in the Cornell Parking Structure for up to one hour with purchase.
For more information visit UNM Bookstore, or contact Anicia Esposito, (505) 277-9752 or e-mail, aespo@unm.edu.
Program counts toward UNM’s $1 million United Way goal
Meal Exchange is a Canadian based hunger awareness event with the University of New Mexico being the first United States educational participant. Now in its second year, UNM’s Skip-A-Meal initiative was a great success, with more than 1,400 meals raised from dorm residents.
“The total from $3 per meal and our other donations was about $4,500. The donated LoboCash, dining points and monetary donations was about $250. We are waiting for exact numbers, but we have received confirmation that it is very close to this amount,” said Tullivan Begay, president, UNM Meal Exchange.
Begay said that the LoboCard office was essential in this process because they had to enter every resident Banner ID number in by hand.
“This year we are donating to the Storehouse, New Mexico’s largest food pantry; and the Bethel Community Storehouse, a food bank that assists impoverished citizens of the Greater Estancia Valley. Seeing the huge contribution from UNM residents to hungry New Mexicans is heart-warming,” said Marina Weisert, UNM Meal Exchange campus relations chair.
As with last year’s donations, the amount raised this year goes toward UNM's $1 million United Way goal.
Begay said, “We wanted to increase participation, especially from dorm residents and set an ambitious goal of 1,000 meals.” Weisert coordinated the Residence Life, recruiting a team of about 20 to recruit residents to donate a portion of one or two of their La Posada dining hall meals.
Any student could donate a meal, LoboCash, dining points and/or cash. “Chartwell’s, our campus food service provider, donated $3 per meal donated, representing approximately the cost of the food minus overhead,” Weisert said.
The Skip-A-Meal team started three weeks ago throughout the dorms, and last week the group set up a table where residents could donate.
“We used the motto ‘No resident left unasked,’ in order for the Skip-A-Meal team to surpass the 1,000 meal goal," said Weisert. "This year we made the event educational by providing contributors with research about hunger concerns in the U.S. and New Mexico. We provided pages with U.S. and New Mexico hunger facts as well as descriptions of the two organizations to whom we’re providing the donations."
The Anderson School of Management will host an open meeting of its Investment Management Program on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 6 p.m. in Anderson’s Jackson Student Center. Attendees will hear presentations by students currently enrolled in Anderson investment management courses.
Investment professionals, who comprise Anderson’s Investment Advisory Committee, will evaluate students’ stock and portfolio recommendations and assist the students in their investment analysis.
Under the guidance of Anderson faculty, Anderson students manage millions of real dollars in investments. Committee members represent the N.M. State Investment Council, local investment firms, and other business community partners, and they offer valuable first-hand feedback to student stock analysts and portfolio managers.
Media Contact: Jennifer Bayley, (505) 277-6172; e-mail: bayley@mgt.unm.edu
Computer Science researchers finding solutions to frustrating program problems
We’ve all found them, those little kinks in a software program we have to work around because the program doesn’t work exactly as it should. Now there may be a solution in sight for some of those irritating problems. A UNM Computer Science research group is testing a program that automatically and efficiently removes bugs from off-the-shelf legacy software.
Photo: Stephanie Forrest
Computer Science Department Chair Stephanie Forrest and Westley Weimer, an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, are leading the research group which includes UVA graduate student Claire Le Goues, and research assistant Than Vu Nguyen from UNM.
Initial results were presented at the International Conference of Software Engineering where “Automatically Finding Patches Using Genetic Programming” won a ‘Best Paper’ award. A follow up paper presented at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, “A Genetic Programming Approach to Automated Software Repair” also won a ‘Best Paper’ award.’
The papers show that computers debug software a little differently from the way humans approach the job. The researchers have developed a method that uses evolutionary methods to search for program repairs. The candidate repairs are vetted using a predefined set of test cases.
Once the error is found, the program experiments with possible solutions until it finds the variant solution that will solve the problem. The researchers note the best fix is the minimal fix.
Forrest says her group is likely to offer the program as an open software solution. She has an NSF grant that will allow continued work on the program.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Anderson professors co-chair international conference
The 2009 Water, Innovation, Technology, & Sustainability (WITS) Conference will be held Monday-Tuesday, Nov. 23-24, 2009, in the city of Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil. The 2009 WITS Conference is organized by co-chairs Raul Gouvea and Sul Kassicieh from the UNM Anderson School of Management.
The 2009 WITS Conference will enhance UNM’s international relationships by providing professional growth and development, the opportunity to present company innovation and academic research to professionals from around the world, international networking, and the opportunity to learn about the latest trends in water technology/innovation and sustainable strategies.
WITS presenters from the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, South Africa, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, The Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Italy, Russia, and China will attend the conference and present their work.
Mark Modzelewski, executive director of the Water Innovations Alliance and Member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) will offer a keynote address at the conference.
Presenters from New Mexico include Ned Godshall, CEO of Altela, Inc., and Anderson School Foundation Board President; John W. Brown, CFA, Sandia Capital Partners and past president of the Anderson School Foundation Board; George ‘Sandy’ Sanzero, Ray E. Finley and R. Bruce Berry of Sandia National Laboratories; and Raul Gouvêa, Sul Kassicieh, Steve Walsh, and Dr. Raj Mahto of the UNM Anderson School of Management.
As stated by Fortune magazine, “Water promises to be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th century: the precious commodity that determines the wealth of nations” (6/15/05). The WITS Conference will address the role of technology and innovation in enhancing water safety, availability, quality and sustainability. Quality of water resources is rapidly becoming a determinant of a country’s competitive advantage in a globalized economy, and water stress is one of today’s most pressing global issues.
The global population has doubled in the past 50 years, while the demand for water has multiplied three times over. Water is essential for economic development and survival in developed, emerging and developing economies.
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil was chosen at the conference location because the Brazilian Amazon is one of the world’s richest water resource regions but still faces sustainability challenges. Located near the joining of the Rio Negro and Rio Solimões along the Brazilian Amazon, Manaus is a city of 1.7 million people, the capital of the State of Amazonas, an industrial center, and a popular ecotourism destination.
For more information visit: WITS Conference.
Media Contact: Jennifer Bayley, (505) 277-6172; e-mail: bayley@mgt.unm.edu
The UNM Art Education Faculty and Masley Gallery will showcase the Fall 2009 Graduation MA Exhibition beginning Monday, Nov. 30 through Friday, Dec. 18. Special presentations and a reception will be held Friday, Dec. 4, from 5-7 p.m. MA Grads will give their final presentations beginning at 5 p.m. A reception with refreshments will follow the presentations. Studio artwork, scholarly writing and a curriculum will also be on display.
Image: Detail of a Mosaic Table by Lisa Domenici (MA '05).
Faculty, staff and students are all invited to attend an exhibition featuring the dynamic work of graduating MA students: Juliette Beck, Robert Carr, Jill Dooner, Kelly Eckel, Siyoung Lee, Troy Meek, and Nikki Turman.
Located in Masley Hall on the UNM campus, Masley Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. For more information visit: Art Education Program and Masley Gallery or e-mail, arted@unm.edu.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
The DataONE office, based within both the Office of the Vice President of Research and University Libraries at the University of New Mexico, has been awarded $20 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support its scientific research activities for the next five years. The project is under the direction of William Michener, professor and director of e-science initiatives at University Libraries.
Photo: William Michener
Researchers at UNM have partnered with dozens of other universities and agencies to create DataONE, a global data access and preservation network for earth and environmental scientists that will support breakthroughs in environmental research.
DataONE is designed to provide universal access to data about life on Earth and the environment that sustains it. The underlying technologies will provide open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data.
Expected users include scientists, educators, librarians, resource managers, and the public. By providing easy and open access to a broad range of science data, as well as tools for managing, analyzing, and visualizing data, DataONE will be transformative in the speed with which researchers will be able to assemble and analyze data sets and in the types of problems they will be able to address.
UNM President David J. Schmidly said, “I want to congratulate Professor Michener and his team on their success in receiving this prestigious NSF award. DataONE places UNM in a national and international leadership position in these rapidly-growing disciplines, and is an excellent demonstration of the talents and expertise of UNM's faculty."
DataONE is one of two $20 million awards made this year as part of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) DataNet program. The collaboration of universities and government agencies coalesced to address the mounting need for organizing and serving up vast amounts of highly diverse and inter-related but often-incompatible scientific data. Resulting studies will range from research that illuminates fundamental environmental processes to identifying environmental problems and potential solutions.
“I want to thank Professor Michener for his leadership and hard work that went into making DataONE possible. I look forward to working with Bill and the entire DataONE team as we begin to embark on this exciting new project," said Julia Fulghum, Vice President for Research.
The DataONE team will study how a vast digital data network can provide secure and permanent access into the future, and also encourage scientists to share their information. The team will help determine data citation standards, as well as create the tools for organizing, managing, and publishing data.
The resulting computing and processing “cyberinfrastructure” will be made permanently available for use by the broader national and international science communities. DataONE is led by the University of New Mexico, and includes additional partner organizations across the United States as well as from Europe, Africa, South America, Asia, and Australia.
This grant is important nationally, and locally especially for our research community. University Libraries Dean Martha Bedard said, “The University Libraries are key partners in UNM research initiatives, and are excited and committed to supporting the emerging area of data curation, which this grant seeks to support in sophisticated ways.”
DataONE will build a set of geographically distributed Coordinating Nodes that play an important role in facilitating all of the activities of the global network, as well as a network of Member Nodes that host relevant data and tools. The initial three Coordinating Nodes will be at the University of New Mexico, UC Santa Barbara (housed at the Davidson Library), and at the University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Member Nodes will be located in association with universities, libraries, research networks, and agencies worldwide.
DataONE includes experts from library, computer, and environmental sciences explicitly to bridge these worlds and to develop an infrastructure to serve science for many decades to come.
New Mexico’s supercomputer, operated by the New Mexico Computing Applications Center, played a vital role in the application process for the grant awarded to UNM. The NMCAC and its supercomputer, which is considered to be the fastest publicly available supercomputer in the world, committed to provide critical support for the project.
“The supercomputer helped the state get the grants and helped UNM to win the awards,” said J. Leonard ‘Lenny’ Martinez, Chief Operating Officer of NMCAC. “We’re thrilled with the outcome and look forward to participating in these very important projects.”
About William Michener...
William Michener is professor and director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries at the University of New Mexico. He has a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of South Carolina and has published extensively in the marine, ecological, and information sciences. During the past decade he has directed several large interdisciplinary research programs and cyberinfrastructure projects including the NSF Biocomplexity Program, the Development Program for the NSF-funded Long-Term Ecological Research Network, and numerous cyberinfrastructure projects that focus on developing information technologies for the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
He currently directs the New Mexico DoE and NSF EPSCoR Programs and the DataONE project—an NSF initiative designed to preserve and promote the use of biological, ecological, and environmental data. He is especially passionate about changing the scientific and academic cultures so that data are recognized and treated as important products of the scientific enterprise—essentially equivalent to publications in their potential value to science and society.
He has authored four books related to ecological informatics and more than 70 journal articles and book chapters. He is a Certified Senior Ecologist and serves as Editor of Ecological Archives and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Ecological Informatics. He has directed several large interdisciplinary research programs and cyberinfrastructure projects including the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Biocomplexity Program, the Development Program for the NSF-funded Long-Term Ecological Research Network, and numerous cyberinfrastructure research and development projects. His current efforts focus on developing information technologies for the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Event features artists in recognition of Native American Heritage Month
The American Indian Business Leaders (AIBL) is hosting the inaugural Lobo Red Tuesday Indian Market, an Arts & Crafts event in recognition of Native American Heritage Month. This event marks the culmination of various UNM Department and student organization-hosted events. Lobo Red Tuesday Indian Market was organized and implemented by AIBL. The event will take place Nov. 24, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Ballroom B in the UNM Student Union Building. The event is free and open to the public.
This student organized event is the first of a series of events AIBL plans to host throughout the 2009-2010 school year. Visitors and attendees will be able to view and purchase artwork from various Native American artists. Planning and hosting this event gives members of AIBL the opportunity to undertake the processes of organizing and implementing an event that will allow the organization to grow.
"Organizing and hosting this event gives our organization the experience that we may not get from textbooks. Not only do we have the opportunity to contribute to UNM's recognition of Native American History Month, but we can
gain valuable experience. We are able to implement various aspects of business including budgeting, marketing, planning and public relations. We get to share our culture with others on campus and learn something unique", says Allison Sarracino, 2009-10 AIBL President.
AIBL's Lobo Red Tuesday Indian Market is currently still accepting applications for artists. For more information visit: American Indian Business Leaders or e-mail, aibl@unm.edu for more information and to apply to become apart of this AIBL event.
Associate Professor Carolyn Woodward’s Jane Austen class offers a Readers Theatre presentation of "Lovers Vows," in connection with their study of Austen’s novel "Mansfield Park," on Tuesday, Dec. 1 and Thursday, Dec. 3 in Humanities 108. The event is free and open to the public.
Image: Jane Austen
“In 'Mansfield Park,' the young people get into trouble for putting on a play. Not only that, but it’s clear they should be getting into trouble. It’s not a smart thing for them to be doing,” Woodward said. The play itself, by Elizabeth Inchbald, is a very sentimental 18th century play, she said.
“I thought it would be interesting for us, while studying the novel, to put on the play. We are doing a very abridged version of the play, performing it as the characters in the book would. The students understand the sexual tensions and the problematic nature of these young people putting it on,” Woodward said.
Woodward’s love of Jane Austen (1775-1817) goes back to her graduate studies 20 years ago. She was one of her major authors and, coincidentally, Mansfield Park was the first Austen novel she read.
“I love her because of her sentences; they are like poetry. I love how she is so ironic that it inspires her readers to want to change things. She doesn’t write polemics, but she writes in a way that instills passion,” she said.
As Austen wrote, “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Besides the Austen class, which is cross-listed in English, Media Arts and Theatre, Woodward teaches courses in Enlightenment, early development of fiction, and women writers. Woodward came to UNM in 1987 from the University of Washington, where her doctoral work centered in the 18th century, narrative and feminist theory, and the writers Sarah Fielding, John Milton and Jane Austen.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Popular incentives for the month of November have been announced for the 2009 UNM ‘Live United’ United Way campaign. Among the incentives are tickets to the Mariachi Christmas, Peking Acrobats and Lobo men’s basketball. Anyone who donates to the ‘Live United’ campaign during the month will be eligible for great prizes courtesy of Popejoy Presents and Lobo men’s basketball. The drawing for the prizes will be held the first week in December.
Additionally, all those who contribute to the ‘Live United’ campaign are reminded to wear their United Way pin, arriving via mail, to be eligible for additional prizes.
Every Friday during the course of the campaign, a group of volunteers, known as the United Way undercover prize patrol, will be around campus looking to award prizes to pin-wearing individuals. So remember to turn in your pledge forms and wear your pin every Friday for your shot at winning some great prizes. A few of the prize patrol offerings include Starbuck cards, haircuts, food and much more.
We all want to help others and United Way makes it easy. If you’re still looking for a reason to contribute, here are 10 reasons:
1. Roadrunner Food Bank - whose needs have risen 40% in the last two years.
2. Title I Homeless Project, Tutoring - providing the means, motivation and encouragement needed for homeless students to reach their potential as productive members of society in an educational environment that treats all students with dignity and respect.
3. Camp Rising Sun - a specialized summer camp experience for kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders, which also provides respite for parents and caregivers.
4. UNM’s School of Medicine, Division of Dental Hygiene - educating dental hygienists through the transmission of dental science knowledge acquired from research and patient care. The Student Clinic offers a full range of preventive and therapeutic dental hygiene services to our community.
5. Meals-on-Wheels - and their fleet of volunteers who deliver nourishing meals and smiles every day to people who are homebound, physically-ill or handicapped.
6. UNM’s Agora Crisis Center - providing free confidential, compassionate help to anyone in need of emotional support.
7. UNM’s STEM Education Outreach Programs – Promoting and keeping Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education in New Mexico.
8. UNM’s Popejoy’s Schooltime Series - where professional performing artists create educational experiences to encourage and support literacy, creativity, and communication; much needed in these times of cuts in art programs.
9. Empowering Victims of Violence through the Community Fund - Assisting both adult and child victims of violence by providing a multi-disciplinary, accessible, and culturally appropriate service delivery system.
10. KNME-TV - Presenting high quality programming which challenges the mind and enriches our quality of life, as well as serving as a forum for thoughtful civil discourse on issues that face our state and our nation.
For more information on the UNM ‘Live United’ campaign individuals may contact Campaign Coordinator Connie Beimer at (505) 277-0204, via e-mail, unmuw@unm.edu or visit: Live United.
Media Contact: Mara Kerkez, (505) 277-1989; e-mail: marakez6@unm.edu
Christopher Mead, professor of architecture and art history, has been named a Regents’ Professor, an honor the university bestows upon a faculty member. Mead has taught at UNM since 1980, where he holds tenure as well as a joint appointment in the School of Architecture and Planning and in the College of Fine Arts.
Photo: Christopher Mead
From 2004 to 2009, he served as dean of the College of Fine Arts. He received his bachelor’s of art summa cum laude from the University of California at Riverside, and both his master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mead has served as administrator and academic during his tenure at UNM. “I never thought of administration as what I do, but as what I do as a service obligation to the university,” he said. As dean or as professor, he remains committed to research and teaching, recognizing them as a core value in higher education.
“Being an active, engaged scholar enhances the quality of one’s teaching. To be named a Regents’ Professor is an important recognition of my scholarship,” he said.
Mead will use the funding attached to his appointment as a Regents’ Professor to support the research and publication of both his forthcoming book on Victor Baltard and his study-in-progress on Japanese modern architecture, called Hypospace.
Hypospace takes Mead from his comfort zone of European and North American architecture. “For me, going to Japan was going in a new direction, to a new country. It makes me stretch my mental muscles – learn a new culture, history and architecture,” he said. Both Japan and New Mexico share enduring, ancient traditions while being firmly rooted in the modern age, he said.
“As a historian with an academic appointment in a professional school, I believe it important to publish books on contemporary architecture, even as I build on my national reputation by extending my expertise outside my recognized strengths in Europe and North America to include Asia,” Mead said.
Mead, past president of the Society of Architectural Historians, has written and lectured widely on European and American architecture and urbanism. He awaits publication of his new book on French architecture by Penn State Press and a UNM Press title he wrote on Antoine Predock.
Mead was named a 2004-2006 Presidential Teaching Fellow. He received the 1992 Faculty Achievement Award from the Burlington Foundation, was initiated in 2001 as an Honorary Member of Phi Eta Sigma and was named in 2005 a Distinguished Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars.
Mead served as associate chair and chair of the Department of Art and Art History, and as interim dean and dean of the College of Fine Arts. His community service includes board appointments to the New Mexico Cultural Properties Review Committee, the Harwood Foundation, the Albuquerque Arts Alliance, the Albuquerque Youth Symphony, 516 Arts and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.
In 2009, he received the Arts Alliance President’s Award for leadership in educating the community on the economic importance of the arts to Albuquerque and Bernalillo County. He served nationally as a 10 year board member and officer of the Society of Architectural Historians, including service as president in 2000-02.
In 1984, the UNM Board of Regents initiated a program to enhance recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty by recognizing and designating them as a “Regents' Professor or Regents' Lecturer.” The three-year appointment includes a monetary award which can be used for salary supplement, professional development or toward research. Professorships carry $8,300 each of the three years and the Lectureships $2,900 each of the three years.
Recipients are selected at the college-level from nominations submitted by the departments within each college or school and they carry the title for the rest of their academic career.
Raqui Martinez, director, Faculty Affairs and Services, said, “There have been 219 Regents Professors and Lecturers including the current recipients. Along with Chris Mead there are seven other new recipients.”
They are: Linda Hall, History; Zachary Sharp, Earth & Planetary Sciences; Margaret Werner-Washburne, Biology, Abhaya Datye, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering; Sanjay Krishna, Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Carol Suzuki and Eric Gerding, Law.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Over the past six years the Center for Regional Studies at the University of New Mexico has partnered with the University of New Mexico Press to provide books for New Mexico libraries. This fall the CRS will provide 73 UNMP titles for distribution to 65 public libraries across New Mexico.
“The Center for Regional Studies is committed to linking UNM with people, institutions, and communities in New Mexico through sharing of resources. Part of our mission is to promote knowledge about New Mexico and beyond through the dissemination of materials such as UNM Press books. CRS is pleased to cooperate with the UNM Press in this rewarding project,” says Tobías Durán, Director of the Center for Regional Studies.
The CRS supports research and teaching with a focus on New Mexico, the U.S.A. Southwest, Mexico, the Americas and Spain. Through its acquisition and preservation of manuscript, diary, document, photographic, and oral history collections, the CRS encourages a learning community, as exemplified in its donation to State libraries.
Celebrating its 80th year, the University of New Mexico Press is the largest book publisher in the state and is an important voice in educating the public about the Southwest through general interest and scholarly books and history textbooks for elementary, middle school, and high school students.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
The Rio Grande is in trouble, threatened by the growth and demands of cities, farming communities and nature itself. At the next “Science Café,” held at the KNME-TV studios, located at 1130 University Boulevard NE, University of New Mexico assistant professor Julie Coonrod will discuss the historical changes of the Rio Grande and restoration efforts taking place statewide for the river. KNME-TV’s “Science Café” will be held on Saturday, Nov. 21, from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
This event will begin with a clip from “Rio Grande: Live River or Dead Ditch,” a KNME-TV original production before Prof. Coonrod’s discussion.
Coonrod is a registered professional engineer in the state of New Mexico. She obtained her PhD in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. Since starting at UNM in 1997, Coonrod had focused on issues relating to the Middle Rio Grande region. Coonrod is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Water Resources Association.
KNME Science Cafés are presented with support from New Mexico Tech, Lockheed Martin/Sandia National Labs, Applied Research Technologies and The Online NewsHour Science Reports.
Admission is free, but a reservation is required – seating is limited and are issued on a “first come, first serve” basis. Please contact Rose Poston at 277-2396 or rposton@knme.org to RSVP.
Media Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1812; e-mail: etodd@knme.org
Geraldine Forbes Isais, director, architecture program, UNM School of Architecture and Planning, was recently honored with a Faculty Hall of Fame Award by Woodbury University in California. The award is given to faculty who have demonstrated significant commitment to Woodbury students, to education and the institution.
Photo: UNM Director of Architecture Geraldine Forbes Isais, receives a Faculty Hall of Fame Award from Woodbury University VP for Academic Affairs David Rosen.
David Rosen, Woodbury executive vice president for academic affairs, said, “Geraldine Forbes Isais served Woodbury University with distinction as a professor, as chair of the architecture department, as an assistant dean of the School of Architecture and Design, and as director of the San Diego program. Forbes Isais helped found the program in 1998 and the success stories from San Diego have not abated since. The San Diego Architecture program wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for her inspiring leadership.”
Forbes Isais said, “It is a wonderful time to reflect on having achieved those milestones. I consider myself lucky to have been there at that time.”
Forbes Isais looked back on her time at Woodbury and its influence on her career.
Woodbury, she said is an old institution. Established in 1884, it is five years older than UNM. “It had a huge impact on Los Angeles in interesting ways. I happened to get hired after Woodbury sold its downtown campus and relocated to a new campus in Burbank,” she said.
At that time, the school had just established its architecture program, which was unaccredited. She helped it get accredited and then served as the director of the program. Forbes Isais established a community design studio on Hollywood Boulevard, near Vine. “It had an interesting dynamic in a different kind of location than what people think of as a ‘community studio.’ The area had off-beat Hollywood types – Soviet Armenians and a large LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender] population.”
While assistant dean for special projects, Forbes Isais set up a program with San Diego Community College District to provide a seamless education for students to transfer into the architecture program. Recognizing that they were working on architecture and urban environments that impacted both sides of the U.S./Mexican border, Forbes Isais hired faculty from both sides of the border.
Following her tenure at Woodbury, Forbes Isais returned to the office of Jubany Architecture where she worked as director of design. “I felt I’d lost my authority to speak about architecture and the profession. My former partner still had the office and asked me to come back. I brought some of my best students to work with me,” she said.
She knew she would return to academia. Her experiences at Woodbury, where she often was invited to participate in reviews, and in the architecture office prepared her to come to UNM, she said.
“Those experiences allowed me to have a sense of authority about faculty work, the quality of student work and what it take to get there,” she said. Immediately upon her arrival at UNM the architecture program faced an accreditation visit under her leadership. The program received for a full six year term.
She is still actively engaged in architecture across the borderlands. She and Dean Roger Schluntz recently visited Centro Fox, Guanajuato, Mexico, where she hopes to co-locate some UNM/Centro Fox initiatives.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
The UNM Women’s Resource Center hosts Creativity for Peace in a brown bag presentation, on Wednesday, Nov. 18, noon-1 p.m. at the Student Union Building, Santa Ana rooms.
Creativity for Peace, a summer camp outside Santa Fe, has helped 146 young women from Palestine and Israel transform suspicion, fear and hatred into understanding and friendship. Dottie Indyke, executive director, will speak about how these young women rise above prejudice and violence to influence their families, communities and countries.
Previously, Indyke was a journalist and art critic for publications such as ARTnews and Southwest Art, vice president of programming for the National Cable Television Association and co-founder of the Peabody Award-winning Children’s Radio Theater.
The event is cosponsored by UNM Women Studies and the Feminist Research Institute.
For more information call (505) 277-3716.
María Verónica Iglesias-Swanson, National Hispanic Cultural Center researcher and curator, presents, “The Cultural Traditions Related to the Mesoamerican Codex,” on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 12:30 p.m. at the UNM Latin Americana and Iberian Institute, 801 Yale NE.
The talk is an introduction to the cultural importance of the codex in the Mesoamerican area and explores the cosmovision and the relation between the word and the writing of the codex. Iglesias-Swanson will also talk about the sacred codex, its elaboration and the formation of the scribes and different types of codex.
Iglesias-Swanson received her bachelor's degree in librarianship from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, and her master’s degree in Mesoamerican Studies from UNAM, as well.
For the 10th straight year, the UNM Student Lettermen’s Association is hosting its annual "Run for Relief. This year's “Run for Relief” will be held on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 10 a.m. at UNM’s Johnson Field. T-shirts will be provided to each runner. Come and join the fun and “run for relief” of children cancer victims.
Over the last 10 years, student athletes have run over 3,500 miles and raised pledges of over $45,000. Funds collected will be added to an endowment administered by the Santa Fe Community Foundation.
Proceeds from the endowment are used to make grants to needy families who have a child that suffers from cancer. The association hopes to expand the endowment in order to aid those families of cancer victims.
This week, “New Mexico in Focus” correspondent Gwyneth Doland spends a morning with Albuquerque’s mayor-elect Richard Berry to see how he is preparing to take over the helm at Albuquerque’s City Hall. “New Mexico In Focus” is KNME-TV’s weekly hour-long public affairs show airing on Friday, Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. on KNME-TV channel 5.1 and repeating on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 6:30 a.m.
Joining Berry and Doland are Sherman McCorkle, Berry’s Transition Team Leader, and outgoing Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White.
Then the panelists on “The Line” discuss some of the mayor-elect’s challenges, the future of public financing in elections, Governor Bill Richardson’s final decision on the budget bill the New Mexico Legislature sent him at the end of the recent special session, and how health care reform in Congress morphed into a battle over abortion.
The panel on this week’s “The Line” include regular panelists Sophie Martin, managing editor of Duke City Fix, Margaret Montoya with the UNM Schools of Law and Medicine/CUNY Law School, Jim Scarantino, editor of New Mexico Watchdog and guest panelist Carter Bundy, spokesman for the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees.
Also, viewers will get to watch a special video of Daizy, the Rio Grande Zoo’s baby elephant.
Hosted by Gene Grant, columnist for the Weekly Alibi, “New Mexico in Focus” takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic, health, education, and arts issues and explores them in-depth, with a critical eye to give them context beyond the “news of the moment.”
New Mexico in Focus can also be seen on KNME’s Digital Channel 9.1 on Saturdays at 5 p.m. Additionanlly, viewers can also watch it online at: KNME.
“New Mexico in Focus” is produced by Kevin McDonald and Kathy Wimmer and closed captioning has been made possible by a gift from Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs.
Media Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1812; e-mail: etodd@knme.org
The School of Architecture and Planning inducts 30 graduate and undergraduate students into Tau Sigma Delta, on Friday, Nov. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Hotel Albuquerque. Tau Sigma Delta is the honor society for architecture and the allied arts, which includes landscape architecture and community and regional planning.
Roger Schluntz, dean, is the faculty advisor for UNM’s Gamma Lambda Chapter. Schluntz is also a Tau Sigma Delta member and serves as treasurer for the group’s national chapter.
UNM Dean of Graduate Studies Amy Wohlert is the guest speaker.
Inductees from the Bachelor’s of Arts in Architecture Program
Brian Barnes, BAA La Cueva High, Albuquerque; Molly Bell, Taos High, Taos; Brian Davis, Alta High, Sandy, Utah; Matthew Everett, Moriarty High, Moriarty; Berenice Grijalva, Belen High, Belen; James Janke, Los Alamos High, Los Alamos; Julie Kidder, East Mountain High, Sandia Park; Julia Lundin, Cibola High; Anna Matejczuk, Rio Rancho High, Rio Rancho.
Inductees from the Master’s of Architecture Program
Benjamin Arico, Crescent Valley High, Corvallis, Ore.; Lawrence Deshler, Arlington High, Arlington, Mass.; Kristin Flurry, Judge Memorial Catholic High, Salt Lake City, Utah; Robert Frankis, Jr., East Syracus-Minda High; Vanessa Garcia, Rio Rancho High, Rio Rancho; Mark Harberts, Shiprock High, Shiprock; Eric Haskins, Eldorado High, Albuquerque; Charles Hulebak, Del Norte High, Albuquerque; Jessica Medrano, St. Pius X High, Albuquerque; Ronald Nelson, Hialeah High, Hialeah, Fla.; Gary Vincent, Dover High, Dover, Del.
Inductees from the Master’s of Landscape Architecture Program
Cathleen Adams, Grosse Pointe North, Grosse Pointe, Mich.; Aaron Coffeen, Mason City High, Mason City, Iowa; Ning Cui, No.41 High School, Beijing, China; Micah Giardetti, Foothill High, Palo Cedro, Calif.; Emily Rudin, J.E.B. Stuart High, Falls Church, Va.; Victor Trujillo, Eldorado High, Albuquerque.
Inductees from the Master’s in Community and Regional Planning
Tammie Allen, Coronado High, Gallina, NM; Tobe Bott-Lyons, Santa Fe High School, Santa Fe; Brendan Picker, Albuquerque Academy, Albuquerque; Lora Roberts, Grossmont High, San Diego, Calif.
Three Communication and Journalism students won the most prestigious national award for undergraduate public relations students. Senior Devon Armijo, Shannon Guess and Jacqueline Jinzo were notified that they were awarded the Bernays Cup, awarded by Public Relations Quarterly.
The competition is based on essays submitted to PRQ by undergraduate students. The winning paper was titled, “Ripped Straight from the Headlines: Jack the Ripper’s Public Relations,” and was published in Volume 52, Number 4 of PRQ.
Armijo, Guess and Jinzo applied the existentialist philosophy to the so-called “Jack the Ripper letters” in an attempt to explain the Ripper crimes through systematic sociocultural scrutiny of the documents.
“We had a large number of entrants this year, and most were very good. The UNM student contribution, however, was clearly the best,” PRQ Editor Elaine Newman said.
“I was so excited, I couldn’t believe that we won at first,” Armijo said when told of the news. “We knew that the competition would be stiff, and I’m really glad that our paper took first place.” Guess added, “I’m absolutely thrilled at this Lobo victory.” Jinzo said, “I was confident in our submission, but this is still a wonderful event.”
This is the third time UNM students have won this honor, the most of any university in the nation. Genevieve Sadler-Trainor received the award in 2005 for her essay, “Visual Methods of Public Relations Communication.” Mary White’s 1997 study of tobacco lobbying in the 1996 elections, “Buttman on the 1996 Campaign Trail,” also was also awarded the prize.
For more information, contact Dirk Gibson, dirkcgib@unm.edu or 505-615-8267.
Two members of the UNM community have been recognized as Diversity Champions in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Cathy Qi and Barbara Rodriguez have been recognized for their efforts by ASHA in advancing multicultural issues in communication sciences and disorders through its “Multicultural Diversity Champion” program.
ASHA considers members Diversity Champions who have made significant contributions to advance multicultural infusion in the professions of speech-language pathology, audiology, or speech-language or hearing science.
Qi, an associate professor in special education at the Department of Educational Specialties at the University of New Mexico, has been named a “Diversity Champion” by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Qi's citation credits her as an educator with contributions to the research base on culturally appropriate language assessment and addressing the disproportionate representation of minority students in special education.
Qi dedicates herself to conducting research in the areas of multicultural issues in communication sciences and disorders. She has been a strong advocate for young children who are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CLD) and who are from low-income families, specifically, with regards to the accurate identification of language disorders in this population.
She has published and presented numerous papers on issues related to the use of culturally appropriate language assessments with CLD children. In the past few years, Qi has conducted a longitudinal study funded by the National Institute of Health to examine the relationships between language delays and problem behaviors among predominantly Hispanic preschool children from low-income families. Currently, she is teaching graduate courses in autism spectrum disorders at UNM.
Rodriguez, an associate professor in the Speech and Hearing Sciences Department, was recognized on the Multicultural Issues Board. The board honors members dedicated to advocacy for individuals from diverse backgrounds who developed a strategic plan related to multicultural issues to increase clinical evidence, members' cultural competence, and awareness by multicultural populations of SLP and Audiology services.
“Diversity Champions have demonstrated respect and value for differing backgrounds and points of view and their achievement addresses the impact of culture and/or language on their profession,” said Sue Hale, president, ASHA.
ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 135,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. Audiologists specialize in preventing and assessing hearing and balance disorders as well as providing audiologic treatment including hearing aids. Speech-language pathologists identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems including swallowing disorders.
For more information visit: ASHA.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
Anderson School students selected for prestigious FBI program
Two students from the graduate Information Assurance program at the University of New Mexico, Kevin Rodriguez and Leila Potts, were selected to participate in the 2009 FBI Honors Internship Program. Every year the Federal Bureau of Investigation selects a unique group of students to participate in its FBI Honors Internship Program. The highly selective process is very competitive with a very small percentage of applicants from universities admitted each year.
The 10-week summer internship program is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. While most interns are assigned to the Washington D.C. region, students with a concentration in Information Technology or a related discipline may be assigned to one of 14 FBI led Regional Computer Forensics Laboratories (RCFL) located throughout the United States.
While the students were exposed to many facets of the Bureau their primary project was supporting a team involved in the testing and validation of digital forensics tools. The project is a key element in sustaining the FBI’s capability to examine digital evidence and continuously evolving systems and media.
“I received some very unique and specialized technical training in digital forensics,” Rodriguez explained about his work experience. “I learned a lot about digital evidence and the vital role that it plays in contemporary investigations. Aside from the valuable technical experience, I also learned a lot about the inner workings of the FBI. I learned things such as how investigations are conducted and the amount of work that goes into each one. Seeing how the FBI works from the inside was really a neat experience for me.”
The internships provide a window into this otherwise somewhat cloistered world. The staff is always willing to answer questions and provide additional insight.
“They really made me feel like I was a part of the FBI," said Rodriguez. "Seeing the work of each person and how it fits into the overall mission of the FBI was something that I really enjoyed.”
SSA Darrin Jones, from the local FBI office and director of the New Mexico Regional Computer Forensics Lab (NMRCFL) added, “We were very impressed with the interns from UNM. They were exceptionally bright, highly motivated and easily applied their already significant digital forensics skills to FBI training and actual casework.”
UNM provides unique opportunities in the field of Information Assurance, including digital forensics, through its graduate program and partnership with the FBI led NMRCFL.
For more information contact Alex Seazzu, director, UNM Center for Information Assurance Research and Education (CIARE) at (505) 277-8451; via e-mail - alex@mgt.unm.edu or visit: Information Assurance.
Students in the Information Security course at the University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management are taking what they learned in the classroom and reaching out to the Albuquerque and surrounding area schools. Students are traveling to local high schools, middle schools, and even elementary schools to demonstrate safe computer behavior and raise awareness about best practices on how to protect your personal information.
In the spring of 2008, Alex Seazzu, director, UNM Center for Information Assurance Research and Education (CIARE), began the program with his Management 636 class.
Seazzu has several upcoming presentations at area schools this month including South Mountain Elementary School, Nov. 19 - 9:15 a.m.; Eldorado High School, Nov. 19 - 12:40 p.m.; Our Lady of Assumption Catholic School, Nov. 20 - 9:30 a.m.; Bosque Farms Elementary School, Nov. 23 - 11 a.m.
Topics will vary depending on the age of the audience. For example, safe social networking practices are a common topic for general high-school classes as opposed to more advanced computer security techniques for high school computer classes.
The student presentations have been well received over the past two years. Parents and teachers of the students have been very appreciative of UNM’s public outreach program as well.
“One of the goals UNM faculty is seeking is to raise the public’s awareness of the dangers inherent to the Internet and computer systems that contain private and personal information,” he said. “In particular these efforts are targeted at those most trusting and vulnerable, our children.”
Children and young adults today are relying more on computers than ever before. Social networking sites have become increasingly popular as a result. MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter are a few of the most popular social networking sites. Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, recently announced that his estimates now provide evidence that the number of users has exceeded 200 million. Consequently, the number of Internet predators has increased as well.
The University of New Mexico is the only four-year institution with a program that combines the efforts of national labs, the NSA and DHS, and the FBI’s Regional Computer Forensics Lab. (RCFL). The demand for information assurance skills is strong and will continue to be as technology only gets better.
For more information visit: Information Assurance.
Media Contact: Alex Seazzu, (505) 277-8451; e-mail: alex@mgt.unm.edu
Students at UNM’s Anderson School of Management will be hosting a charitable bingo event benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Titled “Bingo for Breast Cancer,” the event will take place Thursday, Nov. 19 in Ballroom B at the UNM Student Union Building. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the first numbers will be called out at 6:30 p.m.
During the event, participants will have the chance to win various prizes from businesses in the Albuquerque area. A few of the prizes include Starbucks gift baskets, Applebees gift card, Coaches gift card, Cheese and Coffee gift card, Mark Pardo gift cards, Beeps vintage teapot, Best Buy iPod nano, El Patio gift card, Quarters gift card, Albuquerque Isotopes tickets, autographed Lobo men’s and women’s basketballs.
Additionally, a raffle and silent auction will also be held throughout the evening. The silent auction will close after the conclusion of the 8th round of bingo. Winners will be announced after the conclusion of the 9th round. A raffle ticket will be drawn after every round. For both the silent auction and the raffle winners must be present to claim prizes.
Tickets can be purchased from event staff prior to and during the event for $1 each or six for $5. For information regarding purchasing raffle tickets contact Ryan Blackmon at, longhorn@unm.edu.
For more information visit: Bingo for Breast Cancer.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
The Signature Program for Child Health Research will give a series of brief presentations and round table discussions led by successful UNM Health Science Center researchers. Learn more about research at UNM, network with colleagues, establish collaboration, find a mentor/mentee or just enjoy some stimulating discussion. The event, titled ‘3x5x5’ (3 speakers, 5 slides, done by 5), will be held Wednesday, Nov. 18 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in rm. 2112 at the Domenici Center.
Speakers and Topics...
Alberta Kong, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, CTSC Scholar
* School-based Health Center Intervention Study for Behavioral Management of Overweight Adolescents
Amanda Harris, BS, SPCHR Apprenticeship Awardee
Mentor: Alberta Kong, MD, MPH
* Formative Assessment of High Schools in Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Type 2 Diabetes
Jeanne Dalen, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, ORI
* Evaluation of a Mindfulness-Based Treatment for Dietary Change
For more information contact Leslie Trickey at 272-4462 or e-mail, letrickey@salud.unm.edu.
The Student Activities Center is currently accepting applications from current UNM students to participate in the Second Annual Lobo's Got Talent Show. Applications are available online and are due Friday, Nov. 13 in room 1018 at the UNM Student Union Building at 5 p.m. The show is Friday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m. in the SUB Ballroom and all forms of talents are welcome to audition.
For more information contact the Student Activities Center at 277-4706. For complete contest rules and an application visit: Lobo's Got Talent.
The International Task Force hosts a luncheon Tuesday, Nov. 17, from 12-2 p.m. in Scholes Hall Roberts Room. Susan Tiano, professor of Sociology and director of the Latin American & Iberian Institute; and Roberto Ibarra, associate professor of Sociology; present “La Familia Ibarra in the Context of Venezuelan History.”
Photo: Simon Bolivar
Tiano and Ibarra recently visited Caracas and retrieved a box of materials related to Ibarra’s family – he is a direct descendant of Simon Bolivar. Ibarra is the only son in the big Venezuelan family.
The box’s content provides a portrait of the history of Venezuela, with pictures of Bolivar with presidents as well as a snapshot of the family, detailing family lands and properties.
The material will be harvested and posted on DSpace in the UNM Libraries.
Also speaking at the luncheon are students from the UNM Study Tour to Nicaragua Summer 2009.
To attend, RSVP to katpad@unm.edu by Monday, Nov. 16.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
The School of Engineering will hold an open house on Saturday, Nov. 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Centennial Engineering Center on the western edge of the UNM main campus near the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and University Blvd. Students of all ages and their families are welcome.
Photo: Engineering students solve challenging problems. Interested students can learn more about the academic programs and student support services available at UNM.
Schedule of Events
10 a.m., 11 a.m. and noon - Talk by SOE Interim Dean Arup Maji in Centennial Auditorium “Educating Students for the Future”
SOE Programs, Student Services, Organizations, Scholarships, What to Expect, and Q & A.
Student Presentations
Mechanical Engineering – Mechanical Engineering Building Atrium
· See the FSAE race car and Hands-on Projects
· See the Integrated Sustainable Energy Systems (ISES) Lab in Room 436. This lab allows students to explore the interplay of energy capture, building infrastructure, control systems and people using data collection, simulation and analysis.
Civil Engineering – Centennial Engineering Center Hydraulics Lab
· Watch the rubber ducks race down the flume while you learn about fluid mechanics and flood control.
· Students will show a bridge they designed and built for the regional American Society of Civil Engineering competition.
Electrical and Computer Engineering – ECE Building
· ECE students will drive UNM’s first solar powered car, built for the Solar Car race.
· Play Xbox computer games developed by students at the Advanced Graphics Lab. Check out computer animations for films.
Computer Sciences – Mechanical Engineering Building
· Computer science graduate students will discuss why computer security matters, where viruses fit in the computer food chain and exploring the world of computer forensics.
Chemical and Nuclear Engineering – Centennial Engineering Center
· You’ll see a demonstration of Alpha, Beta & Gamma radiation, and see the shielding properties of various materials and the detection properties of a Geiger-Mueller Tube detector
There will also be robotics demonstrations and hands-on activities that include dropping an egg without breaking it, constructing a plane in 4 steps, building a tower that can withstand wind from a fan and constructing rafts to carry pennies.
For more information visit: SoE Open House.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Bruce Gjeltema will speak on “Senator Dennis Chavez, Jacob C. Morgan and the Sabotage of John Collier’s Indian New Deal” on Friday, Nov. 13 at 12 p.m. in Room B48 of Zimmerman Library. The brown bag lecture will delve into the relationship between New Mexico Senator Dennis Chavez and Navajo leader Jacob C. Morgan and their efforts to undermine the Bureau of Indian Affairs Commissioner John Collier’s Indian New Deal program among the Navajos.
Gjeltema examines the extensive correspondence between the leaders, and demonstrates that between 1936 and 1940 the two conspired to halt Navajo endorsement of the Indian Reorganization Act, blocked passage of the New Mexico Boundary Bill championed by Collier, put pressure on congressional leaders to have Collier removed from office and challenged his livestock reduction program.
Gjeltema is a research fellow for the Office of the State Historian funded through the Commission of Public Records. The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Southwest Research, the Commission of Public Records and the Office of the State Historian. Questions should be directed to Dennis Trujillo at (505) 476-7998 or dennis.trujillo@state.nm.us
The lecture is free and the public is welcome.
Information Technologies (IT) recently completion the installation of a Windows Activation Key Management Service (KMS) server, designed to activate newer versions of Windows operating systems such as Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Server 2008.
All UNM departments, including branch campuses, are welcome to utilize the KMS server to activate theirWindows computers. The activation process is done automatically for computers that are members of either IT Active Directory or HSC Active Directory.
For more details visit: Windows Activation KMS server.
The 46th Annual Craft Fair, presented by the ASUNM Arts and Crafts Studio, will be held Wednesday-Friday, Nov. 11-13 in the UNM SUB Ballroom. More than 50 booths featuring arts and crafts including jewelry, pottery, t-shirts, soaps and more will be on display at the fair. All of the crafts in the fair are original works.
Crafts Fair Schedule
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 12, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 13, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
No commercial or handmade procuts that have been imported are allowed. The guidelines, which are set by the ASUNM Arts and Crafts Studio, are designed to celebrate the diversity of handmade goods within the state of New Mexico.
For more information call 277-6544 or e-mail, thinkart@unm.edu.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
The Dennis Chavez Foundation recently donated $100,000 to the University of New Mexico Law School to establish the U.S. Senator Dennis Chavez Endowed Lectureship/Symposium on Law and Civil Rights. Jorge Tristani, a grandson of the late senator, made the presentation to UNM Law School Dean Kevin K. Washburn.
Photo: Jorge Tristani, grandson of the late Sen. Dennis Chavez, and John Cordova, Cordova Public Relations, present a $100,000 check to John Stropp, president, UNM Foundation.
“Our family is pleased to be able to make this contribution to the UNM Law School to endow the U.S. Senator Dennis Chavez lectureship,” Tristani said. “We’ve worked with the UNM Foundation to establish this because we believe that the law school’s work will honor Dennis Chavez, a man whose actions helped shape modern day New Mexico, and who is revered as a champion of the common individual.”
The purpose of the lectureship is to promote awareness and academic discourse of the senator and topics related to his legacy and life’s work, however UNM may use the funds to invite local or visiting preeminent scholars in the areas of law and civil rights and/or the life’s work of Senator Dennis Chavez. Related topics focusing on human rights, equal opportunity, Hispanics and New Mexico in government, law and politics and civil rights and their impact on human welfare may be presented by public lecture or lecture series.
“This is an important and joyous occasion for the School of Law,” Dean Washburn said. “We cannot thank the Dennis Chavez Foundation, its leadership and the members of the Chavez family enough for entrusting us with a role in preserving Senator Chavez’s incredible legacy. This gift will add a very important component to the school, as Senator Chavez's legacy will be an inspiration for all of our students. We at the School of Law are so grateful for this gift.”
“It is such a great honor to be a part of and witness to the great support and passion that the Chavez family and their Foundation are conveying to the UNM School of Law,” said John Stropp, UNM Foundation president.
“Their generous donation will support venues for advocacy and cultural diversity in legal education. We are grateful. This gift perpetuates the legacy of Senator Chavez and his lifetime of great works.”
Sen. Chavez represented New Mexico in the U.S. Senate from 1935 until 1962. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms and served in the New Mexico House of Representatives. The socially conscious Chavez was the only minority in the senate chamber at that time. A maverick, he tirelessly fought against the discrimination he witnessed and experienced. The civil rights legislation of the 1960s grew directly out of Chavez’s efforts in the 1940s, as he became an advocate for minorities nationwide. Born in 1888 in Los Chavez, NM, he died in 1962. A close confidant of former U.S. presidents Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy, Sen. Chavez also led the anti-McCarthy protests.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
UNM looks for Centennial participants
On Jan. 6, 1912, President William Howard Taft signed a document that stated, “I do, in accordance with the provisions of the act of congress and the joint resolution of congress herein named, declare and proclaim the fact that the fundamental conditions imposed by congress of the State of New Mexico to entitle that state to admission have been ratified and accepted, and that the admission of the state into the union on an equal footing with the other states is now complete.”
The University of New Mexico, established in 1889, has much to offer it’s younger “parent,” the State of New Mexico, as it celebrates its centennial of statehood on Jan. 6, 2012. Individuals and groups within the University may already be involved. In an effort to determine the level of interest and involvement, UNM wants to know who is engaged in centennial activities as well as those who are interested in being involved at the institutional level.
Centennial activities might be those created to celebrate New Mexico’s 100th birthday or they might be traditional events that are a part of the state’s heritage and culture.
In 2008, Gov. Bill Richardson issued an Executive Order establishing the New Mexico Centennial of Statehood task force, whose members are working alongside a Centennial Steering Committee to promote commemorations, activities and projects related to the Centennial. Community input is a priority in planning centennial projects and community initiatives that will present the state’s treasured past, while also imagining the future of The Land of Enchantment.
If you are currently involved or would like to be involved in Centennial activities at UNM, e-mail Marla Wood at, mwood@unm.edu .
For more information visit: New Mexico Centennial.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Laura Gomez, professor, Law and American Studies, received the Leadership Award in Writing at the De Colores’ 17th annual Hispanic Culture Festival. De Colores recognized 12 individuals and one organization for contributing to improving New Mexico communities with their leadership and talents. One UNM partnership and three UNM students were among those honored.
Photo: VP of Student Affairs Cheo Torres congratulates Laura Gomez, law professor, for receiving an award at the De Colores leadership awards banquet. Gomez also signed copies of her book, Manifest Destinies.
Gomez has lectured widely and published numerous articles, book chapters, and op-ed commentaries, as well as two books focusing on the intersection of law, politics and social stratification of the disenfranchised. In Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure (1997), she documented the career of the “crack baby”/”crack mother” social problem in the media and public policy. In her 2007 book, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race, she examines how law and racial ideology intersected to create new racial groups and to re-structure the turn-of-the-twentieth century racial order in the Southwest and the nation.
A UNM community partner, Celebra la Ciencia, also received an award, the Leadership Award in Education. Celebra la Ciencia began eight years ago as a community project to bring science awareness to Latino families through a series of community festivals. It has created bilingual science family events at various science centers and museums throughout Albuquerque. Celebra la Ciencia community partners include the Albuquerque Public Schools, ENLACE New Mexico, STEM Education Outreach Programs at UNM and New Mexico MESA.
Student Leadership Awards were presented to three college and one high school student:
Damien Flores: College Leadership Award
Flores is a UNM senior, majoring in English. Other awards he has earned include the 2008 Lena Todd Award for creative non-fiction from the UNM English Department; “Poet of the Year” in 2007 and 2008 by the NM Hispano Entertainer’s Association; the 2008 and 2009 ABQ-Slams City Champion. He was a member of four ABQ Poetry Slam Teams as well as the ‘06 & ‘08 National Champion UNM Slam Teams. He has written two books, “A Novena of Mud” and “El Cuento de Juana Henrieta.” His work has been anthologized in numerous national publications and is currently Poet-in-Residence at Albuquerque High School.
Andrea Robles: College Leadership Award
Robles is a UNM junior pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Nursing. An Albuquerque High School graduate, Andrea has returned to her school as an ENLACE Mentor to inspire and assist students in realizing their potential for higher education. As a first generation college student, she has made the Dean’s List at UNM and has served as a cheer coach for girls age six and under. Andrea is not only a mentor to students, but also a genuine role model for those around her.
Jessica Martinez: College Leadership Award
Martinez is a sophomore at UNM double majoring in Political Science and Spanish with an emphasis in International Relations. Jessica has been the National Youth President of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) for three years. She is the youngest member on LULAC’s National Board. She is a member and past council president of LULAC Youth Council 53 and has also previously held the position of New Mexico LULAC Youth State Director. She has been a statewide, local and national youth leader. Recently, Martinez was ranked number 10 on the list of Top Latinos Under the Age of 25.
De Colores Inc. is an all-volunteer organization that celebrates Latino culture, achievements and leadership each year during National Hispanic Heritage Month. De Colores will be announcing student scholarship and cash award essay and poster art winners in November.
This year’s De Colores sponsors included APS, UNM, Intel, Youth Development, Inc, and the Atrisco Heritage Foundation.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
The 12th Annual International Conference on Treatment of Addictive Behaviors (ICTAB-12), sponsored by the UNM Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA), is set for Sunday – Wednesday, Feb. 7 – 10, 2010, at the Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, N.M. The 2010 Conference Theme is “Evidence-Based Treatment in Real World Systems: Maximizing Service, Value, and Outcome.” Two conference deadlines of note include "Call for Papers" on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, and the early-bird conference registration deadline of Friday, Dec. 11, 2009.
Since 1979, ICTAB has been communicating recent therapeutic methods and research knowledge to professionals working with the addictive behaviors. Committed to the integration of science and practice, ICTAB brings together international professionals from a variety of disciplines. An enduring focus of ICTAB is on commonalities in the etiology, process, and treatment of alcohol/drug abuse and other addictive behaviors.
Two one-day pre-conference workshops, featuring UNM faculty members, will also be offered as part of the conference on Sunday, Feb. 7 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.
UNM Professors Robert J. Meyers and Jane Ellen Smith host Workshop A: Working with Family Members to Engage Treatment-Refusers into Treatment: CRAFT. This pre-conference workshop will provide an introduction to Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT). CRAFT is an empirically-supported treatment that teaches skills to the family members of treatment-refusing substance abusers. The goals of CRAFT are to teach these distressed family members how to engage resistant substance abusers into treatment while also improving their own psychosocial functioning. Lecture, role-plays, and group exercises will be used.
Additionally, William R. Miller, Professor Emeritus, and Assistant Professor Theresa B. Moyers, will conduct Workshop B: Training and Supervision of Motivational Interviewing (MI). This workshop will introduce participants to a model for evaluating trainee needs in learning motivational interviewing and discuss strategies for tailoring MI training to meet those needs. We will introduce participants to instruments for evaluating MI competence and discuss new research pertaining to active ingredients of this clinical method.
Moyers, who is also the conference chair and assistant professor of Psychology at UNM, says proposals are invited for contributed presentations at ICTAB-12. Submitted papers should be based on original research relevant to the nature, prevention and treatment of addictive behaviors. Papers describing outcome and process research with treatment and prevention programs are particularly encouraged.
Abstracts may not exceed 500 words and should reflect the basic methodology and findings of the work to be presented. Research in progress may be submitted if informative new results will clearly be available by the time of the conference.
For more information on the pre-conference workshops and a list of featured presentations, call for papers, registration forms, registration fees, deadlines and accommodations visit: ICTAB-12. For more information on the host hotel visit: Eldorado Hotel.
UNM organizes annual conference
The Society for Cross-Cultural Research will hold its 39th Annual Conference jointly with the meetings of the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci) and the American Anthropological Association Children and Childhood Interest Group (AAACIG) in Albuquerque, Feb. 17-20, 2010.
SCCR, a multi-disciplinary organization sharing a common devotion to the conduct of cross-cultural research, is currently accepting papers from the areas of psychology, anthropology, communications, sociology, social work, education, ethnic studies, family studies and other related fields for the annual conference.
“Albuquerque is hosting the upcoming SCCR conference for the first time and this will be a great opportunity for many UNM students and faculty to present their research at this academic forum,” Ziarat Hossain, conference organizer and associate professor of Family Studies in the College of Education at UNM. “SCCR is a growing national/international professional organization and you can get to know other people at conference on a first name basis.”
The deadline to submit paper abstracts, posters or symposia is Nov. 30, 2009. Acceptance notifications will be released by Dec. 10, 2009. Submissions will be peer reviewed. SCCR encourages on-line submissions and to submit online visit: SCCR Online Submissions.
Fundamentally inter-disciplinary, SCCR has provided members the opportunity to network with scholars from a wide variety of approaches to cross-cultural and comparative research since its founding in 1971.
For conference information visit: SCCR 2010/.
Interested individuals may also contact:
Dr. Ziarat Hossain, Conference Organizer
Associate Professor, Family Studies
Simpson Hall, MSC05 3040
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
sccr2010@unm.edu or zhossain@unm.edu
Phone (505) 277-4162
Fax (505) 277-8361
Diné Language Revitalization and Preservation is the focus of a guest presentation with Council Delegate Leonard Anthony of Shiprock, New Mexico. The event is set for Thursday, Nov. 19 from 12 -2 p.m. in UNM Student Union Building, Fiesta rooms A&B. This event is free and open to the public.
The presentation is sponsored by the Navajo/Diné Language program and Diné of UNM in conjunction with the campus wide celebration of Native American Heritage Month.
Preserving language, a fundamental component of Diné life and thought, is important to the Diné people, as it is with other indigenous groups.
This presentation is interwoven with Diné cultural foundational principles. From the point of view of the Diné people, language and culture are inseparable so this presentation will look language preservation and revitalization as well as cultural preservation among younger Diné generations. The presentation re-enforces cultural relationship regardless of religious affiliation. The principal focus is preservation with appropriate approaches.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
The American Indian Business Association hosts a panel discussion with four Native American entrepreneurs on Tuesday, Nov. 10 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Student Union Building Lobo rooms A&B. The event, in conjunction with UNM Native American Heritage Month, is free and open to the public.
Panelists...
David Melton, CEO and president, Sacred Power Corporation and board chairman of the American Indian Chamber of Commerce – NM. Michelle Justice, president, Personnel Security Consultants, Inc. Russell Pedro, owner, Phoenix Opportunity Database, Business Consultant, Native American Business Enterprise Center – NM, and Business Development Specialist, American Indian Chamber of Commerce-NM. Gina Euell, president, Exhibit Solutions of NM, Inc. and board member, American Indian Chamber of Commerce, NM.
For more information contact Jaye Francis at, francis@mgt.unm.edu or 277-8889.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
The Maxwell Museum has joined forces with Navajo Weavers for an auction to benefit the weavers and the museum. The auction will be held on Saturday, Nov. 14 at 3:30 p.m. at the Prairie Star Restaurant in Bernalillo. The rugs will be available for viewing from 1 – 3 p.m. This Two Grey Hills rug is of particular interest. It was designed and woven from hand-carded, hand-spun wool by Daisy Taugelchee, a renowned Navajo weaver.
As part of the auction, experts will be on hand to discuss how to evaluate a rug. The auction will be conducted by R. B. Burnham Trading & Company.
University Chorus, “Dolce Suono” and University Symphony Orchestra perform Brahms’ “Requiem” on Tuesday, Dec. 8 and Wednesday, Dec. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Popejoy Hall. The orchestra will be under direction of distinguished Italian guest conductor, Stefano Miceli. Tickets are $10, $8 and $6 and can be bought at all UNM ticket outlets, and UNM Tickets.
Photo: Guest Conductor Stefano Miceli
Miceli, conductor and virtuoso pianist, is one of the leading talents of his generation, traveling worldwide as a pianist and conductor. Miceli’s work has brought him into contact with many of Europe’s important orchestras, such as the Salzburg Orchestra, Orchestra of La Scala, La Fenice Orchestra of Venice, The Orchestra of London, Orchestra Sinfonica Italiana, and the Israel Symphony Orchestra, among many others. He is the newly-appointed Principal Guest Artist and Conductor of the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany.
Miceli is a regular guest as pianist and conductor at important festivals and theatres in New Orleans, Washington D.C., Melbourne, Madrid, Venice, Milan and Rome. Miceli has been principal guest artist of “Cameristi della Fenice” (Orchestra of Venice Theatre), performing many concerts with them in Italy and abroad.
Leslie Umphrey, UNM associate professor of voice and graduate, Eastman School of Music in Vocal Performance and Literature, will be a featured soloist. She has sung many and varied roles in both musical theater and opera, including Rosalinda and Adele in Die Fledermaus, Donna Ann in Don Giovanni, Mimi and Musetta in La Boheme and Madama Buttefly in Madama Butterfly. She made her European debut as Nedda in I Pagliacci in Rome and enjoyed critical acclaim in that role throughout the United States. Her later roles have included Michaela in Carmen and Pamina in The Magic Flute. In the early part of the 21st century Umphrey made her debut performance as Susannah in Carlisle Floyd’s opera Susannah. She also continues her work in oratorio and recital with orchestras throughout the United States.
James Demler, a UNM graduate now teaching at Boston University, will also be a soloist.
Demler, a baritone, first gained international attention at Houston Grand Opera, where he appeared as Guglielmo in Cosí fan tutte, De Bretigny in Manon and Peter in Hänsel und Gretel, and with the Houston Symphony, with whom he sang the role of the Maestro in a staged version of Salieri’s rarely performed Prima la musica, poi le parole. He has since sung leading roles in more than 30 operas, as well as numerous oratorios and concert works with opera companies and orchestras across the United States and Canada.
Demler made his Carnegie Hall debut with Eve Queler and the Opera Orchestra of New York as Dikson in Boïeldieu’s La Dame Blanche, and has returned to that prestigious venue as a soloist in Messa di Gloria by Puccini, Bach’s Magnificat, Fauré’s Requiem, the Mozart Requiem, and in February of 2009 the Coronation Mass of Mozart.
The UNM University Chorus is under the direction of Professor Bradley Ellingboe; “Dolce Suono,” UNM’s newest mixed chorus, is led by Assistant Professor of Music Regina Carlow. The UNM Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Professor Jorge Perez-Gomez.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
The fourth and final symposium, in the series titled "Educational Linguistics 30th Anniversary Symposia Series," will be held Friday, Nov. 13 with the symposium titled, “Celebrating 30 years of Educational Linguistics at the University of New Mexico: Past, Present and Future.” The symposium, which features Garland Bills, Alan Hudson, Kathryn Manuelito & Vera John-Steiner from the Department of Linguistics and Department of Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Studies, will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. in Lobo A in the SUB.
Faculty and students in the Educational Linguistics doctoral program invite the University of New Mexico community to celebrate 30 years of Educational Linguistics at UNM with the conclusion of its 2009 Anniversary Symposia Series.
The Educational Linguistics 30th Anniversary Symposia Series is sponsored by the High Desert Linguistics Society. For more information e-mail, schwartz@unm.edu.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
The Mind Research Network (MRN) will sponsor a talk on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 11:45 am by Jeffrey David Lewine in MRN’s Large Conference Room at Pete and Nancy Domenici Hall on the UNM North Campus.
Lewine is the executive director of the Illinois MEG Center and Executive Director of Alexian Brothers Center for Brain Research. The title of his talk is “On the Utility of MEG in Translation Neuroscience: From Autism to Traumatic Brain Injury.”
Magnetoencephalography [MEG] continues to emerge as a powerful tool in translational neuroscience, especially when used in combination with other imaging modalities. Two major healthcare areas where MEG may be especially valuable are in the assessment of children with autism spectrum disorders and the assessment of the 'Invisible" wounds of war -- mild traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression.
New estimates suggest that as many as 1 in 100 children show some features of autism. This talk will summarize NIH and philanthropic funded investigations of the inter-relationships between abnormalities in auditory processing and epileptiform activity with respect to specific profiles of language dysfunction in autism. Data will demonstrate how MEG aids in the identification of biological sub-types and how such information may be of value in guiding treatment strategies.
The Rand Corporation estimates that nearly 25 percent of the more than two million servicemen and women that have been deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom may have mild TBI, Depression, and/or PTSD. Differential diagnosis of these conditions can be critical for implementation of the best treatment strategies. Especially important is knowledge of when TBI is co-morbid with PTSD or Depression, because this can have a major impact on pharmacological strategies.
Data will be summarized showing that through analyses of spontaneous and evoked MEG/EEG responses, and the combination of these electrophysiological data with data from DTI and MRS measures of callosal integrity, differential diagnosis may be possible.
The talk is free and the public is welcome.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Research Professor David G. Whitten has received a special award from the Japan Photochemistry Association for basic and applied research in photo chemistry. Whitten says this professional organization has a large membership in part because Japan has more photo chemists than the United States.
Photo: David G. Whitten
The special award is not given every year. It is the highest award the association can bestow. Whitten says he has worked for decades with colleagues at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Kyoto University and has recently worked as a visiting professor at Osaka University.
In the 1990’s Whitten was the founding director of a National Science Foundation Institute of Science and Technology for Photoinduced Charge Transfer Center in Rochester, New York and sent several students to study in Japan. He has also done research into an area of photochemical reactions that has potential in the energy areas, something of great interest to the Japanese professional community.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Ned Godshall, president and chief executive officer of Altela, Inc., will share with students lessons learned as at the helm of several high-tech startups at a free lunch and seminar on Friday, Nov. 13, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. in Anderson School room ASM 1065. Godshall’s talk, entitled “A Clean-Tech Entrepreneur’s Perspective” is part of the UNM Technology Business Plan Competition events. Everyone is invited and welcome to attend.
Photo: Ned Godshall
The UNM Technology Business Plan Competition involves students from across campus in partnering to create viable business plans and compete for $40,000 in prize funding, as well as additional venture capital seed funding. Overseen by The Anderson School Endowed Chair in Economic Development Sul Kassicieh, this year’s competition will take place on Friday, April 16, 2010, and a series of speakers will be brought to campus to share their experiences with students beforehand.
Open to all UNM students taking at least one course in the Fall 2009 or Spring 2010 semesters, the competition fosters economic development within New Mexico by supporting students in generating sound, innovative business plans.
Godshall has founded and led four high-tech start-up companies since 1995. At these companies, Godshall negotiated seed-round financing with venture capital firms and established the company’s accounting, payroll, budgeting, tax, project management, and corporate legal systems. He is one of NM’s first ‘serial entrepreneurs.’
Godshall’s most recent efforts have been with companies in the ‘clean-tech’ space: the hydrogen economy (MesoFuel, Inc.), photovoltaic solar cells (Advent Solar, Inc.), and water desalination (Altela, Inc.). Godshall has Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of New Mexico.
RSVPs for the event are encouraged. To RSVP contact Jennifer Bayley at (505) 277-6172 or via e-mail at, bayley@mgt.unm.edu. For more information visit: Technology Business Plan.
Media Contact: Leslie Venzuela, (505) 277-7117; e-mail: venzuela@mgt.unm.edu
University of New Mexico President David J. Schmidly has directed that human resource functions within the Department of Athletics report directly to the Division of Human Resources in order to insure proper oversight, better training and renewed understanding of human resource issues and university policies and procedures. This action is being taken by the President in light of recent events within the Athletic Department.
Schmidly said, “I wanted to act quickly to insure that policies regarding our employees continue to be applied fairly and equitably, and that the mistakes made in response to recent events will not be repeated.”
Athletics managers and support staff, including coaches, will all be required to receive additional training on existing university policies and procedures regarding employee management.
In addition, Schmidly today also directed a review of current practices in the way UNM handles its public records requests to more efficiently deal with increasing demand and to properly comply in a timely manner with these requests.
President's Directives to Athletics & University Counsel
Media Contact: Susan McKinsey, (505) 277-1807; e-mail: mckinsey@unm.edu
Year-round, public television station KNME-TV, Channel 5.1 presents programs of interest to Veterans and those serving in the Armed Services. In November, KNME-TV commemorates Veteran’s Day – Nov. 11 – with programs surrounding this national holiday.
Secrets of the Dead: “Airmen and the Headhunters” - 7 p.m.
This program investigates a fantastic WWII tale of jungle ambushes, extreme engineering, blow darts defenses, and enemy headhunting. In 1945, an American B24 bomber is shot down over Japanese – controlled Borneo. The airmen bail out and survive, only to find themselves isolated and lost in the impenetrable jungle. Briefed to fear the "savage" Dayak inhabitants, the Americans are instead taken in by these tribes and become witness to a compassionate, resourceful people who shatter stereotypes, protect them from the Japanese, and eventually deliver them safely into the hands of an eccentric British Major who orchestrates their rescue by building a bamboo runway deep in the Borneo interior.
Hallowed Grounds - 8 p.m.
This program visits 22 of America's overseas military cemeteries, and tells the story of these remarkable places with historical sequences about the wars and battles that created them, and moving vignettes and interviews about the men and women who rest in them. Created after World War I and World War II, these cemeteries are some of America's great national treasures. Hallowed Grounds provides a rare look at these commemorative shrines and brings them home with stirring images and details. They are located in England, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Italy, Tunisia and the Philippines.
Each cemetery is a unique expression of commemorative design, with great architecture, breathtaking landscapes, and powerful works of art. All are tangible representations of American values. This program is filled with tales of sacrifice and courage. Some of the fallen are well known: the poet Joyce Kilmer, the bandleader Glenn Miller, the five Sullivan Brothers, General George S. Patton. But most were ordinary men and women caught up in the calamity of war. These overseas military cemeteries were created to honor America's Fallen, but they are also intended to inspire and teach the living.
P.O.V. “The Way We Get By” - 9 p.m.
On call 24 hours a day for the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting nearly 800,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. This film is an intimate look at three of these greeters as they confront the universal losses that come with aging and rediscover their reason for living. Bill Knight, Jerry Mundy and Joan Gaudet find the strength to overcome their personal battles and transform their lives through service. This inspirational and surprising story shatters the stereotypes of today's senior citizens as the greeters redefine the meaning of community.
Eyes Wide Open - 10:30 p.m.
An exhibition on the human cost of the Iraq War featuring a pair of army boots for each U.S. casualty and a collection of civilian shoes to represent a portion of the Iraqi civilian casualties. Join Gold Star families as they make the physical and emotional journey to visit the boots of their children lost.
UNM Arts in Medicine presents “South Africa Meets the Southwest: Celebrating Arts-in-Medicine Across Cultures,” a free concert of Southwest, African, classical and contemporary music, on Friday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m. at Keller, UNM Center for the Arts.
Image: South Africa Meets the Southwest
Featured artists include Kevin Vigneau, Jennifer Freeman de Garcia, Paul Akmajian, Kate Horsley, Nina Carlson, Patricia Repar, Steve Reid, Jered Ebenreck, Chuy Martinez, Courtney Johnson, Joanna de Keyser, Leonard Felberg, Kari Brane, Robin Abeles, Julietta Rabens, Becki Banet, Lisa Donald and Nara Shedd.
For more information visit: Arts in Medicine Special Events.
The UNM Department of Music presents guest cellist Paul Christopher in a free concert on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m. at Keller Hall, UNM Center for the Arts. Christopher will perform music by Jacques Offenbach, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dinos Constantinides, Auguste Franchomme and Mark Prince Lee. Accompanying him are freelance musician Mary Ann Ybarra on piano and UNM Associate Professor David Schepps on cello.
Photo: Paul Christopher
Christopher is assistant professor of music theory and low strings at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La. He received a Bachelor of Music Education from the New England Conservatory of Music and Master of Music in cello performance from the University of Memphis.
Christopher has appeared on numerous recordings as a member of the Nashville String Machine with artists such as Faith Hill, Ricky Skaggs, Bruce Springsteen and George Strait. He has also recorded four CDs devoted to the cello duos of Jacques Offenbach on the Human Metronome label. His articles have been published in the Jacques Offenbach Society Newsletter, Strings and American String Teacher. In the summers he performs as assistant principal cello with the Peter Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Ore. and principal cello with the Des Moines Metro Opera in Indianola, Iowa.
Media Contact: Sari Krosinsky, (505) 277-1593; e-mail: michal@unm.edu
Bill Gilbert, founder of Land Arts of the American West at the University of New Mexico, will present his work and teaching philosophy at the UNM Art Museum on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 5:30 p.m. Gilbert began teaching sculpture at UNM in the Department of Art and Art History in 1987.
Photo: Bill Gilbert
The Land Arts of the American West program, an interdisciplinary, field-based studio curriculum, was conceived by Gilbert in his interest to redefine the very nature of how students are educated in the visual arts. In 2000 along with Professor Emeritus John Wenger and a dozen eager students, Gilbert initiated the first Land Arts trip, covering five states and 8,000 miles. He later collaborated with Chris Taylor from the University of Texas at Austin. Gilbert will discuss this experiment in pedagogy and how it has both affected and intersected with his work as an artist and teacher.
Gilbert said, “Land Arts is fundamentally involved with, not a critique, but an evolution of what education is within the arts. Land Arts has an opportunity...to create this sense of fluidity across time and cultures and disciplines.”
“These field-based experiences offer both a radical alternative to the typical classroom studio or computer lab, as it also reshapes the conventional student-teacher relationship,” said Michele Penhall, curator of photographs and prints at the UNM Art Museum and co-curator of the current exhibition, “Dispersal/Return: Land Arts of the American West.”
After his presentation, Gilbert will sign copies of his new book, “Land Arts of the American West,” co-authored with Chris Taylor.
UNM Art Museum exhibits and events are free and open to the public. Museum hours are Tuesday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and Saturday-Sunday 1-4 p.m. The current exhibits continue through Nov. 25. Visit Art Museum.
Media Contact: Angela Berkson, (505) 277-6773; e-mail: waxrtist@unm.edu
The UNM Health Sciences Center’s Center for Participatory Research and Clinical and Translational Science Center present the Community Engagement and Research Seminar Series, on Wednesday, Nov. 18 from 3-5 p.m. in UNM HSC Domenici Center room 3010.
The Community Engaged Scholarship session will be facilitated by Matthew Borrego, associate professor, College of Pharmacy; and Claudia Isaac, associate professor, School of Architecture and Planning.
This event is sponsored by the Institute for Public Health, Office of Community Health; Master of Public Health Program in partnership with the Department of Family and Community Medicine; Partnership Health Research Unit, CTSC; Center for Native American Health/Native American Research Centers for Health; RIOSNet; and the RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM.
The Center for Participatory Research was developed to promote supportive networks of research with community partners. It complements RIOS Net, a provider based research network working with clinical provider partners, as well as other consortia and groups on campus, in supporting Community Engaged Research within the Health Sciences Center Clinical and Translational Research Center.
The mission of the CPR is to support a collaborative environment within UNM aligned with community partnership, equity and participatory engagement to co-create new knowledge and translate existing knowledge to improve quality of life among New Mexico’s diverse populations.
The CTSC is a Health Sciences Center initiative to integrate and expand the reach of clinical medical research from the laboratory to clinical and medical practice: promoting a bench to bedside to community effort.
For information or questions contact CPR@salud.unm.edu.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
The University of New Mexico is encouraging students, staff and faculty to join smokers across the nation to participate in the Great American Smokeout on Thursday, Nov. 19 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the SUB Atrium. This could be the first day of a life without tobacco.
A variety of information to help inform individuals will be available including tobacco educational activities, cessation and secondhand smoke information, quit kits will be given to those who pledge to quit for 24 hours and free nicotine patches and gum.
The Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention, Student Health & Counseling and the Employee Health Promotion Program sponsors the event.
For more information call 277-2795 or e-mail, cosap@unm.edu.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
Kevin Malloy, professor of Physics & Astronomy and Electrical and Computer Engineering will speak on “Faculty Entrepreneurship: Creating Start-ups from University Research,” on Thursday, Nov. 12 at noon in the Centennial Engineering Center Auditorium, rm. 1041. Malloy's talk is the third in a series of free seminars sponsored by STC.UNM, the university’s technology transfer office.
Photo: Kevin Malloy
The seminars are free and open to the public. Box lunches will be provided.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
The University of New Mexico's Prevention Research Center and the village of Cuba, N.M. are teaming up to fight diabetes and other diseases linked to obesity through an innovative new walking program titled, "Step Into Cuba." A Health Sciences Center video highlights one of the newest projects at the UNM Prevention Research Center. The video's mission is to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent chronic disease by providing walkways, trails and social support for walking and hiking.
Step into Cuba volunteers build the walking trails and coordinate social walking activities in an effort to tackle the community's high rates of diabetes and other diseases linked to obesity. Although their primary emphasis is on serving residents of the Cuba, New Mexico area, the walkways and trails are always available to visitors.
The Step Into Cuba program is a partnership with UNM's Prevention research Center, which is providing technical assistance and assessing the program, so that other communities can use it as a model.
To view the video visit: Step Into Cuba.
Peter White, professor of English and American Studies, is featured in the November issue of Albuquerque The Magazine. His work in creating and teaching others to create violins through his “The New Mexico Musical Heritage Project” is the focus of the article, titled “Fiddling with History.”
His goal in the project, he said, is to teach rural students the “centuries-old art of violinmaking and unique folk songs to take back to their communities.” To pick up a copy of the magazine visit: Fiddling with History.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Do you suffer from seasonal allergies? The UNM Hospitals Westside allergy clinic currently has openings for new patients. Hurry in now and miss the springtime rush. Don't wait until for those allergies kick in. Call (505) 272-5585 to schedule an appointment to get some relief from your allergies.
This year's Official UNM Holiday Ornament is now available at the UNM Bookstores. The second in a series of collectibles, the 2009 ornament features the Duck Pond, designed in 1974 by landscape architect Garrett Eckbo as part of a new mall extending from the east side of the Student Union to the west side of the Alumni Memorial Chapel.
Completed in 1976, UNM's Duck Pond is a main campus landmark and is in almost constant use by students, faculty, staff, classes, school children, newlyweds and wedding photographers, and of course, picnickers.
A relaxing place to study, commune and share ideas, it is also frequented each year by thousands of school children, families, alumni, faculty and staff. Scholars who meet and fall in love at UNM frequently wed to the backdrop featured in our 2009 holiday ornament, the second in a series of collectibles.
The ornament is available in the store and on the website for $18.89, a price set in honor of UNM's founding year. All proceeds benefit the UNM Parent Association.
For more information or to purchase online visit: 2009 Official UNM Holiday Ornament.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
Gov. Richardson called last month's Special Session the toughest he's ever been through. Hear what he says was the hardest part, in an exclusive one-on-one interview with Gene Grant on this week’s New Mexico in Focus. Plus, find out what he hopes to do to fix the budget in the next legislative session, including the possibility of tax hikes. “New Mexico In Focus” is KNME-TV’s weekly hour-long public affairs show airing on Friday, Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. on KNME-TV channel 5.1 and repeating on Sunday, Nov. 8 at 6:30 a.m.
Also, Lt. Governor Diane Denish gets candid with correspondent Peter St. Cyr. Find out how she wants to reform state government, and where she says the state can find hundreds of millions of dollars to plug the budget shortfall.
Guest panelists this week include Marco Gonzales, attorney, Modrall Sperling Law Firm and John Wertheim, former executive director, State Democratic Party. Together, they’ll join panelists Sophie Martin, managing editor, Duke City Fix.Com and Margaret Montoya, UNM Schools of Law and Medicine/CUNY Law School.
Hosted by Gene Grant, columnist for the Weekly Alibi, “New Mexico in Focus” takes a multi-layered look at social, political, economic, health, education, and arts issues and explores them in-depth, with a critical eye to give them context beyond the “news of the moment.”
New Mexico in Focus can also be seen on KNME’s Digital Channel 9.1 on Saturdays at 5 p.m. Additionanlly, viewers can also watch it online at: KNME.
“New Mexico in Focus” is produced by Kevin McDonald and Kathy Wimmer and closed captioning has been made possible by a gift from Mrs. Elspeth G. Bobbs.
Media Contact: Evy Todd, (505) 277-1812; e-mail: etodd@knme.org
Richard Gordon, assistant professor of Lusophone and Hispanic Literatures and Cultures at The Ohio State University, offers a presentation on slavery and identity in recent Brazilian cinema. Titled, “The Case of Aleijadinho: Paixão, Glória e Suplício,” the presentation will take place Wed., Nov. 18, from 4-5 p.m. in Ortega Hall 335 – the Reading Room.
Photo: Richard Gordon
This event is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences’ Faculty Development Speaker's Fund, the Latin American and Iberian Institute, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Student Organization of Latin American Studies.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Pledge packets were distributed last week and already donations are beginning to trickle in, showing a modest but definite increase in participation. As part of the drive to increase participation, all faculty and staff that donate will receive a United Way pin in the mail.
Every Friday during the campaign, the prize patrol will be out and about on campus ready to give prizes to those wearing their pin, with a big drawing to be held every month. Some of the prizes this year include shows at Popejoy, tickets to UNM sporting events, Starbuck cards, haircuts, food stuff, and much, much more.
The goal is to reach last year’s amount of $1 million, with a greater push for overall increase in campus involvement. Giving only $2 a paycheck via monthly payroll deduction provides screenings for breast cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis for one woman with no health insurance; a backpack filled with weekend meals for 18 underprivileged children; and at .23 cents per meal, almost 209 meals for hungry men, women, children and seniors.
Students have a chance to contribute as well. Paws for United Way was such a success last year, it’s back. Paper Paws will be on sale for $1 in the UNM Student Union Building, Starbuck’s, and the Student Resource Center Commons area.
Students can use cash or LOBOcash on their UNM IDs to donate at all of the Chartwell venues in the SUB through the month of November. All of the money collected will go to United Way’s Community Fund which supports various organizations in Albuquerque and surrounding areas.
Celebrate the spirit of the season by making a donation to the United Way and help New Mexico families in need. “Live United” and make sure no one ever has to choose between food and heat. Giving is quick, easy and, most important, secure.
For more information individuals may contact Campaign Coordinator Connie Beimer at (505) 277-0204, via e-mail, unmuw@unm.edu or visit: UNM United Way.
Media Contact: Mara Kerkez, (505) 277-1989; e-mail: marakez6@unm.edu
Anthropology Professor James Dixon has spent the last five or six years searching for evidence of early man among the retreating glaciers of Alaska. He says this specialized research has only been possible because climate change is causing ice that was frozen thousands of years ago to melt. Dixon just returned from his summer field work in Alaska. And what he is finding is amazing.
Photo: James Dixon
“For example we have found wooden arrow shafts over a thousand years old that are painted. They still have the feathers attached to them, “he says. “They still have the antler points that are beautifully carved and barbed, along with sinew lashing. We can even see the knots they produced to tie these things on. So we have glimpses into the material culture that heretofore we’ve never seen.”
Dixon says the artifacts give indications of the way humans adapted to high altitude environments. Native people still occupy areas near the glaciers where he works, and members of the tribes do field work alongside the anthropologists. He says they have been fascinated by the insights they have gotten into their own past. The Native Americans also offer information about the animals that are found in the arctic environment.
Another thing that excites him is the continuity. He can see how people living on the sites now interact with the environment and is building a continuous record that goes back at least a thousand years and perhaps as far as 15-hundred years.
Dixon says at that point in history there seems to be a major change in the sort of tools that were used. Before that time he finds spear points and some arrows, then suddenly he finds a different kind of arrow. Now he is looking for an explanation for the change. He doesn’t yet know whether new people came into the area or the people who were already there abruptly learned new hunting techniques. But that’s one of those mysteries that keep anthropologists on the hunt for answers.
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
The University of New Mexico collaborated with the Woodrow Wilson Center and El Colegio de La Frontera in Mexico to develop a “Master Plan for the Competitive and Sustainable Development of the U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: 2020 Vision.” Juan de Dios Pineda, director, Special Office for Latin American Initiatives, led UNM’s efforts in the project.
“This collaboration has given UNM a front-row seat in the development of this valuable body of knowledge and planning, one that should enhance UNM’s reach and prestige in southern border international affairs,” Pineda said.
Pineda brought together opinions, views and proposals from a variety of decision-makers, experts, public officials, researchers, scholars and academics from various New Mexican institutions.
“We had great participation and extensive research presented between all cooperating higher education institutions within the United States border region related to the issues in the plan such as education, immigration, economic development, health care, sustainability, population, security, transportation and infrastructure,” Pineda said.
The final study was presented at the XXVII Border Governors Conference in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, earlier this fall. The conference was hosted by Governor Jose Natividad Gonzalez Parás. All 10 border governors and representatives attended.
“We presented a joint plan that will guide us on our path toward a state of competiveness, sustainability and well-being that allows us to leverage the region’s development” Pineda said.
Visit the XXVII Border Governors Strategic Master Plan for Competitive and Sustainable Development of the United States- Mexico Border Region at Strategic Guidelines.
For more information, contact, Juan de Dios Pineda at pinedaj@unm.edu or (505) 277-0837; (505) 277-1811.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
The UNM RWJF Center for Health Policy’s Institute for the Study of “Race” and Social Justice, presents, “Genetic Ancestry Testing: Troubling Concepts of Race and Identity,” a talk by Charmaine Royal, associate research professor at Duke University’s Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, on Friday, Nov. 6, from 2-4 p.m. in rm. 105 of the Hibben Center.
The rapid growth in the number of companies offering ancestry testing through DNA analysis has fueled and has been fueled by the interests of people and groups seeking additional in-sight into their genealogical histories and ancestral origins. Despite its popularity, this relatively new wave of direct-to-consumer genetic testing has generated concern about various ethical, legal, societal, and psycho-social implications.
Royal’s presentation uses conceptual and empirical information to examine the range of issues relevant to the impact of genetic ancestry testing on notions of race and identity. The implications for various stakeholders will also be discussed.
Royal holds a Ph.D. in human genetics from Howard University, as well as an M.S. in genetic counseling and B.S. in microbiology, also from Howard. Royal was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health National Human Genome Research Institute. She has published widely, including two dozen articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Medical Ethics, Ethnicity and Disease, Nature, and the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Royal co-chairs the Task Force on Ancestry and Ancestry Testing of the American Society of Human Genetics and is a member of the NIH Director's Working Group on Participant and Data Protection for the Genetic Association Information Network.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Diverse career opportunities featured at UNM event
Nvent Marketing Partnership, a student-run marketing agency at the University of New Mexico, will host two information sessions for those interested in a career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The sessions will be held Monday, Nov. 9 in the Lobo A & B conference room at the UNM Student Union Building. The first session will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. The second session is scheduled for 2 to 3 p.m. Seating is limited.
“The career opportunities with government agencies like the FBI are in high demand, especially because of the benefits that they provide. The job security that they provide certainly outweighs any job security that private sector careers offer. FBI career opportunities are great for individuals with diverse educational backgrounds” says Natalie Rogers, UNM Anderson School Career Services Program Coordinator.
Attendees will have the opportunity to view a presentation by Special Agent Gonzales, in which he will detail the opportunities and benefits of a career with the FBI. Attendees will also be able to collect additional literature and promotional materials. The event is free and registration is not required. Refreshments will be provided.
Career opportunities include both the Special Agent and Professional Staff positions within the organization. Ideal skills the FBI needs for Special Agents include accounting/finance, engineering, computer science/information technology, science/math, intelligence, law enforcement, investigation, and military experience.
Fluency in critical languages such Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese are among the many skills sought. Careers in professional support positions are open to even more fields of study.
For more information about FBI careers and internships, and to apply, the public can visit: FBI Jobs UNM or Facebook search “Federal Bureau of Investigation”.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
The FBI was established in 1908. The FBI mission is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats. The FBI employs over 30,000, which includes Special Agents and Professional support staff. FBI Headquarters is located in Washington, D.C., with 56 Field Offices and over 60 international offices. For more information visit: FBI.
About Nvent Marketing Partnership...
Nvent Marketing Partnership is a fully functional student-run marketing communications agency established at the University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management with the purpose of developing, implementing, and evaluating peer-to-peer integrated marketing communications campaigns. Nvent provides students with experiential learning opportunities that will help them gain experience for their future marketing careers.
The agency is supported by the UNM Anderson School of Management, EdVenture Partners, and its clients. The agency is housed in the recently opened Student Marketing Center, a state-of-the-art facility that serves as a lab, studio, and collaborative learning space.
For more information e-mail: nvent@mgt.unm.edu.
The UNM Anderson School of Management realizes the importance of non-profit organizations in our community and in an effort to bring the organizations together with UNM students, faculty, and staff Anderson is hosting Non-Profit Day on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
The event will take place in the SUB (Student Union Building) from 9am – 3 pm and admission is free. Attendees will learn about employment and volunteer opportunities with non-profit agencies and several presentations by Anderson professors will highlight the role of non-profits in the community.
Registration begins at 8 am and Professor Raul DeGouvea will give the opening remarks at 8:45am. Don’t miss this opportunity to find out how to get involved. For more information contact Kaye Summerhays at summerhays@mgt.unm.edu or (505) 277-3756.
Schedule of Events...
8 - 8:30 a.m. - Registration
8:30 am Opening Remarks: Professor Raul DeGouvea, The Anderson School of
Management, Organizer of Anderson Non-Profit Day & Department Chair of FITE Department
8:45-10 a.m.
Session One: “Enhancing the Performance of Non-Profits”
Chair: Professor Emmanuel Morales, Anderson School of Management
Panelists...
* Professor Rich Brody, Anderson School, “Preventing & Detecting Fraud in Non-Profit Organizations.”
* Professor Chuck Crespy, Anderson School, “Building Trust in Non Profit Organizations.”
10:10-11:10 a.m.
Session Two: “The Role of NFPs in Promoting Economic Development in the State of NM.”
Chair: Professor Chuck Crespy, Anderson School of Management
Panelists...
* Leroy Pacheco, Executive Director The Loan Fund
* Leslie Hoffman, ACCION New Mexico Communications Director
11:15 a.m. -12:15 p.m.
Session Three: “Challenges and Opportunities for NFPs in a Changing Economy”
Chair: Professor Sarah Smith, Anderson School of Management
Panelists...
* Carol Radosevich, Board of Directors WESST, Director Economic Development PNM
* Paul Hopkins, Executive Director, Samaritan Counseling Center
* Jill VonOsten, New Mexico Ethics Alliance
12:20 – 1:30 p.m. - Lunch
Chair: Dean Doug Brown, Anderson School of Management
Keynote Speaker: LaDonna Hopkins, Vice President & Chief Development Officer at United Way of Central New Mexico
“Good News – Philanthropy in New Mexico.”
1:30 – 3 p.m.
Session Four: “Developing a Career in the Non-Profit Environment”
Chair: Professor Shawn Berman, Anderson School of Management
Panelists...
* Jane Bradley, Executive Director – Albuquerque Independent Business Alliance (AIBA), Member of the Board of the New Mexico Community Development and The Loan Fund.
* Barbara C. Lemaire, Ph.D., Founder and Publisher “Non-Profit Directory of New Mexico.”
* Lisa Pillar, Chief Financial Officer at United Way of Central New Mexico, Board Treasurer for The New Mexico Ethics Alliance.
Parking Validation...
As you enter the Cornell Parking Structure, you will be instructed to obtain a parking ticket from the parking structure station. Please take this ticket, it allows you to park. After you park, bring your parking ticket to the Anderson Non-Profit Day Registration Table. You must have the Cornell parking ticket in order to receive your validation sticker. When you leave the Cornell Parking Structure, you will provide the attendant your parking ticket, which will contain the validation sticker. The validation sticker will allow you to leave at no cost.
Lynn Morgan, Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology at Mount Holyoke College, will speak on “Reproductive Rights and Wrongs in Contemporary Latin America” on Wednesday, Nov. 4 at 4 p.m. in rm. 105 at the Hibben Center.
Photo: Lynn Morgan
Media Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
The University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning hosts an open house, Friday, Nov. 13, from 12:30 - 5:30 p.m. The informal activities and events are set in the school’s landmark home and the new campus gateway, the architecturally acclaimed Pearl Hall - located at Central Avenue and Cornell.
The public, members of the university community, and those interested in careers in architecture, community & regional planning and landscape architecture are encouraged to visit. Students and faculty will meet formally and informally with visitors throughout the afternoon, as will academic advisors for both undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Exhibitions of student and professional work will be on display.
The School of Architecture & Planning at UNM offers graduate professional degrees in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and community & regional planning. In addition, the school hosts two undergraduate, non-professional degrees, the BA in Environmental Planning & Design, and the BA in Architecture. Graduate Certificate Programs are offered in both Town Design and Historic Preservation & Regionalism.
Roger Schluntz, dean, said, “The open house is an opportunity for potential students to visit the school, meet the faculty and see the interesting and engaging, high quality work being produced at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning.” He added that he hopes the public, professionals and alumni also stop by.
The School is noted for its exemplary community outreach and service learning activities, involving students, faculty, and the public in a variety of design and planning issues throughout New Mexico.
For additional information and the schedule of activities visit: SAAP or contact Elizabeth Rowe, erowe@unm.edu, (505) 277-1303, or write to the School of Architecture and Planning, University of New Mexico MSC 04 2530; 2401 Central Avenue, NE.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu