Author Archives: Carolyn Gonzales

Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico stu­dent Amy Beth Cre­sap is the recip­i­ent of the Depart­ment of Lin­guis­tics Signed Lan­guage Inter­pret­ing Program’s 2012 Phyl­lis Per­rin Wilcox endowed schol­ar­ship. This annual schol­ar­ship rec­og­nizes a stu­dent who demon­strates aca­d­e­mic excel­lence, excep­tional per­sonal integrity, and the poten­tial to excel in signed lan­guage inter­pret­ing. A mem­ber of the National Soci­ety of…

La Uni­ver­si­dad de Nuevo Méx­ico pre­senta Des­tino Uni­ver­si­dad, un ser­vi­cio gra­tu­ito con­fer­en­cia bil­ingüe ayun­tamiento para que los estu­di­antes de secun­daria y prepara­to­ria y sus famil­ias a apren­der acerca de la preparación uni­ver­si­taria, los recur­sos financieros de ayuda y más, el Jueves, 24 de mayo 5:30–9 p.m. en el UNM Stu­dent Union Build­ing ball­rooms. Hay aparcamiento…

The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico presents Des­tino Uni­ver­si­dad, a free bilin­gual town hall con­fer­ence for mid­dle and high school stu­dents and their fam­i­lies to learn about col­lege prepa­ra­tion, finan­cial aid resources and more, on Thurs­day, May 24 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. in the UNM Stu­dent Union Build­ing ball­rooms. Free park­ing is avail­able for the event.…

Dis­tin­guished Pro­fes­sor of His­tory Paul Hut­ton, is the win­ner of the 2011 West­ern Writ­ers of Amer­ica Spur Award for Best West­ern Short Non­fic­tion for his arti­cle, “The Alamo, Well Remem­bered.” West­ern Writ­ers of Amer­ica, founded in 1953 to pro­mote the lit­er­a­ture of the Amer­i­can West, bestows Spur Awards for dis­tin­guished writ­ing in the West­ern field. Hutton…

The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Cen­ter for Regional Stud­ies con­tributed $23,000 to pur­chase books pub­lished by the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Press for under-funded pub­lic and tribal libraries across New Mex­ico. Tobías Durán, CRS direc­tor, autho­rized pur­chase of copies of 25 titles for dis­tri­b­u­tion to 65 libraries. The project has con­tributed more than $163,000 for…