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Joachim Named GM/CEO of New Mexico PBS, KNME

June 17, 2013 | By Carolyn Gonzales

Franz Joachim has been named gen­eral man­ager and CEO of New Mex­ico PBS, KNME-TV, Chan­nel 5.1. He assumes his new posi­tion July 1. Joachim and Karen Mann, direc­tor of finance, have been act­ing as interim co-GMs for the past six months. Pre­vi­ously, Joachim was direc­tor of con­tent for New Mex­ico PBS. “I am very excited about…

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Friday After Hours at the UNM Art Museum

June 14, 2013 | By Carolyn Gonzales

Jump start your TGIF cel­e­bra­tion on Fri­day, June 21 from 4–5 p.m. in the Uni­ver­sity Art Museum. Enjoy a social hour of art and music in the gal­leries. Live music and light refresh­ments will be served. The UNM Art Museum is located in the Cen­ter for the Arts. It is open Tues­day — Sat­ur­day from…

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UNM Center for Regional Studies and UNM Press Partner to Provide Books for Under-Funded New Mexico Libraries

June 13, 2013 | By Carolyn Gonzales

The Cen­ter for Regional Stud­ies (CRS) at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico pro­vided $53,475.22 to pur­chase books pub­lished by the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Press for under-funded pub­lic and tribal libraries across New Mex­ico. Under the lead­er­ship of Tobías Durán, the CRS pur­chased copies of 55 titles for dis­tri­b­u­tion to 64 libraries. This project promotes…

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Carter Named UNM Diplomat in Residence

June 11, 2013 | By Carolyn Gonzales

The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico is receiv­ing a new Diplo­mat in Res­i­dence, Philip Carter, later this sum­mer. Prior to his appoint­ment as U.S. Ambas­sador to the Repub­lic of Cote d’Ivoire, Carter served as a senior advi­sor to the Africa Bureau and pre­vi­ously as prin­ci­pal deputy assis­tant sec­re­tary from 2008 to 2010, as well as the…

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UNM West Appointments Announced

June 11, 2013 | By Carolyn Gonzales

Wynn Goer­ing has been appointed chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of UNM West, UNM’s cam­pus in Rio Ran­cho, Pres­i­dent Robert Frank announced today. Goer­ing, who cur­rently serves as spe­cial assis­tant to the pres­i­dent for branch affairs at UNM, assumes his new duties July 1. “Dr. Goering’s assign­ment reflects the height­ened pri­or­ity we’re giv­ing UNM West in our efforts…

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Greenleaf Scholar Roldan-Figueroa Presents at LAII

June 10, 2013 | By Carolyn Gonzales

Green­leaf Vis­it­ing Scholar Rady Roldan-Figueroa presents, “Span­ish Accounts of Chris­t­ian Mar­tyr­dom in Toku­gawa Japan, c. 1597-c. 1945: Ideational Rep­re­sen­ta­tions and their Cir­cu­la­tion in Spain, the Philip­pines, and New Spain,” Wednes­day, June 12 at noon in the Waters Room, first floor of Zim­mer­man Library. Refresh­ments will be served. This project traces the lit­er­ary rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Christian…

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UNM HSC Hosts ‘Music on the Plaza’ on Fridays

June 10, 2013 | By Carolyn Gonzales

Take a break dur­ing lunch to lis­ten to some great local enter­tain­ment and enjoy the warmth of sum­mer­time. The UNM Health Sci­ences Cen­ter Well­ness Pro­gram spon­sors “Music on the Plaza” on the HSC Plaza every Fri­day, noon-1 p.m. this sum­mer. The pro­gram kicked off Fri­day, June 7 with the Duke City Sax­o­phone Choir. Grab a healthy…

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‘Urban Composition’ by Mark Childs Wins 2013 EDRA Great Places Award

June 1, 2013 | By Carolyn Gonzales

Mark Childs, pro­fes­sor, Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico School of Archi­tec­ture and Plan­ning, was noti­fied by the Board of Direc­tors of the Envi­ron­men­tal Design Research Asso­ci­a­tion and the EDRA Great Places Awards jurors, that his book sub­mis­sion, Urban Com­po­si­tion: Devel­op­ing Com­mu­nity Through Design, is a recip­i­ent of the esteemed 2013 EDRA Great Places Award in the…

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UNM Softball Collections for Oklahoma Tornado Victims in Final Stretch

May 29, 2013 | By Carolyn Gonzales

UNM Soft­ball Coach Erica Beach and her boyfriend, for­mer Lobo foot­ball player Derek Wat­son are in the final stretch for col­lect­ing food, water and other neces­si­ties for the peo­ple affected by the tor­nado in Moore, Okla. “We have enough cloth­ing, but we need more bot­tled water, canned food, new pack­aged food, as well as baby…

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Home Designed by Maniatis Featured Regionally, Nationally

May 28, 2013 | By Carolyn Gonzales

Efthimios Mani­atis, part time fac­ulty in the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico School of Archi­tec­ture and Plan­ning, designed a house for Roger and Mary Downey in Cor­rales, N.M. that was fea­tured in Su Casa North­ern New Mex­ico (start­ing on pg. 37). The arti­cle notes how well the house rep­re­sents mod­ern region­al­ism. The house will be featured…

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