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UNM Students Headed to World’s Largest Automotive Competition

June 18, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

Stu­dents in the UNM “Lobo­Mo­tor­sports” pro­gram left Albu­querque today on their way to Lin­coln, Nebraska to com­pete with their sleek formula-style rac­ing car in the world’s largest auto­mo­tive com­pe­ti­tion, the For­mula SAE, orga­nized by the Soci­ety of Auto­mo­tive Engi­neers. The For­mula SAE will test the stu­dents’ hands-on engi­neer­ing skills as well as the team­work, leadership,…

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UNM Libraries Faculty Member Chosen for Leadership Program

June 18, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

Zoe Chao, a fac­ulty mem­ber with UNM Libraries, will par­tic­i­pate in “Lead­ing to the Future,” the Amer­i­can Library Association’s four-day immer­sive lead­er­ship devel­op­ment pro­gram for future library lead­ers. The selec­tion com­mit­tee searched for a diverse par­tic­i­pant mix based on type of library (pub­lic, aca­d­e­mic, school, spe­cial), orga­ni­za­tional respon­si­bil­ity, geog­ra­phy, gen­der and race/ethnicity, as well as…

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UNM Undertakes Land Acquisition to Develop University Related Facilities on South Campus

June 13, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

In order to imple­ment its South Cam­pus mas­ter devel­op­ment plan, the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico is ask­ing a dis­trict court judge to set a value for 23 lots in the area south of Uni­ver­sity Arena. Cur­rent landown­ers, the Gutier­rez Fam­ily Revo­ca­ble Trusts, are join­ing with UNM in request­ing a judi­cial deter­mi­na­tion on the value of…

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Albuquerque Teachers Learn New Technologies at UNM’s Southwest Center for Microsystems Education

June 12, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

Physics, biol­ogy, geol­ogy, chem­istry and math teach­ers from Albu­querque Pub­lic Schools and the ASK Acad­emy are spend­ing part of their sum­mer in class­rooms at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico learn­ing about MEMS sys­tems.  Micro­Electro­Mechan­i­cal­Sytems (MEMS) are tech­nolo­gies embed­ded in auto­mo­biles, tablets and smart phones. The teach­ers are learn­ing ways to teach their stu­dents about MEMS devices…

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UNM Hosts Project HeartStart June 22

June 11, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

Sud­den car­diac arrest kills 300,000 peo­ple annu­ally so the New Mex­ico Heart Insti­tute and KOAT TV are spon­sor­ing Project Heart­Start at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico south gym in John­son Cen­ter on Sat­ur­day, June 22. The free ses­sions will teach mem­bers of the com­mu­nity CPR com­pres­sion tech­niques, how to use an auto­mated exter­nal defib­ril­la­tor and how…

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Southwest Center for Microsystems Education at UNM Hosts MEMS Design Competition

June 7, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

Stu­dents from col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties across the United States and Mex­ico gath­ered at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mexico’s Man­u­fac­tur­ing Train­ing and Tech­nol­ogy Cen­ter (MTTC) to present stu­dent designs for Micro­Electro­Mechan­i­cal­Sys­tems (MEMS) projects at a con­fer­ence hosted by UNM’s South­west Cen­ter for Microsys­tems Edu­ca­tion recently. The com­pe­ti­tion is spon­sored by San­dia National Lab­o­ra­to­ries as part of…

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University Libraries Opens Tony Hillerman Portal

June 7, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

Uni­ver­sity Libraries will host a pre­view event for the Tony Hiller­man Por­tal on Fri­day, June 14 at 5:30 p.m. in the Willard Room in Zim­mer­man Library. The demon­stra­tion of the por­tal will be fol­lowed by a reception. The event is free and open to all. In 2005, Hiller­man donated his man­u­scripts, papers and notes to Zim­mer­man Library.…

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Monica Orozco Named Vice Provost for Extended Learning at UNM

June 3, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

Mon­ica Orozco has been named Vice Provost for Extended Learn­ing at UNM. Provost Chaouki Abdal­lah says the appoint­ment will be effec­tive July 1, 2013. “I am pleased to announce Dr. Mon­ica Orozco as Vice Provost for Extended Learning. She brings a broad and unique national and global per­spec­tive in the area of dis­tance learn­ing and, in my…

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Krause Named Dean of Honors College and University College

May 31, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Eco­nom­ics Pro­fes­sor Kate Krause has been appointed to the posi­tion of Dean of the Hon­ors Col­lege and Uni­ver­sity Col­lege by Provost Chaouki Abdallah. The appoint­ment is effec­tive imme­di­ately. “I am extra­or­di­nar­ily pleased to announce Dr. Kate Krause as Dean of the Hon­ors Col­lege and Uni­ver­sity Col­lege,” Abdal­lah said. “During her short tenure as…

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UNM Joins Coursera for Online Courses

May 29, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico and nine other state uni­ver­sity sys­tems and pub­lic flag­ships will be part­ner­ing with Cours­era to explore the pos­si­bil­i­ties of using Mas­sive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to increase stu­dent access to high-quality online edu­ca­tional con­tent. Along with UNM, the insti­tu­tions are State Uni­ver­sity of New York (SUNY), the Ten­nessee Board of…

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