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Staff Council Award Nominations Due

May 23, 2013 | By Mara Kerkez

The Staff Coun­cil is accept­ing nom­i­na­tions for the Jim Davis Staff Coun­cil Award for Mer­i­to­ri­ous Ser­vice. The award rec­og­nizes the sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions of an indi­vid­ual to the UNM Staff Coun­cil. In 1999, the UNM Staff Coun­cil estab­lished the award in mem­ory of Jim Davis, long time UNM employee who exem­pli­fied ser­vice to the coun­cil and…

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New Mexico in Focus Discusses Current State of Journalism, New Mexico Jobs

May 23, 2013 | By Mara Kerkez

This week on New Mex­ico in Focus, Richard B. Stol­ley, jour­nal­ist and for­mer edi­tor of Time, Life and Peo­ple mag­a­zines talks about his life in jour­nal­ism and the cur­rent state of the pro­fes­sion. The pro­gram airs Fri­day nights at 7 p.m. on chan­nel 5.1 and appears online at www.newmexicoinfocus.org shortly there­after. The show rebroad­casts Saturday…

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UNM Alumni Association Hosts ‘Flamenco Fever’

May 20, 2013 | By Mara Kerkez

The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Alumni Asso­ci­a­tion hosts ‘Fla­menco Fever,’ a Lobo Liv­ing Room event on Thurs­day, June 6 at 5:30 p.m. in Hod­gin Hall Alumni Plaza. The event fea­tures Alma Fla­menca, a pre-professional per­for­mance com­pany fea­tur­ing stu­dents trained in the UNM fla­menco pro­gram and stu­dents of the Con­ser­va­tory for Fla­menco Arts. Directed by Marisol Encinias, Flamenca…

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New Mexico in Focus Hosts Attorney General Gary King

May 16, 2013 | By Mara Kerkez

On this week’s edi­tion of New Mex­ico in Focus, Attor­ney Gen­eral Gary King talks about the state’s water bat­tle with Texas. The pro­gram airs Fri­day nights at 7 p.m. on chan­nel 5.1 and appears online at www.newmexicoinfocus.org shortly there­after. The show rebroad­casts Sat­ur­day at 5 p.m. on chan­nel 9.1. and again on Sun­day at 7 a.m.…

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UNM Board of Regents Meet May 14

May 10, 2013 | By Mara Kerkez

The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Board of Regents meet Tues­day, May 14 at 9 a.m. in the Stu­dent Union Build­ing, Ball­room C on main cam­pus. The Board of Regents will meet in Exec­u­tive Ses­sion from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the Cherry Sil­ver Room. Agenda: I.          Con­fir­ma­tion of a Quo­rum:  Adop­tion of the Agenda, Regent…

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Paramo Creates e-Book with Daughter

May 9, 2013 | By Mara Kerkez

Alex Paramo and his six-year-old daugh­ter Marisol love to cre­ate sto­ries together and retell them at bed­time. Now they are shar­ing one of their sto­ries, “Princess Marisol & the Moon Thieves,” recently launched as an elec­tronic book that acquaints chil­dren with basic geog­ra­phy, ecol­ogy, col­lab­o­ra­tion, per­sonal respon­si­bil­ity and ulti­mately, self-discovery. “Princess Marisol & The Moon…

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Midwifery and Drought Topics on New Mexico in Focus

May 9, 2013 | By Mara Kerkez

This week on New Mex­ico in Focus, mid­wives are in the stu­dio to talk about the his­tory of mid­wifery in the state and its cur­rent role. The group explores the health care community’s response to the prac­tice as well as train­ing stan­dards for dif­fer­ent kinds of mid­wives. The pro­gram airs Fri­day nights at 7 p.m.…

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UNM Regents’ Academic/Student Affairs/Research Committee Meets May 9

May 7, 2013 | By Mara Kerkez

The Aca­d­e­mic, Stu­dent Affairs and Research Com­mit­tee of the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Board of Regents meets Thurs­day, May 9 at 9 a.m. in Scholes Hall, the Roberts Room, on main cam­pus. In addi­tion to the three Regents who are mem­bers of this com­mit­tee, other Regents may attend this meet­ing in a non-voting capac­ity. Agenda…

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New Mexico in Focus Examines ‘Closed’ Primaries

May 2, 2013 | By Mara Kerkez

New Mex­ico in Focus exam­ines whether the state’s major polit­i­cal par­ties should be allowed to hold “closed” pri­maries.  The exec­u­tive direc­tor of an influ­en­tial Santa Fe think tank says it is time to rethink the prac­tice. The pro­gram airs Fri­day nights at 7 p.m. on chan­nel 5.1 and appears online at NMiF shortly there­after. The…

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UNM Students to Pack SUB for Late Night Breakfast

May 1, 2013 | By Mara Kerkez

The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Stu­dent Union Build­ing raf­fles off a South­west Air­lines gift card and an iPad at the semi-annual Late Night Break­fast event Sun­day, May 5, from 8 – 11 p.m. in the SUB. Late Night Break­fast is a fun, inter­ac­tive event for UNM stu­dents to cel­e­brate the end of the semes­ter. Walter…

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