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Dyer Named Executive Director of UNM Gallup

May 22, 2013 | By Carolyn Gonzales

Christo­pher Dyer

Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Pres­i­dent Robert Frank announced the appoint­ment of Christo­pher Dyer as exec­u­tive direc­tor of UNM Gallup. He assumes the posi­tion effec­tive July 1.

Dyer said, “I am greatly hon­ored for the oppor­tu­nity to pro­vide lead­er­ship to the UNM Gallup cam­pus. I believe there is sig­nif­i­cant untapped poten­tial to con­tribute to the edu­ca­tional well-being of our stu­dents and to play an impor­tant role in the eco­nomic life of the cul­tures and com­mu­ni­ties of west­ern New Mexico.”

Dyer cur­rently serves as dean of aca­d­e­mic affairs and is a tenured pro­fes­sor of anthro­pol­ogy at Mis­souri State Uni­ver­sity — West Plains. He received both his master’s and Ph.D. in anthro­pol­ogy from Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity. He is a native of the south­west and a vet­eran of cross-cultural pro­gram­ming, assess­ment and eco­nomic devel­op­ment. His field research and com­mu­nity ser­vice includes work with Native Amer­i­cans in Alaska and with His­pan­ics in North Car­olina and Texas.

He has made sig­nif­i­cant accom­plish­ments at MSU — West Plains, includ­ing pro­mot­ing an empo­rium math pro­gram, which resulted in an increase in intro­duc­tory math course com­ple­tions from 34 per­cent to 67 per­cent in the first year of the program.

Dyer has more than 10 years of expe­ri­ence as an aca­d­e­mic admin­is­tra­tor and dean, hav­ing served at Our Lady of the Lake Uni­ver­sity, Mount Olive Col­lege and the School for Field Studies.

Dyer has received research sup­port from the National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion and the John D. and Cather­ine T. MacArthur Foun­da­tion. He has made sig­nif­i­cant accom­plish­ments at MSU-West Plains, includ­ing pro­mot­ing an empo­rium math pro­gram, which resulted in intro­duc­tory math course com­ple­tions from 34 to 67 per­cent in the first year of the program.

Media Con­tact: Car­olyn Gon­za­les (505) 277‑5920; email: cgonzal@unm.edu

Posted in Administration, Branch Campuses, University News | |

David Herring Named UNM School of Law Dean

May 3, 2013 | By Steve Carr

David Her­ring

Provost Chaouki Abdal­lah has announced the appoint­ment of David Her­ring as the dean for the Uni­ver­sity of New Mexico’s School of Law. Her­ring is a pro­fes­sor of Law at the Uni­ver­sity of Pitts­burgh, where he teaches Con­sti­tu­tional Law, Lawyer­ing, and Antitrust.

“I am extra­or­di­nar­ily pleased to announce and wel­come David to UNM,” Abdal­lah said. “He is an accom­plished Pro­fes­sor of Law and a tal­ented admin­is­tra­tor. He will be a great addi­tion to our senior lead­er­ship team and I ask the UNM com­mu­nity to wel­come him to Albuquerque.”

Her­ring served as dean at the Uni­ver­sity of Pitts­burgh School of Law from 1998 to 2005. Among his accom­plish­ments as dean were lead­ing the school’s suc­cess­ful cap­i­tal cam­paign and recruit­ing strong teach­ers and schol­ars to join the fac­ulty. Prior to serv­ing as dean, he founded and served as the first direc­tor of Pitt Law School’s clin­i­cal legal edu­ca­tion program.

Her­ring has writ­ten exten­sively on child wel­fare law issues and assess­ing stu­dent learn­ing in legal edu­ca­tion. His most recent work in child wel­fare focuses on behav­ioral biol­ogy research and its impli­ca­tions for chil­dren placed in fos­ter care; his pre­vi­ous work focused on the polit­i­cal func­tions of the fam­ily in Amer­i­can soci­ety. Herring’s research on legal edu­ca­tion has included a series of empir­i­cal stud­ies of stu­dent learn­ing gains in the areas of legal read­ing and cross-case rea­son­ing, for which he devel­oped and admin­is­tered pre– and post-tests to mea­sure gains.

“I am thrilled to join the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico com­mu­nity,” Her­ring said. “I have long admired the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico School of Law for its com­mit­ment to clin­i­cal legal edu­ca­tion and to com­mu­nity ser­vice. With its low student/faculty ratio, its empha­sis on prac­ti­cal skills train­ing, and its pro­duc­tion of schol­ar­ship that engages the pro­fes­sion, the School of Law stands as a model for law schools through­out the nation. We can build on this solid foun­da­tion to become an even more promi­nent leader in legal edu­ca­tion. This is the oppor­tu­nity that I look for­ward to pur­su­ing with my new col­leagues,” David Her­ring said when asked for com­ment on his appointment.”

Her­ring will begin his new posi­tion on July 1, 2013.

Posted in Administration, University News | |

Office of the President: Weekly Perspective – 4.22.13

April 22, 2013 | By UCAM

President’s Weekly Per­spec­tive – 4.22.13

“We make a liv­ing by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Win­ston Churchill

Good morn­ing.

For count­less mem­bers of the UNM com­mu­nity, the spirit of giv­ing is evi­dent through sin­gle acts of com­pas­sion and brav­ery to com­mu­nity ser­vice projects and ful­fill­ing career choices that advance both per­sonal well-being and that of our soci­ety. This week, I am proud to rec­og­nize how UNM’s com­mit­ment to pro­duc­ing active, engaged, and effec­tive cit­i­zens is reflected across the uni­ver­sity. Each of us can make a dif­fer­ence — at home, through our work, and in our com­mu­ni­ties — to help build a bet­ter future for our stu­dents, our com­mu­ni­ties, and our nation. Thank you for all that each of you does to make our world a bet­ter place.

The Lobo Spirit Shines Bright in Boston
Over the past sev­eral days, we have all been pro­cess­ing the sense­less tragedy of the Boston Marathon bomb­ings. The after­math showed a num­ber of good Samar­i­tans among the first respon­ders. Danielle Deines, a first-year res­i­dent physi­cian at the UNM School of Med­i­cine, was one of those heroes. She imme­di­ately began to assist in triag­ing those injured at the Boston Marathon, offer­ing her aid even though she her­self had been treated in the med­ical tent prior to the explo­sions. Danielle is an exam­ple of the count­less indi­vid­u­als who responded coura­geously and self­lessly to do what­ever they could to pre­serve lives, and she is a true reflec­tion of the Lobo spirit we value here at UNM.

UNM Leads Peace Corps Volunteer-Producing His­panic Serv­ing Insti­tu­tions
This year the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico leads the list of Peace Corps volunteer-producing His­panic Serv­ing Insti­tu­tions (HSIs), with 24 under­grad­u­ate alumni cur­rently serv­ing as Peace Corps vol­un­teers and 439 alumni hav­ing served since 1961. These grad­u­ates are well pre­pared for the chal­lenge of inter­na­tional ser­vice. They become lead­ers in their host com­mu­ni­ties and carry the spirit of ser­vice and lead­er­ship back with them when they return home, uphold­ing the Peace Corps’ mis­sion to pro­mote world peace and friend­ship and a bet­ter under­stand­ing between Amer­i­cans and peo­ple of other countries.

UNM Men­tor­ship Oppor­tu­nity
Big Broth­ers Big Sis­ters is launch­ing a new men­tor­ing pro­gram that I feel will be a great fit for fac­ulty and exempt staff at UNM. The pro­gram is called mentor2.0 and works to place men­tors with ninth grade stu­dents at South Val­ley Acad­emy located on Coors and Black SW. The pro­gram goal is to grad­u­ate these young peo­ple from high school and have them pre­pared for col­lege. Our goal is to match every incom­ing fresh­man at this school with a UNM men­tor. I real­ize we all work very hard to cre­ate bal­ance in our time for work, fam­ily and ser­vice. While you may have heard about Big Broth­ers Big Sis­ters tra­di­tional pro­grams, mentor2.0 is a bit dif­fer­ent – you men­tor via email. This pro­gram is a fun and easy way to get involved in the com­mu­nity and make a dif­fer­ence, and could be your oppor­tu­nity to make a pos­i­tive impact on a young person’s life. Please join me in mak­ing mentor2.0 a suc­cess. If you are inter­ested in par­tic­i­pat­ing in the pro­gram and are fac­ulty or an exempt staff mem­ber, please request and com­plete the UNM Inter­est Form and return it to LaTre­nia McDaniel, the UNM liai­son for mentor2.0, at 505–277-2695 or lmcdaniel@unm.edu. Let’s see if we can make South Val­ley Acad­emy a UNM men­tored school!

Cel­e­brat­ing Suc­cess in Sus­tain­abil­ity
UNM is com­mit­ted to being a sus­tain­abil­ity leader, and has adopted sus­tain­abil­ity as core value of the uni­ver­sity. Sev­eral events and recog­ni­tions have recently coin­cided that reflect this com­mit­ment in a very real way. For the third year in a row UNM has been included in the Prince­ton Review’s Guide to Green Col­leges and is the only higher edu­ca­tion insti­tu­tion in New Mex­ico to be named a “Green Col­lege.” The Green Col­lege Guide is pub­lished in part­ner­ship with the U. S. Green Build­ing Coun­cil and focuses solely on col­leges that have demon­strated a strong com­mit­ment to the envi­ron­ment and sus­tain­abil­ity. Also, last Mon­day, the pho­to­voltaic (PV) instal­la­tion on the Sci­ence and Math Learn­ing Cen­ter was ded­i­cated increas­ing the amount of renew­able energy elec­tric­ity pro­duced on cam­pus to 273 kW; other PV instal­la­tions on cam­pus include Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing, Col­lege of Edu­ca­tion, Yale Park­ing Struc­ture, and Elec­tri­cal and Com­puter Engineering.

In cel­e­bra­tion of Earth Day, the 5th Annual Sus­tain­abil­ity Expo & Lobo Grow­ers Mar­ket will be held on Tues­day April 23, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Cor­nell Mall. As the UNM cam­pus is rec­og­nized as a nation­ally rec­og­nized arbore­tum, and in honor of Arbor Day, sev­eral stu­dents groups have orga­nized a series of tree plant­i­ngs and infor­ma­tional work­shops around campus.

To fur­ther empha­size our com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­ity, I am very pleased to announce that Mary Clark has been named the first Sus­tain­abil­ity Man­ager at UNM. Mary has been a UNM employee since 1995 and is cur­rently a grad­u­ate stu­dent in the Mas­ters of Pub­lic Admin­is­tra­tion pro­gram. I am con­fi­dent that she will con­tinue to work to posi­tion as a national model and leader in insti­tu­tional sus­tain­abil­ity through imple­men­ta­tion, edu­ca­tion, out­reach, research, and part­ner­ship. Please join me in con­grat­u­lat­ing Mary on her accomplishment.

UNM Stu­dents Lead­ers in Our Nation and State
The Udall Foun­da­tion announced that Byron “Craig” Williams, a cur­rent law stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico, is one of 12 stu­dents from 12 tribes and 11 uni­ver­si­ties that have been selected as 2013 Native Amer­i­can Con­gres­sional Interns. Interns were selected the basis of aca­d­e­mic achieve­ment and a demon­strated com­mit­ment to careers in tribal pub­lic pol­icy. Craig is a mem­ber of the Mis­sis­sippi Band of Choctaw Indi­ans, and is cur­rently pur­su­ing a J.D. with a cer­tifi­cate in fed­eral Indian law from the UNM School of Law. This highly regarded intern­ship pro­gram is intended to pro­vide Amer­i­can Indi­ans and Alaska Natives with an insider’s view of the fed­eral gov­ern­ment processes first­hand. Craig will be intern­ing with the U.S. Depart­ment of Jus­tice, Office of Tribal Justice.

The New Mex­ico Space Grant Con­sor­tium (NMSGC) recently awarded 26 Fel­low­ships and Schol­ar­ships to stu­dents across New Mex­ico total­ing $210,000, based on appli­ca­tion infor­ma­tion, fac­ulty rec­om­men­da­tion, GPA, research project, and its align­ment to NASA. Eleven of the recip­i­ents are UNM stu­dents. Con­grat­u­la­tions to Ph.D. stu­dents Heather Buelow, Alek­san­dra Faust, Brid­get McEwen and Alli­son San­tos, and grad­u­ate stu­dents Sebas­t­ian Gomez and Suzanne Gor­don, who were awarded $10,000 each for their research; and to Ph.D. stu­dents Robert Mesler, seniors Daniel Her­rera, Nicole Saave­dra and Joshua Williams, and junior Jon Vigil, who were awarded $5,000 each for their research.

Employee Ben­e­fits Update
UNM is presently faced with a large unfunded post-retirement ben­e­fit lia­bil­ity that, if not cor­rected, will grow each year. This increas­ing lia­bil­ity will jeop­ar­dize UNM’s finan­cial sta­bil­ity and could lead to the com­plete elim­i­na­tion of post-retirement ben­e­fits if not imme­di­ately addressed. The fac­ulty, staff, and retiree mem­bers of the Retiree Health Care Task Force were charged with the task of prepar­ing rec­om­men­da­tions to reduce UNM’s unfunded lia­bil­ity for post-retirement ben­e­fits. Please be aware that there are changes to our retiree health­care, which will require a deci­sion on your part even if you do not know when you will retire from UNM. Before you make this deci­sion, I strongly urge you to attend one of the http://hr.unm.edu/docs/retiree/veba-information-sessions.pdf for staff, fac­ulty and retirees. UNM Human Resources has pro­vided detailed infor­ma­tion regard­ing post-retirement ben­e­fit changes for cur­rent fac­ulty and staff employ­ees and retirees.

Have a great week and Go Lobos!

Bob

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Finalists Announced for Dean of Students Position; Open Forums Scheduled

April 19, 2013 | By UCAM

After a nation­wide search, three final­ists have been selected for the posi­tion of Dean of Stu­dents at UNM. They include: Ann Good­man, Tomas Aguirre and Jason A. Casares. Open forums, giv­ing both the final­ists a chance to speak, and mem­bers of the cam­pus com­mu­nity an oppor­tu­nity to ask ques­tions and pro­vide feed­back to the search com­mit­tee, have been sched­uled for each candidate.

Open forum sched­ules
Ann Good­man, asso­ciate direc­tor / direc­tor of Greek Life, Depart­ment of Stu­dent Activ­i­ties, Texas A&M Uni­ver­sity
Mon­day, April 22, 9:45 a.m. and 3 p.m., SUB San­dia Room

Tomas Aguirre, asso­ciate dean of stu­dents, Hum­boldt State Uni­ver­sity
Fri­day, April 26, 9:45 a.m. and 3 p.m., SUB Jemez Room

Jason Casares, asso­ciate dean of stu­dents / direc­tor, Office of Stu­dent Ethics, Indi­ana Uni­ver­sity
Mon­day, April 29, 9:45 a.m. and 3 p.m., SUB San­dia Room

For more infor­ma­tion on the UNM Dean of Stu­dents search, con­tact Walt Miller at (505) 277‑3032.

Posted in Academics & Faculty, Administration, University News | |

UNM Regents Approve New Tuition Model for 2013–14

April 11, 2013 | By Steve Carr

Regents at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico approved an inno­v­a­tive tuition model designed to pro­mote stu­dent suc­cess, sup­port fac­ulty and aca­d­e­mic ini­tia­tives, and align the University’s bud­get with state fund­ing for­mula require­ments. It also pro­vides fund­ing for Pres­i­dent Robert Frank’s eco­nomic devel­op­ment and glob­al­iza­tion ini­tia­tives, the sec­ond year of the Provost’s five-year aca­d­e­mic plan and per­ma­nent fund­ing for Uni­ver­sity Libraries.

The restruc­ture calls for a tuition and fee increase based on the num­ber of credit hours a stu­dent takes and should work as an incen­tive for stu­dents to take more hours and grad­u­ate sooner, reduc­ing the over­all cost of their edu­ca­tion. Stu­dents tak­ing 15 to 18 hours would see a 6.6 per­cent increase or roughly $400 year for a total of $6,446. Stu­dents tak­ing 12 hours would see a tuition and fee increase of 13.2 per­cent or $800 more for a total of $6,846. Cur­rently, full-time UNM stu­dents (12–18 credit hours) pay $6,050 in tuition and fees.

Finan­cial aid is also a big part of the pack­age. Approx­i­mately 20 per­cent of the new rev­enue, an esti­mated $1.6 mil­lion, will be avail­able for stu­dents who encounter dif­fi­culty with the new tuition model.

Under the cur­rent tuition model, 46 per­cent of stu­dents grad­u­ate in six years, while only 15 per­cent grad­u­ate in four years. This new approach is designed to give stu­dents an incen­tive to take more classes and grad­u­ate sooner, mak­ing their over­all col­lege edu­ca­tion less expen­sive and get­ting them into the work­force sooner.

“Grad­u­at­ing in four years trans­lates into stu­dents and their par­ents spend­ing less money and incur­ring less debt,” Frank said.

Frank also empha­sized that this new approach is crit­i­cal to per­for­mance accel­er­a­tion by
grow­ing and retain­ing fac­ulty, recruit­ing hon­ors stu­dents in N.M. and build­ing upon the newly redesigned Hon­ors College.

It also funds a Global Edu­ca­tion Office to actively recruit inter­na­tional stu­dents, and other ini­tia­tives that enhance stu­dent suc­cess such as the Math Learn­ing Lab (MaLL), Foun­da­tions of Excel­lence, Lobo Achieve pro­gram and the Lobo Early Start Program.

The fund­ing mea­sure pro­vides a three per­cent pay increase for fac­ulty and a one per­cent increase for staff, grad­u­ate and teacher assis­tants to go along with a $1,000 one-time stipend. The new tuition model also restruc­tures stu­dent fees, which will now be about $50 per hour for 14 or fewer credit hours, and $48 per hour for stu­dents tak­ing 15 to 18 cred­its. Stu­dent fees to fund libraries will not increase. Instead that expense will go into the tuition cost to stu­dents. How­ever, the regents did approve a $900,000 fee increase for ath­let­ics to bring the depart­ment up to par
in fund­ing with com­pet­i­tive schools in the Moun­tain West Conference.

Under this new bud­get­ing model, uni­ver­sity lead­er­ship will mon­i­tor, eval­u­ate and make changes as nec­es­sary to ensure it is reach­ing the intended goals. “Higher edu­ca­tion has changed dra­mat­i­cally. The uni­ver­sity, the state and the nation all expect more. This new model cre­ates a path for UNM to meet or exceed those expec­ta­tions,” Frank said.

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Lowrey Appointed Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

April 4, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth
Tom Lowrey

Tom Lowrey

UNM Pro­fes­sor of Biol­ogy Tom Lowrey has been appointed to the posi­tion of asso­ciate dean in the Office of Grad­u­ate Studies. Lowrey will serve as asso­ciate dean, but split his time between the Office of Grad­u­ate Stud­ies and the Museum of South­west Biol­ogy where he is cura­tor of the herbar­ium. He will also con­tinue to teach dur­ing the fall semesters.

OGS Dean Julie Coon­rod says Lowrey has exten­sive expe­ri­ence at the depart­men­tal and cam­pus lev­els dur­ing his 23 years at UNM.

“I look for­ward to work­ing with Dr. Lowrey to improve grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion at UNM,” Coon­rod said.

Coon­rod has sev­eral changes under­way in Grad­u­ate Studies. Vendor pro­pos­als for devel­op­ing an online grad­u­ate appli­ca­tion have been requested.  The online appli­ca­tion will allow appli­cants to upload required doc­u­ments, ref­er­ees will be able to upload ref­er­ence let­ters, and fac­ulty and com­mit­tee mem­bers will be able to review the entire appli­ca­tion online.  Addi­tion­ally, new processes for hir­ing Research Assis­tants, Teach­ing Assis­tants and Grad­u­ate Assis­tants are under­way.  More elec­tronic processes are to follow.

Cham­pi­oning inter­dis­ci­pli­nary grad­u­ate degrees, OGS is the new home for the Water Resources Pro­gram.  Other inter­dis­ci­pli­nary pro­grams may soon join the WRP in Grad­u­ate Studies.

As part of his work, Lowrey will over­see the Teach­ing Assis­tant Resource Cen­ter (TARC). The cen­ter sup­ports grad­u­ate stu­dents who teach courses and has had lim­ited sup­port in the past. 

“We are con­sid­er­ing chang­ing the struc­ture and intend to increase the resources for TARC in some way,” Lowrey said. 

He will also over­see grants, con­tracts, fel­low­ships, and awards admin­is­tered by OGS.  Coon­rod and Lowrey hope to work directly with the UNM Foun­da­tion to increase dona­tions for fel­low­ships that sup­port grad­u­ate students.

Another focus for Lowrey will be grad­u­ate pro­gram reviews in departments. Lowrey says the pro­grams are reviewed peri­od­i­cally by out­side review­ers and that the review­ers fre­quently rec­om­mend the depart­ments increase sup­port to the grad­u­ate pro­grams by giv­ing them more resources.  He hopes to be able to cham­pion the cause of addi­tional resources for grad­u­ate stu­dents at an insti­tu­tional level.

Lowrey’s appoint­ment begins immediately.

Media con­tact: Karen Went­worth (505) 277‑5627; kwent2@unm.edu

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Finalists Selected for the Position of University Counsel; Open Forums Scheduled

March 18, 2013 | By Steve Carr

After a nation­wide search, the Uni­ver­sity Coun­sel Search Com­mit­tee has announced the selec­tion of three final­ists for the posi­tion of Uni­ver­sity Coun­sel. The final­ists include: Thomas Dorer, Elsa Cole and Judith Leonard.

Each will speak at an open forum where mem­bers of the UNM com­mu­nity will have the oppor­tu­nity to ask ques­tions and pro­vide feed­back to the search committee.

The sched­ule for the open forums is as follows:

  • Thomas Dorer — Mon­day, March 25, 2:45 p.m., Stu­dent Union Build­ing Spirit Room
  • Elsa Cole — Tues­day, March 26, 2:45 p.m., Stu­dent Union Build­ing Lobo A

The Search Com­mit­tee con­sists of campus-wide rep­re­sen­ta­tion and is chaired by Bar­bara Bergman, interim dean of the Law School. These final­ists were selected from a large pool of can­di­dates for the posi­tion, which included many well-qualified individuals.

** Media Note — Judith Leonard with­drew her name from consideration.

Posted in Administration, Campus Community, University News | |

UNM Programs Ranked in U.S. News & World Report on Graduate Schools

March 13, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

U.S. News and World Report mag­a­zine has released Best Grad­u­ate School rank­ings for 2014. The list fea­tures a num­ber of UNM spe­cialty pro­grams. In the School of Med­i­cine, UNM’s Rural Med­i­cine Pro­gram is ranked sec­ond in the U.S., Fam­ily Med­i­cine is ranked sev­enth and Pri­mary Care is ranked ninth. These spe­cialty rank­ings are voted on by senior fac­ulty and deans of schools and col­leges through­out the U.S.

The School of Law is ranked 11th in the national in Clin­i­cal Train­ing and 64th overall.

In the Col­lege of Fine Arts, the pho­tog­ra­phy pro­gram is ranked fifth in the nation.

The mag­a­zine rates UNM as 100th in a rank­ing of pub­lic uni­ver­si­ties and 179th in over­all national rank­ings. U.S. News & World Report uses admis­sions selec­tiv­ity as an impor­tant part of its rank­ing sys­tem. Job place­ment sta­tis­tics were used for some rank­ings and under­grad­u­ate rep­u­ta­tion was also a factor.

Media Con­tact: Karen Went­worth (505) 277‑5627, email: kwent2@unm.edu

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UNM Board of Regents Reorganizes Committees

March 12, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

The UNM Board of Regents has approved new com­mit­tee assign­ments for members.

Oper­a­tions Com­mit­tee
Jack L. Fort­ner, pres­i­dent
James H. Koch, vice pres­i­dent
Bradley C. Hos­mer, secretary/treasurer

Academic/Student Affairs & Research Com­mit­tee
Bradley C. Hos­mer, chair
Heidi N. Over­ton, vice chair
Suzanne Quillen
Amy Neel, pres­i­dent Fac­ulty Sen­ate
Mary Clark, pres­i­dent Staff Coun­cil
Chaouki Abdal­lah, provost

Advi­sors
Car­o­line Muraida, pres­i­dent Asso­ci­ated Stu­dents of UNM
Marisa Silva, pres­i­dent Grad­u­ate & Pro­fes­sional Stu­dents
Angi Gon­za­les Carver, pres­i­dent UNM Par­ent Asso­ci­a­tion
Melissa Bokovy, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor UNM Dept. of History

Finance and Facil­i­ties Com­mit­tee
James H. Koch, chair
Con­rad D. James, vice chair
J.E. Gene Gallegos

Audit Com­mit­tee
J.E. Gene Gal­le­gos, chair
Bradley C. Hos­mer, vice chair
James H. Koch

Health Sci­ences Board
Suzanne Quillen, chair
Bradley C. Hos­mer, vice chair
Con­rad D. James

UNM Hos­pi­tal Board of Trustees
Heidi N. Overton

Car­rie Tin­gley Hos­pi­tal Board
Heidi N. Overton

STC Board
J.E. Gene Gallegos

Lobo Energy Board
Con­rad D. James, vice chair
J.E. Gene Gallegos

Lobo Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Board
James H. Koch, chair
Jack L. Fort­ner, vice chair

San­dia Foun­da­tion Board
Jack L. Fortner

UNM Foun­da­tion Board
J.E. Gene Gallegos

Hon­orary Degree Com­mit­tee
Jack L. Fort­ner, ex-officio
Bradley C. Hos­mer
Heidi N. Overton

Board of Regents Pol­icy Ad Hoc Com­mit­tee
Jack L. Fort­ner
James H. Koch
J.E. Gene Gallegos

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Impact of Federal Sequestration on UNM

March 5, 2013 | By Karen Wentworth

It appears both the imme­di­ate and the long term impact of the fed­eral seques­tra­tion at UNM will be a steady shrink­ing of opportunity. UNM Provost Chaouki Abdal­lah says the imme­di­ate impact will be felt in research.

UNM fac­ulty have sub­mit­ted numer­ous grant pro­pos­als to fed­eral fund­ing agen­cies for research fund­ing in the com­ing bud­get cycle, but have not yet heard which projects will or will not be funded.

Media con­tact: Karen Went­worth (505) 277‑5627; email: kwent2@unm.edu

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