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Redondo Drive Closed for Summer

May 15, 2012 | By Karen Wentworth

Redondo Drive on the east side of the UNM cam­pus is closed to vehi­cle traf­fic through­out the sum­mer as con­struc­tion con­tin­ues on the new Casas del Rio Res­i­dence Halls. Redondo Drive is expected to re-open to traf­fic in mid-August.

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

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Service Awards Ceremony Honors Faculty, Staff

May 14, 2012 | By Steve Carr
President David J. Schmidly and former head men's gymnastics coach Rusty Mitchell enjoy a laugh as Vice President for Human Resources Helen Gonzales reads a lengthy list of Mitchell's accomplishments.

Pres­i­dent David J. Schmidly and for­mer head men’s gym­nas­tics coach Rusty Mitchell enjoy a laugh as Vice Pres­i­dent for Human Resources Helen Gon­za­les reads a lengthy list of Mitchell’s accomplishments.

More than 300 fac­ulty and staff cel­e­brated career mile­stones at UNM’s Annual Ser­vice Awards cer­e­mony held recently. Col­lec­tively, those employ­ees have logged more than 7,200 years. All three indi­vid­u­als with 40 or more years of ser­vice were sin­gled out for spe­cial recognition.

“It’s impor­tant to rec­og­nize the efforts of our accom­plished fac­ulty and staff, because it is your hard work that allows us year after year to accom­plish our mis­sion of edu­cat­ing the lead­ers of tomor­row,” Pres­i­dent David J. Schmidly said. “Through your tire­less efforts over the many years, you have helped make this great insti­tu­tion what it is today.”

Rus­sell “Rusty” Mitchell and Irvin Romero, with 45 years of ser­vice, and George Huaco, with 40 years of ser­vice, were given spe­cial recog­ni­tion awards for their decades of ser­vice.
Huaco has been a pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Soci­ol­ogy since 1971, when he came from the State Uni­ver­sity of New York-Buffalo to UNM. He has been instru­men­tal in the depart­ment where he was the main author of the soci­ol­ogy doc­toral pro­gram. One of Huaco’s pas­sions has been the Soci­ol­ogy Read­ing Room, where he helped ini­ti­ate the col­lec­tion of books and jour­nals. His inter­ests include soci­o­log­i­cal the­ory and phi­los­o­phy, the phi­los­o­phy of Marx and the soci­ol­ogy of ide­ol­ogy, lit­er­a­ture, art and religion.

Mitchell began his career at UNM in 1966 as the var­sity gym­nas­tics coach. He com­piled a 70 per­cent win­ning per­cent­age in dual meets over 33 years. Mitchell has coached 53 All-Americans, 18 indi­vid­ual national cham­pi­ons and three Olympians. Mitchell is a mem­ber of the NCAA Gym­nas­tics Coaches Asso­ci­a­tion and Ama­teur Ath­letic Foun­da­tion Hall of Fame, the Albu­querque Sports Hall of Fame and the UNM Alumni Letterman’s Asso­ci­a­tion Ath­letic Hall of Honor. Mitchell is most proud of the students.

Romero, a cus­to­dian in the Phys­i­cal Plant Depart­ment, began work­ing at UNM when he was 19 as a part-time cus­to­dian. At the time, he was a senior in high school earn­ing 90 cents an hour, bal­anc­ing school and work. He said he was moti­vated by his father who was a “hard and steady worker.” Romero’s work phi­los­o­phy is, “Be to work on time. Bal­ance pri­or­i­ties. Do your best and keep mov­ing for­ward if things don’t go your way.”

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UNM Summer Youth Sports Program: ‘A Healthy U at the U’ Begins Monday, June 11

May 14, 2012 | By Steve Carr
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The pop­u­lar UNM Sum­mer Youth Sports Pro­gram returns this sum­mer with the theme, “A Healthy U at the U,” begin­ning Mon­day, June 11. The UNM Sum­mer Youth Sports Pro­gram “Healthy U at the U” pro­gram is an activ­ity pro­gram open and designed for all young­sters ages 9 — 14. The pro­gram, which runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily, extends for four weeks through July 6. Reg­is­tra­tion is set for Thurs­day and Fri­day, June 7–8, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. in John­son Cen­ter at UNM.

Activ­i­ties this year include: bas­ket­ball, dance, flag foot­ball, jump rope, rugby, soc­cer, vol­ley­ball, sci­ence and coop­er­a­tive games.

Reg­is­tra­tion Infor­ma­tion
To Reg­is­ter your child or chil­dren please be informed of the fol­low­ing:
• Par­tic­i­pants must be 9 years old by Aug. 31, 2012 and not turn 15 before Aug. 31, 2012.
• NO phys­i­cals are required to par­tic­i­pate this year.
• Par­ents and/or guardians must attend our ori­en­ta­tion about the pro­gram.
• Research stud­ies will be con­ducted (par­tic­i­pant assents must be signed).
• Pay­ment is due at reg­is­tra­tion (cash or money order). No checks please.
• Pro­gram cost — $200.
• A 25% dis­count will be given for each addi­tional fam­ily mem­ber.
• There is an adjustable fee for fam­i­lies who meet income guidelines.

For more infor­ma­tion, visit: UNM Sum­mer Youth Sports Pro­gram: ‘A Healthy U at the U’ or call (505) 277‑5151. For an appli­ca­tion, visit: Camp Appli­ca­tion.

Click here to find out if you are eli­gi­ble to receive a dis­counted rate.

** You will need to bring your 2011 Income Tax Return to reg­is­tra­tion if you want to receive your dis­counted rate.

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Lobo Junior Golf Camps Set for Early-June

May 14, 2012 | By Steve Carr
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The UNM Cham­pi­onship Golf Course will host two ses­sions of the 2012 Lobo Junior Golf Camp for boys and girls ages 7–18. The first ses­sion will be held June 4–7, while the sec­ond is set for June 11–14. The cost for the camp is $150, which includes instruc­tion, camp shirt, refresh­ments and prizes. Camp runs daily at 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

The camps will be taught by UNM men’s golf coaches Glen Mil­li­can and Brian Kor­tan, and women’s coaches Jill Tru­jillo and Becky Dover. As per NCAA rules, stu­dents who have attended col­lege are not eli­gi­ble to par­tic­i­pate in the camp. Part of the instruc­tion will include edu­ca­tional talks cov­er­ing rules, his­tory of the game, eti­quette, safety, equip­ment, col­lege golf schol­ar­ships, golf course man­age­ment, sports psy­chol­ogy, and video and track­man analysis.

For more infor­ma­tion. vol­un­teer and or to reg­is­ter, visit: Lobo Junior Golf Camp, call (505) 604‑4786, (805) 704‑4776 or email, unmgolf@yahoo.com.

To view a camp video visit: Lobo Junior Golf Camp Video.

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CWSR Fellow Speaks on Controversy and Conflict in Apollo’s Quest for Lunar Knowledge

May 10, 2012 | By Karen Wentworth
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Hanna Thomp­son, a Fel­low in the Cen­ter for South­west Research and Spe­cial Col­lec­tions at Uni­ver­sity Libraries speaks on “A Sci­en­tific Endeavor: Con­tro­versy and Con­flict in Apollo’s Quest for Lunar Knowledge.”

Thomp­son will com­plete her Master’s degree in the Land­scape Archi­tec­ture pro­gram in spring 2013. As a fel­low­ship and a Har­ri­son Schmitt scholar, she inves­ti­gated Schmitt’s role and the first and only scientist-astronaut in the U.S. NASA Apollo Program.

Each spring fel­lows work­ing at CSWR present their work in a col­lo­quim. This pre­sen­ta­tion was part of that event.

Lis­ten to: Thompson’s Talk.

Runs: 18:48

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

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Digby Wolfe Remembered June 10

May 9, 2012 | By Sari Krosinsky
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Digby Wolfe died in Albu­querque, his adopted city, on May 2 after a dis­tin­guished career as writer and per­former span­ning seven decades in three con­ti­nents. After 30 years in Hol­ly­wood, includ­ing his Emmy-winning stint writ­ing the NBC-TV series Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, Wolfe came to Albu­querque to teach at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mexico’s Depart­ment of The­atre and Dance. Dur­ing his years at UNM, from 1992 until his retire­ment in 2004, he headed the dra­matic writ­ing pro­gram and became a famil­iar fig­ure around cam­pus in his blue jeans, white ten­nis shoes, sweater and flow­ing sil­ver ponytail.

Wolfe died at home after a short strug­gle with can­cer. He is sur­vived by his wife, Patri­cia Man­nion, and a sis­ter, Hilary Hammond-Williams.

Born in Felixs­towe, Eng­land in 1929, James Digby Wolfe grew up dur­ing World War II, about which he said, “There was a tremen­dous amount of com­edy about … that kept up the morale of the peo­ple.” He made his fea­ture film debut in 1948 in “The Weaker Sex.” He went on to write and per­form in British com­edy series, star­ring in 1957 series “Sheep’s Cloth­ing.” In 1959, he moved to Aus­tralia where he became a major fix­ture in the enter­tain­ment scene, tour­ing the coun­try with come­di­ans, mak­ing fre­quent tele­vi­sion appear­ances, and host­ing the pop­u­lar shows “Review ’61” and “Review ’62” on Aus­tralian television.

In 1964, Wolfe moved to Los Ange­les where he acted in tele­vi­sion series includ­ing “The Mon­kees,” “Bewitched,” “I Dream of Jean­nie” and “The Mun­sters.” He wrote and pro­duced tele­vi­sion spe­cials for John Den­ver, Shirley MacLaine, Goldie Hawn and Cher. His most recent credit in film was pro­vid­ing the story for “All The Queen’s Men” (2001).

Wolfe’s clos­est col­league at UNM was Jim Lin­nell, pro­fes­sor of dra­matic writ­ing and now dean of the Col­lege of Fine Arts. Lin­nell remem­bers Wolfe as “a provo­ca­teur in the best sense as a satirist, a teacher, a per­former and a man who held no truck for the fol­lies of our nature.”

Wolfe received mul­ti­ple Emmy nom­i­na­tions and won in 1968 for his work as writer on the first sea­son of “Laugh-In,” which he said was “based on impu­dent and irrev­er­ent takes on author­ity.” The show became famous for dis­cov­er­ing such comedic tal­ents as Lily Tom­lin, Goldie Hawn and Arte John­son and for its sketch-comedy satire rooted in the tra­di­tions of vaude­ville and bur­lesque but attacked con­tem­po­rary polit­i­cal and sex­ual tar­gets with a brash “Six­ties” style.

Wolfe was also the author of the poem “Here’s To the Kids Who Are Dif­fer­ent,” which has become famous in edu­ca­tion cir­cles. “Here’s to the kids who are dif­fer­ent,” reads its last stanza, “For when they are grown,/As his­tory has shown,/It’s their dif­fer­ence that makes them unique.”

Through­out his life, Wolfe was also a teacher. He taught writ­ing for more than 25 years at the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Cal­i­for­nia and for 12 years at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico. In 1968, he helped cre­ate the Black Writ­ers Work­shop in Watts. After his retire­ment from UNM, Wolfe fre­quently returned to teach writ­ing in Australia.

In 1992, Wolfe came to New Mex­ico first as a vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor and then as chair of the Robert Har­tung Dra­matic Writ­ing Pro­gram. Every year after he joined the fac­ulty, the writ­ing pro­gram pre­sented a pub­lic fes­ti­val or series of per­for­mances of orig­i­nal writ­ing. For sev­eral years, a wildly pop­u­lar fes­ti­val of orig­i­nal short pieces called “Diony­sus in the Round” engaged more than 100 stu­dents as writ­ers, per­form­ers, direc­tors or tech­ni­cal crew. Later his stu­dents per­formed all over Albu­querque on the back of a flat bed truck, “Pandora’s Truck,” and cre­ated pilot radio and tele­vi­sion shows for KUNM and KNME (“Route 66: The Mother of All Roads s Fences”).

“He was a cre­ative burr under the sad­dle of the depart­ment who pro­duced an aston­ish­ing amount of work in the short time he was there,” Lin­nell said. “He pre­sented an uncom­pro­mis­ing model that writ­ing, speak­ing your voice through a work risked before the pub­lic eye is the only thing that matters.”

Lin­nell describes Wolfe’s impact on a gen­er­a­tion of writ­ers at UNM:

“Digby was as at home talk­ing about writ­ing to an ele­men­tary school class­room as he was with pro­fes­sional artists. He was a man of extra­or­di­nary depths and a bot­tom­less curios­ity for what the next per­son will say or write, no mat­ter their age. A com­mon sight would be Digby’s office full of writ­ers work­ing on a project he had set them. The place was alive with the sound of cre­ative brain­storm­ing, infec­tious, fear­less, and unstop­pable, and a great deal of laugh­ter. It was the sound of Digby Wolfe at work.”

A memo­r­ial ser­vice is set for Sun­day, June 10 in the UNM Exper­i­men­tal The­atre, 2–4 p.m. Call (505) 277‑2112.

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Five Seniors Presented with Clauve Awards

May 8, 2012 | By Karen Wentworth
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Five stu­dents at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico have received Clauve Out­stand­ing Senior Awards. Megan Chat­ter­ton, Adrian Corti­nas, Sunny Liu, Flo­ren­cio Olguin Jr. and Kelly Williamson were pre­sented with the award that rec­og­nizes seniors who have per­formed well aca­d­e­m­i­cally and made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the cam­pus com­mu­nity through lead­er­ship and involvement.

“There is an undy­ing energy I find in help­ing oth­ers and that is what dri­ves me,” said Liu who is an account­ing major and plans to pur­sue higher edu­ca­tion and ulti­mately become a teacher.

All of the award win­ners are marked by a long list of hon­ors and involve­ment. “I hope to con­tinue the tra­di­tion of schol­ar­ship and ser­vice as I head into the work­force,” said Chat­ter­ton. “I would hate to be one of those peo­ple who just sit around all the time.” Chat­ter­ton is an Eng­lish major who one day hopes to be a teacher.

Williamson is no stranger to on cam­pus involve­ment. When asked what she did in her spare time, the UNM vol­ley­ball player said, “I don’t have any! I play a lot of out­door vol­ley­ball now that I am done with my indoor sea­son.” After grad­u­a­tion she plans to play pro­fes­sional vol­ley­ball in Europe and even­tu­ally enter the Peace Corps.

Through their involve­ment, the award win­ners have been able to build a strong com­mu­nity and sup­port group to help them be suc­cess­ful. In addi­tion to their involve­ment, the stu­dents have been able to main­tain a high aca­d­e­mic standard.

“I feel hon­ored to have received an award that so many other suc­cess­ful alumni have received as under­grad­u­ates at UNM,” said Olguin who plans to pur­sue a mas­ters of busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion at UNM’s Ander­son School of Management.

The Clauve Award is named for Dean Emer­i­tus Lena Clauve.

Megan Chat­ter­ton
In addi­tion to being involved with many orga­ni­za­tions on cam­pus, Megan Chat­ter­ton has been nom­i­nated for the Clauve Out­stand­ing Senior Award at UNM. The award rec­og­nizes seniors who have per­formed well aca­d­e­m­i­cally and made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the cam­pus com­mu­nity through lead­er­ship and involvement.

“I am very hon­ored to have received this award,” said Chat­ter­ton. “I am grate­ful that the uni­ver­sity has con­sid­ered me as one of its top stu­dents and hope to con­tinue the tra­di­tion of schol­ar­ship and ser­vice as I head into the workforce.”

Chat­ter­ton is a mem­ber of the Golden Key and Phi Kappa Phi honor soci­eties, has been the pres­i­dent of National Soci­ety of Col­le­giate Schol­ars, vice pres­i­dent and sec­re­tary of the Medieval stud­ies Stu­dent Asso­ci­a­tion, trea­surer of the Hob­bit Soci­ety, and sec­re­tary of the Hon­ors Stu­dent Advi­sory Coun­cil.  In addi­tion to her cam­pus involve­ment, she is a shodan, a first degree black belt, and enjoys prac­tic­ing judo, read­ing and hang­ing out with friends.

Chat­ter­ton said that her mind­set is what has allowed her to accom­plish as much as she has. “I just make sure to attend class, do my home­work in advance and make time for myself. I would hate to be one of those peo­ple who just sit around all the time,” she said.

After grad­u­at­ing in May, Chat­ter­ton plans to pur­sue a mas­ters degree in sec­ondary edu­ca­tion. She says that the lead­er­ship skill she has gained at UNM will be a great ben­e­fit to her, espe­cially in the classroom.

The 21 year old has lived in Kiowa, Colo. with her fam­ily and even­tu­ally moved to many dif­fer­ent towns in N.M. includ­ing Tularosa, Cloud­croft and Gallup where she grad­u­ated vale­dic­to­rian in 2008.

She would like to thank her par­ents Terry and Ellen Chat­ter­ton and pro­fes­sors Leslie Dono­van and Anita Ober­meier for their con­stant sup­port through­out her time at UNM.

Sunny Liu
Por­tales, N.M. native and high school grad­u­ate, Sunny Liu has been nom­i­nated for the Clauve Out­stand­ing Senior Award at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico. The award rec­og­nizes seniors who have per­formed well aca­d­e­m­i­cally and made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the cam­pus com­mu­nity through lead­er­ship and involvement.

After being offered the UNM Regents’ Schol­ar­ship, he decided to attend UNM with the goal of soak­ing up every sin­gle part of the col­lege experience.

Through­out his time at UNM, Liu has been involved in Alpha Tau Omega fra­ter­nity (ATO), Beta Alpha Psi fra­ter­nity, Inter­na­tional Busi­ness Stu­dents Global, Asso­ci­ated Stu­dents of the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico (ASUNM) and Net Impact, just to name a few.

“I had been extremely involved in high school and vowed to be more selec­tive about my involve­ment in col­lege, but I sup­pose old habits die hard,” said Liu about his desire to be involved. “There is an undy­ing energy I find in help­ing oth­ers and that is what dri­ves me.”

After grad­u­at­ing in May 2013, the 21 year old account­ing major plans to pur­sue higher edu­ca­tion and ulti­mately become a teacher.

Liu said that his favorite mem­o­ries at UNM involve the stu­dent lead­ers he has met through the ASUNM Office and being a found­ing father of ATO.

Liu cred­its much of his suc­cess to his girl­friend, Lau­ren Main for help­ing him through­out many dif­fi­cult times dur­ing high school and college.

Flo­ren­cio Olguin Jr.
At a uni­ver­sity with a pop­u­la­tion of just over 20,000 full time stu­dents, Flo­ren­cio Olguin Jr. has man­aged to cre­ate a sup­port group that makes him feel like he is back in his 2,800 per­son home­town of Santa Rosa, N.M. Being well sup­ported is what has made him so successful.

Flo­ren­cio Olguin Jr. has been nom­i­nated for the Clauve Out­stand­ing Senior Award at The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico. The award rec­og­nizes seniors who have per­formed well aca­d­e­m­i­cally and made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the cam­pus com­mu­nity through lead­er­ship and involvement.

Despite the fact that UNM is much larger than Santa Rosa where he grad­u­ated high school in 2008, Olguin said he has enjoyed his time at UNM very much. He said he had two goals for his col­le­giate career. He wanted to be involved with orga­ni­za­tions that would give him expe­ri­ence and hoped to set a pos­i­tive exam­ple for his younger brother, Andres Olguin. He said that work­ing towards these goals has helped him make the most out of his time at UNM.

His goals for col­lege of being a pos­i­tive role model for his younger brother, Andres, and being involved with orga­ni­za­tions that would give him expe­ri­ence have helped him make the most of his time at UNM.

“When I found out I was a recip­i­ent of the Clauve Award I was ini­tially in dis­be­lief,” said Olguin. “I feel hon­ored to have received an award that so many other suc­cess­ful alumni have received as under­grad­u­ates at UNM.”

By being involved in orga­ni­za­tions at UNM, Olguin has been able to build a sup­port sys­tem and net­work sim­i­lar to those of his fam­ily and home­town community.

After grad­u­at­ing with a dou­ble major polit­i­cal sci­ence and pub­lic rela­tions in Sum­mer 2012, the 21 year old plans to begin a mas­ters of busi­ness admin­is­tra­tion at UNM’s Ander­son School of Management.

Olguin cred­its many peo­ple in his life for help­ing him achieve his per­sonal and aca­d­e­mic goals includ­ing his par­ents, Flo­ren­cio and Roberta Olguin, grand­par­ents Berto and Julia Chavez, girl­friend Ash­leigh More and many employ­ees on cam­pus who have been men­tors to him. Rem­i­nisc­ing on his under­grad­u­ate career at UNM, Olguin said that none of it would have been pos­si­ble with­out the sup­port of these people.

Kelly Williamson
As she began her col­lege career at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico, Kelly Williamson had the high goal of being an Aca­d­e­mic All Amer­i­can for vol­ley­ball. Along with achiev­ing this and many other per­sonal and aca­d­e­mic goals, Williamson has been nom­i­nated for the Clauve Out­stand­ing Senior Award at UNM. The award rec­og­nizes seniors who have per­formed well aca­d­e­m­i­cally and made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the cam­pus com­mu­nity through lead­er­ship and involvement.

Williamson grad­u­ated from Lin­coln Inter­na­tional High School in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She decided to attend UNM after being recruited to play Vol­ley­ball there.

Vol­ley­ball has been a cen­tral part of her time at UNM. When asked what she did in her spare time, Williamson said, “I don’t have any! I play a lot of out­door vol­ley­ball now that I am done with my indoor season.”

She said her favorite col­le­giate mem­ory was com­pet­ing in the NCAA tour­na­ment with her team­mates. After grad­u­a­tion this May, Williamson plans to play vol­ley­ball pro­fes­sion­ally in Europe and com­plete the Mas­ters Inter­na­tional Pro­gram with the Peace Corps.

In addi­tion to vol­ley­ball, Williamson is involved with and has held posi­tions with the Stu­dent Ath­lete Advi­sory Com­mit­tee, Asso­ci­ated Stu­dents of the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico and the La Placita Institute.

Williamson is grad­u­at­ing in May with a major in biol­ogy and a minor in sus­tain­abil­ity stud­ies because she has a pas­sion for pre­serv­ing the environment.

Williamson said that she is truly hon­ored to receive the award and would like to thank her par­ents Mar­cia and Cliff Williamson, her brother Tyler Williamson, coaches and past and cur­rent team­mates for help­ing her suc­ceed in all aspects of her life.

Story by Evann Kleinschmidt

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UNM’s Anderson School to Host Fraud Workshop Wednesday, May 9

May 7, 2012 | By Steve Carr

The UNM Ander­son School of Man­age­ment and Citi Cards host a fraud man­age­ment work­shop on Wednes­day, May 9 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the UNM Ander­son School of Man­age­ment Jack­son Stu­dent Cen­ter. The work­shop, titled “Fraud: Pre­ven­tion and Detec­tion Tips for Your Small Busi­ness,” will fea­ture ASM’s Richard Brody, the Dou­glas Minge Brown Pro­fes­sor of Account­ing and Asso­ciate Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Infor­ma­tion Assur­ance Research and Edu­ca­tion (CIARE).

Fraud occurs in busi­nesses of all sizes, but small orga­ni­za­tions suf­fer the most. In addi­tion, fraud is almost always com­mit­ted by a per­son of trust within an orga­ni­za­tion. In 2010 alone, the esti­mate of orga­ni­za­tional fraud will sur­pass more than $2.9 tril­lion, which amounts to 5 to 7 per­cent in rev­enue loss.

This work­shop will out­line the con­di­tions that lead to fraud, pro­vide an under­stand­ing of why small busi­nesses are more sus­cep­ti­ble to fraud, and pro­vide strate­gies to help pre­vent and detect fraud in your organization.

Brody is a cer­ti­fied pub­lic accoun­tant, a cer­ti­fied fraud exam­iner, a foren­sic cer­ti­fied pub­lic accoun­tant and a char­tered global man­age­ment accoun­tant. Brody also holds the Cer­ti­fied in Finan­cial Foren­sics des­ig­na­tion. His research addresses issues related to foren­sic account­ing, audit­ing and cor­po­rate gov­er­nance. Brody has authored and/or co-authored more than 80 ref­er­eed pub­li­ca­tions and has pre­sented his work at many national and inter­na­tional conferences.

The event is free and open to the pub­lic, how­ever space is lim­ited and an RSVP is required. To RSVP, visit Fraud Work­shop.

For more infor­ma­tion, call Rox­anne Blair at (505) 277‑1504 or email, rmcblair@unm.edu.

Media Con­tact: Leslie Ven­zuela (505) 277‑7117; e-mail: venzuela@mgt.unm.edu

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Winners Announced in the 2012 Mercer Speech Tournament

May 4, 2012 | By Mara Kerkez
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The 2012 Joe and Steve Mer­cer Memo­r­ial Schol­ar­ship Speech Tour­na­ment, spon­sored by Com­mu­ni­ca­tion & Jour­nal­ism Depart­ment, announced six schol­ar­ship win­ners recently. JoAnn Mer­cer endowed the schol­ar­ship, which is open to all Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico stu­dents, pur­posed with pro­vid­ing sup­port to stu­dents inter­ested in pub­lic speak­ing, in mem­ory of her son and hus­band who were active in col­le­giate debate as students.

The 1st place schol­ar­ship worth $1,000 went to Bran­don Pet­tit, who is major­ing in com­mu­ni­ca­tion. The 2nd place award, a $750 schol­ar­ship, went to biology/Spanish/communication major Desiree Quinones-Soria. The third place win­ner, Erin Bush, a Latin American/International stud­ies major, received a $500 scholarship.

The remain­ing three final­ists: Shaye Hey­man, mass media; Jen­nie Nor­iega, psychology/African Stud­ies; and Mario Quin­tana, sec­ondary edu­ca­tion, each received a $250 scholarship.

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SUB Late Night Breakfast Set for Sunday, May 6

May 3, 2012 | By Steve Carr

The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Stu­dent Union Build­ing will hold their 15th Late Night Break­fast event Sun­day, May 6 from 9 p.m. – 11 p.m. in the SUB Ball­rooms. This event pro­vides stu­dents with a free break­fast, the oppor­tu­nity to win great prizes, and most impor­tantly, a way to have fun in a stress– free envi­ron­ment before finals start.

“We are excited about all of the new give­aways we have to offer this semes­ter,” Auri Vigil, SUB Mar­ket­ing assis­tant and event coor­di­na­tor. “This year we will have more t-shirts to give away, water bot­tles and trucker hats. We will be giv­ing away a Dell Lap­top and iPad.”

Addi­tion­ally, spe­cial gifts will be given at the door to stu­dents with a UNM ID while sup­plies last.

The SUB will also intro­duce a Pan­cake Eat­ing Con­test into the Late Night Break­fast. Other activ­i­ties that stu­dents can par­tic­i­pate in free of charge include ping-pong, a photo booth and mas­sage ther­apy. The SUB will also be fea­tur­ing a live per­for­mance from the band, The Noms, in the SUB Ball­rooms as well as music by DJs PBS on the Mall Level.

All UNM stu­dents with a Lobo ID are eli­gi­ble for free give­aways and can par­tic­i­pate in the raf­fle. All raf­fle win­ners must be present to win. The raf­fles will begin at 10 p.m. and will con­tinue through­out the rest of the evening. The SUB will be raf­fling off dona­tions from ven­dors such as Texas Road­house, Ele­phant Bar, Jimmy John’s, Sadie’s, and Il Vicino. All of the prizes were donated from ven­dors in our com­mu­nity who believe in reward­ing the hard work of UNM students.

“We are very grate­ful for all the sup­port from our local ven­dors, through­out the year, and espe­cially at Late Night Break­fast,” Alex Borowski, SUB Mar­ket­ing Assis­tant and event coordinator.

For more infor­ma­tion about Late Night Break­fast, visit Face­book UNM SUB or call 277‑1050.

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