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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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New Mexico in Focus Discusses State Politics, Cancer Screenings

May 10, 2012 | By Steve Carr
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This week on New Mex­ico in Focus, pan­elists sit down with polit­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist Martha Burk to dis­cuss the recent ten­dency for New Mex­ico vot­ers to lean Demo­c­ra­tic in fed­eral elec­tions, as the the Land of Enchant­ment becomes less of a swing state. In addi­tion, pan­elists dis­cuss the role of super PACs in polit­i­cal advertising.

New Mex­ico PBS’ one hour pub­lic affairs show New Mex­ico in Focus airs Fri­days at 7 p.m. and Sun­days at 7 a.m. on Chan­nel 5.1. The show can also be seen on N.M. PBS Chan­nel 9.1 on Sat­ur­days at 5 p.m.

Also this week, host Gene Grant sits down with Susan Baum, med­ical direc­tor of the New Mex­ico Depart­ment of Health’s Chronic Dis­ease Pre­ven­tion and Con­trol Bureau, to exam­ine the recent con­tro­versy over the effec­tive­ness of can­cer screenings.

Guest
• Dr. Susan Baum, med­ical direc­tor and epi­demi­ol­o­gist, New Mex­ico Depart­ment of Health

Guest Pan­elists
• Martha Burk, polit­i­cal psy­chol­o­gist and women’s issues expert
• Jamie Estrada, for­mer U.S. Com­merce Depart­ment official

Line Pan­elists
• Dan Foley, for­mer NM House Repub­li­can Whip
• Sophie Mar­tin, edi­tor in chief, New Mex­ico Law Review

Cor­re­spon­dent
• Matt Grubs

Host / Com­men­ta­tor
• Gene Grant

Get updates, watch and fol­low KNME on Face­book, Twit­ter, YouTube & more.

New Mex­ico in Focus is pro­duced by Matt Grubs and Kathy Wimmer.

Media Con­tact: Evy Todd, (505) 277‑1218; e-mail: etodd@knme.org.

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UNM Music Students to Perform in Non-Traditional Venues

May 9, 2012 | By Steve Carr
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Ten music stu­dents from the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico will be pre­sent­ing a series of con­certs in venues that don’t often get live per­for­mances. The first of these per­for­mances takes place at Joy Junc­tion (home­less shel­ter) on Thurs­day, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. The sec­ond per­for­mance is for the stu­dents at the Juve­nile Deten­tion Cen­ter on Fri­day, May 11 at 9 a.m.

These infor­mal con­certs will include spo­ken intro­duc­tions, audi­ence par­tic­i­pa­tion, along with a wide vari­ety of music from clas­si­cal mas­ter­pieces, to avant garde works, to jazz, pop, coun­try and rap.

The per­for­mances are part of a class taught by Pro­fes­sor Karl Hin­ter­bich­ler and are intended to expand per­for­mance oppor­tu­ni­ties for stu­dent musi­cians, and share their music out­side the aca­d­e­mic environment.

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A Riparian “Empire” in the Chihuahuan Desert: Spanish, Puebloans and Apaches in 17th Century New Mexico

May 9, 2012 | By Karen Wentworth
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Mor­gan LeBin, a Ph.D. stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan, will speak Fri­day, May 25 at noon in the Waters Room (105) of Zim­mer­man Library on “A Ripar­ian ‘Empire’ in the Chi­huahuan Desert: Span­ish, Puebloans, and Apaches in Sev­en­teenth Cen­tury New Mex­ico as part of the 2012 His­tory Schol­ars Lec­ture Series co-hosted by the Office of the State His­to­rian and the Cen­ter for South­west Research.

The 1680 Pueblo Revolt is a well-established nar­ra­tive of polit­i­cal and cul­tural stres­sors that, when com­pounded with over­taxed resources such as pas­turage, fuel wood, and labor cat­alyzed a major Puebloan insur­gency up and down the Rio Grande val­ley, eject­ing the Span­ish from New Mex­ico for 12 years.

As it stands, the Span­ish removal from the ripar­ian zones of New Mex­ico and their long effort to retake their set­tle­ments makes for an excel­lent – although micro regional his­tory of a river.  The prob­lem is that it leaves us with too many ques­tions and over­sights about how the sur­round­ing land­scapes and peo­ples con­tributed to, and par­tic­i­pated in, a last­ing and appar­ently suc­cess­ful resis­tance to Span­ish colo­nial claims.

A closer look at the ecol­ogy of the Chi­huahuan Desert, as shown through the ways Apaches moved through it and used it, reveals a nar­ra­tive where Span­ish empire in New Mex­ico is reduced and hemmed into trou­bled pock­ets of river set­tle­ment while semi-nomadic or nomadic peo­ples were posi­tioned to develop bet­ter strate­gies of sur­vival and dom­i­nance over pop­u­la­tions depen­dent on the Rio Grande.

An envi­ron­men­tal focus prompts us to revise notions of Span­ish empire, per­cep­tions of Native power and the role of the envi­ron­ment in cre­at­ing a defen­si­ble for­mu­la­tion of space and place.  In the end, it would appear that groups like the Apache have a bet­ter claim to build­ing hege­monic space in New Mex­ico than do the Spanish.

The lec­ture is free and the pub­lic is welcome.

Media Con­tact: Karen Went­worth (505) 277‑5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu

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UNM Physics and Astronomy Department Plans “Ring of Fire” Solar Eclipse Events

May 7, 2012 | By Steve Carr
A rare annular solar eclipse.

A rare annu­lar solar eclipse.

The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Physics and Astron­omy Depart­ment will co-host a series of events and edu­ca­tional pro­gram­ming designed to coin­cide with an upcom­ing annu­lar solar eclipse. On Sun­day, May 20, the west­ern U.S. will expe­ri­ence a solar eclipse. For most of the region, this will be a par­tial eclipse, but a small swath of the coun­try includ­ing eclipse view­ers in Albu­querque, will get to see an annu­lar “Ring of Fire” eclipse, where the Moon will block out all but a small ring around the edge of the Sun.

The Solar Eclipse view­ing event near the UNM Obser­va­tory park­ing lot, located off Yale Blvd. on the north side of Lomas Blvd., begins at 6 p.m. on Sun­day, May 20. Inter­ested atten­dees are encour­aged to show up before the eclipse starts. Safety glasses for view­ing will be given out free at the event.

The eclipse begins in Albu­querque at 6:28 p.m. local time. The annu­lar phase starts at 7:33 p.m. and lasts for approx­i­mately four min­utes. At this time, the Sun will be approx­i­mately five degrees above the west­ern horizon.

Albu­querque is in the direct path of eclipse max­i­mum for this solar eclipse, which means that the Moon will pass in front of the Sun and those in Albu­querque will get to see an amaz­ing show. What makes these events rare is the rel­a­tively small shadow that the Moon casts on Earth.

“Albu­querque is in a good place for view­ing in the path of the eclipse,” said Richard Rand, pro­fes­sor and event coor­di­na­tor, Depart­ment of Physics and Astron­omy. “We are right in the cen­ter, and the only big city, in the path of the eclipse. This means plan­ning is required in order to see the eclipse maximum.”

In the days before the eclipse, a series of free pub­lic lec­tures will be held at UNM and the New Mex­ico Museum of Nat­ural His­tory with inter­est­ing infor­ma­tion about the annu­lar eclipse and the Venus tran­sit, the sci­ence of eclipses and tran­sits, and a bit of his­tory sur­round­ing these events.

Lec­ture Sched­ule
The events begin on Fri­day, May 11 at 3 p.m. with a lec­ture titled, “The Very Rare and Amaz­ing May 20 Annu­lar Eclipse and June 5 Tran­sit of Venus,” given by Ylva Pihlstrom, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor, UNM Depart­ment of Physics and Astron­omy. The lec­ture will be held in Regener Hall, rm. 103.

Other lec­tures will be held on Sun­day, May 13 at 1:30 p.m., by John Dickel, adjunct pro­fes­sor, UNM Depart­ment of Physics and Astron­omy, as part of the Solar Sun­days pro­gram at the New Mex­ico Museum of Nat­ural His­tory and Sci­ence, and on Fri­day, May 18 at 8 p.m., a talk titled, “Two Celes­tial Events,” will be given by Jack Brandt, adjunct pro­fes­sor, UNM Depart­ment of Physics and Astron­omy. Brandt’s talk will be held in the ball­rooms at the UNM Stu­dent Union Build­ing. Free park­ing is avail­able in UNM Lots A and E bor­dered by Cen­tral Ave, Redondo Rd, Stan­ford and Girard Blvd. On Sun­day, May 20 at 1:30 p.m., prior to the view­ing at the UNM Obser­va­tory, a talk titled, “The Very Rare and Amaz­ing May 20 Annu­lar Eclipse and June 5 Tran­sit of Venus,” will be given by Greg Tay­lor, asso­ciate pro­fes­sor, UNM Depart­ment of Physics and Astron­omy, at the New Mex­ico Museum of Nat­ural History.

This par­tic­u­lar eclipse will be of the annu­lar type, which means the sun won’t be com­pletely blocked out like the more com­monly known total eclipse. For annu­lar eclipses, the size of the Moon will appear to be just smaller than the Sun, which will leave a small ring (an annu­lus) of the Sun still vis­i­ble around the Moon when the Moon is com­pletely in front of the Sun. For this rea­son, it won’t get dark dur­ing this eclipse.

For a com­plete list of events as well as links and a vari­ety of infor­ma­tional links lead­ing up to the Annu­lar Eclipse includ­ing eclipses in gen­eral, and Safety and Lec­ture Infor­ma­tion, visit: Eclipse 2012.

“Safety is very impor­tant,” added Rand. “Never look directly into the sun with your eyes or through a pair of binoc­u­lars, cam­eras or tele­scopes.
Addi­tion­ally, on Tues­day, June 5 at 4 p.m., the UNM Obser­va­tory will be open for the Tran­sit of Venus. This rare align­ment occurs when Venus passes directly between earth and the sun, and view­ers see the dis­tant planet as a small dot glid­ing slowly across the face of the sun. His­tor­i­cally, this is how astronomers mea­sured the size of our solar system.

For more infor­ma­tion, visit: Tran­sit of Venus.

Other event spon­sors include: The National Park Ser­vice, Anderson-Abruzzo Albu­querque Inter­na­tional Bal­loon Museum, Bernalillo County, the Albu­querque Astro­nom­i­cal Soci­ety, Albu­querque Con­ven­tion and Vis­i­tors Bureau, City of Albu­querque Open Space, the New Mex­ico Museum of Nat­ural His­tory and Sci­ence, and San­dia Peak Tramway.

Media Con­tact: Steve Carr (505) 277‑1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu

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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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UNM to Host 64th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America

May 7, 2012 | By Steve Carr

The Depart­ment of Earth and Plan­e­tary Sci­ences at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico is host­ing the 64th annual meet­ing of the Rocky Moun­tain Sec­tion of the Geo­log­i­cal Soci­ety of Amer­ica, May 9–11 at the Hotel Albu­querque. The annual meet­ing title is “Rio GeoFi­esta!” About 500 par­tic­i­pant geol­o­gists from across the coun­try will debate top­ics about the geo­log­i­cal evo­lu­tion of the region in a series of theme sessions.

A pub­lic lec­ture, given by Dr. Robert Smith, dis­tin­guished research and emer­i­tus pro­fes­sor of geo­physics at the Depart­ment of Geol­ogy and Geo­physics, Uni­ver­sity of Utah, will be held on Thurs­day, May 10 from 7:30–8:30 p.m. at the at the New Mex­ico Museum of Nat­ural His­tory and Sci­ence. Smith’s lec­ture is titled, “The Yel­low­stone Super­vol­cano: Past, Present and Future.”

Smith’s pri­mary research inter­ests are in the­ory and meth­ods in seis­mic stud­ies of lithos­pheric struc­ture, earth­quake seis­mol­ogy, crustal defor­ma­tion, tectono­physics of intraplate tec­tonic regimes and mechan­ics of crustal exten­sion. Smith, who is con­sid­ered the world’s lead­ing expert on the geol­ogy and geo­physics of the Yellowstone-Teton area, has con­ducted sem­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tions of lithos­pheric struc­ture, geo­phys­i­cal and geo­detic inves­ti­ga­tions of the Basin-Range Province, Yel­low­stone hotspot and the Wasatch fault fol­lowed by prob­a­bilis­tic seis­mic haz­ard eval­u­a­tion of the Inter­moun­tain West.

Addi­tional meet­ing co-sponsors include the New Mex­ico Bureau of Geol­ogy and Min­eral Resources, New Mex­ico Museum of Nat­ural His­tory and Sci­ence, and the New Mex­ico Geo­log­i­cal Society.

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion on events and meet­ing ses­sions, visit: Geoso­ci­ety Events

The annual meet­ing is chaired by Pro­fes­sor Laura Crossey, meet­ing tech­ni­cal pro­gram chair is Karl Karl­strom, Gary Smith. field­trip cood­i­na­tor and Gary Weiss­man, stu­dent vol­un­teer coor­di­na­tor, all from the UNM Depart­ment of Earth and Plan­e­tary Sciences.

Addi­tional media infor­ma­tion and selected meet­ing high­lights are avail­able at: Geoso­ci­ety News.

Note: press rep­re­sen­ta­tives with accred­ited cre­den­tials will receive com­ple­men­tary meet­ing registration.

Media Con­tact: Steve Carr (505) 277‑1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu

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Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter Gives Talk on Mental Illness

May 7, 2012 | By Mara Kerkez
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The Depart­ment of Psy­chi­a­try at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico presents for­mer first lady, Ros­alynn Carter giv­ing a pub­lic talk on her lat­est book, “Within Our Reach: End­ing the Men­tal Health Cri­sis,” Mon­day, May 14 at 5:30 p.m. in Pope­joy Hall. A brief ques­tion and answer ses­sion follows.

For more than 40 years, Mrs. Carter has worked to improve the qual­ity of life for the men­tally ill around the world, a sub­ject of her recent book in which she writes, “Men­tal ill­ness is the lead­ing cause of dis­abil­ity in the United States, Canada and West­ern Europe, inflict­ing more dam­age than can­cer, heart dis­ease or diabetes.”

Mrs. Carter’s books will be avail­able for sale and, for a lim­ited time, she will be on hand to sign them.

For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Tracy Ingalls at (505) 272‑3592 or email IDEASinPsych@salud.edu.

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UNM Commencement Set for May 12 at The Pit

May 7, 2012 | By Sari Krosinsky
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News vet­eran Sam Don­ald­son will deliver the keynote address at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico spring com­mence­ment on Sat­ur­day, May 12, at 9 a.m. at Uni­ver­sity Arena, the Pit. Don­ald­son was chief White House cor­re­spon­dent for ABC News.

About 3,225 stu­dents are pro­jected to receive degrees from UNM’s Albu­querque and Extended Uni­ver­sity cam­puses, as fol­lows: 2,290 bachelor’s degrees, 598 master’s degrees, 71 doc­tor­ates, 100 juris doc­tor­ates, 63 med­ical doc­tor­ates, 85 phar­macy doc­tor­ates, 11 grad­u­ate cer­tifi­cates and seven edu­ca­tion spe­cial­ists. An offi­cial degree count is deter­mined fol­low­ing commencement.

Sen­a­tor Jeff Binga­man and Dr. John Mar­tin Camp­bell will receive hon­orary degrees.

At UNM-Gallup, 101 asso­ciate degrees and 29 cer­tifi­cates are pro­jected to be awarded; at Los Alamos, 17 asso­ciate degrees and four cer­tifi­cates; at Taos, 38 asso­ciate degrees and 18 cer­tifi­cates; and at Valen­cia, 47 asso­ciate degrees and two certificates.

Golden Grad­u­ates, the class of 1962, are also hon­ored at com­mence­ment for their life­long con­nec­tion to UNM.

Mike Ander­son receives the Tom L. Pope­joy Dis­ser­ta­tion Prize for research in com­pu­ta­tional mod­el­ing and fluid dynamics.

UNM Pres­i­dent David Schmidly will give open­ing remarks and con­fer degrees and UNM Regents’ Vice Pres­i­dent Don Chalmers will greet grad­u­ates on behalf of the UNM board of regents. UNM regents, admin­is­tra­tors, deans and fac­ulty are among the plat­form group. Uni­ver­sity Sec­re­tary Vivian Valen­cia is chief marshal.

Jaymie Roy­bal, pres­i­dent of the Asso­ci­ated Stu­dents of UNM, will greet students.

The UNM Brass Choir will play music for the ceremony’s pre­lude and pro­ces­sional. Grant Gar­ri­son, grad­u­at­ing with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts, will sing the national anthem and alma mater.

Col­lege, branch and depart­men­tal con­vo­ca­tion cer­e­monies are sched­uled May 9–16. For more infor­ma­tion and the con­vo­ca­tion sched­ule, visit UNM Grad­u­a­tion.

Media con­tact: Sari Krosin­sky (505) 277‑1593; email: michal@unm.edu

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