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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A rare annular solar eclipse.

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

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

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

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.

Sam Donaldson

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