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Metzger Appointed Interim Controller

May 16, 2012 | By Steve Carr

Exec­u­tive Vice Pres­i­dent David Har­ris has announced the appoint­ment of Eliz­a­beth Met­zger as interim con­troller for the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico effec­tive July 1, 2012. The announce­ment coin­cides with the appoint­ment of Ava Lovell as senior exec­u­tive offi­cer for Finance and Admin­is­tra­tion for UNM Health Sci­ences Cen­ter, and rep­re­sents the impor­tance of a good suc­ces­sion plan in this crit­i­cal area.

Met­zger will be respon­si­ble for all main cam­pus finan­cial oper­a­tions, as well as Uni­ver­sity pro­cure­ment, research pre-award and payroll.

“Liz brings more than 25 years of expe­ri­ence and a long tenure of work at UNM includ­ing an inti­mate knowl­edge of the Health Sci­ence Cen­ter” said Har­ris. M

etzger has a Bachelor’s degree in Account­ing and main­tains an Active New Mex­ico CPA Cer­tifi­cate. She has had increas­ingly respon­si­ble posi­tions in higher edu­ca­tion insti­tu­tions and at pub­lic account­ing firms. She earned her B.S. in Account­ing from Mon­tana State University.

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Catherine “Kate” Krause named Interim Dean of University College

May 16, 2012 | By Karen Wentworth
Kate

Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Provost Chaouki Abdal­lah has announced the appoint­ment of Pro­fes­sor Kate Krouse as Interim Dean of Uni­ver­sity College.

“I am pleased to announce Dr. Kate Krause as Interim Dean of Uni­ver­sity College. She is a highly accom­plished scholar in Eco­nom­ics with a strong com­mit­ment to under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion.  Dr. Krause has a proven record of excel­lence as a pro­fes­sor focused on under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion as well as a com­mit­ment to stu­dent success. She will do an excel­lent job in her interim role advanc­ing our goals to trans­form under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion at the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico,” said Abdallah.

Krause earned her B.S. in Eco­nom­ics from the Uni­ver­sity of Min­nesota, Twin Cities in 1977. She went on to earn a JD from Stan­ford Law School and her Ph.D. in Eco­nom­ics from the Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin in 1996. She joined the UNM Eco­nom­ics Depart­ment fac­ulty in 1996. She was a recip­i­ent of the 2007-08 Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Out­stand­ing Teacher of the Year Award.

Ques­tions and/or com­ments should be directed to Michael Dougher, Sr. Vice Provost for Aca­d­e­mic Affairs dougher@unm.edu.

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Wrenching Poetry from the Nancy C. Wood Manuscript Collection

May 15, 2012 | By Karen Wentworth
Carolyn McSherry

Car­olyn McSherry

Car­olyn McSh­erry holds the Juan and Vir­ginia Cha­con Fel­low­ship and has spent part of the year pro­cess­ing the papers of writer-photographer Nancy Wood. She is a Ph.D. stu­dent in the Amer­i­can Stud­ies program. 

Her research is about the chal­lenges posed to 1930s-era agri­cul­tural improve­ment projects in Puerto Rico and on Navajo lands by peo­ple who lived in and knew those land­scapes, and by others. She is inter­ested in the rela­tion­ships between agri­cul­tural sci­ences and colonialism.

In this talk, titled “Wrench­ing Poetry from the Nancy C. Wood Man­u­script Col­lec­tion” she explores the man­u­scripts in the Nancy C. Wood man­u­script col­lec­tion and talks about Wood as a writer. At the begin­ning of the talk she dis­cusses this poem by Nancy C. Wood.

Hold on to what is good,
even when it is
a hand­ful of earth.

Hold on to what you believe
even when it is
a tree which stands by itself.

Hold on to what you must do
even if it is
a long way from here.

Hold on to life even when
it is eas­ier let­ting go.

Hold on to my hand
even when I have gone away from you.

Lis­ten to McSherry’s talk.

Runs: 15:47

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

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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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Cresap Receives Signed Language Endowed Scholarship

May 15, 2012 | By Carolyn Gonzales
Cresap

Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico stu­dent Amy Beth Cre­sap is the recip­i­ent of the Depart­ment of Lin­guis­tics Signed Lan­guage Inter­pret­ing Program’s 2012 Phyl­lis Per­rin Wilcox endowed schol­ar­ship. This annual schol­ar­ship rec­og­nizes a stu­dent who demon­strates aca­d­e­mic excel­lence, excep­tional per­sonal integrity, and the poten­tial to excel in signed lan­guage interpreting.

A mem­ber of the National Soci­ety of Col­le­giate Schol­ars, Cre­sap, a junior, has main­tained a 3.8 GPA in her dual majors of Signed Lan­guage Inter­pret­ing and Portuguese.

Media Con­tact: Car­olyn Gon­za­les (505) 277‑5920; email: cgonzal@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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Mike Anderson Awarded Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Prize

May 14, 2012 | By Karen Wentworth
Mike Anderson with Asso. Prof. of Mechanical Engineering Peter Vorobieff
Mike Anderson with Asso. Prof. of Mechanical Engineering Peter Vorobieff

Mike Ander­son with Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing Peter Vorobieff

The 2012 Pope­joy Dis­ser­ta­tion Prize has been awarded to Mike Ander­son. The award, which was estab­lished as a per­ma­nent memo­r­ial to late UNM Pres­i­dent Tom L. Pope­joy, rec­og­nizes and encour­ages the high­est level of aca­d­e­mic excel­lence among doc­toral students.

Ander­son per­formed ground­break­ing research bridg­ing exper­i­men­tal and com­pu­ta­tional fluid dynam­ics in a devel­op­ing area of high-speed com­press­ible mul­ti­phase flow. He par­tic­i­pated in state-of-the-art exper­i­ments, but more impor­tantly, he per­formed numer­i­cal sim­u­la­tions of the exper­i­ments that made it pos­si­ble for his research group to develop a phys­i­cal under­stand­ing of exper­i­men­tal data, which led to the dis­cov­ery of a hydro­dy­namic insta­bil­ity mech­a­nism pro­vi­sion­ally named “gen­er­al­ized Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov insta­bil­ity” or “particle-lag instability.”

His work was pub­lished in “Phys­i­cal Review Let­ters,” along with ref­er­eed pro­ceed­ings of two inter­na­tional con­fer­ences in 2011, and will lead to three more pub­li­ca­tions to be sub­mit­ted in 2012. Anderson’s men­tor, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing Peter Voro­bi­eff, says “Mike’s con­tri­bu­tion to our research group sheds light on the physics behind many phe­nom­ena — from vor­tices rolling up in inter­stel­lar dusty plasma accel­er­ated by a shock from a super­nova explo­sion to enhanced mix­ing of fuel droplets in a scram­jet or a chem­i­cal laser. In addi­tion, his involve­ment in our project was a per­fect com­bi­na­tion of indi­vid­ual (com­pu­ta­tional) and team­work (exper­i­ment), and helped develop ties between UNM and a local hi-tech com­pany (ARA).”

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

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UNM Anderson School Professors Named Among Top-50 Researchers in the World

May 14, 2012 | By Steve Carr
Ranjit Bose

Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Ander­son School of Man­age­ment Pro­fes­sors Xin (Robert) Luo and Ran­jit Bose have been named in the pres­ti­gious “Top 100 Rank­ing of Researchers” list from the Asso­ci­a­tion for Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems (AIS). Luo is ranked as a top-25 researcher in the world, while Bose is among the top-40 on the AIS list.

Robert Luo

Luo was ranked in the area of Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems based on pub­li­ca­tions in the top-tier jour­nals Euro­pean Jour­nal of Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems and Jour­nal of Strate­gic Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems in the past two years. Both jour­nals are con­sid­ered top A-level out­lets by Senior Schol­ars of Asso­ci­a­tion for Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems. Bose, who is the asso­ciate dean at the Schools, is ranked No. 38 on the AIS list for a col­lab­o­ra­tive paper with Luo that assesses a firm’s poten­tial to under­take Green IT ini­tia­tives via virtualization.

Luo joined the Man­age­ment Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems and Infor­ma­tion Assur­ance Pro­gram at UNM Ander­son in 2008 and has taught courses in Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems Secu­rity, Busi­ness Appli­ca­tion Pro­gram­ming, Computer-based Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems, and Web Appli­ca­tion Devel­op­ment. His research focuses on cross-cultural IT man­age­ment, infor­ma­tion sys­tems secu­rity, and inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­ogy diffusion.

Ran­jit Bose

Bose has served as asso­ciate dean since Jan­u­ary 2011 and is a Regents Pro­fes­sor. His cur­rent research inter­est is in the area of orga­ni­za­tional knowl­edge man­age­ment geared toward intel­li­gent decision-support and inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­ogy dif­fu­sion. Bose has been at UNM Ander­son since 1989, he has taught sev­eral courses in the area of Man­age­ment Infor­ma­tion Sys­tems and is cur­rently teach­ing Sys­tems Analy­sis and Design courses.

Dean Doug Brown says hav­ing two pro­fes­sors named as top 50 researchers in the world is a proud accom­plish­ment for the Ander­son Schools. “Ander­son is indeed proud to have two inter­na­tion­ally rec­og­nized schol­ars in the field of Man­age­ment Infor­ma­tion,” said Brown. “Both Dr. Luo and Dr. Bose were able to per­form their research while con­tribut­ing sig­nif­i­cantly in the class­room and in ser­vice to the university.”

For more infor­ma­tion, visit: AIS Research Rank­ings.

Media con­tact: Leslie Ven­zuela (505) 277‑7117; email: venzuela@mgt.unm.edu

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UNM Small Business Vendor Fair Set for Wednesday, May 16

May 11, 2012 | By Steve Carr

The Small Busi­ness Ven­dor Trade Fair, hosted by UNM Pur­chas­ing Depart­ment, is set for Wednes­day, May 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Stu­dent Union Build­ing ball­rooms A, B & C. The fair allows par­tic­i­pants net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to cre­ate new busi­ness rela­tion­ships and strengthen exist­ing busi­ness rela­tion­ships within the UNM and UNMH community.

All UNM depart­ments, pur­chas­ing agents, Pcard hold­ers, staff and fac­ulty are encour­aged to attend the fair to learn about the prod­ucts and ser­vices area busi­nesses can provide.

Other insti­tu­tions includ­ing Bernalillo County Pur­chas­ing, City of Albu­querque and Amer­i­can Indian Cham­ber of Com­merce will be in atten­dance help­ing busi­nesses learn about pro­cure­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties with their insti­tu­tions. Bring your busi­ness cards and enjoy light refreshments.

For more infor­ma­tion con­tact Angela Pri­eto, at 277‑1770 or via email, angelap@unm.edu .

Media con­tact: Steve Carr (505) 277‑1821; email: scarr@unm.edu

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Anderson Professor Rich Brody Named Educator of the Year

May 11, 2012 | By Steve Carr
Rich Brody, ACFE Educator of the Year

Rich Brody, ACFE
Edu­ca­tor of the Year

The Asso­ci­a­tion of Cer­ti­fied Fraud Exam­in­ers (ACFE), the world’s largest anti-fraud orga­ni­za­tion, has named UNM Ander­son Account­ing Pro­fes­sor Rich Brody Edu­ca­tor of the Year. The pres­ti­gious ACFE Out­stand­ing Achieve­ment Awards rec­og­nize the con­tri­bu­tions of anti-fraud pro­fes­sion­als world­wide. The Edu­ca­tor of the Year Award is pre­sented to an ACFE Edu­ca­tor mem­ber who has made an out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion in anti-fraud education.

Sev­eral fac­tors con­sid­ered by the ACFE in select­ing the recip­i­ent including:

• Anti-fraud cur­ricu­lum devel­op­ment efforts at their col­lege or uni­ver­sity
• Impact on guid­ing stu­dents towards the anti-fraud pro­fes­sion
• Influ­ence in encour­ag­ing anti-fraud edu­ca­tion growth at their local col­lege or university

The nom­i­nee should also be active in their community.

Ander­son Dean Doug Brown says Brody’s suc­cess in and out of the class­room gave him the edge in receiv­ing this very com­pet­i­tive award. “We are indeed proud of Rich Brody and applaud his well-deserved recog­ni­tion. Rich makes an out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to our university.”

Brody will be rec­og­nized at the annual ACFE meet­ing in Orlando next month before more than 2,000 atten­dees and will address par­tic­i­pants at the higher edu­ca­tion meet­ing at the conference.

Brody calls the honor one of the high­lights of his aca­d­e­mic career. “Work­ing on fraud issues in the com­mu­nity is very reward­ing and receiv­ing this award is just the icing on the cake,” said Brody. “I am hum­bled to know that I will be rec­og­nized at the annual ACFE meet­ing in front of such a large inter­na­tional audi­ence of fel­low cer­ti­fied fraud exam­in­ers and educators.”

Brody began focus­ing on fraud edu­ca­tion back in 2001, and joined the fac­ulty at UNM Ander­son in 2006.

“Dr. Brody is a major influ­ence on the stu­dents,” said Craig White, chair, Ander­son Account­ing Depart­ment. “He has cre­ated aware­ness and excite­ment among our stu­dents on the issue of fraud detec­tion and pre­ven­tion. This aware­ness will ben­e­fit them in what­ever career they choose and many are con­sid­er­ing this as the career of their choice.”

Brody is the Dou­glas Minge Brown Pro­fes­sor of Account­ing, Asso­ciate Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Infor­ma­tion Assur­ance Research and Edu­ca­tion (CIARE), and a Daniels Fund Busi­ness Ethics Fel­low at UNM Ander­son. He earned his Ph.D. from Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity, M.S. from Col­orado State Uni­ver­sity and B.S. from the Uni­ver­sity of Delaware.

Brody has worked as a staff audi­tor for Deloitte Hask­ins + Sells, a cost ana­lyst for Hewlett Packard, and a senior finan­cial report­ing ana­lyst for Tan­dem Com­put­ers. He 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. Dr. Brody’s research addresses issues related to foren­sic account­ing, audit­ing and cor­po­rate gov­er­nance. He has authored and/or co-authored over 80 ref­er­eed pub­li­ca­tions and has pre­sented his work at many national and inter­na­tional conferences.

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