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.

“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.

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

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

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

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.

“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.”

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

Robert Luo

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

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

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

Rich Brody, ACFE
Educator of the Year

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.