1. ABQ Business First - "County commits to Innovate ABQ"
The Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners vote in support of adding $1 million to the Innovate ABQ, a project spearheaded by UNM President Bob Frank and chief economic development officer Lisa Kuuttila.

2. Liberty Voice - "Grand Canyon: University Claims Not So Old"
A study conducted by UNM researcher Karl Karlstrom and team, claims that parts of the Grand Canyon are not as old as generally held.

3. New Mexico Watchdog - "Fixes to the NM Lottery scholarship racing against the clock"
Numerous bills are on the Roundhouse agenda attempting to keep solvent the Lottery scholarship utilized by approximately 8,000 UNM students.

4. NM State KRWG TV/FM (NPR) - "Udall Introduces Bill To Increase Access To Healthcare"
Art Kaufman, Distinguished Professor of Family and Community Medicine and the Vice Chancellor for Community Health at UNM comments on a bill that addresses the growing shortage of doctors and other health care professionals in rural and frontier New Mexico communities.

5. Las Cruces News - "Full House gets bill limiting governor's say over university regent"
A bill is introduced to create a regent nominating committee that would include faculty and student body, as well as residents of the city where a university's main campus is located. Traditionally, the governor appoints regents.

6. ABQ Journal (Opinion) - "A helping hand goes a long way"
In support of Random Acts of Kindness Week, beginning Feb. 20, the UNM Dean of Students Office partners with the Albuquerque Roadrunner Food Bank to provide a monthly mobile food pantry for UNM students in need of food assistance.

7. Time - "Women Who Stand By Their NuvaRing"
Eve Espey, chair of ACOG’s Committee on Health Care for Underserved Women and a professor in the Department of Ob-Gyn at UNM School of Medicine, comments on the NuvaRing settlement.

8. The Taos News - "Law center presents a screening of film ‘Green Fire’ at Taos museum"
The Western Environmental Law Center, in collaboration with the Harwood Museum of Art and the University of New Mexico, host the film “Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time” on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m. at the Harwood in Taos.

9.  Media monitoring from Tuesday, Feb. 11

KOB-4             11:00 AM

WE'RE EXCITED FOR THE WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES WHICH OF COURSE ARE TAKING PLACE THIS YEAR IN RUSSIA AND WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE REALLY EXCITING TO LEARN A LITTLE MORE ABOUT RUSSIAN CULTURE AND FOR THAT WE TURN TO THE EXPERT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT UNM TONYA IVANOVA ALL RIGHT FINALLY NAILED IT THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE THIS MORNING SO TALK TO US LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOU KNOW RUSSIAN CULTURE AND SOME OF THE MISCONCEPTIONS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE HERE IN AMERICA. RUSSIAN CULTURE IS REALLY RICH DATES BACK TO THE NINTH CENTURY UP TO CUBAN ROSE BUT CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN CULTURE IS VERY DYNAMIC INTERESTING I LOOK LIKE AMERICA AND ON CULTURE ESPECIALLY THE DAILY LIVES OF RUSSIAN ON BUT I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION TWO THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN BAD IDEA ACTUALLY TELL MY STUDENTS IN MY SEMINARS AND WE DISCUSSED ABOUT PLAYING THE REALLY INTERESTING IN THAT FIRST THING RUSSIANS DON'T SMILE THAT MUCH THEY DON'T SMILE AND SHE YOU KNOW IF YOU'RE A STRANGER IF YOU KNOW THEY JUST SEE ON THE STREET THE ONE SMILING AGO OR IN THE STORES THEY WONT SMILE AT YOU HAVE SO THIS IS THAT HUGE MISCONCEPTION IS A MISCONCEPTION THAT AMERICANS HAVE THE RUSSIANS ARE RUDE BECAUSE THEY DON'T SMILE. AND ARE THEY NOT SMILING BECAUSE IT IS BUSY FOCUSED ON THEMSELVES THEIR DAY TO DAY GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO PURSUE STORY HOME IT'S THEIR TIME. THAT IS ONE THING AND THE SECOND THING IS WHEN THEY PUT A LOT OF MEANING INTO SMILING AND PEOPLE WITH THEM IF YOU KNOW IF YOU SMILE SOMEONE THIS PERSON IS A CLOSE FRIEND YOU WERE TO HAVE AN ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM THAT'S JUST OUT SHOWS THAT JOB YOU KNOW YOU HAVE WARM FEELINGS OF TOWARDS THIS PERSON. SO NOW IF YOU MEET A STRANGER IN A BAR AND HE SMILES THAT YOU KNOW WELL AND HE'S NOT IN A SMILE YOU AND TELL HE TALKS TO NOTICE YOU. DEPENDS IF HE IS INTERESTED IN YOU DID SOME OTHER WAYS TO SEE MY SMILE AT YOU BUT YOU HAVE TO BE HOME BE CAREFUL HALT TO READ PEOPLE'S FACES AND BODY LANGUAGE BECAUSE BODY LANGUAGE VARIES FROM CULTURE TO CULTURE. SO AS AN AMERICAN IF WE GO TO RUSSIA SHOULD WE NOT BE SMILING. NO YOU CAN SMILE, YOU ARE AMERICAN. THIS IS WHAT AMERICAN CULTURE IS ALL ABOUT. TALK ABOUT HOW RUSSIA IS A HOW ARE YOU CULTURE. THERE WAS ACTUALLY AN INTERESTING ARTICLE RECENTLY IN NEW YORK TIME HOW ARE YOU CULTURE CLASH AND WE DISCUSSED THIS WITH MY STUDENTS AS WELL THEY WERE SURPRISED THAT ON TO WHEN SOME OF THE THEM WENT TO RUSSIA ON THIS AND STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS WHEN THEY ARE WITHOUT QUESTION WAS HOW ARE YOU AND YOU UP ON RUSSIA'S WITHOUT TELLING THEM THEIR WHOLE LIFE STORY NOW WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY AND LAST MONTH AND YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ALL THE DETAILS AND I WAS GOING TO BE LIKE OK I DIDN'T REALLY TO HAVE TOO MUCH INFO AND THEN VICE VERSA WHEN THE RUSSIANS ARE IN AMERICA YOU KNOW THEY EXPECT TO HEAR SOME SUBSTANTIAL ANSWER WHEN THESE WHEN THEY ASKED HOW ARE YOU WHICH DOES HAPPEN BREAKS SO BUT YOU KNOW CLARIFYING THOSE ON THE CULTURAL POINT I THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER TO ACHIEVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF EACH CULTURE. AND YOU MENTIONED YOU KNOW THEY DON'T SMILE YOU KNOW WALKING THE STREETS DAY TO DAY BUT IF YOU ARE INVITED TO DINNER AT SOMEONE'S HOME WHAT IS THAT LIKE. OH THAT IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STORY ONCE THEY GET TO KNOW YOU RUSSIAN ARE REALLY WARM AND HOSPITABLE AND THEY WOULD INVITE YOU OVER THEY WILL FEED YOU PUT A LOT OF FOOD ON THE TABLE ALL THERE WILL BE MUSIC LOT OF FESTIVITIES AND THEY'LL TREAT YOU LIKE A FRIEND IT'S THE INITIAL BARRIER AFTER GETTING TO KNOW YOU ARE RIGHT SO THAT'S I THINK IS AN IMPORTANT POINT. TANYA THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU.

KOB-4            10:00 PM

IT'S A SPORT THAT ALBUQUERQUE IS MADE FOR -- BUT IF YOU AREN'T LOOKING FOR IT, YOU JUST MIGHT MISS IT! WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN IN ALBUQUERQUE... SOME UNEXPECTED PLACES TURN INTO TRAINING GROUNDS FOR STREET ATHLETES. WE FOUND THIS VIDEO ON YOUTUBE -- AND WANTED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SKATERS WHO CAN MAKE ANY SPOT THEIR PLAYGROUND. WE SENT ERICA ZUCCO TO LOOK DEEPER INTO THE WORLD OF LONGBOARDING... SHE'S LIVE AT UNM TONIGHT. ERICA, WHAT DID YOU FIND? YOU CAN SEE -- THE BOARD IS LONGER THAN WHAT YOU MIGHT BE USED TO. GENERALLY, YOU USE LONGBOARDS DIFFERENTLY THAN SHORT BOARDS. THEY'RE LESS FOR TRICKS, AND MORE FOR GOING LONG DISTANCES AT HIGH SPEEDS. WHEN NIGHT FALLS... THIS UNM PARKING GARAGE OFTEN TRANSFORMS INTO A SKATE PARK. "NATS" AWED BY HOW SKATERS SPEED DOWN THE STEEP SLOPES, WE WANTED TO KNOW WHERE ELSE THEY'RE DOING IT. TURNS OUT-- EVERYWHERE. SKATERS LIKE THE "DUKE CITY BOMBERS" GROUP DO MOST OF THEIR BOARDING OUTSIDE -- THEY PLAN RIDES AND TEACH SAFETY CLINICS AROUND TOWN. THEY SAY THE APPEAL IS A FAST, ADVENTUROUS RIDE THAT ALMOST ANYONE CAN GET INTO. IF YOU'RE 40 AND YOU DON'T WANNA FALL ANYMORE, YOU'RE STILL GONNA FALL CAUSE ITS SKATEBOARDING BUT YOU CAN GO AND CRUISE A HILL AND TAKE IT PRETTY MELLOW OR IF YOU'RE 21 YOU CAN LONGBOARDING HAS CAUGHT ON QUICK IN ALBUQUERQUE PARTIALLY BECAUSE OF THE PARALLELS WITH SNOWBOARDING. IT'S A GOOD WAY TO CROSS-TRAIN IN THE OFF- SEASON, IF IT'S TOO SNOWY IN TOWN TO SKATE YOU CAN HEAD UP TO THE HILLS AND KEEP YOUR LEGS STRONG BUT ALSO BECAUSE THE CITY'S MADE FOR IT. "WHAT WE'RE REALLY KNOWN FOR IS THE DITCHES, EVERYBODY KNOWS THE DITCHES OUT HERE AND WE HAVE A LOT OF HILLS, GREAT SKATE PARKS" A LOT OF LONGBOARDING HOTSPOTS: DITCHES, SLOPED STREETS AND THOSE PARKING GARAGES .AREN'T TECHNICALLY ALLOWED. BUT MANY SKATERS, ESPECIAL LY THOSE WHO USE BOARDING AS THEIR MODE OF TRANSPORTATION HOPE PEOPLE WILL START GIVING THE SPORT A LITTLE MORE CREDIT. NORMALLY WE GET STOPPED AND WE GET CITED FOR THE CITY CODE WE'VE BEEN STOPPED WITH IS TOY IN THE STREET...WHICH TECHNICALLY IT IS A TOY BUT IF I'M MOVING FROM POINT A TO POINT B, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT? ALBUQUERQUE IS ACTUALLY A DESTINATION FOR A LOT OF LONGBOARDERS. THE STEEP HILLS AND EMPTY CHANNELS ARE IDEAL FOR ADVENTUROUS RIDERS. YOU CAN GET INVOLVED WITH LOCAL LONGBOARDING GROUP DUKE CITY BOMBERS.