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Sept. 19, 2005 Volume 41, Number 2

Inside UNM Today Katrina Student news survivors find Three receive Fulbrights 2 home at UNM United Way campaign President announces goal engineering 3

Harjo returns BY GREG JOHNSTON Poet strengthens new master’s program 4 concerted effort by Human Resources the UNM School Expo helps close gap with branches 6 Aof Engineering has allowed at least 10 students PHOTO BY GREG JOHNSTON and one faculty member, all displaced by Hurricane Jenny Kirk, left, Ernesto Picharda and Robin Wommack, seniors Katrina, to continue their from Tulane University in New Orleans gather outside the UNM Campus Tricentennial work at UNM. School of Engineering. The students were invited to study in Three seniors majoring UNM’s Chemical Engineering Department when their school was festival set for Sept. 23 in Chemical Engineering at recently closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Tulane University, each with EXHIBITS ON CORNELL MALL NEAR SUB only a small suitcase, made the drive from Houston to NM’s Building the and engage visitors in Albuquerque to start classes How we helped Future Festival, an hands-on activities and Sept. 7. The day they arrived, Uofficial Albuquerque demonstrations. Lobo Louie a Tulane engineering research UNM reached out to college the university would be to Tricentennial event, will be and Lobo Lucy will greet the team also landed at UNM. students who planned to study ensure that students whose held Friday, Sept. 23, from crowds and athletes will sign Prof. Yungfeng Lu is a UNM in hurricane affected areas lives were disrupted by the 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. on the main autographs. Johnson Field alumnus who received his by extending admission and hurricane could continue campus. will be action packed with Ph.D in chemical engineering. registration deadlines, offering their educations. Activities are free and open hot and cold air balloons, He is a former student of dorm space and defraying Breda Bova, senior advisor to the public. Free parking fire trucks, fire prevention Professors Gabriel López and costs for tuition, fees, books to the president, personally will be available at the information, Smokey the Jeff Brinker. and room and board. advised displaced students University Stadium south lot. Bear and Clifford the Dog. “When it appeared that President Louis Caldera and their families. Shuttle service is provided to Traditional Native American Tulane was shut down, Brinker and his staff guided UNM’s Many departments, prog- and from the main campus games will be demonstrated. and Lopez said come on up,” response to the Katrina rams, faculty, staff and every 15 minutes. Student said Chemical and Nuclear disaster, determining early on students also reached out to More than 50 exhibitors Union Chef Tony Cipollone Engineering Department that the best assistance from students and families affected will set up along the Cornell Mall to provide information Continued on Page 3 Continued on Page 4 Continued on Page 5

Eight join distinguished professor ranks HISTORIC PRESERVATION EFFORTS ON THE UNM CAMPUS BY CRYSTLE COLLIER has received international contributions to his field PART 2 of 10 Eight professors have been accolades and attention. He of theoretical condensed promoted to the rank of UNM received a fellowship from the matter physics and statistical distinguished professor, John Simon mechanics. He Architect shares campus history the highest rank bestowed Guggenheim was elected BY CAROLYN GONZALES on faculty. Distinguished M e m o r i a l fellow of the professors are individuals Foundation A m e r i c a n who have demonstrated in 2003-04 Physical Society September has been designated architecture month by the outstanding achievements and serves as in 1998 and City of Albuquerque’s Tricentennial committee. UNM has and are nationally and the founder this year’s UNM been exploring its architectural history through building internationally renowned and director annual research and landscape surveys and studies being conducted as scholars. The 2005-06 of VoxLox, lecturer. Kenkre through the J. Paul Getty Campus Heritage Grant. inductees are: a documentary -sound art is the founding director of the Van Dorn Hooker, FAIA, UNM architect from 1963-1987, label producing CDs that Consortium of the Americas and author of the UNM Press title, “Only in New Mexico: Joan Bybee, Ph.D. advocate for human rights for Interdisciplinary Science. An Architectural History of the , Bybee’s work in the field of and acoustic ecology. Robert T. Paine, Jr. The First Century 1889-1989,” sat down recently with linguistics built a foundation F. Chris Garcia P a i n e students in Chris Wilson’s historic preservation class. The for scholarly writing in the Garcia’s research on Latino devotes his students are conducting surveys of campus buildings in areas of linguistic typology, political attitudes has earned a t t e n t i o n conjunction with the class. The surveys will then be used to morphology, national and international s i m u l - submit some campus buildings for consideration on state l a n g u a g e recognition and contributed taneously to and national historic registers as part of the Getty grant. change and to the reputation of UNM’s several topics Continued on Page 4 semantics. study of Latino that often In 2004, she culture in the i n t e r s e c t was named U.S. Garcia with different UNM TODAY president of served as the areas of chemistry, including NON-PROFIT the Linguistic 17th UNM analytical applications, PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT ORGANIZATION HODGIN HALL, 2ND FLOOR U.S. POSTAGE PAID Society of p r e s i d e n t organic synthesis and ALBUQUERQUE, NM ALBUQUERQUE, NM America as well as UNM during 2002- spectroscopic/structural 87131-0011 PERMIT NO. 39 annual research lecturer. 03. Most characterization, and She was selected as a recently, he materials science. Paine regent’s professor in 1996. was awarded the Franklin was elected a fellow of the Bybee receives an honorary J. Goodnow Award for American Association for doctorate from the University Distinguished Service from the Advancement of Science of Oslo this month. the American Political Science and served as the 40th UNM Steven Feld Association. annual research lecturer in Feld is a scholar of Nitant Kenkre 1995. music, language, sound Kenkre has made profound, Continued on Page 3 and ethnomusicology who insightful, and seminal 2

In Brief

HOMECOMING CELEBRATION FEATURES MORE THAN system for several months. The Health Sciences Center (http://hsc.unm.edu/LoboCare/). 50 EVENTS: UNM will celebrate its 80th annual Center and UNMH migrated to the new system in Please call Centralized Scheduling at 272-1623 homecoming Oct. 3-8. Homecoming week will August. and ask for a same-day, primary care appointment feature more than 50 separate events all leading up The remainder of our voicemail users will migrate at the LoboCare Clinic. You may also contact the to the football game Saturday, Oct. 8, at University to the new system in October. The system will be clinic directly at 272-3935. Stadium when UNM takes on Brigham Young available for individual account configuration Sept. Clinic staff is encouraging patients to use the University. 26 – Oct. 7. UNM Shuttle Service for convenient access Patients The festivities get underway Monday, Oct. 3 with During the week of Sept. 26, Telecommunications can also use the fee-based Cornell Parking Structure a variety of student activities. A complete list can will hold several open training sessions to answer when attending clinic appointments. be found at: www.unm.edu/~homecome. questions about subscribing to the new system and Homecoming highlights include the annual discuss differences between the systems. HISTORY OF UNM’S BUILT ENVIRONMENT FOCUS OF UNM faculty/staff alumni luncheon, affinity group Over the next several weeks you will be provided EXHIBIT: A new exhibit in Zimmerman Library, reunions, lecture series, various student activities with detailed information about how you can “Campus Preservation: Balancing our Heritage and and more. prepare for the migration to the new system Future,” opens Monday, Sept. 19 and will be on Advanced tickets for the 80th Homecoming without missing a message. display through Jan. 1. – “Reflections – Honoring the Past, Building An exhibit area reception is scheduled for Friday, the Future” and other events can be purchased SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE TO HSC STUDENTS: UNM Oct. 21 from 5 –7 p.m. with a slide presentation at by calling 277-5808 or online at http://www. Hospitals plans to award $160,000 to nursing, 6 p.m. Speakers will be UNM archivist Terry unmalumni.com/homecoming/. radiologic technologists, physical/ occupational Gugliotta and former university planner Joe and speech therapists students to use while in McKinney. VOLUNTEER FAIR SHOWCASES VOLUNTEER school. “Preservation of the university’s irreplaceable ORGANIZATIONS: On Thursday, Oct. 13, more than “We wanted to give students the money that architectural heritage is the focus of the J. Paul Getty 75 community organizations will converge on the can help get them through school,” said Sandra Campus Heritage Grant. The goals are to survey the UNM campus as part of the fourth UNM Volunteer DuBrock recruitment manager at UNMH. campus’s historic buildings and landscapes and Fair. The fair will provide faculty, staff and Upon graduating, scholarship recipients must develop preservation guidelines. The story of the students the chance to meet with representatives commit to two years of employment at UNMH struggle to save UNM’s first building, Hodgin Hall, from volunteer-oriented organizations to become but because UNMH is a teaching hospital the new led to current preservation planning, “ Gugliotta involved with an organization. The fair is from employee will be receiving continuous educational said. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the SUB ballroom. support and training and can move up quickly. The exhibit features images of the architectural Organized by the Provost’s Committee for Staff, For an application and more information, visit development of the campus with photographs of key this fun and informative event seeks ways to create http://hospitals.unm.edu and click on careers. buildings. Among them, the anthropology building and establish a better link between organizations Call Paula Martinez, UNM Hospitals Human that was originally the Student Union Building, that need support and UNM staff members who Resources at (505) 272-0489, for more the Communication and Journalism building that can be a valuable resource. information. formerly housed the campus printing plant, and , that was originally constructed for NEW VOICEMAIL SYSTEM AVAILABLE IN OCTOBER LOBO CARE CLINIC OPEN TO EMPLOYEES: UNM administration and Arts and Sciences programs. After extensive research and testing, UNM employees and their dependents who are enrolled Campus plans are also featured in the exhibit Telecommunications is ready to provide the in a UNM employer-sponsored health plan can as well as original sketches of UNM buildings by campus with a new state-of-the-art voice mail make appointments at the Lobo Care Clinic, Steve Borbas, university planner. service. Telecom, CIRT and PPD have utilized the located on the second floor of the Student Health Gugliotta is co-PI on the grant and chair of the

Health Forum Student News Expert advice from UNM practitioners Three receive Fulbrights

The Stigma of Mental Illness The Institute of International year in Venezuela. A doctoral BY STEVE ADELSHEIM Education and the U.S. student in the Department of CLINICIAN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR a mental illness can tell you. Stigma refers Fulbright Commission History, UNM College of Arts UNM DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY to a cluster of negative attitudes and beliefs announced that three UNM and Sciences, Taylor will be that results in the public fearing, rejecting students have been awarded conducting research on female and discriminating against people with grants for international slaves, female slave owners Imagine discovering that you have perceived differences, like mental illness. exchange programs as part and free women of African asthma. Now imagine that friends blame It’s more than name-calling. Stigma leads of the U.S. student Fulbright heritage during the Spanish you for having asthma and start avoiding others to avoid living, socializing or working program. colonial period in Venezuela. you, thinking that with, renting to, or Catron Allred, a graduate A non-traditional student, your disease is due employing persons student in Teaching English Taylor left her long-time to bad character, with mental illness. to Speakers of business career in personal weakness Misconceptions about Other Languages 2000 to pursue her or poor upbringing. people with mental (TESOL) in the interests in Latin You notice television illness abound, largely UNM College of American history at programs making fun fueled by negative Education, has been selected UNM. She earned a master’s of people with asthma media images, fear and to help establish a new degree in Latin American or portraying them as prejudice. English teaching program in Studies at UNM in 2002. unstable and violent. It’s easy to under- Brazil. A New Mexico native, John White, also a doctoral You might try to stand that people Allred has lived and worked student in the Department of conceal your symptoms experiencing mental in Puerto Rico and Mexico. History, received a Fulbright or avoid situations that health problems might She participated in student grant to Paraguay. White could expose you as feel enough embar- exchange programs in Spain will be doing research for asthmatic. You might rassment and shame and Brazil, and is fluent in his doctoral dissertation even avoid seeing your to keep them from Spanish and Portuguese. studying the working-class doctor for treatment. seeking treatment. Allred has taught ESL communities established If you are a child, Did you know... courses at UNM and in the during construction of the your parents might avoid taking you to social - people with mental illnesses can and do Albuquerque Public Schools, massive Itaipu hydroelectric events because you could start wheezing recover and live productive lives? and has worked with a number dam, which was built on in public, and they would have to endure - people with mental illnesses make of New Mexico community the Parana River between judgmental stares or unsolicited advice. valuable contributions to society? organizations. She received Paraguay and Brazil. A native Beyond your asthmatic condition, the issue - discrimination against people with mental both her bachelor’s and of North Carolina, White you would be dealing with is known as illnesses keeps them from seeking help? master’s degrees from UNM. received a master’s degree stigma. For more information about stigma and Sue Taylor received a grant in Latin American Studies at What is stigma? One of the 15 million mental illness, visit: www.nami.org or www. to spend the coming academic UNM in 2001. children and adults who have experienced mental health.org. 3

Continued from Page 1 Committee for INQUA (the Massive Tricentennial Festival is Sept. 23 International Union for Quaternary Research) and Continued from Page 1 Gary Scharnhorst U.S. representative to the Scharnhorst re-defined 19th UISPP (International Union will decorate a birthday cake “Out Door Art” with Kimberly in Woodward Hall. century American literature of Prehistoric & Protohistoric celebrating Albuquerque’s Feldman, “The Architecture Events taking place discovering Sciences) Commission on the 300th at the Student Union Tour” with Anne Taylor, throughout the day include and publishing Upper Paleolithic of Europe. Building at 10:15 a.m. The and “UNM Arboretum” with a portable LodeStar Museum previously Eberhard Uhlenhuth dessert will be served during Bryan Suhr. Arboretum and planetarium exhibit in the unnoted texts. Uhlenhuth’s research the welcome ceremony, architecture tours also repeat New Mexico Student Union, He has become career spans more than 50 scheduled for 11:30 a.m. to at 3:15 p.m. music department student an international years. He has 12:30 p.m. on Cornell Mall Climb aboard a bus for performances in the Center authority on Bret been principal near the Center for the Arts, and art Harte, friend investigator, for the Arts. The students sharing and colleague investigator Marching Band techniques with of Mark Twain. He illuminates and consultant will perform the Albuquerque Public our understanding of to some 40 university’s fight Schools students canonical writers by detailing research trials. song. President on Smith Plaza near their interactions with so- His areas of Louis Caldera will Zimmerman Library. called “marginal” writers of specialization deliver the official The ARTS the day. He authored eight are pathogenesis, welcome. Professor Lab mini-dome books, served as president psychopathology, and of Music Michael research space and of the Western Literature treatment of anxiety and Chapdelaine, High Performance Association and received four depressive disorders, and the world’s only Computing Center, Fulbright awards. pharmacoepidemiology. He guitarist to earn both located in L a w r e n c e has been named charter fellow first prize in both the old Lee Galles Guy Straus of the American College of the top classical facility at Central Straus, a Neuropsychopharmacology and fingerstyle competitions, “Tours on the Edge,” with and University NE, will be Paleolithic and life fellow of the American and Ballet Folklorico Lumbre Steve Borbas, scheduled at 10 open. Tours of the computing archeologist, Psychiatric Association. will perform. Storyteller a.m. and 3 p.m. center are at 10 and 11 a.m. works in A distinguished professor Eliseo Torres, vice president The University Art Museum and 3 p.m. W e s t e r n title is awarded to only a few for Student Affairs, will read will conduct hourly tours of Nasario García, Ph.D., E u r o p e , of the most prominent faculty. from his newest book, “Stories the exhibition “Architecture- author of “Albuquerque – Feliz i n c l u d i n g The five others who hold of Mexico’s Independence Defining Spaces/ Defining Cumpleaños,” will speak at 1 Spain, France, UNM’s highest faculty rank are Days and Other Bilingual Times” between the hours of p.m. in the Willard Reading Portugal and Belgium. He Eric Charnov, biology; Louise Children’s Fables,” at 10:30 a.m. 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Room, Zimmerman Library. has been editor of UNM’s Lamphere, anthropology; and 3 p.m. School of Law tours with College of Fine Arts Dean Journal of Anthropological Randy Thornhill, biology; Campus tours, lectures, Brian Eagan begin at 3 and 4 Christopher Mead will give Research since 1995 and a William Miller, psychology; entertainment and an p.m. the lecture “Albuquerque, City member of the U.S. National and James Brown, biology. opportunity to register to win Engineering departments of Modernity” at 4:30 p.m. in Tricentennial memorabilia are will power up on Cornell Northrop Hall, rm. 122. also planned. Tours begin at Mall with information and APS teachers, students and 10:15 a.m., 1:15 p.m. and 2:15 demonstrations such as their families are invited to p.m. near the Welcome Center robots that track, dance and the campus festival. Rapid Interactive on Cornell Mall and include perform other tricks. Ride Class Passes are available “Master Planning” with Terry Chemistry magic shows are to schools for free city transit. update set Gugliotta and Joe McKinney, scheduled at 2 and 2:20 p.m. for Oct. 17

UNM kicks off United Way campaign Sept. 19 BY BONNIE YOUNG

BY PATRICK VIGIL On Monday, Oct. 17, UNM Banner users will be able to get up-to-date information—and solutions and shortcuts to help them work more effectively with Banner Finance—when he University kicks by $90,500 Project LINK sponsors a “LINK Campus Update,” from of its annual United from the year 3-5 p.m. in Woodward Lecture Hall. This free, interactive, TWay Campaign with before.” “We are challenging ourselves informative event will also be fed electronically to the President Louis Caldera UNM now has Health Sciences Center and branch campuses. announcing the most the distinction to increase our collective United All interested faculty, staff and students—and especially ambitious goals to date: “We of being in Banner Finance users—are invited and encouraged to come are challenging ourselves to the top five Way giving to $400,000.” and have their questions answered. Overviews will also increase our collective United campaigns in be provided regarding the upcoming Student/Academic Way giving to $400,000,” he the four counties - Louis Caldera and Financial Aid implementations, which have “go-lives” said. surrounding the beginning in Jan. 2006, and the Human Resources/Payroll During this time of natural Albuquerque implementation. disasters at home and abroad, Metropolitan We’re at an exciting juncture in the implementation the need for both relief and Area. We join others in this prizes donated by university schedule. Banner finance has been “live” now for more community support increases. list including Intel, Sandia departments, individuals than a year and we’re on the verge of further updating the By giving through the United Labs, Presbyterian Hospital and corporations serving the university’s business processes. Way, 100 percent of a donor’s and PNM. community. To prepare for the changes the new implementations will gift is distributed as the donor School of Law Dean Suellyn In his message to the UNM bring, Project LINK has undergone some restructuring. has designated. Donations Scarnecchia will lead this community President Caldera Chief Information Officer Bill Adkins recently announced can be made to the United year’s campaign. Under her stated, “The United Way is my reassignment, from director of the LINK HR/Payroll Way Community fund, which leadership the university one of the most important Project to executive director of Project LINK. He also supports more than 80 will reach out to faculty, staff ways we can all demonstrate announced the appointment of John Ortiz to succeed me programs in the Albuquerque and students, encouraging our concern for those in our as director of the LINK HR/Payroll Project. Additionally, Metropolitan area, including each to show support for community who have the he has named David McGuire as project director/LINK any of the university’s the community we serve, greatest need. Through our Technical Infrastructure. programs, scholarships or a community that always generous contributions we These individuals will serve with me on the LINK Steering initiatives, or to any not-for- supports the university. make a strong statement Committee. The 23-member committee also includes CIO profit group in the world. Campaign pledge forms about our commitment, our Bill Adkins and other top administrators. It meets twice When determining the will be distributed through compassion and our desire per month to address issues and to make decisions that 2005 goal, President Caldera campus mail beginning Sept. to create hope in the lives of help guide implementations. I encourage members of the remarked, “In Campaign 2004 19. All donors will be eligible those in our community.” university community to attend the Oct. 17 LINK Update the university faculty and for drawings of different event, especially those employees who want to learn more staff supported the United about what’s happening with Banner Finance, and those Way with record-breaking who want to hear about what lies ahead. contributions of $310,526. This surpassed our ambitious Bonnie Young is Project Link executive director goal by $33,500 and was up 4

Harjo returns to teaching at UNM Katrina survivors find home at UNM BY SARI KROSINSKY now and then, here and there,” Continued from Page 1 she said. his fall, UNM alumna Harjo has worked Chair Julia Fulghum. “We have Atanassov. When he learned and renowned poet extensively in visual and to look after people who need of her situation, he invited her TJoy Harjo returned to performance arts as well as help. It’s more compelling and two classmates to attend teach at her alma mater. Her poetry. Her first music album, when these are people who UNM. Atanassov also agreed attachment to New Mexico “Letter from the End of the have an association with our to temporarily house the began in the 1960s when Twentieth Century,” won the department.” students. she attended the Institute of 1998 Outstanding Musical Fulghum and Cheryl After their fist day of UNM American Indian Arts to study Achievement Award from the Brozena, department graphic classes, the three were taken drama, dance and painting. First Americans in the Arts. designer, reached out and to the UNM Bookstore where She formed a connection with “I began with painting and made phone calls to help the they received free Lobo the state that continued to will most likely return to it; new arrivals. Brozena said sweatshirts, courtesy of their lure her back. this time I’ll combine it with some of the Tulane students new department. In addition, “My voice is here. This is words,” she said. “Music is have participated in five UNM is paying for tuition, one of my homes,” Harjo said. more directly connected. hurricane evacuations. fees, books and education- “What continues to bring me Much of poetry belongs with Tulane senior Robin related supplies. back here is the music, the the program,” Harjo said. “I’m music, yearns to be with music Wommack is a native of New “For me, one of the poetry, the native and arts especially impressed with the and dance.” Orleans who just a few days phenomenal things about this communities. Part of my soul overall quality of the writing As a teacher as well as a poet earlier had to take a boat situation is that it has been lives here.” of the students in both of my and artist, Harjo is a great to reach her family’s home very easy to pickup the phone In 1976, Harjo was one of classes this fall. The program asset to UNM. on the outskirts of the city. and call people at UNM and the first to graduate with a has the potential to be one of “My role as a teacher is to Wommack participated in either they have answers or bachelor’s degree in creative the best in the country.” model, inspire and lead young a UNM internship during they quickly get back to us, writing at UNM. the summer with Chemical said Brozena. “I am so proud “The program was intimate, and Nuclear Engineering to be a member of the UNM close,” she said. “I always “I expect only the best from Assistant Professor Plamen family. It’s heartwarming.” felt great support. We had an ambitious reading series students and always start from that and we were always involved, Architect shares campus history making trips, doing readings, position.” Continued from Page 1 working together.” She later returned to UNM ~ Joy Harjo as a professor of English from “In 1963, the campus still had streets running through it- 1991-1997. Now, she’s back Harjo’s poetry, which has artists and thinkers towards a Ash, Cornell, Yale, Terrace. Closing the streets created a safer, as the first Joseph M. Russo been widely published and lifelong process of hunger for pedestrian campus,” Hooker said, who added that floor space Professor of Creative Writing has won numerous awards, knowledge and an ongoing on campus quadrupled between 1963 and 1987 and that all and the first Native American often evokes the presence practice of their art,” she said. malls were built during his tenure. to hold an endowed chair in of myth in urban life. “I “I expect only the best from Hooker said that Redondo on the west the university’s history. write from experience in a students and always start side of campus was University Boulevard. “I am still getting adjusted dynamic world that is either from that position.” The university paid for the right of way to move University and finding my way back into in balance or askew between Boulevard west of campus. We had to take out some sorority houses to accomplish it,” he said. The error made in planning, Hooker said, is that we didn’t passed $500,000 in matching and rapidly becoming a see the influence of research on campus and the space it would Creative funds for the endowment. professional necessity for need. “We are thrilled at the return aspiring teachers of creative Hooker explained the history of the Pueblo style of of Joy Harjo to UNM, where writing. architecture that is prevalent at UNM. Many of the buildings, writing she studied and taught in UNM’s MFA uses a unique including Scholes Hall and Zimmerman Library, were designed earlier years,” David Richard three-pronged approach by John Gaw Meem, considered the greatest practitioner of the master’s Jones, chair of the English incorporating the studio Pueblo style, dominant at UNM-the “Pueblo on the Mesa.” department, said. She is one of model—the traditional center “Meem designed nine UNM buildings before World War II. numerous prominent writers of writing programs—with All stand although some are remodeled beyond recognition. All offered who have been students and literature and pre-professional deserve preservation.” BY SARI KROSINSKY faculty at UNM. preparation. Sharon Oard One misconception people have about UNM buildings is These events strengthened Warner, director of the that they are of adobe. He asked the students, “How many This fall marks the beginning support for the proposal, creative writing program, are adobe?” Only two – the Estufa, built in 1906 and owned of a new era in creative writing which the Department of said that all three elements by Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, and the naval ROTC building, at UNM - the first are important to students’ constructed in 1941. semester of the development as writers and Hooker explained that north campus was exempt from the master of fine “We feel that it’s important to writing professionals. Pueblo Revival style. “Our contemporary architecture went arts in creative “We feel that it’s important there,” he said. writing. The MFA have a grounding in literature to have a grounding in Editorial note: Van Dorn Hooker will share his knowledge is the first new literature in order to and expertise with UNM Today readers in future Getty degree offered by in order to understand where understand where you are in articles. the Department the tradition,” Warner said. of English since you are in the tradition.” “We’re trying to provide the doctorate was internship opportunities that created 50 years ~ Sharon Oard Warner will give students more real ago. life, practical experience that Several factors came Higher Education finalized will hold them in good stead together to make the creation this summer with a when they leave the university. of the MFA. possible. While unanimous vote of approval. We’re working all the time to the MFA. proposal was moving “This combination of events broaden those opportunities.” through the approval process, is moving our program to a One recent addition is an renowned Native American whole new level,” Jones said. editorial assistant internship poet, musician and artist Joy When UNM added a creative with UNM Press. Harjo expressed an interest writing thesis as an option for Another groundbreaking in returning to UNM and an the master of English program element of the program endowment of approximately in the 1950s, it was one of the is its emphasis in creative $1.1 million was donated to first universities in the nation nonfiction. “We’re the only the program by Joseph Russo. to offer a graduate degree program in the state that has Harjo returned to UNM this with defining work in creative a nonfiction genre attached fall as the Joseph M. Russo writing. Since then, the to the degree,” Warner said. PHOTO BY GREG JOHNSTON Professor of Creative Writing, MFA. has largely supplanted Of the nine MFA programs in Angie Vachio, UNM Alumni Association president, with the help of a new position funded by the the MA as the recognized southwest, only the University Carlos Romero, UNM Director of Government Affairs and President Russo endowment. The New terminal degree in creative of Arizona offers a similar Caldera, introduces legislators and guests during a reception and Mexico State Legislature also writing preferred by students emphasis. dinner honoring alumni legislators at University House recently. 5 Employee Spotlight Lombard serves Katrina students

BY LAURIE MELLAS during the effort. Terry Babbitt, their acceptance letters,” she Admissions staff were on director for Admissions and said, noting that the Florida the front lines earlier this Recruitment, led the charge, woman received such a call. month assisting and admitting quickly informing staff about UNM student services students who evacuated from procedural change, she said. staff joined the team to help Gulf Coast schools during “Many of the students wherever needed. Hurricane Katrina. When the did not even have the basic “It was a real joint effort, “ office was approached about credentials, but we expedited Lombard said. highlighting one hardworking the admissions process,” Babbitt’s assistant Cheryl staff member in the Spotlight, Lombard said. “A lot of them Wallace answered phones teamwork reared its beautiful are so close to finishing and compiled data, including head. college.” a list of staff and community “We have eleven hard- “At first the mood here members who volunteered working staff so we had to was somber,” she said, “but to house students. Housing draw names from a hat,” said as soon as we realized we made dorm space available. Associate Director Frances had opportunities for these Bursar’s Office relayed Pittman. students, it changed. We felt information to departments Ana Parra Lombard, under- like we could do something to assisting in the effort, graduate admissions associate, help on a personal level.” including the bookstore. was the lucky draw. She joined A senior from Tulane A typical September for UNM only 15 months ago, but University who took refuge in Lombard’s team would involve has decided higher education Florida and filled out UNM’s onsite visits to high schools is her calling. Web application made a lasting where seniors with top grade Ana Parra Lombard “I really like the envir- impression on Lombard. point averages are counseled onment,” Lombard said. “She only had money for on admission to UNM. associate degree from Santa taught at a preschool to spend She assisted about 10 of the one plane ticket. She needed “We want to keep our Fe Community College, said more time with son James, now 60 college students displaced to make the right choice brightest students in the state. she learned about the benefits age six. Her husband James from the Gulf Coast who were about where to continue her If we catch them early in their of college at home. “My aunt P. Lombard, returned home ultimately enrolled at UNM. education,” Lombard said. senior year they are likely to Gloria Garcia works for UNM from serving in Afghanistan She answered numerous calls Admissions officers make enroll. We also want to inform Gallup and my mom is a a year ago. A member of the from students and parents decisions about whether students about the important nurse,” she said, adding that New Mexico National Guard, seeking information about to accept transfer students. Dec. 1 scholarship deadlines,” she will pursue a bachelor’s in he is on the waiting list to majors and courses, tuition “Many of our Admissions Lombard said. American Studies. help in the hurricane-ravaged and fees, room and board. officers called students so Lombard, who hails from Patriotism is also a family South. UNM cut through red tape they wouldn’t have to wait for Gallup and earned her trait. A military wife, Lombard

How we helped others within the school also hours, the team was relieved took cans and brought them by another DMAT and was had permanent addresses Continued from Page 1 back full. moved to a field hospital. in the Gulf Coast. Students ASUNM and the DMAT treated 6,000 patients were contacted, counseled by by Katrina, among them: Architecture and Planning: Community Experience: and processed more than the Dean of Students Office. Admissions: More than “Architects are spontaneous,” Students raised $3,500 to date 15,000 evacuees. Registered students after the a dozen staff, including said Lisa Stewart, assistant and distributed some funds to Office of International enrollment deadline. those from Recruitment to the dean. In short order UNM students displaced by Programs and Studies made School of Law: The Services, assisted incoming the school collected money the hurricane. housing arrangements for school accepted two students students with everything for hurricane Katrina victims. Bookstore: Implemented two music students from from Tulane University and from handholding to housing. Stewart contacted UNM’s a process for students to Costa Rica attending Loyola one from Loyola. The Student UNM eliminated the red United Way representative, obtain books and supplies on University in New Orleans. Bar Association and Phi Alpha tape, admitting 60 displaced Patrick Vigil, who provided a credit basis. They contacted Peter White, Delta teamed up to create students over a two-week cans in which to collect cash. Bursar: Waived all late fees University College dean, a unified law school relief stretch. “The admissions staff “The money we collected and made certain displaced with a special request. Costa program. Students, faculty and was incredibly compassionate will go through United Way students did not receive a Rican student Rafael Howell staff donated close to $2,500 and efficient in processing directly to the Red Cross. It tuition bill. is reluctant to say his violin for the American Red Cross displaced students. They was an efficient way to handle College of Education: is lost, but it remains in New with donations still arriving. deserve much credit for being the money.” Stewart said, “A Staff collecting canned and Orleans. “Dr. White called me The Mexican American Law the first contact point for a student came in, got a can and non-perishable food items and said he is working with Students Association donated large group of devastated went to her studio class. She for hurricane relief. Contact the music department to see if $500 to the American Red people and immediately came back minutes later with Shawna Tucker at 277-7267. they can find a violin to loan Cross and Compass Bank giving them hope.” the can full.” Stewart said that Dean of Students: me for the semester. He said if has agreed to match the law Counseled current students they can’t, he will loan me one school’s donations. A blood with permanent addresses in that he made,” Howell said. drive will be held at the law the Gulf Coast and incoming Physical Plant: George school on Sept. 28. students. Montoya, PPD plumber, United Way and Athletics: In Memoriam Housing and Dining organized a barbecue to The United Way’s Young Services: Implemented a benefit victims of Hurricane Leaders Society had an idea In Memoriam process for students to obtain Katrina. Montoya took the that came to fruition. They room and board on a credit initiative and showed up thought that with hurricane Anne Noggle, 83, who received her bachelor of fine basis. with everything including dislocated families in arts in 1966 and masters in art in 1970, both from Native American Studies: hamburgers, hot dogs and Albuquerque there should be UNM, and was also an adjunct professor of art from Student groups joined sodas sold to PPD employees ways to welcome them to our 1970-1984, died Aug. 16. together to seek donations. and others at UNM who heard community. They requested She was an accomplished and well-respected New Mexico Disaster about the event through the 100 tickets to the next photographer and poet who exhibited her work Medical Assistance Team grapevine. Montoya is also football game. Unfortunately, internationally. In 1991, UNM awarded her an honorary (DMAT): The 35-person team, contributing a .50 match for the UNM-Aggie’s game was doctorate to acknowledge her extensive contribution to sponsored by the Department each $5 lunch ticket sold. sold out. Instead, Athletics the field of art and art history. of Emergency Medicine, More than $1,700 was raised. provided 50 tickets to men’s Noggle’s first love was flying; During World War II, returned home Sept. 10, from Public Affairs: Handled soccer and volleyball this past she was a Woman’s Air Force Service Pilot (WASP). a nearly two week deployment media and other inquiries, weekend. The announcers Some of Noggle’s photographs are currently part of a to Louisiana. Within two wrote and distributed press recognized and welcome the larger exhibition in the UNM Art Museum. A memorial hours of the hurricane’s releases resulting in more displaced during the games. service will be held at UNM Alumni Chapel Tuesday, landfall, the team was moved than 20 stories appearing University College: Sept. 20 at 5:30 p.m. forward, first to Baton Rouge in local, national media and Assigned designated advisors and then to the Superdome in organizational outlets. and expedited processes for New Orleans and the heart of Registrar: Produced list impacted students. the disaster. After 48 hectic of 245 current students who 6

Notables Appointments

Interim University Counsel appointed Angel appointed to governor’s council Registrar honored for distinguished service President Louis Caldera announces the Ed Angel, professor of computer science, Registrar Kathleen Sena received the appointment of Scot Sauder as interim university electrical and computer engineering, and media Distinguished Service Award at the 28th Annual counsel. Sauder replaces Robert Bienstock who arts, and director of the Arts Technology Center in Rocky Mountain Association of Collegiate has been serving as interim university counsel the College of Fine Arts, has been appointed to the Registrars and Admissions Officer Awards in July for the past year. Governor’s Council on Film and Media Industries. in Boulder, Colo. Bienstock returns to his previous position His duties commence immediately and expire Jan. Sena has worked at UNM and been a member of deputy university counsel, specializing in 1, 2007. of RMACROA for the past 17 years. She had technology, research and intellectual property. A served on the Board of Directors as president, search is currently underway to fill the university Bergman to lead national defense association treasurer and newsletter editor. She also served counsel position on a regular basis. Barbara Bergman, professor of law, has as the local arrangements chairperson when New Sauder has been with UNM since Dec. 2004, been appointed president of the National Mexico hosted the annual meetings in 1994, most recently serving as interim senior associate Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. 1998 and 2002. university counsel for health law. “I’m looking Bergman joined the law faculty in 1987. Sena is honored to have been selected for the forward to working with Scot and supporting A professional bar association founded in 1958 award, as it is the highest honor RMACROA him and the rest of the legal team during this with more than 10,000 members, the NACDL is offers. “I am both personally and professionally interim period,” Caldera said. “Scot’s familiarity the preeminent organization in the United States proud of this award and would like to share it with the university community will allow him to advancing the mission of criminal defense lawyers with the university community” Sena said. be able to quickly get up to speed and to meet to ensure justice and due process. the challenges facing the University Counsel Walters receives archivists award Office.” Ellingboe elected to Chorister’s Guild Charlotte A. Walters has received the Society Sauder was admitted to practice law in Bradley Ellingboe, director of choral activities of American Archivists’ 2005 Donna Cutts Texas since 1983 and New Mexico since 2004, in the College of Fine Arts, has been elected to Scholarship. Walters is an administrative specializing in health law for the past ten the board of directors of the Chorister’s Guild. assistant with the University Libraries Center years. He received his law degree, cum laude, The Chorister’s Guild is a national non-profit for Southwest Research-Political Archives, from Whittier College School of Law and his organization devoted to advancing the cause of where she processes and describes manuscript bachelor’s in American politics from Whittier choral singing among children and young people collections, and maintains and develops College in Whittier, Calif. Prior to coming to in the United States and Canada. guidelines for processing political papers. UNM, Sauder was in private practice. Ellingboe has been on the faculty of the since The scholarship paid her way to the Winter During his interim tenure, Bienstock oversaw 1985. He is a professor of music and regents 2005 Modern Archives Institute, where she the legal department’s reorganization, returned lecturer. He is also director of music at St. Paul learned about resources that can support the the office to full staff, organized the litigation Lutheran Church in Albuquerque. archival process on campus. process and initiated a comprehensive legal review of all new legislation. Human Resources Law library Web site hailed The UNM Law Library Web site is one of only four law library sites in the nation out of 180 tested that passed coding standards, Steven Perkins reported Expo helps close gap with branches in a presentation at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction conference in June. Though Perkins’ presentation focused on law libraries, the entire UNM School of Law Web site meets W3C standards. BY SUSAN CARKEEK UNM School of Law Assistant Dean for Information Technology Cyndi Dean Working for a large organization such as the university has many advantages. and Web Programmer Gabe Chavez followed Perkins with a presentation on Our employees have access to a wealth of resources and programs that other their efforts to develop the School of Law site and tips on making Web sites employers often do not provide. However, if you are an employee who is not more accessible. Chavez, a senior at UNM majoring in computer science, and housed on main or north campus, finding information about these available Dean are part of a team led by School of Law Web Designer Janet Roupas, resources can be difficult. which has revised the Web site during the past year and a half to improve To help close that gap, Richard Holder, UNM’s deputy provost, has collaborated accessibility, simplify navigation and maintain an attractive site. with the HR Academic Affairs Team to develop C.R.E.A.T.E. Expo. C.R.E.A.T.E., “More and more we’re pointing students to the Web as the source of which stands for Campus Resources Education and Training Event, will be information,” Dean said. Increased use of the Web to supplement traditional presented at each of our branch campuses over the next two months. The Expo instruction heightens the need for accessibility. will feature presentations from several of UNM departments. Departments Roupas notes that the School of Law site will be useful to others in the include field. “Web designers should be able to view our source code and extrapolate • Academic Affairs and Provost Office coding methods,” she said. • Counseling Assistance & Referral Service (CARS) In addition to the educational benefits of Web accessibility, universities may • Dispute Resolution lose funding if they fail to comply with state and federal laws, such as the • Employee and Occupational Health Services (EOHS) Rehabilitation Act of 1986 section 508 regulating government agencies. • Human Resources A number of people and organizations assisted in making the Web site more • Internal Audit accessible, including the Alamogordo School for the Blind, UNM Accessibility • Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) Services, UNM law students, the National Federation of the Blind and the • Risk, Safety, Health, and Environment Affairs (RSHEA) N.M. Commission for the Blind. The first C.R.E.A.T.E Expo will be at Valencia Tuesday, Sept. 20. The event travels to Los Alamos Thursday, Oct. 6, Gallup on Thursday, Oct. 13, and Taos Tuesday, Oct. 18. Visit the HR Web site at http://www.unm.edu/~hr/whatsnew/ for more information. Law hosts terrorism conference Susan Carkeek is associate vice president The School of Law will host a half-day conference Friday, Oct. 7, titled and Human Resources director “Speaking Law to Terror: The Rule of Law in the War on Terrorism” in rm. 2401 at the law school, 1117 Stanford NE. Two afternoon panel discussions will shed light on important contemporary issues in international law. Jennifer Moore, UNM law professor, said that the conference “presents an opportunity to engage in an essential dialogue about the relevance of both international law and the U.S. Constitution to the counter-terrorism policy of the U.S. government.” The first discussion, “The Relevance of the Geneva Conventions to the War on Terrorism,” is from 1-2:45 p.m. Panelists include Moore, Geoff Loane, head of U.S.-Canada Regional Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross, and Professor John Yoo, University of California School of Law at Boalt Hall. A second discussion, “The Treatment of Persons Detained by the U.S. Government,” is scheduled from 3-4:45 p.m. Sherri Burr, UNM law professor, will chair. Panelists include Professor Jordan Paust, University of Houston Law Center, and Philip Sundel, deputy legal advisor, International Committee of the Red Cross. 7 Campus Events Calendar The Arts Column Monday, Sept. 19 rm. 122, a Tricentennial event sponsored by the Economics Department Seminar: “Research School of Architecture & Planning, 277-5885. on Living Wage Ordinances,” 2 p.m., free, Concert: New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Economics Building (SSCI) rm. 1002, 277-5304. will present “Star Wars,” 8 p.m. on Sept. Tuesday, Sept. 20 23 and 6 p.m. on Sept. 24, Popejoy Hall, tickets at (505) 925-5858 or (800) Staff Council Meeting: 1 p.m., 905-3315 or information, 277-4Joy. Hokona Hall Theatre, 277-1532. Sunday, Sept. 25 Wednesday, Sept. 21 Concert: Jeffrey Piper, trumpet, 7:30 p.m., Concert: “UNM Wind Symphony,” 7:30 p.m., Keller Hall, 277-2131 or 277-4569. Popejoy Hall, tickets at (505) 925-5858 or (800) 905-3315 or information, 277-4Joy. Tuesday, Sept. 27 Thursday, Sept. 22 Faculty Senate Meeting: 3 p.m., Lobo Room, Student Union Building, 277-4664. Seminar: “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” presented by Stephen Covey. UNM Open Public Forum: Anderson Schools will faculty, staff and students eligible for discounted host a forum to discuss the proposed increase registration fee, 8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., www. in the local minimum wage to $7.50 an luminaryseries.com or (800) 289-0051. hour. Participants in the forum include City Jonson Councilor Martin Heinrich, UNM Economics Health Fair: Student Health Center Health Fair Professor Melissa Binder, UNM Business will include prizes, freebies, health information showcases Professor Allen Parkman and Jerry Easley, and screenings, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Campus Mall chair, Albuquerque Employment Growth by SUB and SHC, [email protected] or 277-3432. Initiative, 7:30 p.m., free, Continuing Education graduate work Faculty Acknowledgement Award: Anne Auditorium, 277-7117 or Steve 277-1821. Taylor, professor of Architecture, will receive Monday, Oct. 3 BY SARI KROSINSKY a Faculty Acknowledgement Award from University Libraries, and will present a lecture, Tricentennial Author Series: Featuring Tony he Jonson Gallery had a packed house for Hillerman, author of “The Skeleton Man,” 9:30 the recent opening reception of “At First “The Knowing Eye: Linking Architecture a.m., Continuing Education Building Auditorium, Sight: Incoming MFA Students.” Students, through Learning Environment Design,” 2 T sponsored by Continuing Education, 277-6164. faculty and art enthusiasts studied and debated p.m., Willard Reading Room, Zimmerman Friday, Oct. 7 art produced by 23 new graduate students in the Library, [email protected] or 277-5627. College of Fine Arts. UNM Jazz Bands, 7:30 p.m.,Keller Hall, 277-2131 Marathon Reading: Author Leslie Marmon The work ranges from abstraction to realism or 277-4569. Silko will read from her book, “Alamanac of using media that includes sculpture, painting, the Dead,” from 4 to 9 p.m., Fiesta Room, KUNM Broadcast: University Showcase presents photography, fabric, ceramics, prints and a Student Union Building. 277-5813. “Social Security and More,” with guest Paul video installation. The exhibition showcases the Friday, Sept. 23 Nathanson, associate provost for Academic diversity of talents welcome at UNM. The myriad Affairs, 8 a.m., hosted by Jane Blume, Frederiksen, styles, subjects and media promise to suit a variety Tricentennial Celebration at UNM: See KUNM 89.9 FM, 281-7893. of tastes. page 1 for more information. Thursday, Oct. 13 Trevor Lucero’s “Tracy Painting a Factory” John Gaw Meem Lecture: Christopher Mead Student Fall Break: Through Oct. 14. No classes. presents a gripping visual complexity. A woman will speak about contemporary architecture in Offices remain open. in the foreground paints a canvas leaned against Albuquerque, free, 4:30 p.m., Northrop Hall, the back of a truck. In the distant background, a smoking factory is camouflaged against a mountain range. Though painted in oil, viewed at a distance the fluid movement of the paint feels like watercolor. On closer inspection, the flowing colors resolve to Van Gogh-like heavy, three-dimensional brush strokes. Process is central to Masumi Shibata’s artist book, “Karaoke.” The book uses photography and lyrics to create a visual rendering of a song. Shibata immersed photographic paper in a pan of water set on a speaker transmitting the song. Each page of the book shows exposures at 10-second intervals throughout the song, combined with the lyrics played during each exposure. The fractal- Exhibits like effect translates sound wave to water wave to light wave and represents the process by which the brain renders sound. LodeStar Astronomy Center Masley Art Gallery • 277-4112 These and many other great works will be “Passport to the Universe,” planetarium feature “Art Education Studio Art,” through Oct. 7, 11 showing through Oct. 14. The Jonson Gallery is tour at noon, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. a.m. - 4 p.m., Monday - Friday, Masley Art Gallery, open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Wilderness Adventure,” a virtual voyage in the 277-4112. and by appointment. Contact the gallery at 277- motion simulation theater, every 15 minutes, 4967 or [email protected] for more information. 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., ongoing through Sept. 30, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology • 277- 4405 LodeStar Astronomy Center, Natural History and Science Museum 277-2253. “People of the Southwest,” and “Ancestors,” permanent exhibits depicting 11,000 years of University Art Museum • 277-4001 cultural heritage of the Southwest, Tuesday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. “Eliot Porter’s Natural World,” ongoing through - 4 p.m., closed Sunday, Monday and major Sept. 25 holidays. “Allegorical Constellations: Works on Paper by Frederick Sommer,” through Nov. 20 John Summers Gallery • 277-3448 “Architecture-Defining Spaces/Defining “Southwest Geographic Arts Exhibition,” Times,” through Dec. 22, Tuesday - Friday, through Sept. 26; Honors Thesis by Levon 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Tuesday evening 5 - 8 p.m., Loncassion, Sept. 27 - Oct. 10; and MFA Saturday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., Sunday, 1 - 4 p.m., Exhibition by Kate Crowe, Oct. 11 – 24, Monday and during most events at Popejoy Hall - Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., free admission, John Sommers Gallery, 277-3448. , Taos • 758-9826 Jonson Gallery • 277-4967 “The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art” “At First Sight: Incoming Graduate Students in Art Studio,” ongoing through Oct. 14; and Center for Southwest Research • 277-5627 “Jonson’s Gallery,” through Dec. 22, Tuesdays - Fridays, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and by appointment, “Campus Preservation: Balancing Our Heritage closed weekends, free admission. and Our Future,” through Jan. 1. 8 UNM – State & National

UNM brings voice to business roundtables Rankings

BY CAROLYN GONZALES Roswell was the site of a issue of alignment of K-16 the trucks hauling it should tout UNM Staff from Public Affairs and recent ACI meeting. Held education because of the not be driving down Main Strategic Communications and at the Anderson Museum number of students in remedial Street. There is also a need Two UNM programs are Marketing are representing of Contemporary Art, the programs in the state’s for a place for truckers to rest. ranked among the top 10 UNM at the Association of museum provided a visual higher education institutions. They would like to draw in best schools for Hispanics Commerce and Industry smorgasbord as a backdrop Gottlieb was at the forefront some of the truck traffic that by Hispanic Business Roundtables held statewide. to the luncheon meeting. of presenting this issue, but it currently travels I-40 through magazine, as reported in the As an ACI sponsor for The meetings are designed had wide support. Albuquerque to Amarillo Sept. 2005 issue. UNM’s four years, UNM has to elicit issues from all in A need for increased because the road between medical school is ranked representatives on hand to attendance. A spokesperson availability of independent Roswell and Amarillo has number three and Anderson hear issues affecting the state’s brings to the fore the issues living facilities was raised. been improved. Schools of Management is communities as ACI sets its of those at each table. One group indicated that The Santa Fe delegation was ranked 10. legislative agenda. ‘ In Roswell, the Pecos River while Gov. Bill Richardson well represented with Senators Only Stanford and John UNM is there also to provide settlement is a top issue. The has put together a climate Tim Jennings and Gay Kernan Hopkins universities came information about university need exists for $40 - $50 change task force that other and Representatives Tom Foley in ahead of UNM’s medical programs and initiatives to million from Santa Fe to pay issues are more critical, such and Candy Spence Ezzell in school ranking. business, education and civic Texas. “If not, we will need as pollution coming over the attendance. “Buy America!” UNM’s medical school leaders. $130 million and will have to border from Mexico. was Tim Jennings’ message, has 77 Hispanic graduate This year, UNM shared its give up more than the 12,000 A spokesperson announced which was countered by the students compared to a story of the BA/MD program acre feet of water we’ve already that his table wanted Santa Toyota dealership owner who total enrollment of 302, and a similar program being taken out of production,” Fe to allow for more oil proclaimed, “Buy Roswell!” representing 25 percent developed in conjunction with one table representative production in Chaves County. Some other issues raised by of the total graduate New Mexico State University stated. Watershed health was The idea to develop a full Chambers of Commerce at the enrollment. to channel students into the another concern. bypass around Roswell was ACI Roundtables around the The article notes that UNM School of Pharmacy. Mike Gottlieb, super- proposed. With milk and state included the inability UNM’s cultural and ethnic UNM will seek funding for both intendent of the Roswell cheese production in the to hire and retain employees programs begin recruitment in the 2006 legislative session. school district, raised the region at an all time high, who can pass drug screening, in middle and high school alcohol and substance and that the Dream Makers abuse treatment, education Health Careers Clubs teach and behavioral health, the students about the health persistent problem with DWI professions, science and and affordable housing. math. The article states, “The Hispanic and Native American Center of Architecture Excellence promotes medical education and students career development for students and faculty.” receive travel Anderson Schools of Management has a total fellowships graduate enrollment of 454. Of those, 99 are Hispanic, representing 21.8 percent Two students from the of the total graduate School of Architecture and enrollment. Of the 130 MBA Planning recently received degrees earned at UNM, 21 travel awards. Brett Milligan of them were by Hispanics, received the Allen Stamm representing 16.2 percent Graduate Travel Fellowship of the total number of MBA for 2005. Nicholas Aleksandr degrees earned at UNM. Reisen is the recipient of the The article notes that in Travis Freeman Summer Travel 2006 Anderson Schools will Prize for 2005. open an investment center Milligan worked as an intern where finance students will for a landscape architecture manage funds in excess of PHOTO BY TIM CASTILLO firm in Virginia while also $2 million. Garrett Smith (standing, left), adjunct professor, and graduate and undergraduate students from the completing an independent “Placement for Anderson School of Architecture and Planning traveled to Lugano, Switzerland this summer to learn about the summer study. He will be going graduates exceeds 90 architectural history and styles of Switzerland, Italy, Germany and France through travel, sketching to the Mexican highlands for percent within three months and historical study, said Steve Borbas, adjunct professor who also attended. Other faculty participants the Allen Stamm scholarship. of graduation,” it states. included Bob Heiser (standing, right) and Tim Castillo, assistant professor. The group is shown on site “I think the scholarship “We are the only of a renovated castle in Bellinzona, the capital of Tichino Province. is a great opportunity for flagship state institution students to explore particular that is serving a Hispanic subject matter and places population and also is a Gallup’s Sharma to be honored they are personally interested major research institution,” Kamala Sharma, assistant professor of in, and it provides important the magazine quoted UNM chemistry at UNM-Gallup, has been named cross-cultural experiences in President Louis Caldera. recipient of the 2005 Society for Advancement environmental design. If I Caldera pointed to an UNM Today is published for University of of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science didn’t receive this scholarship, emphasis on technology, New Mexico employees by the Public Affairs award. I wouldn’t be able to afford “Even at the business Department mid-month, except July. She will be formally recognized at the this trip. I’m excited to share school there is a particular For daily news, visit www.unmtoday.edu annual meeting of SACNAS in Sept. my findings with the school of emphasis on the Director: Susan McKinsey 29-Oct. 2. architecture when I return,” he management of technology. Sharma has been active in a National said. We have a program in Editor: Laurie Mellas Institute of Health-supported Bridge Program Reisen used the scholarship science, engineering, and Web site: Steve Carr, Jane Everhart, Greg Johnston that seeks to foster the transition of American money to travel to four housing business that will guide Contributing writers: Steve Carr, Indian students from community colleges to projects in different cities graduates on how to do a Carolyn Gonzales, Greg Johnston, Sari four-year institutions for completion of the including London, Amsterdam, start-up properly,” he was Krosinsky, Karen Wentworth bachelor of science degree. She has recruited Hanover and Berlin. quoted. As a graduate of UNM Today welcomes story and photo ideas, and helped nearly 50 American Indians “Each of the projects was Harvard Business School’s letters to the editor and corrections. Items are due the first Friday of each month. Permission to student to make the transition to four-year progressive for its time and the MBA program, Caldera reproduce UNM Today stories is hereby granted. universities.” one in London produced all recognizes the need to grow For information, contact the UNM Public Affairs Sharma has been with UNM-Gallup since its own energy on site. I was the state’s economy through Department, Hodgin Hall, 2nd floor, 277-5813. 2000. interested in how each of these technology and education.