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visitthe – www.unm.edu minute news, For up to 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 A of 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. New Mexico 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 University of New Mexico, 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.