Inside UNM

Ann Massmann, associate professor of librarianship in the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University of New Mexico College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences, died Feb. 24 after a long illness.

On a 42–25 vote, the New Mexico House of Representatives approved the state budget bill that contains $6.2 billion to fund state government and public education for 2015-16. Higher education’s share of that budget pie is $846 million, with $810 million allocated to the institutions, including a $2.1 million increase in operating funds for UNM.

A group of UNM-Gallup students who are members of the Gallup Land Partners, LLC (“GLP”) Entrepreneurship Program funded by Robert W. Roche were recently treated to a tour of City Hall by Mayor Jackie McKinney.

An experimental student news lab at the University of New Mexico has been granted $50,000 by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. The money allows the New Mexico News Port to continue growing its “innovation and collaboration” model in the...

The UNM Faculty Senate meets on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 2:30 p.m. in the Scholes Hall Roberts room. The senate votes on a variety of academic program revisions, as well as a vote to designate the Chicana and Chicano Studies program as a...

STC.UNM, the University of New Mexico’s technology-transfer and economic-development office, hosts its spring breakfast seminar series on Wednesday, Feb. 25. The featured speaker, Chad Person, is a co-founder and chief design officer at Seed Worthy, a...

The New Mexico Senate has confirmed Barbara Damron as the secretary of the Higher Education Department. It was a breeze, starting this morning with a lovefest in the Senate Rules Committee.

 Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez is at the UNM Bookstore Tuesday, March 3 at 2 p.m. to sign copies of his book, One Day I’ll Tell You the Things I’ve Seen: Stories (University of New Mexico Press, 2015). This event is free and open to the public. The UNM...

University of New Mexico Parking & Transportation is closing a portion of the sidewalk and road on northbound Yale Blvd. N.E, just south of Lomas, Tuesday, Feb. 24 for construction.

The main job of any legislature any year is to prepare and pass a state budget. The House Appropriations and Finance Committee accomplished its part of the process this morning passing their version of HB 2, the state general appropriations act.