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Schmidly to hire unpaid advisers by Tricia Remark and Pat Lohmann Daily Lobo
President Schmidly announced today the creation of a team of advisers who aim to help the administration consolidate its budget during times of economic hardship. The “President’s Strategic Advisory Team” will be made up of unpaid students, staff and faculty. Schmidly said he’s drawing on input from the entire campus community on how to help “contain costs.” “Cost containment is one of the biggest issues in higher education in the country,” he said. “Budgets almost everywhere are in jeopardy. We’re all having to work with less and we can’t pass the cost onto our students, and yet we’re in a time when getting a college education is more important than ever in terms of strengthening the country. What we’re talking about here is containing our cost(s) to operate the institution and maximizing our ability to invest in classrooms and in faculty.” Schmidly said the Board of
Regents asked him to come up with a plan that would “reduce expenses and protect the mission of the institution,” and he said the group of advisers is a part of that. He’ll announce the list of nominations to the team sometime this week. “I don’t want the group to be so big that it can’t function efficiently, so I’ve got to look at trying to keep the number down to the 15 to 20 range,” Schmidly said. “There is a lot of talent on this campus. That’s the encouraging thing to me.” Faculty Senate President Doug Fields said Schmidly proposed the idea of an advisory board at a meeting of the Faculty Senate Operations Committee on Friday. He said Schmidly’s proposed team consisted of 11 administrators, two deans, a non-administrative faculty member and another two slots for faculty. Fields said he and Richard Wood, faculty senate president-elect, offered a counter-proposal that reduced the number of administrators in the team and dictated that the team report to both Fields
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Ema Difani / Daily Lobo Jessica Friedman gets lost in the rhythm during the Sinti dance in Carlisle Gym.
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Projected allocations for research grants by Andrew Beale Daily Lobo
UNM will receive more than $37 million in federal stimulus funding for research initiatives. The money, which came from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is split between main campus and the Health Sciences Center. The Health Sciences Center will receive more than $21 million and the main campus will receive more than $16 million. University spokeswoman Karen Wentworth said the grants were awarded in a competitive setting. “Our researchers turn in proposals to the federal funding agencies, and those federal funding agencies determine which proposals will get grant money,” she said. Of the money going to the Health Sciences Center, more than $19 million was awarded to the School of Medicine, with roughly $1.6 million going to the College of Pharmacy, and about $32,000 for the School of Nursing. The largest single grant awarded to main campus for more than $6 million is earmarked for improvements to UNM’s Long Term Ecological Research Networks. Wentworth said the money for LTER Network will go to improve its Sevilleta station. “(Sevilleta) is a big biological station we have that’s north of Socorro,” she said. “We do all kinds of long-term ecological research there. What this particular grant will do is help build
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up the remote sensing infrastructure at the station so the scientists don’t have to drive down there every time they want to check something.” The second-largest individual grant to main campus was for more than $700,000 for the “Web-based Substance Abuse STD/HIV Prevention,” for which there was no readily available information. The largest grant the Health Sciences Center received was $2.4 million for “HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Outcomes: Prevention, Epidemiology and Surveillance.” Wentworth said one of the most interesting grants she knew of was for “Space and Tropospheric Weather” at main campus. She said this grant is to program computers to study the weather from space. The funding will go to the Configurable Space Microsystems Innovations and Application Center. “What they’re particularly working on now is programming computer chips so that they can be sent into space via small space cubes,” she said. “We teach students at COSMIAC how to program those chips and reprogram those chips to put it into the little space cubes.” Health Sciences Center received four more grants worth $1 million or more, which included “Evaluation of a CCR5 Vaccine for HIV infection in a SIV/Macaque model,” “Building Core Programs in Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease,” “University of New Mexico Cancer Center Support” and “Using Transport to Map the Brain.”
Gabbi Campos / Daily Lobo Nara Shedd performs the Sinti dance during her African dance class in Carlisle Gym on Monday. The students will perform several dances at the end of the semester.
Vanessa Sanchez / Daily Lobo Instructor Abdulrahman Laryea Addy pounds the drums during the Soli dance, a celebration of life. The dance originated in Upper Guinea.
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