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March 1, 2011
Grads want ASUNM to pay more for Times tab
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Golden: Program is cheap, beneficial for students by Kallie Red-Horse kallie69@unm.edu
GPSA tabled a proposal at Saturday’s meeting to co-sponsor a program aimed at providing students with free copies of the New York Times. ASUNM representative Greg Golden, who presented the cosponsorship opportunity Feb. 26, said ASUNM could contribute $1,000 and requested GPSA pay the remaining $2,750. He said ASUNM has no available money in its pocket, since the organization supports 150 student groups. “ASUNM’s budget is pretty much dried up at this point,” he said. “We did some creative stuff with our budget, and this was the best we could do.” ASUNM voted in January to fund the program. The proposed sponsorship will be revisited at the March 26 GPSA meeting. The New York Times sponsorship would provide UNM with 500 copies of the paper daily, unlimited online access and would bring guest speakers to campus. GPSA member Joe Dworak said the amount GPSA is asked to contribute is not proportionate to the amount of graduate students.
“ASUNM’s budget is pretty much dried up at this point.” ~Greg Golden ASUNM Representative “The ASUNM budget is about three times bigger than ours if you go by pure numbers,” he said. “It’s a great program, but you can’t depend on us paying the vast majority of it, especially when you can’t guarantee it will be on north campus.” Golden said the program is financially beneficial for the University compared with purchasing the papers each day. “The New York Times doesn’t make any money off of us,” he said. “Technically they lose money. Looking at it from their perspective, though, it’s like children with cigarettes when they are young — trying to get us hooked into their awesome paper.” GPSA representative Brianne Bigej said she was unclear how graduate students would benefit from the program.
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Nano step in cancer cure Firecracker responsible for campus car fire by Zach Gould
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The UNM Cancer Center and Sandia National Laboratories have taken one small step in the fight against cancer — a very, very small step. The National Cancer Center awarded the UNM Cancer Center $4 million in grants in September to use nanotechnology, a type of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers, for cancer research. UNM designated nearly 4,500 square feet of the Centennial Engineering Building to be the Nanotechnology Training Center’s home. Abhaya Datye, the director of the Nanoscience and Microsystems program, said he’s developed the nanotechnology program for five years. “I wanted to create a boot camp for engineers and bio-researchers to work on cancer research.” he said. “I want to enlist the most curious students who want to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems.” The UNM cancer center is the only cancer center in the country to receive two grants for nanotechnology.
Datye said Nanoscience and Microsystems program brings students from various areas of study together to solve problems. “The fact that the program is interdisciplinary is what makes it such an asset to solving cancer problems,” he said. “Problems are easier solved by more than one solution.” Datye said an electrical engineer came to work with the program and collaborated with researchers on a groundbreaking discovery. He said they found a method for detecting skin cancer using the same sensor technology found in night-vision cameras. “All engineering, math and most science students can work in the interdisciplinary program, using not just the tools in one science, but in all,” he said. Ph.D. Student Carlee Ashley was the first student in the Nanoscience and Microsystems program. As a student, she developed a nano cell that attaches to cancer cells and, because of its size, can deliver high levels of medication to the cancer cells. Ashley was awarded Sandia Labs Truman Fellowship for her work, and she continues her work as a researcher with Sandia Labs.
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UNMPD says no one has been charged Staff Report Fireworks are a lot less impressive when they’re incinerating car seats, as three UNM students found out over the weekend. The students caused a car fire on campus Friday night after a firecracker accidentally went off in their vehicle, UNMPD spokesman Robert Haarhues said. He said the students were throwing firecrackers out of a moving car on Redondo Drive at about 9:30 p.m. “They threw one and it bounced back into the car, after which it exploded and lit the car on fire,” he said. None of the students sustained injuries. He said the driver stopped the vehicle and the passengers
exited the vehicle before it went up in flames. Haarhues said no criminal charges have been filed against the students. He said the car belonged one of the student’s fathers who is considering whether to press charges in the case. Haarhues said the students had permission to be in the car and that the fire was accidental, so the arson squad has no plans to open an investigation into the incident. Albuquerque Fire Department could not be reached for comment Monday afternoon, but witnesses said fire trucks promptly arrived on the scene and got the fire under control. A YouTube user posted video footage of the fire Saturday.
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