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App intended to increase safety By Sayyed Shah UNM has introduced a new smart phone app that will allow anyone to immediately contact UNM Police Department to increase the safety of students, staff and faculty on campus. LoboGuardian uses real-time interactive features that create a virtual safety network of friends and family, according to a UNM press release. “I am pleased to share one of the University’s most recent campus safety measures, the LoboGuardian phone app,” President Bob Frank said. “This app has many features, but I think one of the greatest parts is that it essentially turns every smart phone into a virtual blue light emergency beacon.” He was referring to the blue light emergency beacons installed by UNMPD across the campuses, making communication with campus security quick and easy. “Being able to immediately reach the UNM Police dispatch, and access critical emergency information, goes beyond the blue phone fixture and offers peace of mind to those who download and use the app,” Frank said. The LoboGuardian app is a customized version of Rave Guardian, a campus safety application produced by Rave Mobile Safety that is being used by more than 100 universities throughout the United States. The development of LoboGuardian was proposed by the Community Council, a campus-wide initiative that is focused on addressing hate and bias related incidents on campus, said Dean of Students Tomás Aguirre. “The decision to purchase Rave Guardian was driven by our desire to make UNM the safest campus possible for all members of our
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1 LoboGuardian App Features: 1 Personal Guardians & Safety Timer – Students can
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identify Campus Safety, friends, roommates, and family as “Guardians” when setting their Rave Guardian Safety Timer. During a timer session, Guardians and Campus Safety can check status of the student. If the Safety Timer is not deactivated before it expires, Campus Safety is automatically provided with the user’s Rave Guardian profile to proactively identify and check in on the individual.
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Campus Safety with GPS location and personal profile information. 3 Tip Texting – Enables anonymous, 2-way, crime tip reporting through text and images.
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Safety Profile – Student-created Safety Profiles contain information such as residence details and medical conditions. When a student requires assistance – on or off campus – student Safety Profiles are displayed to Campus Safety and Smart911 enabled 9-1-1 centers nationwide. Source: RaveMobileSafety.com
Candidate comes from a science background at Kent State By Marielle Dent
Grant McGimpsey, one of four candidates up for the position of UNM vice president of research, talked at an open forum held in the SUB on Tuesday about the important role research plays at universities. UNM Provost Chaouki Abdallah invited each of the candidates to visit campus and meet with faculty, students and staff during their stay. Open forums for each candidate have been scheduled, after which the community will have the opportunity to offer feedback. Abdallah will make the final decision on who gets the job, but he will take feedback from the search committee and the general public into consideration, said Julie Coonrod, search committee chair.
The selected candidate will take over the Main campus research program from Interim Vice President for Research Michael Dougher, who will retire next June, according to the search committee website. McGimpsey is currently the vice president for research at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Originally from Canada, he has a science background and has done research in laser chemistry, nanoscience, biosensors and prosthetics. He has published 80 journal articles, holds nine issued patents and has one patent pending. “It’s about the impact of what we do on the outside world,” McGimpsey said. “I think that when you combine medicine, engineering, the sciences, the arts and humanities, among
other things you open up a lot of different possibilities for the impact of research. UNM has more of those pieces (than Kent State). It’s a larger university from a research perspective and it sounds like there’s some exciting opportunities.” McGimpsey said that universities have three main duties to fulfill in order to better their surrounding communities: solving major challenges such as environmental problems, improving quality of life both physically and culturally, and using research to drive economic development. He discussed his work at Kent and the programs he started there to aid faculty on an individual basis. He worked to find out each
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Alan Rebar is a senior associate vice president for research and executive director of Discovery Park at Purdue University, and a professor of Veterinary Clinical Pathology in the College of Veterinary Medicine. Campus visit dates: February 16-17 Public forum: February 16, 2-3 p.m., SUB Ballroom C
Gabriel P. Lopez is a professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke University and an adjunct professor of chemical and biological engineering at UNM. Campus visit dates: February 23-24 Public forum: February 23, 1:30-2:30 p.m., SUB Lobo A&B
Robert Peterkin is the chief scientist for Directed Energy in the Air Force Research Laboratory, where he is responsible for scientific quality for all Air Force Directed Energy Research & Development, which has an annual budget of as much as $330 million. Campus visit dates: March 4-5 Public forum: March 4, 2-3 p.m., SUB Lobo A&B
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In order for ‘Rave Guardian’ to be connected to ‘Lobo Guardian,’ you must enter a UNM account email.
For more information visit: unm.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7313/kw/7313 Source: unm.custhelp.com