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Lobo Day celebrates birthday with bash ASUNM UNM honors 126 years of education with celebration resolves to replace holiday By David Lynch

Kanan Mammadli / Daily Lobo / @Kenan_Mammadly

Lobo Louie and Lobo Lucy kiss after taking the annual student body photo on Wednesday at the SUB. ASUNM Special Events organized the “Lobo Birthday” party for UNM’s 126th birthday.

By Sayyed Shah ASUNM’s Lobo Spirit group threw the University a 126th birthday party at the Student Union Building on Wednesday. Around 200 students wearing cherry and silver participated in the annual student body photo that will hang in the SUB for a full year, ASUNM officials said. “Lobo Day is basically

composed of a couple different parts,” said Ryan Lindquist, associate director for Students Activities Center. “We take the big large picture that hangs in the Student Union Building for the entire year. We sing the birthday songs. We have the photo booth and a couple of giveaways.” He said Lobo Day was the best opportunity for people to get together and celebrate the founding of their school.

UNM has come a long way since its founding in 1889. According to a report by Van Citters: Historic Preservation, L.L.C., a small business focusing on historic preservation, 75 students enrolled for the first fall semester. Those students became the first class to graduate in 1894. This spring, 25,816 students enrolled at UNM, marking a 34,000 percent increase since

the school’s opening The historic report paints a picture of campus in those early years, and what the University meant to New Mexico. “During the spring and summer of 1892, there arose on the wind-swept sand hills of Albuquerque’s East Mesa a blocky, three-story, red brick building with a massive pitched

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The fight to replace university observation of Columbus Day with the official celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance and Resilience Day garnered momentum on Wednesday with the unanimous passing of an ASUNM resolution urging UNM administration to make the change. Resolution 7S states that the move is actually in concordance with what the University stands for. “This resolution is in farther accordance with UNM’s mission statement, which commits to ‘discover and disseminate new knowledge and creative endeavors that will enhance the overall well-being of society,’” the document states. Resolution 7S had 18 organizational sponsors, and Sen. Kyle Stepp acknowledged their leadership in what he said is a potential game changer in recognizing diversity across the state and country. “We have an opportunity to make history,” Stepp said. “We’re setting a standard for other student organizations to make change on their campus. We’re setting up a forefront and we’re leading it.” Shawna Nelson, a senior education major and Navajo citizen, agreed with Sen. Stepp

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Professor acknowledged with esteemed award By Matthew Reisen

A UNM professor has won a prestigious award for a lifetime’s work in physics, as the laboratory he started at UNM celebrates its 25th year. Edl Schamiloglu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recognized for his contributions to the field of pulsed power and was awarded the 2015 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Society’s Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee’s Peter Haas Award. According to the NPSS website, The Peter Haas Award “recognizes individuals whose efforts, over an extended period, have greatly benefited the pulsed power field through the development of important applications or areas of activity including research, education and information exchange.” The award is presented once every two years and includes a commendation, plaque and $3,000, the website states. The award bears the name of the late Peter Haas, who was recognized at the 2nd Pulse Power Conference in 1979.

“This one in particular, I’m quite honored to receive because this award is really for an individual who has basically built a team together, led a group and has contributed to the field over an extended period of time,” Schamiloglu said. “I had nothing when I came here — when I came they gave me a used PC and that was it. So I was able to build up an internationally recognized program basically with our own sheer willpower and hard work over the years.” Schamiloglu was raised in The Bronx, New York and finished his doctorate at Cornell University, he said. He said he was supposed to head to Los Alamos to work on a fusion project, but plans changed when then-President Reagan canceled the Alternate Concepts Fusion Program. Stan Humphries, a professor at UNM who Schamiloglu knew at the time, invited him to come to UNM, Schamiloglu said. He started at UNM as an assistant professor in January 1988 and has remained with the college ever since. There are numerous rewards to a career in his chosen field, but

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Diana Cervantes / Daily Lobo / @dee_sea_

Professor Edl Schamiloglu discusses lab projects Wednesday afternoon at the Electrical and Computer Engineering lab. Dr. Schamiloglu recently received the Nuclear and Plasma Society’s Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee’s Peter Haas Award. The award is given to individuals whose efforts have benefited research, education and information exchange.


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