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Researchers explore effects of uranium mines By Cathy Cook @Cathy_Daily As early as Thursday, UNM researchers will take a mobile laboratory to the Blue Gap-Tachee Chapter of the Navajo Nation to study uranium mine dust and its health effects on the local residents. After a four-hour drive, researchers will work for three months at Blue Gap-Tachee in a three-room semi-trailer equipped with a particle concentrator that serves as a mobile lab. UNM is collaborating with Michigan State University, who provided the lab, as well as the Southwest Research and Information Center on the project. Lead project researcher Matthew Campen said research is already being done at UNM about mine waste-related health concerns around topics like seepage into groundwater. However, little work has been done on the effects of inhaling dust from the mine. In preliminary research, shows that mine dust contains uranium and vanadium, which can be toxic in lungs, Campen said. Half a year into its five-year grant, the study focuses on the effects of inhaling these particles.

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Matt Campen opens a wind receptacle tower to show how contaminated dust is captured for analysis on Friday, April 21, 2017 on UNM’s North Campus.

Alumni Association holds free photoshoot for grads By Nichole Harwood @Nolidoli1 The UNM Alumni Association is lighting the “U” statue in front of the Hodgin Hall Alumni Center in honor of UNM’s Spring 2017 graduates, all with the help of a professional photographer who will be available to take graduates’ photos free of charge. The photo sessions began yesterday and will be available again today and tomorrow from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. in front of The “U.” Wolfe credited the the idea of providing a free photographer to the Alumni Association’s Senior Alumni Relations Officer Maria Wolfe, Associate Director Susan Maceachen and Alumni Relations Office Vice President Dana G. Allen. “We were just sitting there brainstorming, and I have no idea which one of us came up with the idea,” Wolfe said. “We were just trying to figure out how to give students who are graduating something they really want, and we came up with that.” Part of their goal was to have students come to Hodgin Hall, Wolfe said. “This is the Alumni Center, this

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Ryan Montano directs an upcoming UNM graduate where they should look while he takes their photo on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 near Hodgin Hall. The UNM Alumni Association is hosting a free graduation photoshoot for upcoming graduates.

is the history of the University right here, and we work really hard to provide programming to get alums to come back to campus,” she said.

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The free photos at the “U” began last year with UNM’s May graduation and continued with December’s graduation, making this the

third event. “We just wanted to make sure we were doing something before students left,” Wolfe said. “It was

really seen as a valuable thing to do.” The event has gone through some adjustments, as the first iteration of the event was held to close to graduation, Wolfe said. “The students will come and have their photos taken, they (can) bring a cap and gown, and if they don’t have one, we provide one,” she said. “Then within a week of the photos being taken, we email them their photos.” The photos are high-resolution and taken by a professional photographer, Wolfe said. Wolfe hopes to make the photos at the “U” a continuing event for graduates. The Alumni Association has notified all pending graduates within a certain number of credit hours of graduation, and has set up five slots of fifteen minute segments. Each graduate gets three minutes with the photographer, she said. Allen said that the “U” is a very iconic image on campus, and that she started noticing that graduating students were coming by with friends and family members with phones and cameras to get photographs in front of the statue. “We wanted to provide them with an opportunity to have a nice

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