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UNM gives back with new minor program By Madison Spratto @Madi_Spratto The University of New Mexico’s Office of Community Engaged Learning and Research is working with students to incorporate volunteering into class curriculums with hopes that students will gain a wide variety of benefits that come from helping the local community. “I think New Mexico has a really rich history of activism,” said Monica Kowal, the associate dean of CELR. Their efforts are focused on getting students to apply their knowledge from the classroom to a “high-needs area within the community,” Kowal said. To challenge the traditional teaching style, service learning programs allow faculty to incorporate community work into their syllabi, giving students the chance to volunteer using the skills taught in their classes. “I think it is a really giving thing,” said Tabitha Rodges, a third year communications major at UNM currently taking a service learning course. “It’s a time to give, of course, but also a time to appreciate what you have and to reflect on how some other people’s lives really are.” Garett Julian / Daily Lobo / @darkroomduck

Monica Kowal, the associate dean for the Office of Community Engaged Learning and Research discusses community engagement on Aug. 23, 2017. The Office of Community Engaged Learning and Research aims to incorporate knowledge from the classroom to help communities in need.

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Local farm takes sustainability seriously By Johnny Vizcaino @thedailyjohnnyv Dreams are oftentimes rooted in realities. And so it is with the dream of local entrepreneurs Rebbekka and Ryan Tynan, founders of what they are calling Albuquerque’s first commercial aquaponic micro-farm. Theirs is a dream that is rooted in perhaps some of the harshest of human realities: hunger and exploitation. “Food scarcity really is the starting point for so much of this world’s strife,” Ryan said. “Everybody has to eat,” Rebbekka agreed. She said it was a newspaper article a few years ago chronicling the struggles of migrant workers that spurred her mission. “It’s a travesty to see the things that people are dealing with on a day-to-day basis,” Rebbekka said. “Seeing that got me thinking: ‘There’s got to be a different way.’”

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A tray of micro-sprouts grows under UV lights in Urbana’s new aquaponics lab on Aug. 27, 2017.

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