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The Civil Engineering Department appointed professor John Stormont as department chair after he held the interim chair position for 17 months. “It’s an honor to be selected by the faculty,� Stormont said. “For them to want to continue working with me, it’s really an honor to be selected by my peers.� His responsibilities include financial management of department resources, including all faculty and staff. The Civil Engineering Department has
offering discussion groups and classes in online publishing. The Scholar’s Communication Committee worked on eSIC for three years and intends it to be a one-stop eScholarship support service, she said. Support services range from a selfservice eScholarship workstation, which offers online assistance in article and manuscript preparation with available graphic designers, data presentation specialists and editors for an online submission depository. The eSIC will also offer credit courses in research methods, foundations in informatics, digital research and data management, Buchanan said. Buchanan said the committee plans to use Starbucks’ sales to fund printing on demand. Faculty Senate President Richard Wood said the program will succeed when funds become available. “This is the kind of thing that is so important right now when money flow is miserable — to be thinking creatively about what we can do to really lay the groundwork for ‌ actually
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The Office for eScholarship presented a proposal that will help transition UNM Libraries from print to digital materials at Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting. The proposed “eScholar Innovation Center� (eSIC) would offer applications and resources that will allow for electronic publishing, online research collaboration, shared data sets and an open-access scholarship, the proposal said. “We want this to be a point of leverage for the support of the libraries, museum, UNM press and scholarly communication at the university,� UNM Libraries spokesperson Holly Shipp Buchanan said. The Office of eScholarship is tasked with preserving rights to and facilitating the production of published works that come out of UNM. The eSIC will provide consultation on authorship rights and the production of digital media, and Buchanan said it will promote dialogue by
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and campus boundaries, according to the regents’ presentation. Of course, Murphy said, nothing is definite until ACC’s plans are finalized and reviewed and the University enters a main campus ground-lease agreement with ACC. Murphy and Coburn said they hope more students will participate in future planning decisions, and workshops will continue as the strategic housing plan progresses. “There are lots of different perspectives on this thing, but this is a really, really important student-housing
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Other Faculty Senate items: The Senate entered executive session to discuss and vote on awarding three candidates honorary degrees. Changes to the Faculty Disciplinary policy were discussed, but not voted on. Parts of the policy date to the Vietnam War era and do not include standard provisions for handling faculty misbehavior, senators said. Steven Graves, associate director for the Center of Biomedical Engineering, proposed creating a master’s of science in biomedical engineering.
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“It’s a challenge, beyond funding, a number of reframing strategies will take place,â€? he said. “Next year we will hire three new faculty members, and this year we will continue to implement our sustainable infrastructure, where we are trying to change how we make things last longer or have a smaller ecological footprint.â€? His department includes coursework in civil engineering and undergraduate programs in construction engineering and management. Stormont’s research interÂests are related to geo-environmental issues assoÂciÂated with minÂing operÂaÂtions and landÂfills, unsaturated hydrolÂogy and geoÂmeÂchanÂics. He is a regÂisÂtered professional engiÂneer in New MexÂico and got his Ph.D. from the UniverÂsity of Arizona in 1990.
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five staff and 17 faculty members. Stormont has 16 years teaching experience at UNM. Before he came to the University, he worked at Sandia National Labs for 12 years. He brought UNM $3.2 million in research grants and has been the lead adviser to 19 master’s and four Ph.D. students. UNM School of EngiÂneerÂing Interim Dean Arup Maji said in a statement that StorÂmont develÂopÂed a strateÂgic plan and prepared the departÂment for accredÂiÂtaÂtion reviews. “I am conÂfiÂdent that he will now be able to focus more on the strateÂgic goals of the departÂment, along with hirÂing new faculty,â€? Maji said. Stormont said he will have to find replacements for retiring professors and ensure sustainable measures are met.
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