Daily Lobo new mexico
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monday October 20, 2014 | Volume 119 | Issue 44
Close shave for Neal at Lobo Howl
Sergio Jiménez / Daily Lobo / @SXfoto
New Mexico men’s basketball head coach Craig Neal has his head shaved during Friday night’s Lobo Howl event at the Pit. Neal and two Lobo players have beeen growing out their hair to raise money for breast cancer awareness.
By Kyle Tomasi Walking around campus this past year and a half, students may have noticed something a little different about senior guard Hugh Greenwood. That something? He has been growing his hair past his shoulders. He said he grew the long locks because his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer more than 18 months ago. Other members of the Lobo men’s basketball team got on board to help, too. Head coach Craig Neal and his son, sophomore
guard Cullen Neal, have also been growing out their hair to show support for Greenwood’s family. At Friday night’s Lobo Howl, the annual kickoff event for the basketball season, fans were greeted by a pig-tailed Craig Neal who had his hair cut off and then shaved to raise money for breast cancer awareness. “We’re family here, and Hugh knows that and our players are like that,” Neal said. Greenwood’s mother finished treatments and surgeries and was in remission until recently. Greenwood said it has brought his family closer, and he wants
to show her how much support there is for them. He started a fundraising campaign called Pink Pack to accept donations for breast cancer awareness. Proceeds will go to UNM Hospital for their own research. Greenwood has been growing his hair out since before the Mountain West Conference Tournament of his sophomore year. He originally planned to shave his head at the Lobo Howl, but decided to wait until February, when college basketball has its breast cancer awareness month. “It will be pretty long and pretty
annoying by then, but I think it will be good playing on TV and playing in The Pit and people seeing the long hair and recognizing what I’m doing,” he said. “I think that’s going to be the best way to raise more money.” He said his mother’s cancer diagnosis was one of the toughest events his family has faced. Greenwood said he found out his mother had breast cancer the day after his graduation from the Australian Institute of Sport. His parents knew of it the morning before, but waited to tell Greenwood until after graduation. “It was a bit of a shock; I didn’t really know too much about it,” he
said. “Looking back on it, it was pretty tough at the time. There was a lot of uncertainty, but now we know a lot about it and we’re trying to make some things happen.” Hugh’s father, Mike Greenwood, and mother arrived in Albuquerque on Tuesday morning. They plan to stay in the States for three months to see the first half of Hugh’s senior year. They will then fly back to Australia to run tests, and if everything is cleared they will return to see the end of Hugh’s season. Also at the Howl, Lobo faithful
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Prof.’s curiosity led to new dinosaur discovery By Lena Guidi
Jason Moore / Courtesy Photo
In 2003, Jason Moore was on a walk with his parents along the Idaho-Wyoming border when he noticed pieces of bone sticking out of a hillside. Moore became immediately interested and began to search the rock face for more fragments. He and his parents soon discovered that the bones belonged to a dinosaur skeleton buried beneath the rock outcropping. Not only did the discovery double the number of dinosaur bones found in Idaho, but the dinosaur turned out to be a new species entirely. Further excavations revealed the specimen to be a type of nodosaur, an armored dinosaur that
walked on four legs, had a clubbed tail and lived during the midCretaceous period, Moore said. Moore, now a professor at the UNM Honors College, is working with a former student from Dartmouth College to publish a scientific description of the nodosaur so that it can be formally named. It is one of several projects he has worked on involving dinosaur excavations in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota and other areas of the world, including India and Uruguay. Moore has been a researcher since attending Cambridge, but he said he had been interested in science from an early age. “My parents spent a lot of time when I was a small child taking me to some of the amazing science
museums in London near to where I grew up, and that really sparked an early interest in me,” he said. When he was 5 years old, Moore spent 18 months trying to convince his parents to take him on a fossilhunting trip in the southern United Kingdom, he said. “When they finally acquiesced, the bug had taken hold,” he said. While he remained interested in science over the years, Moore said he did not retain an interest in geology or paleontology. At age 16, when students in the United Kingdom typically choose an academic specialty, he intended to study physics and chemistry. “One of my friends peer-pressured me into taking geology instead of physics, and I’m eternally
grateful because it relit that fire,” Moore said. He received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Cambridge before moving to the United States to conduct postdoctoral research at schools such as Dartmouth and Texas A&M University. This research led him to the hillside in Idaho where he discovered the species of nodosaur. Moore said he and a colleague began research in 2003 on outcrops of rock that are not known for containing many fossils, but come from periods of time that many paleontologists are interested in. “The good thing is, these rocks
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