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enrollment guru: Carmen Alvarez
has been appointed UNM’s vice president for enrollment management. The offices of recruitment, admissions, financial aid, records, and registration will report to this position.
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Suzanne Trager Ortega provost pick: Suzanne Trager Ortega
has been appointed UNM’s new provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. Previously Ortega was vice provost and graduate dean at the University of Washington. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002767.html
new developments: The UNM Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed John R. Stropp to serve as the first president of the newly independent UNM Foundation, in preparation for a major capital campaign. In addition, John W. Welty has been appointed associate vice president for university development at the UNM Foundation/ development office. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002907.html#more http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/002961.html#more
funding connections health network: The Center for
Telehealth and Cybermedicine Research at the UNM Health Sciences Center will receive $15.5 million from the Federal Communications Commission for the design, construction, operation, and evaluation of a Southwest Telehealth Access Grid, part of the FCC’s Rural Health Care Pilot Program. http://hscapp.unm.edu/calendar/output/ index.cfm?fuseaction=main.release &EntryID=6709 inquiring minds: A $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to the UNM mathematics and statistics department will help give undergraduate students the opportunity to learn important ideas from pure, applied, and computational mathematics. http://www.unm.edu/~market/ cgi-bin/archives/003014.html#more
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