Yearly Archives: 2008

1. Highlands Education Graduate Saiz Receives Teaching Award

   Highlands University School of Education graduate Jonathon Saiz received his first teaching award when OfficeMax selected him to receive $1,000 worth of teaching supplies for his new classroom.   Saiz was one of only 14 first-year Albuquerque Public School District teachers to receive the award. He is a special education teacher at Armijo Elementary School.  His…

2. Concert of Spanish Music for Guitar and Violin Oct. 12

   Guitarist Roberto Capocchi will be accompanied by violinist Ellen Chavez de Leitner in a Spanish music concert for guitar and violin, “Guitar Program: Duo Guadalupe,” Oct. 12, at 3 p.m.,  in the Margaret Kennedy Alumni Hall. Capocchi is the guitar instructor for the NMHU Music Department. Admission is free for NMHU students and $10 for…

3. Rodriguez, Kennedy visit NMHU

   New Mexico Highlands Regent Jesus Lopez, right, welcomes Arturo Rodriguez, president of the United Farm Workers, to the university’s campus Oct. 10. Rodriguez, along with Bobby Kennedy Jr., stopped at Highlands for a political rally before attending an economic forum in the university’s Margaret J. Kennedy Alumni Hall.

4. Reception for New Faculty Art Show Oct. 11

   Photo by Margaret McKinney, University RelationsTodd Christensen’s “I Sat There Once” is part of the Visual and Performing Arts Department’s new faculty show with a free public reception Oct. 11 from 4 — 6 p.m. in Burris Hall at 903 National Ave. “Landscapes of: Discipline + Mind + Concept + Media” will introduce the new…

5. Business School Hosts Statewide Consortium

   Photo by Margaret McKinney, University RelationsMargaret Young, Highlands University marketing professor; Kathy Brook, New Mexico State University; Garrey Carruthers, New Mexico State University; Renee Garcia, Luna Community College; Ann Brooks, University of New Mexico; and Emmanuel Nkwenti, Highlands University international business professor, at the “New Mexico College Business Articulation Consortium” conference the Highlands School of…

6. Freshmen housecall

   New Mexico Highlands freshman Sabrina Best, left, talks with university employees Jenny Arguello, Ron Garcia and Ernestine Clayton. Highlands staff from several departments visited freshmen in their dorms Oct. 2 to talk about the transition to college life.

7. New Residence Hall Takes Shape

   Drywall is delivered Oct. 2 for the north wing of the new residence hall under construction near Washington Avenue and 9th Street. The 3-story, 100,000-square-foot residence hall will help fill a pressing need for more student housing on campus.  It is being built on the site of the old high rise residence hall that was…

8. HU Performing Arts Club and HU Singers Present Comedy Show

   Jacqueline Gomez as Little Red Riding Hood and Stephanie Salas are part of the cast for “A Comedy Show” presented by the HU Performing Arts Club and HU Singers Oct. 3 and 4 at 7 p.m. in the Margaret Kennedy Alumni Hall.  Tickets are $2 for students and $5 for the general public with all…

9. LaserSpectacular Show Coming to Ilfeld Auditorium Oct. 10

   Paramount’s original LaserSpectacular featuring the music of Pink Floyd will be shown for the first time locally at Highlands University’s historic Ilfeld Auditorium Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets are on sale now at the university’s radio station KEDP 91.1 FM at 901 University Ave.  or call 505-454-3238. The price is $15 for general admission and…

10. Volunteers sought for city cleanup day

11. Police Seek Information

12. Club Olympics at NMHU

13. Burning down the house at Club HU

    New Mexico Highlands University students crowd the dance floor at Club HU Sept. 18 for Las Vegas Days. Club HU is an alcohol-free environment in the university’s Student Center.

14. Highlands Student Creates Interactive Display for Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

    Legendary photographer Ansel Adams once said he believes that the artist and his art are only a part of the total human experience — the viewer in the world at large is the essential other part. Were he alive today, Adams might appreciate the interactive online display and digital video a Highlands University media arts…

15. Highlands Receives NSF Grant for New Geology Research Lab

    New Mexico Highlands University received a $159,328 National Science Foundation grant that that will enable the geology faculty and students to use in-house instrumentation for high-quality geologic research in New Mexico, the western United States, and Europe. The grant money will purchase instruments to build a dedicated paleomagnetic laboratory at Highlands to study magnetic properties…

16. Mishler To Give Talk about Tecolote Pueblo

    New Mexico Highlands University anthropology professor emeritus Robert Mishler will give a free talk, “A.D. 1,200, Village Life in Northern New Mexico: Tecolote Pueblo,” Sept. 18 at 7 p.m., at the CCHP/Santa Fe Interpretive Center, 116 Bridge St., Las Vegas.The talk is part of the National Park Service and Fort Union National Monument’s monthly Glimpses…

17. Students remember 9-11

    Photo by Sean Weaver/NMHUSophomore Briana Gholston joins other New Mexico Highlands students Sept. 11 in a candlelight vigil to mark the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania. Highlands’ Black Student Association organized the vigil.

18. Highlands University Wins Cowboy Category in Santa Fe Fiestas Parade

    A spirited group of Highlands University students from the rodeo team, student ambassador program, and student senate won first place in the cowboy float category at the Santa Fe Fiestas Parade Sept. 7. The recruitment office at Highlands coordinated the Cowboy float in both the Santa Fe Fiestas Parade and the State Fair Parade Sept….

19. Everyone Loves a Cowboy Parade

20. Flores artwork at Burris Gallery

    Toby Flores’ exhibition, “One Part Faith, Three Parts Imagination,” is on display at the New Mexico Highlands University Burris Gallery at 903 National Ave. There will be a free public reception for the show Sept. 13 from 4-6 p.m., with a gallery talk by the artist at 5 p.m. Flores’ work is described as a…