New Conservation Club Busy With Community Projects One of New Mexico Highlands’ newest and fastest-growing student clubs is making a positive impact on the university’s campus and the surrounding community. The new Conservation Club, formed this fall, is turning environmental concerns into action on projects, working with groups like the Hermit’s Peak Watershed Alliance. …
Alumni Office Honors Veterans With Nov. 11 Ceremony, Reception New Mexico Highlands’ coordinator of alumni affairs, Jim Mandarino, talks about the history of military service by students and alumni during a Veterans’ Day observance Nov. 11 at the university’s Centennial Tower. The ceremony honored two veterans from Highlands University: legendary World War II Navajo Code…
Sculpture Symposium at HU Nov. 15 — 19 New Mexico Highlands University and Kansas State University present “Purple Dawn – A Sculpture Symposium” Nov. 15 — 19 on the Highlands’ campus. David Lobdell, a Highlands fine arts professor, and Daniel Hunt, a Kansas State sculpture professor, are longtime colleagues and internationally known for their…
Highlands, Luna Nursing Programs Implement New Partnership The New Mexico Highlands University RN to BSN Program and the Luna Community College Nursing Program implemented a new educational partnership spring semester 2011 that makes it easier for Luna graduates to continue their nursing education at Highlands. The articulation and transfer agreement between the two schools…
Social Work Student Madison Steiner Paints Personalized Shoes for Kids With Cancer Farmington, N.M. — When kids with cancer lace up the personalized shoes Madison Steiner hand paints for them, big smiles come to their brave faces, and for a moment they forget their battle against the illness. Since she launched Peach’s Neet Feet…
HU Concert Choir To Perform Handel’s Messiah with Santa Fe Symphony Nov. 13 in Ilfeld The New Mexico Highlands University Concert Choir will perform Handel’s Messiah with the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra Nov. 13 at 3 p.m. in the university’s historic Ilfeld auditorium, 900 University Ave. George Frederic Handel composed Messiah in 1741 and it…