The Santo Nino de Atocha dancers perform in front of the Donnelly Library on the New Mexico Highlands University campus Oct. 29. The group of 21 indigenous Mexican heritage dancers and drummers is based in Albuquerque. The dancers range in age from 10 to 60 and most...
The Highlands University Alumni Association named six distinguished alumni for induction in 2008 at an alumni banquet Oct. 24 during homecoming week. “As alumni you are the success stories of our institution,” said Highlands University President Jim...
HU Singers and the Performing Arts Club will be presenting a comedy show Nov. 7 and 8, at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 9 at 2 p.m. in Ilfeld Auditorium. The program, titled “LOL :- ) Broadway” will include musical numbers from The Producers, Into the Woods, Company...
Highlands University’s Department of Music will present an afternoon of romantic waltzes and lively gypsy songs when the Madrigal Choir performs Brahms In Love in Ilfeld Auditorium, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m.Directed by André García-Nuthmann with Linda King at the...
Melvyn E. Huckaby films his former classmates Oct. 24 during New Mexico Highlands University’s Class of ’58 luncheon at the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas.New Mexico Highlands alumna Adeline Sanchez-Chavez shows off a photo of her and her two brothers taken when...
Thirty-two local golfers played in the 2008 Gene Torres Piedras Classic Oct. 11 and 12 in the first tournament since Highlands University opened its newly-designed Gene Torres Golf Course in August.”The new golf course showed its teeth and gave the players a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
