ANNUAL REPORT 2007 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

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STUDENT SUCCESS
- Middle school students, teachers and
graduate fellows are learning about New
Mexico’s ecosystem from a partnership between
UNM, Belen and Socorro Consolidated
School Districts, Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological
Research Program and Sevilleta National
Wildlife Refuge, a ground-breaking program
funded for three years with a $1.6 million grant
from the National Science Foundation.
- Senator Jeff Bingaman visited campus to brief
UNM about the Higher Education Access Act
of 2007, which makes Pell Grants available to
students year round so they can attend during
the summer and finish college earlier.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- Created the Bob Hoffman Legacy Endowment, w
for the Center for Southwest Research and Speci
process and preserve papers and photographs th
economic history of the state.
- STC.UNM awarded gap funding to three UNM re
move technology from early stage development
stage that attracts corporate and investment cap
the emerging technology into products ready for
RESEARCH
- UNM received final state appro
institutions in the world with a
nanoscience and microsystem
heralded as the industrial revo
- Governor Bill Richardson laun
co, part of a nationwide netwo
of leading U.S. research unive
private sector technology com
UNM MILESTONES in 2007
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UNM College of Education’s
teacher education and
professional development
program was ranked the
8th best graduate program
in the nation by Academic
Analytics.
Hispanic Outlook in Higher
Education included UNM
on all their lists, rating UNM
among the top graduate
schools for Hispanics for
enrollment and number
of degrees conferred.
U.S. News and World
Report named nine UNM
programs in its America’s
Best Graduate Schools
rankings, including rural and
family medicine, nursing/
midwifery, clinical law
training and fine arts.