ANNUAL REPORT 2007 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
ANNUAL REPORT 2007 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
ANNUAL REPORT 2007 THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
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ACADEMIC SUCCESS<br />
17<br />
Nearly $3,000 in scholarship money was<br />
given out at the 4th Annual Mercer Speech<br />
Tournament. The winner of the tournament<br />
addressed the personal effects of DWI in<br />
our society.<br />
At UNM’s second Technology Business Plan<br />
Competition, a who’s who of New Mexico venture capitalists awarded<br />
first, second and third place prizes worth $25,000, $10,000 and $5,000<br />
to the top three teams. Of the nine teams, Zia Scientific took the top<br />
prize and UNM Anderson MBA candidates swept the field.<br />
Fifteen members of the UNM Student World Affairs Delegation team<br />
participated in the Harvard World Model United Nations conference in<br />
Switzerland, returning with three awards for excellence in diplomacy.<br />
Dohnia Dorman,<br />
UNM senior in<br />
Communication<br />
and Journalism,<br />
was selected as<br />
a finalist for the<br />
American Advertising<br />
Federation’s<br />
Most Promising<br />
Minority Students<br />
Program. She and<br />
nominator/faculty<br />
adviser Karolyn<br />
Cannata-Winge<br />
were acknowledged<br />
at the New<br />
York Athletic Club<br />
in New York City.<br />
Along with other<br />
finalists, Dorman<br />
was featured in<br />
Advertising Age<br />
and USA Today.<br />
Cotillion Sneddy<br />
earned her bachelor<br />
of science from<br />
University of New<br />
Mexico-Gallup in<br />
<strong>2007</strong>. Like many<br />
of her classmates,<br />
Sneddy is Navajo.<br />
As a parent educator<br />
who brings<br />
materials into the<br />
home to show parents<br />
how to work<br />
with their children,<br />
she is making a<br />
difference in how<br />
Native Americans<br />
in her community<br />
are educated.<br />
Will Consuegra,<br />
third-year law<br />
student at the<br />
UNM School of<br />
Law, is one of a<br />
handful of young<br />
real estate experts<br />
throughout the<br />
United States<br />
accepted into the<br />
National Association<br />
of Industrial<br />
and Office Properties’<br />
(NAIOP)<br />
Leadership Discovery<br />
Program<br />
for Emerging<br />
Professionals.<br />
The winners<br />
were picked from<br />
a group of 100<br />
participants<br />
from across<br />
the country.<br />
UNM chose<br />
2002 Mesa<br />
Vista High School<br />
graduate Jenelle<br />
Manzanares to<br />
receive the <strong>2007</strong><br />
UNM Ronald E.<br />
McNair Top<br />
Scholar Award.<br />
Manzanares went<br />
on to graduate<br />
from UNM’s<br />
College of Education<br />
with a bachelor<br />
of science<br />
in elementary<br />
education in the<br />
spring of <strong>2007</strong>,<br />
specializing in K-8<br />
mathematics and<br />
teaching English<br />
to speakers of<br />
other languages<br />
(TESOL).<br />
STUDENT