LISTEN: Study Finds Housing Homeless Saves Money
In 2011, the city of Albuquerque launched its Heading Home initiative. It was a shift in tackling homelessness because it focuses on getting people in housing first, and then provides services to help...
View ArticleLISTEN: Genizaros And New Mexico's Legacy Of Slavery
We often associate slavery with the American South. But it was actually common in many places in our history, including New Mexico. Native Americans who were captives and raised in Hispanic families...
View ArticleLISTEN: Project ECHO Aims To Remake Health Care
In many parts of the world, including rural New Mexico, it's difficult for patients to access specialists in health care. But instead of moving more providers to those areas, what if doctors and other...
View ArticleUNM Collaborates With County To Expand Mental Health Services
LISTEN: May is Mental Health Awareness Month. In 2014 voters in Bernalillo County voted in favor of a tax for increased mental health services. This came after the shooting by police of James Boyd, a...
View ArticleLISTEN: Where Research Meets Community To Create Change
In this episode we speak with Claudia Isaac . She’s an associate professor in the school of architecture and planning at the University of New Mexico. She received the 2 nd Annual Community Engaged...
View ArticleProject Matches Students With Refugees
The Refugee Well-Being Project brings together newly arrived families in Albuquerque with students at the University of New Mexico. Together they learn from, and teach, one another as students help...
View ArticleResurrecting Memories Of Route 66 Signs
Route 66, which stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles, endures in the minds of many as a road that represented the freedom of jumping in a car and heading West for adventure. The signs along Route 66...
View ArticleLISTEN: Civil Rights Leader And Son Talk Activism Then And Now
On this month's show we talk with the keynote speakers at the Black Cultural Conference , which takes place Sept. 21-23, 2017 at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Cleveland Sellers helped lead one of...
View ArticleProgram Aims To Alleviate State Physician Shortage
New Mexico has a chronic shortage of doctors, especially in rural areas. On this episode, we look at a program at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine that is working to address that by...
View ArticleServing Hispanic Students And Art As Activism
11/17 Professor Eliseo "Cheo" Torres, vice president of Student Affairs at the University of New Mexico, was inducted into the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities Hall Of Champions. He...
View ArticleSymposium Aims To Bring Graduates Back To New Mexico
New Mexico’s population growth has stagnated and much of our population outflow is made up of younger people seeking opportunities in places with better economies. A new symposium that takes place Dec....
View ArticleRecognizing And Stopping Workplace Bullying
As women -- and men -- continue to come forward with allegations of sexual harassment and assault by powerful men, there’s a related issue that hasn’t received as much attention: Bullying. The two...
View ArticleProfessor And Students Launch Company To Solve Design Challenges
02/16 Professor Heather Canavan had a practice of giving her students extra credit for using their knowledge to design products for real-world problems. She's also a breast cancer survivor and she used...
View ArticleClass Explores Controversy Around Library Murals
3/16 Over the last year numerous protests have erupted around Confederate memorials throughout the South. Here in New Mexico we have also grappled with a history of colonialism and racism. That has...
View ArticleLISTEN: Filling The Gap For Skills In High Demand
Friday 4/20 8a: The demand for people with project management skills -- which is basically the discipline of managing a specific project from beginning to end -- has grown around New Mexico and the...
View ArticleLISTEN: Courses Work To Create Welcoming And Intriguing Urban Spaces
Friday 5/18 8a: During the spring semester, professors with the School of Architecture taught two classes where students did projects around Albuquerque, and in collaboration with community members.
View ArticleLISTEN: Prevention Strategies By And For Local Communities
Friday 6/15 8a: The Prevention Research Center at the University of New Mexico does not show up in rural communities to proscribe solutions. Rather it works hand in hand with the people of those...
View ArticleLISTEN: Helping A Native Community Go Off The Grid
Friday 7/20 8a: On University Showcase, the Diné Red Water Pond Road Community on the Navajo Nation has grappled for years with the contamination from tailings left from uranium mines. The U.S....
View ArticleHow The U.S. Ignores Immigration And Asylum Laws
Friday 8/17: Immigrant. Refugee. Asylum. These are words we’ve been hearing a lot this year. But what are the laws around refugees in the United States and internationally and is the U.S. following its...
View ArticleNeuropathologist Combines Music Composition With Brain Research
Friday 9/21: This episode is all about the brain. Dr. Elaine Bearer is a neuropathologist at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Her work has includes studying biomarkers of trauma and...
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