VOLA Presents ‘Peace Engineering, A New Mindset’ May 10 - 7:03 am
VOLA Presents Donna Koechner, Dr. Bernard Amadei and Dr. Ramiro Jordan at May 10 meeting. Courtesy/VOLA
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Voices of Los Alamos (VOLA) meets 6:30-7:30 p.m. May 10 and hosts a talk on “Peace Engineering, a New Mindset”.
Speakers at the meeting include Donna Koechner, program manager for Peace Engineering – ECHO, founding member of the Peace Engineering Consortium, and a research faculty at the University of New Mexico; Dr. Bernard Amadei, professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder; and Dr. Ramiro Jordan, member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of New Mexico.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.– The University of New Mexico enters its final home series of the season starting on Saturday, May 8 as the Lobos welcome San José State. In addition, Sunday’s game will mark UNM’s Senior Day with the Lobos set to recognize Cameryn O’Grady, Lauren Wilmert, Kiana Spencer and Bailey Klitzke.
The three-game series starts with a Saturday doubleheader at 2 p.m. MT. The second game will take place 30 minutes following the conclusion on game one with the third game set for Sunday at noon.
All games will be streamed on the Mountain West Network but tickets are still available for those that would like to attend in person.
Researchers from the Smart Management of Infrastructure Laboratory (SMILab), located in the Center for Advanced Research Computing at The University of New Mexico, have developed a new strain sensor as a part of the Low-Cost Efficient Wireless Intelligent Sensors (LEWIS) project. The new sensor, called the LEWIS-S, is easy to use, wireless, and can be offered at about 5% of the cost of standard commercial strain sensing equipment.
SMILab director and assistant professor Fernando Moreu noted, “Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has been receiving significant attention in the community as a means to quantify the different levels of performance and safety of structural systems, communities, and emergency responses. Strain sensors can measure the stresses of structures in normal loads or extreme loads and report [to] owners or communities about their condition. One of the cores of sensor systems are the data acquisition systems that enable collecting data of interest for planners, man
Being away from family, losing a beloved grandmother to COVID-19 and finding her place at the state’s largest university are among the many challenges Lynsey Pinto, 22, faced during her undergraduate years.
Through her perseverance and her family’s support, Pinto will graduate this May with a bachelor of science degree from The University of New Mexico College of Population Health. She double majored in population health and political science.
She hopes her newly gained education will lead her to a career in community health that improves the lives of people living on the Navajo Nation.
Pinto, who grew up in Fruitland, a small town in northwestern New Mexico, says improving health care and advocating for social justice became her passion during her time at UNM.
This story originally was published by Southerly.
Betty Osceola, an elder of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, lives in Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida, where a small Texas-based oil developer wants to build seven new wells. Burnett Oil Company slipped in its application Jan. 22, days before President Joe Biden signed an executive order pausing new oil and gas leases on public lands. I wasn’t surprised, Osceola said through a bitter laugh she knew it would happen eventually.
Big Cypress is part of the Greater Everglades and spans 729,000 acres a size comparable to Rhode Island across the heart of South Florida. Ecologists describe it as a mosaic of distinct yet interconnected wetland ecosystems: hardwood hammocks, pine flatwoods, sawgrass prairies, marshes, sloughs and gloomy cypress domes with cottonmouths and ghost orchids and endangered panthers.