Events

WOMEN IN STEM: SCIENCE MATTERS FEBRUARY 26-MARCH 1st will showcase WNMU Faculty, Students, Alumni and bring innovating speakers to WNMU. Throughout the week students will get an opportunity to enter a drawing for a scholarship. MONDAY FEB 26th: Tours of Natural Science Labs are available to the public contact mjost@wnmu.edu 5pm-6pm MILLER LIBRARY: Showcase of Research from Scientists in Natural Science Dr. Lynn Haugen, Dr. Jan Frye, Dr. Corrie Neighbors, Dr. Manda Jost, and Dr. Kathy Whiteman 6pm-7pm MILLER LIBRARY Introduction by Dr. Christina Sanchez Volatie “Why Women in Science?” Speaker: Martha Cooper, Biologist, Nature Conservancy Martha Cooper has worked for The Nature Conservancy in Southwest New Mexico since 2006. Working with a diverse group of conservation partners in the region, she manages science, stewardship and restoration projects on the Conservancy’s Gila and Mimbres River Preserves and watersheds. Martha received an MS in 1999 in forest...

Join WNMU on March 1st at 7 pm to listen to Albuquerque poet Jimmy Santiago Baca. He will read from his work at WNMU's Light Hall theater. After the reading at Light Hall, several of Baca's books will be for sale. Attendees may also buy a book to be given to an inmate at GCDC. This event is funded by a collaboration between the Humanities and Behavioral Sciences department. Baca was born in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, in 1952. Abandoned by his parents at the age of two, he lived with one of his grandmothers for several years before being placed in an orphanage and at the age of 13. Soon after he ran away and wound up living on the streets, and at the age of twenty-one he was convicted on charges of drug possession and incarcerated. He served six and a half years in prison, three of them in isolation. During this time, Baca taught himself to read and write, and he began to compose poetry. He sold these poems to fellow inmates in exchange for cigarettes. A fellow...