HOUSE MEMORIAL 31

56th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2024

INTRODUCED BY

Derrick J. Lente and Brian G. Baca

 

 

 

 

 

A MEMORIAL

DECLARING JANUARY 29, 2024 "UNM DAY" IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN RECOGNITION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND PUBLIC SERVICE ON BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS OF NEW MEXICO.

 

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico was founded in 1889; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico is the state's flagship research institution, serving more than twenty-six thousand students and employing tens of thousands of New Mexico residents, including employees of the university of New Mexico hospital; and

     WHEREAS, in 2023, approximately four thousand five hundred students received degrees from the university of New Mexico's main and branch campuses, including approximately two thousand nine hundred bachelor's degrees, one thousand master's degrees, one hundred one juris doctorates, ninety-one medical doctorates and sixty-nine pharmacy doctorates; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico annually awards over one hundred forty-seven million dollars ($147,000,000) in scholarships; and

     WHEREAS, there are more than two hundred thousand active alumni, with lobos in every state, including one hundred twenty-four thousand in New Mexico; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico is celebrating a century of graduate studies, giving students access to nationally recognized faculty, cutting-edge research, professional and academic development and student support; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico's graduate and professional student association is celebrating fifty-five years of identifying, promoting and supporting the interests of graduate and professional students; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico health sciences center is the state's largest integrated health care treatment, research and education organization, with national recognition for primary care, rural medicine, family medicine, nursing and midwifery, and is home to the state's only national-cancer-institute-designated comprehensive cancer center; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico hospital is the only level one trauma center for the state and admits approximately three thousand trauma patients each year; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico provides a research-driven education, where faculty members engage in investigation and scholarship that create new knowledge, which brings sustained wealth to New Mexico's economy; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico is a community of unique perspectives that embraces peoples' differences and celebrates a culture of contrast rather than a contrast of cultures; and

     WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico is the university for New Mexico;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that January 29, 2024 be declared "UNM Day" in the house of representatives in recognition of the university of New Mexico's service and dedication to the residents of New Mexico; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be transmitted to the president of the university of New Mexico.

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