Academics

Student Research and Creativity Conference Recap | To all student presenters, faculty judges and moderators, and speaker Leonard Madrid, we thank you for taking part in this year's event. Congratulations to the winning participants of this year's Student Research and Creativity Conference.

• Lynnet Alamo
• Rubeli Alvarez
• Lance Anderson
• Alyissa Aragon
• Matthew Ayitah
• Celeste Barraza
• Ty Bergman
• Samuel Blaney
• Alexis Brandsma
• Aaron Campbell
• Jacqueline Chavez
• Gilbert Duran
• John Ehoche
• John Chase Frazier
• Jordyn Gibson
• Johnathan Giese
• Zachary Gill
• Juan Hernandez
• Zoe Hutcherson
• Jayden Lucero
• Faustina Mensah
• Brendan Mountel
• Omale Ogbe
• Laura Robinson
• Jacob Rodriguez
• Theresa Rohe
• Zoe Roy
• Alexis Snider
• Caitlyn Streseman
• Sebastian Summo Elias
• John Taigaafi
• Jayce Victor
• Jaden Zatorski

Spirit of Eastern Awards | Wednesday, April 10 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | University Theatre Center (UTC) | Join us to celebrate this year’s Spirit of Eastern and Years of Service Awards. Refreshments will be served at 2:30 p.m. in the UTC foyer.

Blackwater Draw Archaeological Site and Museum Summer Hours | The Blackwater Draw Archaeological Site will open for weekend hours April 6-June 6 when we open for Summer hours. ENMU faculty, staff, and students receive free admission into the Blackwater Draw Museum and the Archaeological Site. We hope to see you there!

Public Attitudes Towards Sentencing in Criminal Justice: A French Multi-Method Study | Wednesday, April 10 | 3 p.m. | College of Business (COB) 130 | The Programs in Sociology and Criminal Justice would like to invite the campus community to a lecture by Dr. Cecile Vigour (France), visiting Fulbright Scholar.

Jack Williamson Lectureship | April 11-13 | Times and locations vary |

Join us for the 47th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship, which will have several events from April 11-13. Our Guest of Honor is Martha Wells, best known for her Murderbot Diaries and the recipient of four Hugo awards, two Nebula awards, and three Locus awards; the Murderbot Diaries is also being adapted into an Apple+ series with Martha Wells as consulting producer. On Thursday evening, we'll have our Cantina Carnival in the Greyhound Lounge from 5-7 p.m., with several student organizations involved and a raffle. Join us on Friday for our Guest of Honor's reading, stay for our keynote lunch (catered by ENMU Culinary Arts), engage with our academic panels discussing research on speculative fiction, meet the dozen other authors in science fiction and fantasy at our author panels (including Connie Willis, Arkady Martine, Darynda Jones, Walter Jon Williams, and Jeffe Kennedy among others), tour Special Collections, or even play games at our Board Game session. If you are interested in creative writing, join us on Saturday at 10 a.m. for Connie Willis' Writing Workshop, where she is often joined by several other Lectureship authors. The full schedule of the Lectureship can be found here: enmu.edu/SciFi. All events are free except for the luncheon/keynote address. For more information, email [email protected] or call 575.562.2501.

Golden Library Open Publishing Workshop | April 17 | 9 a.m. | GSSC Presentation Room | Interested in publishing your own textbook or scholarly course materials? The Golden Library Open Publishing Workshop will support your publishing and teach you how to make yourself more visible and how to document the impact of your work. Learn about resources that facilitate authoring preprints, open access monographs and journals, open textbooks, OER, and more. Open publishing makes your research and teaching materials freely available, which benefits the broader community and increases your visibility as a scholar and educator.

To register for this in-person presentation, please register using the link: https://enmu.libwizard.com/f/Open-Publishing-Resources

If you have any questions, contact Hollie Bellinger, the Government Information and OER Librarian, at [email protected] or (575)562-2258.

Faculty Publication | Dr. Olga Gould published her article where she reported the findings in the yearlong ethnographic case study conducted at the final stage of a larger, longitudinal, multisite, and multi-year, National Science Foundation-funded ($9,800,000) project; PI - Dr. Xiufeng Liu, SUNY.

Citation: Gould-Yakovleva, O., & Liu, X. (2024). Mutualism as mutual trust: An ethnographic case study on an elementary-school teacher-team participation in a science PD program. The Qualitative Report, 29(4), 915-938. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.6440

This article is available in The Qualitative Report journal: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol29/iss4/3     

Athletics

Congratulations to the women’s and men’s rodeo teams for placing in the top ten at the Western Texas College Rodeo this weekend.

Congrats to the ENMU Baseball team. On Sunday, they set the program record for hits in a game with 30 and scored the second most runs in a game in program history with 28 in a wild 28-24 victory over Arkansas Fort Smith.

On Sunday, softball took one win in a doubleheader split against Texas Women’s University.

Congrats to ENMU Track and Field Runner Grizell Scarlett who ran an 11.35 100-meter dash which was good enough for second place on that day among DII sprinters. Also, congrats to Tamia Smith, who took second in the shot put at 13.64m (44-9). Her teammate Kennedy Ulmer took fourth after a personal best throw of 13.03m (42-9).

Upcoming Games/Events:

• Softball vs. Texas Woman’s University | Today | 9:30 a.m. | Denton, Texas
• Rodeo at Howard College Rodeo | April 11-13 | 6 p.m. | Big Spring, Texas
• Track at the University of Oklahoma | April 12-13 | John Jacobs Track Complex in Norman, OK
• Baseball vs. Oklahoma Christian | Friday, April 12 | 4 p.m. | Oklahoma City
• Women’s Soccer at University of the Southwest | Saturday, April 13 | 1 p.m. | Hobbs, NM
• Softball vs. Oklahoma Christian | Saturday, April 13 | 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. | Oklahoma City
• Baseball vs. Oklahoma Christian | Saturday, April 13 | 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. | Oklahoma City
• Softball vs. Oklahoma Christian | Sunday, April 14 | 11 a.m. | Oklahoma City
• Baseball vs. Oklahoma Christian | Sunday, April 14 | 11 a.m. | Oklahoma City

Communication Services

Rodney Atkins Concert | Eastern New Mexico University proudly presents Rodney Atkins at Steve Loy Family Foundation Arena on Saturday, April 27, at 6 p.m., sponsored by JP Stone Community Bank.

Rodney Atkins, one of Country Music’s biggest stars, has reached such heights as being named the Top New Male Vocalist at the ACM Awards and seeing his single "Watching You" become the Number One Song of the Decade, according to Country Aircheck, and earn the songwriter a BMI “Million-Air” Award.

To order tickets today, visit www.enmu.edu/RodneyAtkins.

Monday Memo Throwback

Student Research Conference from 2014

Student Affairs

Spring 2024 Career Fair | It's that time of the semester again! The ENMU Spring 2024 Career Fair is scheduled for Friday, April 19, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to Noon in the CUB Ballroom. The opportunities are endless, with over 40 vendors registered, including the Los Alamos National Labs, the Peace Corps, NM State Parks, CYFD, NM Game & Fish, numerous school districts, and many more.

Students who attend, dress professionally, and bring their resumes will have the chance to win a cap and gown, diploma frame, or portfolio!

Take advantage of this excellent opportunity to network and see what opportunities await you! Faculty and staff, please highly encourage all your students to attend. It is very important for students of all classifications to attend to find job/internship opportunities, network, and gain experience. For more information, please contact [email protected].

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