Published by admin on 28 Jul 2008
The Power of Poetry On My Life – Jimmy Santiago Baca
When Jimmy Santiago Baca started writing poetry in prison, it changed his life. “I’d be robbing banks. Probably if I hadn’t been caught I’d be on my 200,000th bank right now. But poetry stopped me. I put down the gun and picked up the pen,” he said. He founded Cedar Tree, Inc., a nonprofit organization, to empower prisoners, families of prisoners and at-risk youth through literacy and writing. This lecture was presented at the University of New Mexico on July 12, as part of the University Libraries Sunset Lecture Series.
Professor of Radiology and Director of Mind Research, Columbia University Medical Center Truman R. Brown presented a technical talk about functional magnetic resonance imaging (ƒMRI) on June 26, 2008 at the Mind Research Network at UNM. As part of the talk he explored the complexities of analyzing and understanding the images and what they mean about the brain and the way it functions.
