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Work on new school set
NEWTOWN, Conn.  — Newtown officials say demolition of Sandy Hook Elementary School is finished and construction of a new school on the same site will begin in the late summer or early fall.
Officials say the property where 20 first-graders and six adults were killed more than a year ago has been graded and stabilized for the winter.

By Margaret McKinney
Highlands University

Three New Mexico Highlands University business students received scholarships from Bloomberg Businessweek for writing outstanding business case studies.

The scholarships were funded through Bloomberg Businessweek’s B-School Connection Program, with a match this fall semester from the Highlands University Foundation.  

Sam Roybal, a sophomore general business major from Pojoaque, won the $600 gold scholarship.

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New Mexico Highlands University science students made a strong showing at the New Mexico Academy of Science and New Mexico EPSCoR annual symposium, presenting more research studies than any other university in the state for the second year in a row.

The Highlands University science faculty and students presented 12 of the 24 oral research presentations and 12 of 27 research posters in November in Albuquerque at the symposium.

By Margaret McKinney
Highlands University

The deadline for submitting entries for the New Mexico Highlands University Picayune Literary Magazine is Sunday.

Each spring, graduate students in the Department of English graduate produce Picayune, which features national and international submissions of short fiction, poetry, flash fiction of no more than 250 words, and black-line art.

Literary submissions for consideration may come from students, faculty, staff and others outside the university community.