11/17 Professor Eliseo "Cheo" Torres, vice president of Student Affairs at the University of New Mexico, was inducted into the Hall Of Champions. He has made Hispanic and first generation students a special focus during his 21 years at UNM. He has also created a hugely on traditional folk medicine, curanderismo, and recently authored a textbook on the topic as well and a into curanderismo.
Also on the show, Spencer Beckwith speaks with Subankhar Banerjee. He is an internationally known writer, environmental activist and scholar. He says his photography is a portal to activism and knowledge. Several of his large-scale photographs of Arctic Alaska are now on display in Long Environmentalism in the Near North, Subhankar Banerjee: Activism 鈥� Photographs 鈥� Writing at the in Albuquerque.
Banerjee heads the program at UNM, where he also teaches art and ecology.
