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Middle school grants

Grant and Wilson Middle Schools and the Native American Community Academy on the Wilson campus will have health clinics, mentors, volunteers and more after-school and summer programs to help their students, thanks to a $20 million, four-year grant announced this week.

Atlantic Philanthropies awarded the grant for the New Mexico Integrated Services in Schools Initiative designed to help middle school students succeed.

Big Brothers Big Sisters, University of New Mexico school-based health centers, the YMCA and Citizen Schools, an academic-based after-school program, are among the 13 service providers who will be on the middle school campuses starting in August, said Renee Paisano-Trujillo, director of the initiative.

Researcher named dean

Brenda J. Claiborne of San Antonio, Texas, has been named named dean of the University of New Mexico College of Arts and Sciences.

Claiborne will begin her job Aug. 1. She is currently professor of biology and director of the Institute for Aging Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Claiborne succeeds Vera Norwood who served as interim dean since March 2005.

Safe driving honor

A high school student from Texas will be awarded a $10,000 grant in Albuquerque today for a safe-driving campaign developed through Project Ignition, a service-learning program.

The 18th annual National Service-Learning Conference drew students from around the nation to Albuquerque for the awards announcement.

Albuquerque's Amy Biehl Charter High School students were expected to attend.

The high school campaigns have helped prevent hundreds of teen driving deaths, according to conference organizers and sponsor State Farm.

Expertise tapped

Adam Cuevas of Albuquerque met with other experts in economics this month to set achievement standards in economics for a national test that produces "The Nation's Report Card" on education.

Cuevas, a financial services professional, was among 31 economists selected to meet in St. Louis with the ACT Inc. staff and other experts to determine the performance of U.S. students on the Economics National Assessment of Education Progress, one of the tests used for the annual report card.

The economics assessment is a new addition to the test. It was given for the first time last spring.