Posts by Ashley Rammelsberg
Brain Injury on Athletes in Contact Sports, Brain Safe, Government Shutdown, ABQ Mayoral Race
This week, in the wake of a national FRONTLINE documentary on the concussion crisis in the National Football League, NEW MEXICO IN FOCUS speaks with college and high school athletic officials and a neuroscientist about a new program designed to study and minimize the impact of brain injury on athletes in contact sports. The Mind…
Read MoreEpisode 716 | Web Extra African-American History in NM
Host Gene Grant continues his conversation with Rita Powdrell and Brenda Dabney, co-creators of “New Mexico’s African-American Legacy: Visible, Vital, and Valuable,” and George Geder, president and historian for the NAACP’s Santa Fe branch. They talk about at athletes (including former football players at New Mexico Highlands who protested the lack of African-American professors and…
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