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With more than 96,000 food service jobs, the restaurant industry makes up about 11 percent of employment in New Mexico. Recent statewide orders mandating restaurants limit their service to curbside or delivery have many food service staff jobless – a...

People are worried, lonely, bored, and frustrated as the pandemic isolation drags on and they are stuck in their homes. So artist and curator Janie Perry Gonzales, founder of Vida Art Connections, decided it was a good time to have an art show. Five of...

The College of Education was the University of New Mexico's first college, housed in Hodgin Hall and it was called a Normal School - since then, the college has gone through a series of structural and instructional changes, but its most recent change is...

If you asked University of New Mexico Associate Professor David Weiss what he envisioned as he planned his sabbatical abroad for the 2020 Spring semester, self-isolating in a single-room apartment and teaching strategic planning and political...

The University of New Mexico’s Career Services is partnering with employers to offer virtual career events in April. UNM is typically home to the Educator’s Job Fair and the Student Job and Internship Fair, but this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic,...

What does it mean to be a Rude Boy? The word ‘rude’ is commonly associated with an unhappy connotation of disrespect, but for one University of New Mexico alum, a ‘Rude Boy’ is considered a style that’s enriched in music and history. That style would...

She’s become a local icon overnight, standing alongside New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller and interpreting valuable information for the deaf community. During a chaotic and quickly-changing time, Nixo Lanning has...

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, there is a corresponding “infodemic,” a surfeit of information and misinformation that makes it difficult for the average American to find the facts they need to navigate the ongoing public health crisis. In an...

This year’s "Greening of the U" takes place Tuesday, March 10, and everyone with an Irish heart in Albuquerque is invited to participate. The Greening will see the traditionally red-illuminated sculpture outside Hodgin Hall emblazoned in glorious green...

Charles Edward Becknell Sr. is an example of living African American history and New Mexico state history. Becknell Sr. was the founding director of what is now The University of New Mexico's Africana Studies program directed by his son and namesake...