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Associated Students of The University of New Mexico (ASUNM) is holding the 57th annual Arts and Crafts fair in the Student Union Building (SUB) ballrooms. The fair is Dec. 1-3 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.  The ASUNM Arts and Crafts Studio is an open...

Five Native American educators and academics from The University of New Mexico have been chosen by AcademicInfluence.com as top influential American Indian scholars in the nation. Gregory Cajete (Tewa), Jennie R. Joe (Navajo), Henrietta Mann (Cheyenne), Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo), and Gerald Vizenor (Chippewa) ...

The violin making program at The University of New Mexico is hosting an open house the same evening as the Hanging of the Greens festivities Friday, December 3. Visitors will have a chance to see the tools and woods used, view the students’ work in...

The University of New Mexico will officially kick off the Directed Energy Center, a new center jointly led by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), during an event Dec. 6. The event will be held at 2 p.m. in the Roberts Room, Scholes Hall on the UNM...

The University of New Mexico’s Office of the University Secretary seeks volunteers for its Commencement ceremonies set for Thursday and Friday, Dec. 16 & 17 in University Arena. The ceremonies will recognize graduates from 2020 and 2021 in all degree...

On a recent 11-day raft trip through the Grand Canyon, geologists gathered evidence in hope that it would allow them to peer billions of years into the past. Using a relatively new technique, they were able to estimate the age of a mysterious section of...

On Tuesday, Nov. 30, UNM will join in the global generosity movement known as “GivingTuesday” – and what better way to give back to the community then by supporting New Mexico’s flagship University? When you choose to give to The University of New...

Individuals who donate to the UNM Los Alamos (UNM-LA) endowment fund now have the unique opportunity to have their gift matched dollar-for-dollar – it’s part of the U.S. Department of Education Title V grant received by UNM-LA. This specific Title V...

Without a doubt, UNM-Taos pre-science freshman Sydnie Pino was nervous as she stood alone at a podium for the first time in her young life — waiting, for what seemed like an eternity, for the large crowd to settle in and the lights to dim. But her...

Senior Lecturer of Arabic Heather Sweetser from the Foreign Languages and Literatures department at The University of New Mexico first learned Arabic in the military at the Defense Language Institute back in the late 1990s. She enlisted as a linguist and...