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When Faculty Senate met last month to vote to designate Chicana and Chicano Studies a department, more than 100 people congregated in the hallway waiting anxiously to hear the result of the vote. When it was approved, the crowd erupted in jubilation. No...

UNM Career Services hosts an etiquette dinner for students Tuesday, March 24 from 5 to 8 p.m. in the SUB Ballroom. The goal of the event is for students to learn networking basics, proper topics of conversation, correct place setting and more in ...

The University of New Mexico Board of Regents unanimously approved a master plan for the seven-acre Innovate ABQ site, located at Central Ave. and Broadway Blvd. – the site of the former First Baptist Church.

Balancing the business needs of a University with those of its employees and retirees requires foresight, analysis, creativity and stakeholder representation. Adjustments to health care benefits have been the subject of much debate and negotiation in...

It may be difficult to imagine a time before university campuses were as diverse as they are today, but the time when they were the sole preserves of men is still well within living memory. Dr. Louise Lamphere, professor emerita at the University of New...

As part of its spring seminar series, STC.UNM, UNM’s technology-transfer and economic-development office, hosts two seminars on Tuesday, March 17. Featured speakers include Steven Lundberg and Nicholas Lanzatella, attorneys with Schwegman, Lundbert &...

This week New Mexico in Focus Correspondent Gwyneth Doland presents both sides of the debate over labor legislation known as "right to work." The proposal is supported by Gov. Susana Martinez and passed the New Mexico House this session, but was blocked...

The College of Education at the University of New Mexico is scheduled for a Fall 2015 NCATE-legacy accreditation review by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).

UNM now has a total of six photovoltaic (PV) solar panel systems and one solar thermal storage system after the most recent installation at the UNM West campus. The $465,000 project has been completed and is now generating approximately 70 percent of the...

'Xylotheque: Essays' by Yelizaveta P. Renfro won the 2013–2014 Sarton Memoir Award. The Sarton Memoir Award is sponsored by the Story Circle Network (SCN), an international nonprofit association of women writers.