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More than 2.5 inches of rain fell in two hours in the vicinity of the UNM campus Friday night and early Saturday morning causing a vareity of problems as water overwhelmed the drainage systems, backed up in low-lying areas and entered under doors, flow

The University of New Mexico has had 125 years to cultivate its postcard perfect green space. At every turn people are greeted by well-tended gardens, contoured grassy knolls and regal trees of all shapes and sizes. Bryan Suhr and his staff are ...

Perhaps you have a business idea that has been incubating in the back of your mind, but school and work keep you too busy to convert an idea into action. Or perhaps you simply don’t know where or how to get started in entrepreneurship. If the thought ...

The UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC), the UNM Information Technologies (IT) Department, the UNM Cancer Center (UNMCC), and UNM Health Sciences Center IT have collaborated to establish a dedicated, high-throughput, cross-campus link ...

Richard L. Wood, chair, University of New Mexico Department of Sociology, announced the July 16 death of Tomás Atencio, a sociology alumnus who also served many years as a lecturer in the department. Atencio was 81. “Tomás Atencio was deeply dedicated ...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Santa Fe resident and author George R.R. Martin of "Game of Thrones” fame talks about his creative process, the pressure from fans to finish the series of books, and how he creates and keeps track of hundreds of ...

Dymaneke Mitchell has been appointed director of Assessment announced University of New Mexico Provost Chaouki Abdallah. Mitchell is an assistant professor and director of accreditation and assessment at Albany State University in Albany, Ga. Her appoi

This fall, the University of New Mexico is offering three massive open online courses or MOOC’s through Coursera, a company developed by professors at Stanford University to reach out to students who don’t want to step onto campus.

The University of New Mexico Alumni Association hosts a Lobo Living Room event, “Geronimo, the Chiricahua Warrior,” with speaker Paul Hutton on Thursday, Aug. 14 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. at Hodgin Hall Alumni Center Plaza. Geronimo, the Chiricahua warrior, ...

Claudia Barreto, a biology professor at University of New Mexico-Valencia branch, is one of five individuals to receive a special tribute by the Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) at a national ...