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Almost everyone has heard the expression “Safety first!” an admonition urging people to avoid any unnecessary risks and to act to stay safe. At The University of New Mexico, an event that started out as a simple idea to promote campus safety, has grown...

As COVID-19 swept across the world this year, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, it quickly became clear that one essential factor for controlling its spread is the ability to rapidly and accurately test for the virus causing it, SARS-CoV-2, as...

It was August 28, 1963, when civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in our nation’s capital. It was delivered in front of some 250,000 people at the "March on...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) has received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an innovative graduate education program centered in the University’s science museums. The Museum Research Training Program (MRT) is a...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $115 million over five years to the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA), a new research center led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) that will forge the technological solutions needed to...

As the state’s flagship university, The University of New Mexico takes pride in being a “community of unique perspectives embracing divergence, letting the very things that divide us become the things that connect us to each other. What makes us...

The path to change is often difficult to navigate and that is especially the case with the civil rights movement in the 60s and the present-day Black Lives Matter movement. In fact, many have said, ‘two steps forward, one step back.’ While progress has...

New Mexico’s Public Education Department (NMPED) invested in aspiring teachers this summer – helping fund the Albuquerque Teacher Residency Partnership (ATRP) program with a more than $250,000 grant. ATRP is a collaboration between The University of New...

Dogs have been companions to humans for centuries and played many roles as guardians, pets, hunting companions, and more. University of New Mexico Archaeology student Victoria Monagle has examined these relationships and recently collaborated with...

UNM welcomed its new Lobos with a first-of-its-kind virtual welcome celebration. Freshman Day was held Sunday, Aug. 16 and featured the “Lobo Launch” ceremony. It was the virtual edition of the Freshman Convocation Ceremony, held every fall in Popejoy...