Faculty News

Each year, the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) at The University of New Mexico hosts its annual teaching awards to recognize outstanding work from faculty excelling in the classroom. This year, the Center for Teaching Excellence, Graduate Studies...

The entire campus community is invited to join President Garnett Stokes and her husband, Jeff, at a reception in honor of several outstanding academic leaders who have served in critical roles at UNM to advance our Flagship mission. The reception, which...

Leadership changes are coming to the UNM School of Architecture and Planning (SA&P). Long-term Dean Geraldine Forbes Isais recently announced she will be stepping down and returning to the faculty. Mark Childs, SA&P professor and associate dean of...

University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Spanish Enrique R. Lamadrid was recently awarded the National Prize “Enrique Anderson Imbert” 2019 of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE). This award – the...

The University of New Mexico recognized nearly 500 honorees recently at its 38th Annual Service Awards ceremony, whose service totaled 9,860 years of service to the University. “Today’s ceremony is important because it gives us the opportunity to...

The documentary Trenzas: Margaret Montoya Stories will be featured in the Waters Room in Zimmerman Library on April 29 at 2 p.m. The documentary tells the story of Margaret Montoya, the first Latina to be admitted to Harvard Law School. The documentary...

University of New Mexico President Garnett S. Stokes has appointed Dr. James Paul Holloway as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, effective July 1, 2019. “Dr. Holloway is an inspired choice for UNM Provost, and we are thrilled to...

UNM’s Department of History Associate Professor Kimberly Gauderman was recently chosen as one of twelve inaugural recipients for the Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship from the American Council of Learn Societies.

For decades, Scott Collins has studied the impacts of natural disturbances and environmental change on grasslands in North America and South Africa to learn how rainfall variability, temperature changes and shrub encroachment affect these globally...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering’s transportation program are offering their expertise to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta to help ease traffic congestion...