Faculty News

The Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee and the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) are now accepting nominations of outstanding educators at UNM. Nominations are now being accepted. Instructors, students and staff are eligible to nominate...

The New Mexico Network for Women in Science in Engineering (NMNWSE) recently honored Laura Crossey, professor and chair of the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico, with the Ninth Annual IMPACT! Award. The award is...

University of New Mexico Emeritus Professor of English Gary Scharnhorst authored, Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics: Letters to the Editor, which has been selected for inclusion on Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles list, scheduled to appear...

A new book written by The University of New Mexico Department of Sociology chair, Richard Wood, takes an in depth look at the work being done to overcome racial inequality in the United States and to figure out how we, as a society, work across the racial divides we’ve inherited.

The Office of Academic Affairs has announced the appointment of William Stanley as director of the Latin American Iberian Institute (LAII). Executive Vice President and Provost Chaouki Abdallah said, “Bill Stanley has a long history at the University...

A major study linking writing to undergraduate learning and development shows that three features of writing assignments—an interactive writing process, a meaning-making writing task and clear writing expectations—are each positively associated with ...

Tiffany N. Florvil, an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Department of History, has been awarded the 2015 Dr. Richard M. Hunt Fellowship for the Study of German Politics, Society, and Culture.

University of New Mexico Professor Roger Schluntz, FAIA, was recently appointed by the Paris based International Union of Architects (UIA) to the UIA’s International Competitions Commission (ICC) in recognition of his long experience with professional...

Meriah Heredia-Griego has been appointed director of the UNM Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) by UNM Vice President for Research Michael Dougher. Heredia-Griego was associate director and research assistant professor at CEPR prior to her...

Two University of New Mexico professors, who are also husband and wife, will travel to the other side of the world this summer to teach and do research at the University of Tasmania (UTAS). One half of this duo is Tema Milstein, a UNM Presidential...