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There’s going to be an active system on UNM’s main campus and around the Albuquerque Metro Area this weekend. In the forecast, Spring Storm and Fiestas 2016.  

The search for general trends in evolution of animal shape and size often comes up empty. Rather, evolution tends to be unpredictable, leading toward different forms in different places. Groundbreaking new work has revealed a predictable trend in...

Victoria Bowler and Milena Carvalho both arrived last fall at The University of New Mexico excited to begin graduate work in the Department of Anthropology. Bowler had been a U.S. Park Service ranger at sites throughout the southwest and was ready to do...

Thanks to the generosity of an Albuquerque couple, The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is now the first school or college in the University to hold an endowed dean’s position. Jim and Ellen King’s gift of $500,000 will create the Jim and...

Founded in recognition of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, a scholarship fund that recognizes distinguished students in the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering, has been bestowed on two University of New Mexico students including Julian Vigil...

Silent for decades, musical treasures recovered from a dumpster in Jerome, Arizona are being brought back to life. The University of New Mexico’s Honors College in collaboration with the New Mexico Philharmonic and in partnership with the National...

UNM Associate Professor Carmen Nocentelli was recently selected as the winner of three highly-coveted fellowships for 2016-2017. She has elected to spend the year as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the ...

Michael Devetsikiotis, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been selected as the next chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of New Mexico.  Devetsikiotis is a...

It’s been about a year since the Chicana & Chicano Studies (CCS) program became an official department at The University of New Mexico. But, in that short amount of time, the unit has undertaken its first self-study and external review, shedding light on some impressive gains.

More than a dozen high school students from around the world visited The University of New Mexico campus recently. The trip was the result of a new partnership between UNM’s Africana Studies program and United World College-USA (UWC-USA), a two-year residential school for international teenagers.