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The University of New Mexico Board of Regents approved the Naming Selection Committee’s recommendation to rename Hodgin Hall Alumni Center Plaza.  The new name will be the Dr. Karen Abraham Courtyard in honor of the retiring associate vice president ...

The University of New Mexico is poised to hit record highs in its third semester retention, four-year and six-year graduation rates this fall, as the university continues to make significant progress toward the key goals outlined by Gov. Susana Martinez...

The University of New Mexico is launching a major branding initiative this fall, as a way to re-imagine how people define, view and experience UNM. The primary goals behind this effort are to elevate UNM’s relevance and reputation, increase enrollment,...

UNM Political Science Professor Lonna Atkeson is one of two recipients of the Society for Political Methodology’s 2015 Excellence in Mentoring Award anounced recently. The award committee wrote this in the citation for Atkeson. “The committee wishes ...

Gov. Susana Martinez was on the University of New Mexico campus Wednesday kicking off her Summit on Higher Education. As the event’s keynote speaker, Martinez discussed a variety of issues facing higher education; focusing on the need for a more unified...

UNM students have an opportunity this year to think about the issue of immigration, not really from a political point of view, but from the viewpoint of immigrants. This year's book for the Lobo Reaching Experience is “Enrique’s Journey,” a novel based...

Reed Benson, Weihofen Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law, has been named Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Water and the Environment at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada.  

There were not large numbers of people in the eighth century living in what is now the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico, but the inhabitants who were there really valued cacao and holly beverages which were both high in caffeine. A new...

A University of New Mexico alumnus is helping develop state-of-the-art laser technology designed to protect troops overseas. Isaac Neal currently works in the Laser & Electro Optical Systems organization within The Boeing Company as a Guidance,...

In a new book, ”Accounting at War,” Michele Chwastiak, an associate professor of Accounting at the University of New Mexico and Warwick Funnell, a professor of Accounting and Public Sector Accountability and Head of Accounting and Finance Group at Kent Business School in the United Kingdom examine the way accounting can mask reality.