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In 1889, the University of New Mexico began with a transformational gift of land where UNM was built and remains to this day as New Mexico’s flagship university. 125 years later, UNM has received another transformational gift that will impact ...

Provost Chaouki Abdallah has announced the appointment of Salvador Hector Ochoa as the dean of the College of Education at the University of New Mexico. Ochoa is currently a professor and dean of the College of Education at the University of Texas Pan ...

Anthropology graduate student William Taylor is spending his summer field season in Mongolia searching for information about how early inhabitants interacted with horses. Taylor is interested in people of the “Deer Stone-Khirigsuur” culture, who lived ...

UNM celebrates a milestone in a nearly three year effort to improve the experience of first year students.  The Foundations of Excellence project involved more than 200 faculty members, staff and students who volunteered...

Her name is Naia, and for thousands and thousands of years, the skeleton of this young woman was buried underwater in an elaborate cave system in the Yucatan Peninsula after she had apparently fallen into what was then a dry deep pit. Now, a team of...

The University of New Mexico Department of History, along with the American Historical Association and three other universities, shares in a $1.6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at diversifying job opportunities for those who ...

University of New Mexico Vice President for Administration and Chief Operating & Chief Financial Officer David Harris recently announced a nationwide search for the vice president for Human Resources. Currently, Jewel Washington is serving as interim ...

A mixture of faculty members, venture capitalists, local economic development officials and members of the business community recently met at the University of New Mexico’s Student Union Building to discuss ways to work together.

The University of New Mexico Historic Preservation Committee (HPC) is receiving an award from the state’s Cultural Properties Review Committee for work with the Getty Campus Heritage Grant Program. The award will be presented at the 42nd annual ...

Some people are said to wear their emotions on their sleeves, but how about displayed on a projector?