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The University of New Mexico’s Information Technologies was recently named as one of eight recipients for the prestigious Piñon Recognition, by Quality New Mexico, administrator of the New Mexico Performance Excellence Awards. Five other entities were ...

Albuquerque Rescue Mission has been blessed by many students, and student organizations, over the years, who have been part of our success. The most recent is a group of communication students who collected items ...

On Tuesday evening, the NASA Wallops Flight Facility launched a Minotaur 1 rocket with 13 small satellites aboard, including one constructed by University of New Mexico researchers and students. UNM's Trailblazer satellite is now in orbit and is ...

The University of New Mexico is often the site for controversial issues that are part of the city, state or national scene. Once again, UNM is at the center of a broader controversy brewing in the city of Albuquerque in advance of an election on ...

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Louise Lamphere received the Franz Boas Award for exemplary service to Anthropology recently from the American Anthropological Association. The award is presented annually by the AAA to its members whose careers ...

It’s called the Zombie Outbreak Response Team or ZORT for short, but this intrepid team of zombie hunters at the University of New Mexico-run AIMS charter school isn’t tracking down the brain-eating parasites. Instead, they are learning about ...

It’s an idea that’s a part of a larger development, but the possibility of a sports bar-themed restaurant involving former UNM football star Brian Urlacher moved a step closer to reality recently. Last winter, the UNM Board of Regents approved ...

Education, job growth and economic development took center stage in Mayor Richard Berry’s state of the city address for 2013 recently.  Among the initiatives that are part of his vision for the next four years, Mayor Berry highlighted the city’s ...

The U.S. Census Bureau today released the latest statistics from the American Community Survey, which cover a three-year period from 2010-2012 and are available for areas with a population of 20,000 or more. The statistics show the median home value ...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Biology are studying the rate and fitness effects of spontaneous mutations, a central area of study in evolution and biology. The research, enabled through a three-year, $750,000 ...