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College of Arts & Sciences Dean Mark Peceny announces the appointment of Robert Jefferson as director of Africana Studies. He assumes the role July 1. Jefferson comes to UNM from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where he was director of t

The idea of locking in a guaranteed tuition cost at the University of New Mexico as an option is under review by the UNM Board of Regents. Regent Bradley Hosmer proposed the static tuition as a way to help students and their parents save money over ...

Albuquerque Fire Department’s Arson Team is investigating a fire in a vacant house near the University of New Mexico campus Wednesday morning. AFD and UNM police received a call around 9:30 a.m. of smoke coming from a house at 1815 Sigma Chi Road.  ...

Student Affairs is currently seeking nominations for the annual “Louie” awards. The deadline to submit a nomination is Friday, April 11. Nominations are being accepted for the following awards specific to employees in the Division of Student Affairs. ...

Lanzhou, China. It’s Albuquerque’s sister city, the capital and largest city in the Gansu Province, right in the middle of main land China. And it could become home to a UNM Sino-Foreign University, only the 5th such institution in existence in that ...

UNM Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Chaouki Abdallah has been elected to the inaugural Board of Directors of the Association of Chief Academic Officers (ACAO). 

It began in winter of 1945.  World War II was still raging. The “Southwestern Journal of Anthropology” published its first article, a scholarly work by Franz Weidenreich that began by stating how the Nazis had twisted and misinterpreted ...

The anonymous woman in the crowd has attended multiple memorials for children in Albuquerque, knowing that more are in her future. She is there as a parent, a grandparent and a concerned citizen, standing in alliance and a sense of merged ...

During Staff Appreciation Weekend, which begins this Friday, the Lobo softball and baseball teams will host “Green Awareness” games on Saturday, March 22 at 1 and 2 p.m., respectively The goal of the Green Awareness game is to help support UNM’s ...

Each year, UNM-Taos Executive Director Dr. Kate O’Neill spends the better part of January in the Roundhouse during the legislative session in Santa Fe, and I asked her to fill me in on some of this session’s highlights and comment on what to expect in ...