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This week on New Mexico in Focus, a talk with Brian Jay Jones, author of “Jim Henson: The Biography,” who gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the creative genius behind the Muppets. While there have been books about his work, this is the first ...

The bookstore at the University of New Mexico hosts Professor Gabriel Meléndez on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 1 p.m. for a discussion and signing of his new children's book, “The Legend of Ponciano Guitérrez and the Mountain Thieves.”  The book tells the tale ...

When the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning and School of Engineering teamed up with their counterparts at Arizona State University to compete in the Solar Decathlon, they knew challenges would arise by having participants in ...

Adjunct Professor Ian Maddieson, Department of Linguistics, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowned upon members by their peers. This year, 388 ...

Have you heard the one about a woman, a priest, two ministers and a rabbi? Sounds like the beginning of a joke, doesn’t it? It was a beginning, but not of a joke. In 1887, Denver, Colo. Frances Wisebart Jacobs, Rev. Myron Reed, Msgr. William O’Ryan, ...

“We are made of star stuff,” UNM Choral Director Bradley Ellingboe, said, quoting astronomer Carl Sagan. “Everything in the universe vibrates. Planets spin and hum. Sound exists in light, but our ears aren’t tuned to it,” Ellingboe said. The universe, ...

UNM-Taos Executive Director, Kate O’Neill was one of only 18 college and university directors from across the nation recently invited to attend a meeting in Chicago sponsored by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) serving over ...

The University of New Mexico Art Museum hosts the fall 2013 Book Club on Tuesday, Nov. 26 from 5:30 -7 p.m. in the main gallery. The club discusses “Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings” by James Elkins. ...

The UNM Student Success Center hosts "Operation: Registration" on Monday, Dec. 2 from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. The event, which will be held at the Student Success Center at Casas Del Rio, Hokona Zia Hall, the Student Residence Center and Coronado Hall, ...

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 ...