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The University of New Mexico is partnering with a national defense training center to teach people how to handle an active shooter situation. Global One Defense is offering a one-day, immersive and interactive Active Shooter Survival Training through...

The University of New Mexico and the Mexican Consulate are helping students of Mexican origin succeed in higher education. UNM President Robert Frank and Consul of Mexico Efren Leyba signed a Memorandum of Understanding at a ceremony on the main campus,...

The University of New Mexico Board of Regents has approved a new university-wide, interdisciplinary Global & National Security Policy Institute (GNSPI). The purpose is to enhance UNM standing across the country in National Security, broadly defined, to...

The University of New Mexico Global Education Office announced the creation of a first-of-its-kind international academy for undergraduate women in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Architecture fields (STEM+A): The Innovation Academy for...

The Peace Corps recently announced its 2015 rankings of the top volunteer-producing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) nationwide, and University of New Mexico ranked No. 3 with 29 alumni currently serving in the Peace Corps.

University of New Mexico Associate Professor and Associate Chair of History A. K. Sandoval-Strausz will spend the 2015-16 academic year at Princeton University as a Distinguished Fellow in the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and...

Samuel Truett, Associate Professor of History, has been selected as a 2015-16 Fellow at the Institut d’Études Avancées (Institute for Advanced Study) in Nantes, France. 

Carnegie Corporation of New York announced the names of 32 Andrew Carnegie Fellows, a major new annual fellowship program that will provide support for scholars in the social sciences and humanities. University of New Mexico Associate Professor of...

The University of New Mexico honored Mauricio Ibarra Ponce de León recently with his reassignment from his post as Mexican Consul in Albuquerque to a position in Mexico City.

Before President Barack Obama announced in December his plan to normalize relations with Cuba, the University of New Mexico Latin American & Iberian Institute had been quietly operating trips to the island nation through its People to People and academic...