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Registration is now open for the Homecoming 5K Team Challenge set for Saturday, Oct. 26 at 8 a.m.. Be a part of the inaugural UNM Homecoming 5K Team Challenge where teams of two will race to complete challenges along a 5K trail on the UNM North Golf...

Penguins at the Albuquerque’s BioPark were just chilling – literally – one recent morning soon after the new exhibit opened, snacking on fish, and hopping off a rocky promontory to take a dip in the water that fills their glass enclosure. Soon the space...

Quiz yourself to see if what you know about the New Mexico Court system is more fact or Hollywood fiction. The next Lobo Living Room takes place Thursday, Sept. 19, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the UNM School of Law on the north campus. Four UNM alumnus...

The University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics (IOM) will celebrate its 75th anniversary during UNM’s Homecoming Week on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 24-25. World-renowned, UNM’s IOM was founded in 1944 as one of the first institutions in the...

The pack is hitting the road with The University of New Mexico Lobo Football team as they take on the Fighting Irish on Sept. 14 at 2:30 p.m. CDT at Notre Dame Stadium. This historic game is uniting all Lobos across the U.S. and at home. If you can’t...

A UNM Alumnus and captain of the 2008 College Bowl team will soon be back in the national spotlight.  Jason Zuffranieri, who led the UNM College Bowl team to a second-place finish 11 years ago, is competing on “Jeopardy!” Friday, July 19 at 6 p.m. on...

Shelece Easterday, who received her Ph.D. in linguistics from The University of New Mexico in 2017, has received this year’s Joseph Greenberg Award from the Association for Linguistic Typology for the best piece of typological research embodied in a...

Critically-acclaimed poet and former UNM student and faculty member Joy Harjo is the new United States Poet Laureate – the first Native American to hold the position.  “It’s not just me carrying this title, it has to do with my family, my people, this...

The University of New Mexico Young Alumni (UNMYA) has announced its 2019-2020 advisory board.  The UNMYA board consists of 16 dedicated volunteers who lead committees, events and programs for both young alumni and soon-to-be graduates of UNM. Members of...

As the nation heads into Memorial Weekend, the unofficial start of summer, The University of New Mexico wants to recognize and honor the men and women who died while serving in the military, those who continue to bravely serve and those who have...