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Amidst limited operations and a worldwide pandemic, the UNM Staff Council continues its mission of addressing issues impacting staff. Heading up that effort for the 2020-21 year are a new set of executive committee members. Effective June 18, Nancy...

Linda Mayo, director of The University of New Mexico's Office of the Institutional Review Board (OIRB), was honored recently for her service with the Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA) Legacy Award from Public Responsibility in Medicine...

Stefi Weisburd, education and outreach manager in the School of Engineering, was recently selected as a 2020 New Mexico Excellence in STEM Award winner. The annual awards, known as the “STEMYS,” are given by the Air Force Research Lab Tech Engagement...

A dedicated Lobo, Kim Kloeppel, is saying goodbye after 25 years at The University of New Mexico. Kloeppel is UNM’s Student Affairs associate director for finance and administration. However, throughout the years she’s filled several different roles...

All life is precious and that fact is recognized more so when you mourn someone you love. The value of those relationships with the individuals you lose once they are gone is magnified with that realization. Tears flow as friends, relatives and...

Across the Albuquerque Metro, groups continue answering the call to create masks needed to help curb the spread of COVID-19. In April, when the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommended cloth masks should be worn in public settings, UNM staff members...

Long-time Lobo Shelley Simms is retiring after 20 years of service at The University of New Mexico. After retiring, Simms plans to apply to the Occupational Therapy Assistant program at San Juan College.  Simms recently served as the administrative...

For more than two-and-a-half months, most staff at The University of New Mexico have been working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic that started sweeping the nation earlier this year. Since March 17, UNM has limited its operations and sent staff home...

When Julie Bustamante and Charlie Steen began their careers at UNM, Richard Nixon was president, and the now iconic images of Woodstock were still fresh along with humankind’s crowning achievement of landing on the moon had the world invigorated. Each...

The University of New Mexico’s Children’s Campus Director, Daniela Baca, has been appointed to serve on the state’s newly-formed COVID-Safe Practices (CSP) subcommittee for Early Childhood.  Daniela Baca Cabinet Secretary for the Early Childhood...