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Kevin WashburnThe U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of Dean Kevin Washburn to serve as assistant secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of Interior, the highest position in the federal government that focuses primarily on Indian ...

Secretary of Corrections Gregg Marcantel gestures to UNM students who will create a new and improved business model for the Corrections Industries Division.Students at the University of New Mexico's Anderson School of Management (ASM) will be at the ...

Pottery sherd from Lake Roberts Project in Southwestern New MexicoBeautiful vivid fragments of Mimbres pottery, tiny arrowheads smaller than a fingertip, seeds and bones of animals, metates used to grind corn, rocks chipped and shaped to form the head of ...

The Student Success Summit kicks off Foundations of Excellence at the University of New Mexico on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 8 a.m.-noon. UNM is one of several colleges and universities selected by the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate ...

Clockwise from front – graduate student Tonya Brunetti, research technician Sandy Duong, graduate student TyAnna Lovato and Research Assistant Professor and lead author Anton Bryantsev are key authors on the research. Photo credit: Antonio Banuelos.Did ...

Communication and collaboration can often be as difficult to organize in a large university as it is in establishing agreements between nations. At UNM, El Centro de la Raza, the Hispanic student support department; Chicano/Hispano/Mexicano Studies, the ...

UNM President Robert G. Frank has appointed Chaouki Abdallah to the position of Provost. In a letter to the UNM community, Frank spoke about the appointment and the reasons UNM will not do a national search."While a search would validate Dr. Abdallah's ...

Vince Clark's journey to speak at last weekend's TEDxABQ in Albuquerque started several years ago.It started with a father's love for his son, and his concern that his son wasn't receiving proper medical care, despite access he had to modern medicine and ...

Steve BrueckThe University of New Mexico will participate along with the University of Texas at Austin, the lead institution, and the University of California Berkeley on an $18.5 million, multi-year National Science Foundation grant to develop nanoscale ...

The high failure rate in many introductory courses can have ramifications beyond the class that can derail a student's future. "We need more scientists and engineers to solve the serious challenges the world faces, and this is where they start," said ...