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A ranch house and outbuildings owned by the University of New Mexico north of Cochiti Lake have been completely destroyed after a series of weather-related catastrophes over the summer. The ranch house and buildings were used by the Anthropology ...

Claudia Anguiano, a 2011 Mellon Fellow at UNM has closely watched the progress of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) act as it moves through the U.S. Congress since it was first introduced in 2001. She has had a long term ...

Elaine Marie Nelson is moving into her new office at the University of Minnesota, Morris, where she is now an assistant professor of History. She completed her Mellon Fellowship at the University of New Mexico in the spring and will be teaching three ...

All four buildings UNM owns on the former John Young Ranch property in northern New Mexico were damaged in the Las Conchas fire. The most serious damage was done to the main house where the Dept. of Anthropology normally conducts field schools for ...

The public art of sculptor Luis Jimenez has been an inspiration for Eric Castillo, a Mellon Fellow who recently completed his dissertation, "Expressions of Another Center: Borderlands Visual theory & the Art of Luis Jimenez." Castillo graduated in May. ...

Mellon Fellow Andrea Mays began thinking about stories and race when she was a kid watching old movies on television when she came home from school. "I loved old black and white movies, not only for the fact that they were really these elaborate ...

When Karen Roybal began attending land grant association meetings in New Mexico as part of her job at the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, she noticed that women were an important part of the discussion. Land grants given by the Spanish and Mexican ...

UNM Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Patricia L. Crown will lecture on "Chocolate Consumption, Exchange and Ritual in the American Southwest" on Friday, April 29, at 7 p.m. at the Maxwell Museum. The lecture is free and the public is welcome. A ...

On Saturday, April 30, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology will host a food sampling event at 2 p.m. as part of the Food and Life series, a two part program that explores the cultural significance of traditional foodways and the archaeological, historic ...

Lewis Robert Binford, UNM's Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor Emeritus died last week in Kirksville, Mo. He was 79. Binford was internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in changing the focus of archeology from objects to people, and the ...