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The University of New Mexico is in the middle of its 2020 UNM Gives United Way campaign, which runs through #GivingTuesday on Dec. 1. Highlighting the university’s commitment to the United Way of Central New Mexico (UWCNM) is one way to express The...

Voters in New Mexico once again gave higher education in the State of New Mexico a stamp of approval with the passage of General Obligation (GO) Bond C. The $155 million bond that will provide funding for more than 60 projects at colleges and...

UNM students, faculty and researchers are being featured in the annual New Mexico Water Conference. For the first time in 65 years of putting on the event, New Mexico Water Resource Research Institute is holding the entire conference online. What is...

It may come as a surprise to many people that New Mexico has been a film capital for over a century, even before it became a state. In 1898, inventor and early motion pioneer Thomas Edison arrived in Albuquerque to capture on 50 seconds of film a group...

Students on campus may have encountered a change in their visual surroundings recently when crossing Smith Plaza or walking by the McKinnon Center for Management. On the north side of Zimmerman Library, a whimsical large-scale sculpture titled Stone,...

Anna Nogar, associate professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico, became interested in the intriguing story of a 17th century cloistered Spanish nun in her undergrad years 20 years...

In the August installment of Our Land, environmental correspondent Laura Paskus revisits the Gold King Mine spill and the destructive impact of the toxic orange plume that went flowing down the Animas and San Juan rivers five years ago. The waste that...

Can you hold a successful international scientific conference amid a global pandemic? Yes! Establishing a new tradition of collaboration and research excellence, the Virtual SynCell2020 Symposium was held online in late-May with 715 registered virtual...

Almost 140 years after his death, the man born Henry McCarty  ̶  but better known as Billy the Kid  ̶  continues to exert a sense of fascination and romance. Two books about the outlaw, who spent the last part of his life in New Mexico, will be...

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has announced the regional and national winners in its 'Mark of Excellence Awards,' and the lists include New Mexico News Port, an independent news lab based at The University of New Mexico's Communication...