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You can help support patients at UNM Children’s Hospital and enjoy a free stack of pancakes during National Pancake Day on Tuesday, March 8.  From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., IHOP restaurants across New Mexico will participate in the 11th Annual National Pancake...

The University of New Mexico Board of Regents has approved a new university-wide, interdisciplinary Global & National Security Policy Institute (GNSPI). The purpose is to enhance UNM standing across the country in National Security, broadly defined, to...

For the seventh year, the Division of Student Affairs is partnering with the UNM BeKind Committee which includes members of UNM staff, students and the community to celebrate National Random Acts of Kindness, Feb. 3-17.  “Random Acts of Kindness was...

Scientists at the University of New Mexico conducted research to effectively study carbon emissions through fault systems in the East African Rift (EAR) in an effort to understand carbon emissions from the Earth’s interior and how it affects the...

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced today that it has chosen a cohort of inventors from around the world for election as 2015 NAI Fellows. UNM Distinguished Professors Steven R. J. Brueck and C. Jeffrey Brinker were among 168 distinguished...

Who decides what societies remember? Who writes the songs that are passed down from generation to generation? What is the meaning of monuments and how does that meaning develop and change over time? And how does a past event, once overlooked, become...

Emile Nakhleh, research professor and coordinator of National Security Programs at the University of New Mexico, speaks about political Islam, the Sunni-Shiite Divide and the continuing threats from ISIS Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 12 p.m. in the Communication...

In an effort to consolidate university efforts with the national laboratories, Provost Chaouki Abdallah announced that Dean of the School of Engineering Joseph Cecchi has been appointed as the new associate provost for national laboratory relations.

Two faculty members from the University of New Mexico School of Engineering will lead research activities for a new National Science Foundation Grant. Assistant Professor Ricardo Gonzalez-Pinzon and Associate Professor Andrew Schuler, both in the UNM ...

Victor Polyak, senior research scientist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UNM, was recently awarded the National Speleological Society (NSS) Science award for his dedication to the research of caves. Polyak manages the UNM Radiogenic...