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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...

Makayla Grijalva is probably best known at The University of New Mexico for her work at Advance and the Daily Lobo. She’s skilled at multimedia story-telling through writing, shooting and editing video, photography, live video production, and web and...

This week on New Mexico in Focus correspondent Megan Kamerick talks with researchers at The University of New Mexico who are among hundreds of scientists around the world working to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus that has led to the death of...

Staff and volunteers made big plans to roll out a celebration for Agora Crisis Center’s 50 anniversary, but everything, other than a commitment to serve others, came to a halt as the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the nation. “It’s a huge milestone and...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Laura Paskus continues with her series of interviews with journalists around the state as they cover COVID-19 in their communities. Algernon D’Ammassa, a reporter with the Las Cruces Sun-News who lives in...