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It’s not just a song, an album or an artist. It’s not simply a genre, or something you hear walking through a plaza or a restaurant. It is so much more than music; it’s a history, it’s a culture, it’s a lifestyle.    Mariachi, associated with an image...

UNM’s School of Public Administration (SPA) is not only celebrating the launch of an entirely new, groundbreaking program, but public service itself. On Sept. 26, SPA welcomed the greater campus and Albuquerque community to commemorate the official...

University of New Mexico Provost James Holloway has announced three finalists to visit campus for the position of dean at the College of Arts and Sciences. The finalists include Alfred Lopez, Jennifer Malat, and Thomas Mote.  Each candidate will hold...

It’s an old equation with a new solution. Now, new funding, plus a new UNM team is going to equal more STEM educators in New Mexico.  The National Science Foundation (NSF) has just awarded a UNM cross-campus collaboration a $1.49 million grant. That...

One researcher at The University of New Mexico is leading the charge to better care for and understand a diagnosis which affects dozens of babies taking their first breath.  Psychology Associate Professor Benjamin Clark is studying memory loss in those...

Arash Mafi, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of New Mexico, has accepted a similar position as executive dean for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. Mafi will...

The University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts has announced that the first Lydia Rede Madrid Endowed Scholarship has been awarded to Ellan Luna. Luna comes to UNM from Kentucky where she received her BFA in printmaking from the University of...

A small shift in boundaries can have a drastic impact.  That’s why the tiniest bending of a line turned into a hard-fought battle for fairness in New Mexico’s redistricting process, a painstaking redrawing of state election districts following a new...

The recently established Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities at The University of New Mexico announced its inaugural awardees of the undergraduate Native American Environmental Arts and Humanities Scholarship. This interdisciplinary scholarship...

Two University of New Mexico alumni are among the 59 artists who have been selected to show their work in the State of the Art 2020 exhibit at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and its satellite The Momentary in Bentonville, Ark. Frank Blazquez...