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Ten University of New Mexico graduate students attended the National Humanities Center’s Graduate Student Residency virtual program this month. The selected students are the inaugural cohort of a pilot collaboration between Graduate Studies and the...

Mellon Foundation has awarded The University of New Mexico a $2 million grant to support students in the Humanities at Central New Mexico Community College and UNM branch campuses in transferring to the UNM main campus in Albuquerque. The program is led by UNM Professor Irene Vasquez.

Three University of New Mexico professors are winners of the Crossing Latinidades Collaborative, Cross Institutional, and Comparative Research Working Groups and Latino Humanities Studies Grant Competition, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. The...

Every year, The University of New Mexico and Facilities Management (FM) implements the Winter Setback Program to conserve resources over the break. The program runs from Dec. 23 to Jan. 3. During this time, the temperatures in many unoccupied campus...

Tucked into a corner of the Albuquerque Museum sculpture garden just off the historic Old Town Plaza is A Garden: The Living Room. The public art + agroecology project was created by Land Arts of the American West...

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...

In his website biography, Subhankar Banerjee, Professor of Art & Ecology at The University of New Mexico, describes an experience on a trip to the Arctic in 2000 that showed him how the Earth was in crisis. “In one early morning, I was standing on...

The UNM Department of Art is reminding students of an upcoming scholarship application deadline. The Native American Environmental Arts and Humanities Scholarship is an interdisciplinary award for Native American students across all UNM colleges who are...

Called the ‘Dean of Chicano writers’, University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus and author Rudolfo Anaya is being honored by President Obama as one of 12 recipients of the 2015 National Humanities Medal.

UNM Associate Professor Carmen Nocentelli was recently selected as the winner of three highly-coveted fellowships for 2016-2017. She has elected to spend the year as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the ...