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UNM now has a total of six photovoltaic (PV) solar panel systems and one solar thermal storage system after the most recent installation at the UNM West campus. The $465,000 project has been completed and is now generating approximately 70 percent of the...

UNM West hosts it's first-ever Earth Day Fair on Wednesday, April 23 from 11 a.m. — 4 p.m. The Earth Day Fair and Celebration will include: UNM Sustainability Studies Representatives La Montanita Co-op will have free veggie starters Recycleable ...

The University of New Mexico Board of Regents has approved "in principle," the expansion of the Albuquerque Institute of Math and Science, AIMS@UNM, to the UNM West campus in Rio Rancho. AIMS and UNM West personnel have been asked to engage area ...

Criminology, sociology and communication are among the University of New Mexico degrees students can complete in their entirety at UNM West in Rio Rancho, campus chief executive officer Wynn Goering announced today. Full-time faculty are being hired ...

In a famous scene at the end of the 1972 movie, “The Candidate,” victorious Robert Redford pulls his campaign manager aside on election night and urgently whispers, “What do we do now?!”   I might have had a similar reaction to last month’s election

UNM President Robert Frank has started discussions with the Faculty Senate about the future of UNM West.  Frank said he would like to build the academic program at the campus on three pillars...

Voters in Rio Rancho voted to keep a gross receipts tax in place for higher education in a special election held Tuesday. The Municipal Higher Education Facilities Gross Receipts Tax would have been reduced from one-fourth of one percent to one-eighth ...

The UNM West Advisory Council presents Don Bullis, local historian and author, delivering the lecture, "New Mexico's Struggle for Statehood: 1846-1912," on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 3:30 – 5 p.m. at the UNM West campus, lecture hall 1225. UNM West is ...

"Gateways to Lupus" sculpture designed by Rio Rancho artist Matthew Lutz for UNM-West campusUniversity of New Mexico-West hosts an unveiling of two public artworks on their campus on Tuesday, Sept. 18 from 4-5p.m. UNM-West is located at 2600 College Blvd ...

The City of Rio Rancho and UNM West are seeking exterior public art for the campus in a proposed open space corridor that will form the center of the UNM West campus as it develops. The view space will be shared by Rio Rancho City Hall.Artists are ...