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Shannon Sanchez-Youngman got her undergraduate degree in political science at UNM. She briefly pursued a graduate degree at the University of Minnesota and conducted research there. "It was so abstract. I felt like I wanted to do something in the world," ...

Remember 7th grade social studies and learning about Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca? He was the Spanish explorer who landed in what is now Tampa Bay in the 1520s, made his way to Galveston, but most of his men didn't. You probably didn't learn about Cabeza ...

The Rio Grande Rift—the north-trending continental rift zone that extends from Colorado's central Rocky Mountains to Mexico—is not dead but geologically alive and active, according to a new study by scientists at the Cooperative Institute for Research in ...

The Pit will be howling with Lobo parents on Saturday, Feb. 11 when the UNM men's basketball team takes on Wyoming in the 4th Annual Parent Day at the Pit. The UNM Parent Association hosts the annual event to acquaint parents with the association, ...

basketball and cap. ">When asked if he could have one wish fulfilled during his twilight years, Gary Murphy, age 69, a native New Mexican, lifetime Lobo fan and a resident at Las Palomas Care and Rehabilitation Center—a skilled nursing center in ...

One hundred years ago, U.S. President William H. Taft signed the document that made New Mexico the 47th state of the union. UNM is celebrating with a new digital archive that throws open the photo collections of museums throughout the state. The archive ...

Princeton University History Professor Martha Sandweiss is the featured speaker for the 2011-2012 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture in Western History and Culture, presented by the UNM Department of History's Center for the Southwest. Sandweiss ...

Robert G. Frank was named UNM's 21st pres­i­dent.The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico Board of Regents has selected Robert G. Frank as the 21st pres­i­dent of UNM. Frank, 59, will suc­ceed David J. Schmidly, who announced in April 2011 that he would step down ...

For more than 25 years, UNM's Africana Studies Program has hosted a brunch ushering in Black History Month reflections for all of Albuquerque. This has traditionally been the first major UNM sponsored event of the Black History Month season. This year's ...

Annually, the University of New Mexico's Communications and Marketing Department (UCAM) releases its top-10 general news and research stories at UNM. Below is this year's research news list top-10 and the article UCAM published online recognizing the ...