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A group of UNM-Gallup students who are members of the Gallup Land Partners, LLC (“GLP”) Entrepreneurship Program funded by Robert W. Roche were recently treated to a tour of City Hall by Mayor Jackie McKinney.

“I didn’t tell anybody – I just did it. I made the decision on my own,” Kyon Benally said of his decision to get a passport, travel outside of the United States for the first time in his life, and represent his Navajo heritage, UNM, New Mexico and an...

Extreme climate events such as an El Niño or La Niña weather patterns can wreak havoc on global economies, health systems, and plant and animal communities. In tropical Costa Rica, where rainfall is usually abundant, researchers from the University of...

Dorothy Baca, renowned costume designer and professor of Theater Costume Design at the University of New Mexico, spent five weeks this fall teaching and lecturing at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) in Carmarthen, Wales where, according to legend, the great Arthurian sorcerer Merlin was born.

The Consulate of Mexico in Albuquerque in partnership with the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce recently welcomed and celebrated 96 college students and faculty visiting from Mexico who are studying the English language for one month through ...

The Dean of Students Office hosts its fall semester Campus Safety Walk on Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. Interested participants should meet in the SUB Ballroom. Additionally, in conjunction with the main campus safety walk, the UNM Health Science Center h

A crowd of more than 300 flooded Keller Hall recently to hear 2006 Nobel Prize winner John C. Mather speak on the James Webb Space Telescope and the principles of its operation. If all goes according to plan, said Mather, this uniquely powerful ...

More Hispanic students than ever are returning to the University of New Mexico for their sophomore year, taking a big step toward graduation. President Robert G. Frank announced the retention rate of Hispanic students going into the third semester hit ...

The Farris Engineering building, constructed in 1967, sits directly across the street from Hodgin Hall, the oldest building at UNM. Hodgin Hall is great for nostalgia, tradition and history, but 47-year-old Farris exudes no charm...

University of New Mexico Vice President for Student Affairs Eliseo “Cheo” Torres is internationally acclaimed for his traditional medicine – curandero – course, that he teaches every summer. Not content to reach only those who can travel to ...