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A recent University of New Mexico graduate was featured in a photo essay about affirmative action published by The New York Times. Andrew Michael Joseph, who graduated in May with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Honors Art Studio and a minor in Honors...

Kennedy Chavez-Silver’s life was forever changed in 2015 when her older brother was killed in a driveby shooting by a bullet intended for someone else. Jaydon Chavez-Silver, a 17-year-old with hopes of joining the United States Air Force, was standing...

Calling all Spring 2023 Grads! The UNM Alumni Association will be bringing a professional photographer and lighting the U turquoise on May 10, and red on May 11-12 to honor all 2023 graduates. Wednesday, May 10 from 5 to 7 p.m. - The U will be lit...

The UNM Alumni Association recently announced the award recipients of its 2023 Alumni Awards. After hours of combing through countless nominations for outstanding alumni and community members, the awards committee selected this year’s honorees. During...

He’s traded an elevation of 10,678 feet for one of over 19,347 feet–just to start. The sky's the limit for how much higher he can ascend. UNM alumnus Kyle Stepp has spent the last two years hiking, running, biking, and skiing around the world on a...

  It’s another accolade for University of New Mexico alumnus and Bay-area named “Super Lawyer” Loren Kieve.    Kieve has just been chosen for the 2022 John H. Pickering Achievement Award on behalf of the...

An alumnus of The University of New Mexico has made a generous gift to the UNM Sustainability Studies program to establish an endowed fund in the name of his beloved late wife. The substantial gift will be used to support the Sustainability Studies...

As the state’s flagship university, The University of New Mexico takes pride in being a “community of unique perspectives embracing divergence, letting the very things that divide us become the things that connect us to each other. What makes us...

Charles Edward Becknell Sr. is an example of living African American history and New Mexico state history. Becknell Sr. was the founding director of what is now The University of New Mexico's Africana Studies program directed by his son and namesake...

UNM alumna Nina Lanza, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, summarizes her job on her Twitter account, @marsninja, as “I shoot the lasers, pew pew.” Her career isn’t one young girls are traditionally encouraged to follow, but Lanza...