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Meng Zhang, a second year Ph.D. student in anthropology, is learning the scientific research techniques of an anthropologist under the mentorship of UNM Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus. Zhang, who recently won the “C

A group of people gathered to watch as a crane slowly lowered a damaged helicopter from the roof of the six-story University of New Mexico Hospital on Saturday, April 12. Many of the UNM employees closely involved in the operation were elsewhere – in o

Without fanfare, Gov. Susana Martinez has signed legislation aimed at putting the lottery scholarship fund back on a solvent track. Wednesday, March 12 was the last day for the Governor to act on bills passed in the 2014 legislative session.

Mentoring can be traced back to ancient Greece as a practice of instructing youth on the importance of education and personal values. Socrates mentored, Plato, who mentored Aristotle, who mentored Alexander the Great, the most famous mentor-mentee ...

First published in 1980 and now available only from the University of New Mexico Press, this classic compilation of New Mexico folk music is based on 35 years of field research by a giant of modern music. Composer John Donald Robb (1892–1989), a ...

UNM will soon have much more computing power under its belt.  Enough to sequence the genomic data for thousands of people in New Mexico over the next several years.

The House of Representatives this afternoon approved the state budget contained in SB 313 with a vote of  58 - 8  and applause for legislators and staff who crafted the compromise.This comes nearly two weeks after the House failed to pass the budget ...

The NM Senate has unanimously passed a state budget and applauded itself for the accomplishment.  Their version of the General Appropriations Act, contained in SB 313, calls for spending of $6.19 billion or a 5 percent increase. 

The Senate went for more than six hours on Sunday night and got some work done. 

When the Higher Education funding proposals left House Appropriations Monday evening, it was with the firm directive from committee members that the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) and the executive branch, represented by the Higher Education Dept...