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This week on New Mexico in Focus, national landmarks are among the country’s most important and iconic sites, and now they face real threats from rising sea levels, fires and epic floods. A new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists is sounding

This week on New Mexico in Focus, host Gene Grant continues his conversation with U.S. Senator Tom Udall with a discussion on climate change and water. Udall is supporting an executive order by President Barack Obama to cut carbon emissions by 30 ...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Host Gene Grant sits down with Senator Tom Udall in the first of a two-part interview.  This week, the focus is on the investigation into the scandal surrounding Veterans Administration hospitals in several states, ...

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

University of New Mexico Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rhonda Brulotte will travel to Oaxaca, Mexico this later this year. 

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.