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UNM Student Services, under the Division of Student Affairs, was recently awarded a U.S. Department of Education HSI Title V Part A grant for $2.6 million. The five-year grant is awarded to higher education institutions to increase their capacity to ...

Smith’s Food & Drug Stores has donated $2 million to children’s hospitals in the Intermountain West as part of its annual campaign to support charity healthcare programs for injured and sick children who are less fortunate. University of New Mexico ...

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 ...

In the three short years since the Indigenous Design + Planning Institute (iD+Pi) was established at the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, the institute’s faculty, staff and students have completed two major projects – one ...

Richard L. Wood, chair, University of New Mexico Department of Sociology, announced the July 16 death of Tomás Atencio, a sociology alumnus who also served many years as a lecturer in the department. Atencio was 81. “Tomás Atencio was deeply dedicated ...

The University of New Mexico School of Law Corinne Wolfe Children’s Law Center received the 2014 Outstanding Program Award from the State Bar of New Mexico. The award was presented at the recent State Bar annual meeting. “The Corinne Wolfe Children’s ...

John Russell, director of the University of New Mexico’s Formula SAE program and Halliburton Professor of Mechanical Engineering, received the organization’s top award for his many years of work with students in the LOBOMotorSports program.

Students write all the time. They text, they tweet, they write Facebook posts, but what happens when they try to write a paper, or when they graduate and are asked to write an analysis of a technical problem, a contract or a professional paper?

Hanging in Doug Brown’s office is a framed card giving him free access to all Major League Baseball parks in 1981. As a successful businessman, he had lots of connections. As dean of the Anderson School of Management, he brought those contacts to UNM t

Her name is Naia, and for thousands and thousands of years, the skeleton of this young woman was buried underwater in an elaborate cave system in the Yucatan Peninsula after she had apparently fallen into what was then a dry deep pit. Now, a team of...