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Anna Nogar, associate professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico, became interested in the intriguing story of a 17th century cloistered Spanish nun in her undergrad years 20 years...

In 2015, professors Blair Wolf and Chris Witt from The University of New Mexico Biology department traveled to Peru to examine how hummingbirds survived the extreme Andes Mountains temperatures. Witt received a National Science Foundation grant to...

Almost 140 years after his death, the man born Henry McCarty  ̶  but better known as Billy the Kid  ̶  continues to exert a sense of fascination and romance. Two books about the outlaw, who spent the last part of his life in New Mexico, will be...

The University of New Mexico's Planning, Design and Construction seeks community feedback on proposed site improvements for corner of Central and Girard on UNM's main campus.    The Albuquerque design firm, MRWM Landscape Architects, has proposed three...

The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico (ASUNM), with support from UNM Planning, Design & Construction (PDC), will host a community outreach workshop on Wednesday, March 4 to gain feedback on proposed site improvements for UNM Main...

For the 19th consecutive summer, Dr. Eliseo “Cheo” Torres, vice president for Student Affairs and professor of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies, hosts the “Traditional Medicine without Borders: Curanderismo in the Southwest and Mexico,”...

Although my mother wasn’t a curandera — or traditional healer — she should have been one. Growing up on a rural farm away from populated areas made healthcare harder to come by. “Don’t you dare get sick,” she would say to me and my siblings. “And if you...

Graduate Fellows at the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences are working alongside staff at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections to showcase some of the unique special collection items as part of the “Secrets of the...

What do wedding photos, dance cards, queer memorabilia and the infamous Love/Lust poem have in common? That’s the question UNM archivists will answer at an upcoming Valentine’s Day event.  Love in the Archives is happening Feb. 14 at the Center for...

Eliseo “Cheo” Torres is once again taking his popular two-week in person summer Mexican Traditional Healing, or Curanderismo class, to the world-wide stage through Coursera online learning.  For the past 18 years, Torres has been teaching an in person...