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During times of inclement weather, The University of New Mexico utilizes several methods of communication to alert the campus community with specific information about the Albuquerque campus regarding weather-related closures and delays including...

The University of New Mexico President Garnett S. Stokes will be giving her State of the University address to update the community on current initiatives and future plans. The address will be held on Thursday, Jan. 23, in SUB Ballroom C at 11 a.m. and...

Olympic and World Cup Champion Hope Solo is making a stop at The University of New Mexico to visit the Pack for a live Q&A session. The equal rights activist will address this question: Are sports serving American girls and women well?  Solo, who led...

The University of New Mexico Libraries’ Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR) just released its spring People and Places lecture series lineup.  The evening series features free lectures every month through May by researchers and...

It was somewhere around the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and the San Francisco music scene was thriving when a new art form evolved. To promote concerts by not-yet-legendary musicians like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis...

A nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched today to advance the frontiers of quantum computing systems designed to solve urgent scientific challenges and maintain U.S. leadership in next-generation information...

The 2020 session of the NM Legislature begins soon and UNM has been hard at work identifying this year’s legislative priorities. The state's abbreviated legislative sessions in even numbered years typically focus on state finances and a handful of policy...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, it’s a look at how New Mexico’s oil boom in the Permian Basin is altering life for many in the southeast corner of the state. With people flocking to the area for jobs, community needs like roads, schools and housing are...

Celebrate our evolutionary past! Children will be able to travel 4 million years back in time this weekend and discover our ancient human ancestors at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology on the UNM campus. The popular radio program The Children’s Hour,...

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...