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It’s about making a week of awareness into a daily practice. University of New Mexico Nutrition and Dietetics professors Diana Gonzales-Pacheco and Debbie Luffey are fighting against malnutrition in New Mexico. Malnutrition is defined as a situation...

The College of Education and Human Sciences is deeply saddened by the death of our former colleague Alfredo Martinez. Dr. Martinez recently retired from the faculty of the Sport Administration Program in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences...

This week the Albuquerque Teacher Residency Partnership (ATRP) was nationally recognized as a distinguished teacher education program. ATRP, a partnership among the University of New Mexico College of Education & Human Sciences, the Albuquerque Public...

The U.S. Department of Education recently awarded UNM’s College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) more than $2.3 million that will ensure students receive services for years to come.  Throughout its tenure the program has served 587 students—many of...

The College of Education was the University of New Mexico's first college, housed in Hodgin Hall and it was called a Normal School - since then, the college has gone through a series of structural and instructional changes, but its most recent change is...

Two new scholarship opportunities created to help alleviate the teacher shortage in New Mexico have taken shape at The University of New Mexico. Both, the Grow Your Own Teacher (GYOT) Act and the Teacher Preparation Affordability (TPA) Act are...

The UNM College of Education Department of Special Education is hosting the annual Dr. Jane Blumenfeld Lecture with special guest Maya Kalyanpur. “It’s Just Easier to Not Make a Big Deal about It: Including cultural difference in inclusive special...

Gloria Napper-Owen, an associate dean in the UNM College of Education was recently named the 39th Fellow of the National Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education (NAKHE).  A NAKHE Fellow is one of the acknowledged leaders in the field of...

As public schools in Albuquerque open their doors to children for the new school year, there is one elementary school in particular where students and their families can’t wait to gather in the courtyard. As the parents take pictures of their pride and...

Every summer The University of New Mexico hosts thousands of youngsters on campus for a myriad of summer camps providing education and recreation. This year though, a few of the larger camps for younger children will be on hiatus, so UNM is asking...