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Three finalists for the position of vice president for Institutional Support Services have been announced and invited to visit campus during the next two weeks. The finalists include Michael Pieper, Shawna Wolfe and Robert Robinson. Finalist interviews...

Rainbow Ryders’s hot air balloons have graced the skies of Albuquerque for 40 years, but years before Scott Appelman (UNM ‘81) founded one of the largest hot air ballooning companies in the world, he was a teenage boy ditching class to help a balloon...

A team of international scientists from the USA, France, Germany, and Ethiopia recently published cutting-edge climate research on how thunderstorms can “clump” together and how that influences the Earth’s climate. This led to the discovery that this...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awards one of its first HSI Center of Excellence grants to create the Arizona Research Center for Housing Equity and Sustainability (ARCHES).  The new center will address the interconnected issues...

The 2023 UNM Gives United Way campaign begins Sunday, Oct. 1. As our community and country struggle with inflation, poverty and crime, your support and compassion has never been more critical. Every contribution counts and every gift makes a...

The University of New Mexico's Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences is reuniting an instrumental, international partnership following a COVID-19 pandemic-infused break.   Comunidad Crecer, which translates to ‘community for growth’ is a longstanding...

One thing that most University of New Mexico students can agree on is that UNM takes the traditional Fall school dance to the next level with Silent Lights, an annual outdoor silent disco in the heart of UNM Main Campus at Smith Plaza. Silent Lights is...

UNM Associate Professor, Jennifer L. Tucker announces the launch for her new book, Outlaw Capital, on Monday, Oct. 2 at 5:30 p.m. in Garcia Honda Auditorium, George Pearl Hall. Come and hear lectures from the author with comments from Alyosha Goldstein...

UNM's School of Architecture and Planning invites the campus community to its annual Open House on Thursday, Oct. 5 from 3-7 p.m. at George Pearl Hall. Learn about their undergraduate and graduate programs in architecture, landscape architecture,...

Turning outward bound into homeward bound; that’s an unforgettable experience that took place at The University of New Mexico on Sept. 19, 2023. Decades in the making, members of the UNM Peace Corps Outward Bound Training 1963 class, known as Colombia...