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The University of New Mexico welcomed Rear Admiral Phillip G. Sawyer, deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, during Albuquerque Navy Week -  an opportunity for our community to connect with the Navy and learn about its mission, people and importance...

The Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections in Zimmerman Library has opened a new exhibit, “Life and Times Along Route 66.” The exhibit is located in the Frank Waters Room 105 in Zimmerman Library and will be up through Dec. 2016.  A...

Tomas Jaehn joined University Libraries in July as the Director of the Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections. Before joining the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences he worked at the Idaho State Historical Library and...

Seventeen students from The University of New Mexico (UNM) recently returned from a summer study abroad program in Limerick, Ireland led by David Wright, director of Education Abroad. The trip was geared toward service-learning, a teaching strategy that...

The University of New Mexico recently hosted U.S. Secretary Of Energy Ernest Moniz in a regional energy innovation forum. The objective of this forum was to discuss the future of materials technologies for clean, low carbon energy and collaboration by...

The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is proud to announce that Ana Andzic Tomlinson, J.D., has accepted the interim executive director position for Research Compliance on Main Campus after a competitive search. Carlos Romero, who led...

Barbara McCrady, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, and Director of UNM's Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions (CASAA), received the Research Society on Alcoholism RSA Marlatt Mentorship Award at the RSA’s annual meeting in New...

Bárbara Reyes has been appointed director of the UNM Southwest Hispanic Research Institute (SHRI). Reyes, an associate professor of History, has research interests that include Chicano History, Southwest History, U.S. Immigration History, Gender and...

Having grown up in Nepal, Ramesh Giri knows what it’s like to not have many opportunities and resources in school. So now, as a professor of chemistry at The University of New Mexico, Giri thought of a way to give back to this community by starting a program to bring local high school students into his lab to learn about chemistry in a hands-on way.

The Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC), UNM’s supercomputing center, will host a tour for incoming first-year University of New Mexico students to inspire interest in careers in science and technology. The tour, which will also include the...