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UNM celebrates a milestone in a nearly three year effort to improve the experience of first year students.  The Foundations of Excellence project involved more than 200 faculty members, staff and students who volunteered...

Vice President for Student Affairs, Eliseo "Cheo" Torres, announced the appointment of Daniela Baca as director of the University of New Mexico Children's Campus for Early Care and Education (UNMCC). Baca has worked in and out of the classroom ...

Big Brothers Big Sisters' newest program, mentor2.0 needs volunteers. The program is designed to increase the graduation rate by 20 percent at two Albuquerque charter high schools and University of New Mexico faculty and staff are considered ideal for ...

The Latin American and Iberian Institute recently hosted visitors from Universidad Central del Ecuador, the country’s second largest university, located in Quito. UCE Rector Fernando Sempértegui, Vice Rector Nelson Rodríguez and Dr. Wellington Sandoval, ...

Her name is Naia, and for thousands and thousands of years, the skeleton of this young woman was buried underwater in an elaborate cave system in the Yucatan Peninsula after she had apparently fallen into what was then a dry deep pit. Now, a team of...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, part two of the series of interviews with candidates running in the Democratic primary for governor. Martha Burk talks with candidates Lawrence Rael and Howie Morales about the economy, education and gender equality ...

"For God and Revolution: Priest, Peasant, and Agrarian Socialism in the Mexixcan Huasteca" by Mark Saad Saka and "Edumund G. Ross: Soldier, Senator, Abolitionist" by Richard A. Ruddy both won awards recognizing their literary work recently. Both are ...

What do Ruben Cobos, Tony Hillerman, U.S. Route 66 and “El Hispano News” all have to do with each other? They are all new collections and digital projects at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, a part of the University of New Mex

The University of New Mexico Department of History, along with the American Historical Association and three other universities, shares in a $1.6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at diversifying job opportunities for those who ...

The University of New Mexico Family Development Program hosts a celebration in recognition of the La Mesa Elementary School Crafting Co-op on Monday, May 19 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at La Mesa Elementary located at 7500 Copper Ave. N.E. in ...