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New Mexico found itself at ground zero of a changed world on July 16, 1945 when scientists from the newly created Los Alamos National Laboratory detonated the world’s first atomic bomb, exposing nearby communities to radiation. Just 34 years later to the...

The UNM School of Law recently led a group of faculty and students on a visit to the Laguna Pueblo, some 40 miles west of Albuquerque, to learn about the history of uranium mining and the disproportionate impacts of uranium contamination upon indigenous...

Several UNM Press titles were recently honored with awards at two design competitions. Four UNM Press titles won 2016 Southwest Book Design and Production Awards (SWBDA) from the New Mexico Book Association (NMBA), and four UNM Press titles won 2016...

Laguna Pueblo: A Photographic History, by authors Lee Marmon and Tom Corbett, won the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Photography Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. A Wrangler — a bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback—will be...

Three books published by the University of New Mexico Press won 2015 Southwest Book Awards from the Border Regional Library Association. The awards, which recognize outstanding books about the Southwest, will be presented on Saturday, Feb. 27 at the...

By Lora Church, Senior Program Manager, ACL Teen CentersYouth, families and policy makers convened in To'Hajiilee for an Underage Drinking Town Hall to address youth substance abuse on the reservation.The Acoma-Canoncito-Laguna Teen Centers' Substance ...