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UNM will host a "Know Your Rights" presentation on Oct. 14, led by Amber Weeks and Olsi Vrapi, attorneys with the Vrapi Weeks law firm in Albuquerque.

The University of New Mexico has opened a new center focused on an often-overlooked yet significant subset of its students — those who have transferred to UNM from another institution. The Transfer and Transition Student Center, located at the...

For the past 15 years, Student Affairs has been recognizing and celebrating staff, faculty, departments, and student employees at the annual Louie Awards ceremony—a themed event complete with decorations, food, and a golden Lobo Louie bobblehead for the...

The University of New Mexico's  Indigenous Peoples' Land and Territory...

For the past several years, the BeKind UNM team has collected teddy bears for the Albuquerque Police Department to give out to youth in our community who need a bit of comforting and love. This past February, the teddy bear donation drive brought in over...

The holidays can be a rough time for some members of our community—especially those experiencing homelessness. The UNM Children’s Campus recognizes these families may not be able to afford toys for their children and have organized a toy drive to help...

For many people when they’re young, they grow-up dreaming of going to college, starting a family and succeeding in a chosen career. For many, however, the only certain part of that scenario is the growing-up part. Luckily for student-parents at The...

It might be hard to imagine a child waking up on Christmas morning without a single toy under the tree, but for many families here in New Mexico, that’s the unfortunate reality. Luckily, for the past seven years, Los Ojos de la Familia, a grassroots...

Six years ago, UNM was given an extraordinary opportunity by the U.S. Department of Education. The University believed it could more successfully educate Hispanic and low-income students in the fields of STEM—science, technology, engineering, and math....

It’s been over 40 years. Can you imagine all the people Debbie Morris has met at UNM over the decades, not to mention the change in clothes they were wearing? With as much change as she has seen at the University, one thing has remained the same and...