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The Center for Voting, Elections and Democracy at the University of New Mexico announced the release of a report examining the Bernalillo County Clerk’s office administration of the November 2014 general election in Bernalillo County from early voting to election day.

Spanish settlement of the Middle Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico changed the way people lived, but a new paper in the journal, The Holocene" by UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Emily Jones suggests the change did not come quickly.  

It began with a National Science Foundation travel grant to Nepal. Three faculty members from the University of New Mexico and three graduate students spent the winter break between semesters traveling in Nepal, meeting people and talking with potential...

The Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences (COMPRES) has announced Carl Agee, professor, University of New Mexico Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences as its incoming president.

Kathleen Vander Kaaden, a University of New Mexico graduate student at the Institute of Meteoritics in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has been awarded the NASA Earth and Space Science (NESSF) Graduate Student Fellowship award for the...

University of New Mexico Press title, Clovis Caches: Recent Discoveries and New Research, edited by Bruce B. Huckell and J. David Kilby, won a Heritage Publication Award from the State of New Mexico Historic Preservation Division (HPD) last month.

The University of New Mexico recently earned its place within the national Startalk program, where New Mexico high school students and incoming UNM freshmen can become proficient in Arabic language and culture.

The American Political Science Association (APSA) has announced that University of New Mexico alumnus Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta has been named as a 2015-2016 APSA Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) Award recipient.

The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS), a non-profit institution that conducts statistical science research, announced that Gabriel Huerta and Ray Bain have been selected to serve on the organization's Board of Trustees. The new Board...

“I was fourteen or fifteen when I went to Disneyland with my cousin, said Jocelyn Moya. We were watching the parades and she said you can work at Disney when you are in college. I said, no, you are crazy,” But Moya’s cousin wasn’t crazy. She planted the...