Honors College

Longtime Professor and Associate Dean Ursula Shepherd is taking a bow after almost two decades of a successful career at The University of New Mexico. A Last Lecture and Reception, sponsored by UNM’s Honors College, Alumni Chapter and Alumni ...

Student athletes understand what it means to prepare for the future. Long hours in the gym and on the field or the court are a given—especially at The University of New Mexico, an NCAA Division I school. Dedication and hard work to compete at the top...

Silent for decades, musical treasures recovered from a dumpster in Jerome, Arizona are being brought back to life. The University of New Mexico’s Honors College in collaboration with the New Mexico Philharmonic and in partnership with the National...

The UNM Honors College is offering “Creative Impulse in New Mexico,” a new course that includes talks from well-known New Mexico artists and writers. Daniel Abraham presents on Monday, Feb. 22. Abraham writes both science fiction and fantasy, and has...

Five University of New Mexico students traveled to Stanford University in California recently to participate in the West Coast Regional Mellon Conference.

University of New Mexico student, Katarina Pacheco will travel to the University of Utah in November to participate in the Finalist Interview for the Rhodes Scholarship, a prestigious honor given to few students in the country. Pacheco, who is expected...

University of New Mexico graduate Alexandra Stewart took top honors in the 2015 Elie Wiesel Foundation Prize in Ethics essay contest. She is the first recipient from UNM to win this contest and...

This fall, the University of New Mexico reached an important milestone in the effort to transform the first-year experience when it discontinued offering remedial Introductory Studies (IS) courses. The IS courses were preparatory courses taught by...

New Mexico is a place steeped not only in vibrant cultural traditions and creative expressions of all art forms, but also in technology, science, history and literature of space---that final frontier of satellites, galaxies and worlds unknown. Bearing...

Former University of New Mexico Professor Edward DeSantis had a special way of connecting with students with an impeccable, down-to-earth scholastic approach with an Ivy League demeanor. DeSantis, 78, died peacefully on Tuesday, Sept. 8. DeSantis, who...