Schools and Colleges

UNM’s long-serving chief of police Kathy Guimond has announced plans to retire in June 2014.  Guimond is the first female chief at the University of New Mexico and has served as the chief for more than 18 years. 

Online training courses on Hazard Communication Standards are now available on the Safety and Risk Services website.  The training information includes Hazard Communications Standard relevant to Globally Harmonized System.

Governor Susana Martinez held press events at the University of New Mexico and New Mexico Tech today announcing two proposals to boost the state’s high-tech industry and jobs. At UNM, Gov. Martinez outlined a $7.5 million endowment plan that would ...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, a special interview with national political journalist Daniel Libit from New Mexico. His article about Jay McCkleskey, the political advisor behind Gov. Susana Martinez, questioned how much of a role McCleskey has in ...

Win Quigley’s Upfront article in the December 17 edition of the Albuquerque Journal, “Does ‘Innovate ABQ’ Need a Home?,” assumes that presently there are no entrepreneurs or start-up companies to occupy the Broadway facility...

University of New Mexico Vice President for Student Affairs Eliseo “Cheo” Torres announces the appointment of Rosa Isela Cervantes as director of El Centro de la Raza. Cervantes first came to El Centro de la Raza as a high school senior in 1991 and ...

The University of New Mexico Purchasing Department presented their first UNM Sustainability Award to Alicia Martinez, administrative assistant in the Civil Engineering department, for having the highest amount of “Green spend” on campus.  ...

Members of the University Consortium for International Intellectual Property Coordination (UCIP), which is a consortium of the technology transfer offices for 11 Japanese universities, have been in Albuquerque to talk with UNM professor...

The University of New Mexico announced recently that it has two Grand Challenges Explorations winners, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  Distinguished Professor Eric Loker, and Associate Professor Coenraad Adema, both from ...

University of New Mexico Press author Lawrence Welsh, who won three literary awards for his latest collection of poetry, Begging for Vultures: New and Selected Poems,1994–2009, has earned a fourth as a finalist for the 2013 PEN Southwest Book Awards. ...