Schools and Colleges

Four professors from the University of New Mexico have been named 2012 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. The Fellows include: Vince ...

The University of New Mexico Student Affairs is sponsoring its Annual Holiday Giving Drive to benefit CLNkids (Cuidando Los Ninos) beginning Monday, Dec. 3 through Monday, Dec. 17.This year's Wish List includes baby cereal and fruit, sipi cups, peanut ...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Fred Nathan of Think New Mexico sits down to talk about new qualifications required for the Public Regulation Commission as a result of voters overwhelmingly passing a Constitutional amendment to create them.New Mexico ...

The UNM Giving Tree. The annual UNM Giving Tree, open to all students, staff, faculty and community members, is up and decorated in the SUB atrium through Friday, Dec. 7, when participants can select a gift tag bearing Christmas wishes for children or ...

Julie CoonrodUNM Provost Chaouki Abdallah has announced the appointment of Professor Julie Coonrod as Dean of the Office of Graduate Studies effective Jan. 1, 2013."I am pleased to announce Dr. Coonrod as Dean of the Office of Graduate Studies," said ...

The University of New Mexico collectible holiday ornament has become a campus tradition, one with benefits. Not only do the ornaments beautify evergreens and wreaths, all proceeds go the UNM Parent Association Scholarship Fund.For the past four years, ...

To Screen or Not To Screen? Primary care physicians routinely face the complicated decision of when to offer preventive services and to whom. Some preventive services, like screening tests, may not help everyone and may even harm some. Conflicting ...

Majeed HayatUNM Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Majeed Hayat has been appointed as a fellow of the Optical Society of America. The designation is given to members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics. Hayat was ...

The momentous Higgs Boson discovery opened the door to new understandings of the universe. What are the basic forces that have shaped it since the beginning of time? Physicist Sally Seidel and her team share what they have learned using the Large Hadron ...

James Besante, a second-year student at the UNM School of Medicine, was recently given the Nicholas Skala Student Activist Award by Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) for his health care reform advocacy efforts in New Mexico. Besante serves ...