Schools and Colleges

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 37,968 people in the US were diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, during 2018. In this same year, at least 15,820 HIV-positive Americans died. Modern medicine has made impressive...

Many people understand the environment as a force of nature that cannot favor or disfavor different populations. However, similar to all things on Earth, the environment is subject to human influences. Unfortunately, these influences often tend to lower...

The LAII has announced the appointment of Dr. Frances Hayashida as Director of the Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII). Hayashida brings to the LAII a distinguished record of scholarship and teaching on Latin America in the field of Archaeology,...

University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics Naomi Shin has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award.  “This award is a tremendous honor to me. I care so deeply about teaching...

In a virtual ceremony set for Thursday, Aug. 6, winners for the annual Paul Ré Peace Prize will be recognized. Winners will be named in several categories including one winner in the general category, four lifetime achievement awardees, three career...

Life after law school has been anything but sedentary and sedate for Professor Emerita Sherri Burr. Burr officially retired from teaching three years ago after a distinguished career that spanned 30 years, a noteworthy span that saw her become the first...

This fall, The University of New Mexico's Anderson School of Management’s Innovation Group is offering to help New Mexico’s businesses respond to the management challenges of the new COVID-19 low-touch economy, by connecting local businesses to student...

Marygold Walsh-Dilley, an associate professor in the Honors College at The University of New Mexico, is currently leading a study to determine the patterns of food insecurity among students at UNM with her co-PI Sarita Cargas (Honors College)...

The University of New Mexico’s Department of Nuclear Engineering will welcome a new leader this academic year with the arrival of Hyoung K. Lee. Lee, who comes from Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), will begin as department...

In detail, Myra Washington can explain the very moment media literacy seized her attention and never let go; it was during her years studying communication as an undergraduate, at Vanderbilt University where she vowed to never again consume media the...