Schools and Colleges

The University of New Mexico hosts Freshmen Family Day on Sunday, Aug. 20 with a multi-event celebration intended to welcome incoming students and their families to the UNM community. The event begins at 4 p.m. with the Freshman Convocation at Popejoy...

A University of New Mexico student beat out dozens of other applicants to become the first New Mexican chosen to attend a national public policy leadership academy. The Latino Center for Leadership Development (LCLD) selected 15 people to participate...

If you Google the name Alexander Schauss, you find a profile on a company CEO, a professor, a leading researcher, a certified eating disorder specialist and now the testimony of a past officer of the court. What appears to be multiple people is actually...

The University of New Mexico’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, AMP, is designed to increase the enrollment and graduation rate of historically underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.  During the...

This week, New Mexico in Focus producer Sarah Gustavus sits down with Ambassador Paul Robinson, a chief negotiator for the U.S. in nuclear talks with the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, and a former president of Sandia National Labs,...

The University of New Mexico Office of Community Engaged Learning and Research (CBL) is looking for participants for its Engaged Pedagogy Graduate Fellowship (EPGF). The EPGF is a semester-long community-based graduate training program. It includes a...

Vice President for Student Affairs Eliseo “Cheo” Torres has appointed Ryan Lindquist, as the interim director of The University of New Mexico Student Activities Center effective Tuesday, Aug. 1.  Lindquist is filling the position vacated by Debbie Morris...

UNM Mentoring Institute issues apology The Mentoring Institute at UNM expresses its deep apologies for the poor language used in a previous tweet earlier today and the lack of representation of people of color in the plenary speakers’ line up. We ask...

For the first time in nearly 40 years, sky gazers across the United States will have the chance to step outside their front doors and see what many experts are saying will be the most spectacular solar eclipse in American history. UNM Eclipse Viewing...

El Centro is looking for students to serve as Graduate Research Fellows its El Puente Research Fellows Program. The fellowship will expose students to best practices in mentoring first generation, low income and minority students in higher education.