Schools and Colleges

Ann Massmann, associate professor of librarianship in the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University of New Mexico College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences, died Feb. 24 after a long illness.

Due to the closing of UNM on Friday, the UNM School of Architecture & Planning lecture featuring photographer Martin Stupich, has been rescheduled for Monday, March 2 at 5:30 p.m. He will deliver “Forty Years Sneaking Around in Broad Daylight,” in the George Pearl Hall auditorium. Stupich’s talk is the school’s

Anil K. Prinja, professor and chair of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been selected to receive the American Nuclear Society’s Gerald C. Pomraning Award for 2015.

This week New Mexico in Focus sits down with U.S. Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham to talk about legislation that would require special prosecutors in cases of police-involved shootings.

If your workforce spans the ages of 22 to the mid 60’s, how do you manage the work to best use the strengths of the spectrum of employees?

STC.UNM hosts Marshall Neel, the co-founder of Main Street Crowd, Wednesday, March 4 as part of its spring 2015 Breakfast Seminar Series. The seminar begins at 8 a.m. in the auditorium of Building 800, located at 800 Bradbury SE on the corner of Basehart and Bradbury.

On a 42–25 vote, the New Mexico House of Representatives approved the state budget bill that contains $6.2 billion to fund state government and public education for 2015-16. Higher education’s share of that budget pie is $846 million, with $810 million allocated to the institutions, including a $2.1 million increase in operating funds for UNM.

University of New Mexico researchers are studying a newly discovered hormone that releases from muscle after exercise. Irisin, named for the Greek “messenger” goddess Iris, may prevent breast cancer and boost the effects of chemotherapy drugs used in...

UNM STEM-H (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Healthcare) Center for Outreach, Research and Education hosts the Southwest Region Junior Science and Humanities Symposium (JSHS) competition Friday-Saturday, Feb. 27-28.

Edl Schamiloglu, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been recognized with the 2015 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Society’s Pulsed Power Science and Technology Committee’s Peter Haas Award in...