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UNM's EDAC receives $700,000 grant to digitize historical aerial photos for web accessibility

The preservation and documentation of historical records is an important job. From acts of Congress to government records to historical photographs, the National Archives and Records Administration (also known as National Archives or NARA) is tasked with...

UNM prepares for Welcome Back Days

The University of New Mexico is preparing to welcome new and returning Lobos to campus with Welcome Back Days Fall 2019. Welcome Back Days is organized through Student Activities Center to help students become acquainted and feel welcomed on campus....

Formula SAE team has 20/20 vision for 2020

For two decades, The University of New Mexico’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers team has been designing, building and racing a Formula-style car for competition in an international contest. Students spend an intense year working on the machine,...

UNM receives $5 million, 5-year National Science Foundation grant for water research

The University of New Mexico has received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue the groundbreaking research that the Center for Water and the Environment has been leading since 2014. "CREST Center for Water and the...

Walt Miller to retire after 25 years with SUB

Dr. Walter Miller has been at the UNM Student Union Building long enough—25 years to be exact—to see the building and the University undergo many student, staff, and landscape transformations. This August, Miller will turn in his Lobo card and retire...

UNM team develops quantum sensor technology

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico and its Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM) recently published a new paper in the journal Science Advances detailing their work in developing a quantum sensor for determining the chemical...

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Adobe Creative Campus is here

August 19, 2019

All main campus students registered for Fall 2019 should receive an e-mail from Adobe.com with a link to download the Creative Cloud Suite at no additional cost. The Creative Cloud Suite includes a wide variety of applications used to create, edit, and...

Running Medicine launches fall 2019 season

August 19, 2019

The group known for delivering high-fives, dispensing community and generating family-oriented running enthusiasm throughout New Mexico is back for another round. Running Medicine kicks off its fall season Saturday, Aug. 24 at UNM North Golf Course at...

UNM’s Career Services teams up with JCPenney for ‘Suit Up’ event

August 19, 2019

From college casual to business professional, Career Services is partnering with JCPenney to host their popular reoccurring “Suit Up” event for UNM staff, faculty, students and alumni on Sunday, Aug. 25 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Coronado Center. The...

UNM provost and vice provost visit UNM-LA

August 19, 2019

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Paul Holloway and Senior Vice Provost Barbara Rodríguez traveled to Los Alamos recently to visit UNM-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) and Los Alamos National Laboratory...

SUB employees render life-saving aid

By Dorene DiNaro August 19, 2019

The Student Union Building—a gathering place for students to recharge, eat and relax—took on quite a different atmosphere when two employees from The University of New Mexico saw an emergency situation and acted quickly to help. Jalen Williams (l.)...

Giving non-profits the tools to succeed

By Rachel Whitt August 15, 2019

The UNM Evaluation Lab Summer Institute brought in non-profits from across New Mexico to learn more about gauging the effectiveness of processes within their organizations. This is the second annual Summer Institute and more than 20 non-profits took...

Transgender Resource Center offers educational trainings

August 15, 2019

The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico will offer Transgender 101 and 201 Trainings at the UNM Art Museum on Wed. Aug. 21 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The courses will cover a 2-hour training covering terms, definitions and concepts as they relate to...

NMIF visits with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on NMPED

August 15, 2019

This week on New Mexico in Focus, senior producer Matt Grubs sits down for an in-depth conversation with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham about her ambitions goal of raising New Mexico’s public education system to be the best in the country. Less than a month...

UNM's EDAC receives $700,000 grant to digitize historical aerial photos for web accessibility

By Steve Carr August 15, 2019

Center for World University Rankings places UNM among world’s best universities

August 14, 2019

The University of New Mexico is ranking high amongst the world’s top universities according to the latest Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)—the largest academic ranking of global universities. In the CWUR’s 2019-2020 rankings, UNM ranked No....

Center for World University Rankings places UNM among world’s best universities

August 14, 2019

UNM's EDAC receives $700,000 grant to digitize historical aerial photos for web accessibility

By Steve Carr August 15, 2019

UNM receives $5 million, 5-year National Science Foundation grant for water research

By Kim Delker August 12, 2019

The growing trend of Emotional Support Animals

By Rachel Whitt August 05, 2019

A dog in the grocery store; a cat in the cabin of an airplane; a bird in a coffee shop – companion creatures labelled as Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) are showing up more and more in places previously understood to be animal-free. It’s part of a...

Notorious psychoactive chemical THC more important for therapeutic effects in cannabis than previously known

February 25, 2019

Researchers at The University of New Mexico recently solved a major gap in the scientific literature by using mobile software technology to measure the real-time effects of actual cannabis-based products used by millions of people every day. Contrary to...

UNM to welcome freshmen to campus

August 09, 2019

It’s a day that marks a new beginning for incoming freshmen at The University of New Mexico. It all starts for those students when UNM hosts Freshman Family Day on Sunday, Aug. 18 starting at 4 p.m. with a formal convocation for incoming freshmen. The...

Walt Miller to retire after 25 years with SUB

August 08, 2019

UNM prepares for Welcome Back Days

August 12, 2019

UNM's College of Arts and Sciences announces Regents’ Lecturers

August 08, 2019

The University of New Mexico’s College of Arts and Sciences has named Luis Campos, Irene Salinas and Owen Whooley as Regents’ Lecturers—a distinguishing title bestowed on selected tenured, junior faculty members that merit recognition of their...

SUB employees render life-saving aid

By Dorene DiNaro August 19, 2019

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Headlines for August 19, 2019

Albuquerque Journal - "Dog days in the dorms" Albuquerque Journal - "Rep. Haaland’s schedule full during recess" Albuquerque Journal - "UNM Art Museum showcases 22 photographic stories of activism in ‘To Survive on This Shore’" Albuquerque Journal -...

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UNM faculty expert on foreign relations – Emile Nakhleh

Dr. Emile Nakhleh is a research professor and coordinator of National Security Programs at UNM. Nakhleh is a retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer, a National Intelligence Council Associate and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Since ...

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Christpher Robin - Mid Week Movie Series

October 30, 06:00AM

Monday Night Lecture Series - Chris Wilson

October 29, 11:30PM

Building a Bibliography with Zotero

October 29, 10:00PM

BSGP Dissertation Defense - Kuan Feng

October 29, 03:30PM

10th Conference on Metal Toxicity & Carcinogenesis from October 28-31, 2018

October 29, 12:00AM

IN-NOV-ACTION

October 28, 01:30AM

New Mexico, University of Men's Soccer vs Marshall

October 28, 01:00AM

School of Medicine Alumni Reunion

October 27, 11:30PM

New Mexico, University of Football at Utah State

October 27, 08:00PM

New Mexico, University of Women's Volleyball vs Air Force

October 27, 07:00PM

Fit for Fun 5k

October 27, 02:00PM

Dr. Kevin Miescke, Guest Horn Recital

October 27, 02:00AM

New Mexico, University of Women's Soccer at San Diego State

October 27, 02:00AM

IN-NOV-ACTION

October 27, 01:30AM

New Mexico, University of Women's Swimming and Diving vs Northern Arizona

October 26, 07:00PM

Checkout Wellness - Open Reference Help

October 26, 06:00PM

Open Reference Help

October 26, 06:00PM

Indigenuity [Indigenous + Ingenuity]: Ancestor’s Consciousness in Research

October 26, 05:00PM

New Mexico, University of Cross Country vs Mountain West Championships

October 26, 04:00PM

Dermatology Grand Rounds-Case Session

October 26, 02:00PM

New Mexico, University of Women's Tennis vs UNM Halloween Invitational

October 26, 06:00AM

UNM Symphony Orchestra

October 26, 01:30AM

School of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Awards

October 25, 11:30PM

Caregivers Journaling Support Group

October 25, 10:00PM

Multi-Site, Multi-IRB Studies

October 25, 09:00PM

Advanced NIH Grantsmanship

October 25, 08:00PM

REDCap Beyond the Basics

October 25, 08:00PM

What Was the Crime of the Men of Sodom? A Reconsideration of Genesis 19:1-13

October 25, 08:00PM

De-Stress With Essential Oils Workshop

October 25, 06:00PM

IPE Info Series

October 25, 06:00PM

Mark T Banker Author Event

October 25, 06:00PM

Good Clinical Practice Lab D

October 25, 03:00PM

UNM Wind Symphony

October 25, 01:30AM

Free Physics Demo Night: Astonishing Feats of Physics

October 25, 01:00AM

New Mexico’s First Filmmakers: Revisiting the Stars and Directors of the Silent Era

October 25, 12:30AM

Awareness Through Movement® - 4-week series

October 24, 11:45PM

Meet the Authors: Manuel Gonzalez

October 24, 09:00PM

Early Stage Breast Cancer

October 24, 07:00PM

UNMH BOT Native American Services Committee Meeting Notice

October 24, 07:00PM

Arts-in-Medicine Concert

October 24, 06:00PM

UNMH BOT Finance Committee Meeting Notice

October 24, 04:00PM

Open Access Week movie screening "Paywall: the business of scholarship"

October 24, 04:00PM

Be the Match Table

October 24, 03:00PM

Roman Salyutov, Guest Piano Recital

October 24, 01:30AM

New Mexico, University of Women's Volleyball at UNLV

October 24, 12:00AM

Elizabeth Deuel's Letter: Confronting Sexual Politics in the Archives of Anthropology

October 23, 11:30PM

Virtual Reality Open House

October 23, 09:00PM

RedCap Basic Training

October 23, 08:00PM

Open Access Town Hall

October 23, 07:00PM

Awareness Through Movement® - 4-week series

October 23, 06:30PM

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Lobos are coming back to campus and we're so excited to see them!

Discovering campus

Departments and clubs welcome incoming Lobos by showing all that UNM has to offer.

Honoring Tradition

Students, teachers and community members come together for the opening ceremony of the 19th “Traditional Medicine without Borders: Curanderismo in the Southwest and Mexico” class.

2019 Festival Flemenco Albuquerque

The National Institute of Flamenco, in partnership with The University of New Mexico and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 32, June 15-22, 2019

Welcome, New Lobos!

It's the first week of New Student Orientation, with sessions running through the end of July. Check out nso.unm.edu for scheduling and registration.

Countdown to Commencement 2019

'Tis the season... for grad photos! Hang in there Lobos, summer break is in sight.

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