Athletics

When he was a senior at La Cueva High School in Albuquerque, Ian Hucke had major surgery to remove a mass from his brain due to a congenital condition. While still in rehabilitation, and not wanting to delay college, he made a deal with his parents:...

In 2019, Graduate Studies at The University of New Mexico celebrated its 100 years of graduate education at UNM with its annual Shared Knowledge Conference and popular LoboBITES competition. Students, faculty, staff,...

Despite the fact that women tend to outlive men in almost all societies, they experience more sickness along the way. This so-called ‘gender-health’ paradox has long puzzled researchers. Biological differences between the sexes – females’ higher body fat...

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering honored eight of its graduates as recipients of the 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award. Honorees are from each of the School’s six departments and one young alumnus, which can be from any department. Each...

When Cherille Williams started college, she had every intention of being a physical therapist. But the closer she got to achieving her associate’s degree in PT, the more she realized the field she was following was not for her. At her brother’s urging,...

Her peers know her as an exceptional engineer. But to some Indigenous people, Sandra Begay is legendary.   “Like many Native American students in STEM, I knew of Sandra before I met her,” said Suzanne Singer, who is Navajo and interned under Begay at...

Alexandre Frederick Mills, a graduate student in The University of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy, is among 52 students from across the nation selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR)...

The Spanish arrived from Europe in what would eventually become the United States nearly 500 years ago and began to mix with indigenous people they met and conquered. Native Americans, Mexicans, Central Americans, South Americans, Caribbean islands, and...

Anna Nogar, associate professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico, became interested in the intriguing story of a 17th century cloistered Spanish nun in her undergrad years 20 years...

A University of New Mexico graduate student has shattered the fastest known time for a self-supported hike by a female on the 485-mile Colorado Trail. Mikaela Osler is a second-year MFA student studying creative nonfiction in the Department of English...