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 Ajla Škrbić, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Law, Freie Universität, Berlin, will present The University of New Mexico Department of History’s Women’s History Lecture on “Gender, Power and Violence: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence...

Today, the Stevens Initiative announced its second cohort of faculty scholars and university leadership teams participating in Stevens Initiative Connected Classrooms, a program for a select group of institutions dedicated to expanding global education...

University of New Mexico alumna Jacqueline Hirsh Greene is supposed to go to Germany soon. But as so many in the UNM community have experienced, plans were upended by the pandemic shutdown. Hirsh Greene graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts...

One of the first things University of New Mexico adjunct faculty member Teresa Cutler-Broyles noticed about the COVID-19 shutdown in the town of Perugia, Italy, was the quiet.  “The silence was overwhelming,” she said. Cutler-Broyles has a Master of...

A program coming to The University of New Mexico will offer international opportunities with the Peace Corps while students pursue a bachelor’s degree. It’s called, the Peace Corps Prep Certificate Program. It’s a collaborative effort between the Peace...

It’s an opportunity for students to celebrate the benefits of global education and exchange worldwide, International Education Week (IEW). IEW is celebrated across the U.S., Nov. 18 - 22. IEW highlights globally-focused community events such as...

Africa has largely been portrayed as a site of perpetual misery, with stereotypes in the public, and among students and scholars. The generalizations make it one of the most misunderstood social, political, and cultural spaces – a perception the UNM...

Olivia Padilla, an alumna of The University of New Mexico Class of 2018, is finishing a jampacked semester in Washington, D.C., as the first New Mexican to be a Global Leaders Fellow with the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI). CHLI gives...

Two University of New Mexico students, incuding Glenn Elvendahl and Catherine Louise Ruev, were among 16 selected by the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) for summer study abroad programs in Moscow or St. Petersburg, Russia. The...

Esteemed historian and New York University Professor David Engel is coming to New Mexico to share his expertise on the Holocaust and the current battle against antisemitism.  The University of New Mexico (UNM) International Studies Institute is hosting...