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UNM alum Aaron S. Davidson was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his significant accomplishments in creative arts. Each year, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards 175 fellowships to those making a difference in the creative...

Cindy Nava heads to Washington, D.C. where she will become the first former DACA recipient in the United States to receive a White House presidential appointment. Nava, a University of New Mexico alumna, will serve as the senior policy advisor to the...

A team from The University of New Mexico created a project titled a Library, a Classroom, and the World currently on display at the prestigious 2022 Venice Biennial Art exhibition Personal Structures organized and hosted by the European Cultural Centre...

University of New Mexico alumna Amy Thompson has been awarded the UNM Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Award for her dissertation Comparative Processes of Sociopolitical Development in the Foothills of the Southern Maya Mountains.  Thompson, who received a Ph.D. in...

The Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University is proud to announce that Mayeen Mohammedi was awarded a 2022 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship following a highly competitive nationwide selection process.  The...

The University of New Mexico KIVA Club, along with UNM LEAF, hosts Solidarity with Indigenous Led Environmental Justice, a screening of the documentary Our Story: The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco, followed by a panel discussion with...

In what is possibly a first for The University of New Mexico, an alumnus has won a Grammy award. Col. Jim R. Keene, UNM Class of 1988, received a Grammy for Best Immersive Audio Album for the recording Soundtrack of the American Soldier, on which he...

Cynthia Chavez Lamar, University of New Mexico alumna and director of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), will be the guest speaker at the inaugural Alfonso Ortiz Lecture on Thursday and Friday, April 28 and 29. An enrolled member of...

The UNM Alumni Association is proud to announce the award recipients of the 2022 UNM Alumni Awards. During and after their time at UNM these recipients have impacted the university, their perspective fields and communities across the world. These award...

A University of New Mexico alum is being recognized at the highest level for his work and contribution to the field of computational science. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Jack J. Dongarra as the recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M....