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It was April 2006 when a fire in the basement of The University of New Mexico's Zimmerman Library destroyed 30,000 volumes of periodicals as well as furnishings, shelving and fixtures in the path of the flames. An earlier flood in the underground...

Beginning, Monday, May 16, UNM IT will expand the use of Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and Single-Sign-On (SSO) for supported applications to help further safeguard UNM accounts and information. In March 2021, UNM IT rolled out MFA for a variety of...

Canvas Update: Temp Courses, and Bulk Migrated Content Available We are excited to announce that Canvas is now open for course development. Instructors have access to request a temporary course shell to start building Canvas courses for future...

In response to global trends and other emerging threats related to information security, in 2021-2022, UNM President Garnett S. Stokes asked UNM IT to make a focused effort on accelerating improvements to security controls. UNM's next effort addresses...

Between classes, exams, and learning to live on their own – college can be a difficult time of growth for students. On top of that stress, 29 percent of undergraduate students at UNM report they are food insecure and are not able to consistently access...

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr visited The University of New Mexico Thursday, appearing at a roundtable event with other stakeholders advocating greater broadband access in New Mexico. The commissioner traveled from...

Recently, the University of New Mexico, Wazco LLC and Celona demonstrated a novel deployment of Citizens Band Radio Service or CBRS-powered Private Mobile Network on UNM’s main campus in Albuquerque. CBRS is an enterprise-grade wireless broadband...

In 2019, The University of New Mexico announced it was teaming up with Adobe to make UNM an Adobe Creative Campus. Using that partnership as a springboard, UNM has created an Adobe Creative Commons where students, faculty, and staff have technological...

For the ninth year running, the UNM Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) are partnering to host an app creation contest aimed at encouraging innovation. It is open to all students with cash prizes...

Since moving to remote and hybrid learning environments at the onset of the pandemic, UNM Information Technologies (IT) has continuously worked to assure the security of digital classrooms. Beginning Nov. 1, UNM will require new security measures to...