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Rainbow Ryders’s hot air balloons have graced the skies of Albuquerque for 40 years, but years before Scott Appelman (UNM ‘81) founded one of the largest hot air ballooning companies in the world, he was a teenage boy ditching class to help a balloon...

Faculty and students in The University of New Mexico School of Engineering are continuing their work to optimize the park-and-ride bus service during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, which will attract tens of thousands of visitors...

From Oct. 6 through Oct. 14, many Lobos joined over 80,000 people from around the world to watch hot air balloons take to the skies at the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. What started off as a humble gathering of 13 balloons, has turned into a...