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The UNM Alumni Association recently announced the award recipients of its 2023 Alumni Awards. After hours of combing through countless nominations for outstanding alumni and community members, the awards committee selected this year’s honorees. During...

The University of New Mexico Black Alumni Chapter announces the recipients of its 2023 Trailblazer Awards including Brandi Stone, Simone Vann and Gerald M. Byers. These three remarkable individuals will be celebrated amongst community members at the...

It’s no secret that newly sworn-in Vice President of the Navajo Nation Richelle Montoya has made history. Every time you search her name, you see her groundbreaking accomplishment: the first woman to take on that helm. Still, there’s so much that lies...

He’s traded an elevation of 10,678 feet for one of over 19,347 feet–just to start. The sky's the limit for how much higher he can ascend. UNM alumnus Kyle Stepp has spent the last two years hiking, running, biking, and skiing around the world on a...

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering honored eight of its graduates Dec. 1 as recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award. The event, which was held at Hotel Albuquerque, featured a welcome by UNM President Garnett Stokes. Honorees are...

The University of New Mexico has a longstanding and proud tradition of honoring military veterans, notably through the annual Veterans Day Celebration and Remembrance held each year at the Alumni Memorial Chapel. However, UNM’s commitment to veterans...

  It’s another accolade for University of New Mexico alumnus and Bay-area named “Super Lawyer” Loren Kieve.    Kieve has just been chosen for the 2022 John H. Pickering Achievement Award on behalf of the...

An alumnus of The University of New Mexico has made a generous gift to the UNM Sustainability Studies program to establish an endowed fund in the name of his beloved late wife. The substantial gift will be used to support the Sustainability Studies...

As the state’s flagship university, The University of New Mexico takes pride in being a “community of unique perspectives embracing divergence, letting the very things that divide us become the things that connect us to each other. What makes us...

Charles Edward Becknell Sr. is an example of living African American history and New Mexico state history. Becknell Sr. was the founding director of what is now The University of New Mexico's Africana Studies program directed by his son and namesake...