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The University of New Mexico Graduate Studies has announced the appointment of Nikki Jernigan as the interim associate dean of Graduate Studies. Interim graduate dean Jesse Alemán appointed Jernigan to the post based on her experience with graduate...

After serving as the acting dean of Graduate Studies in Fall 2021 and working as the associate dean since Fall 2019, Jesse Alemán has been named the interim dean of Graduate Studies through July 2023. Provost James Holloway announced the appointment...

Just after her freshman year in 2020, University of New Mexico student Kiana Frederick decided to take a course with associate professor Sarita Cargas in the Honors College. Cargas was looking for students who wanted to explore food and housing security...

Graduate Studies at The University of New Mexico recently secured two nomination slots for the 2023 HHMI Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study competition. The university is...

Ten University of New Mexico graduate students attended the National Humanities Center’s Graduate Student Residency virtual program this month. The selected students are the inaugural cohort of a pilot collaboration between Graduate Studies and the...

The Himalayan Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau, the largest and highest geologic structures in the world, started forming some 50 million years ago through the crashing and colliding of the Asian and Indian continental plates. The Tibetan Plateau is a...

U.S. News and World Report today released its 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings, and several University of New Mexico programs are among them. The rankings focus only on graduate programs, as opposed to other rankings released from U.S. News and World...

Julie Coonrod, dean of Graduate Studies at The University of New Mexico and professor of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, has been named by The American Council on Education (ACE) as a Fellow for academic year 2022-23...

Two students from The University of New Mexico have been named to participate in the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA) 2022 cohort. This award provides graduate students with the opportunity to...

English Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Jesse Alemán has been named the 2022 Willa Cather Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Sponsored by the Cather Project, the UNL English Department, and endowment funds...