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This past December, a group of interdisciplinary students from The University of New Mexico traveled to Nepal, where they learned to pronounce Siddharthanagar and focused on awareness initiatives as part of the Himalayan Study Abroad Program. Offered...

For the last two weeks, six University of New Mexico students, three faculty members, two volunteers from New Mexico and 14 local laborers have been working on a new women’s community center in Bahunipati, Nepal. Two local coordinators and a junior...

Millions around the world offered sympathy, prayers, and even money after hearing about the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal that killed more than 8,000 people and devastated thousands of homes and businesses. But some were compelled to do even more. Two...

Economics professor Alok Bohara wants to establish the Nepal Studies Center at the University of New Mexico as a beacon. Bohara is the founder and expert guiding the Nepal Study Center’s research and community engagement work in Nepal. A...

To help raise much-needed funds for the earthquake victims of Nepal, UNM4Nepal presents "Himalaya" as part of it Nepal Film Night in the Centennial Engineering Center Auditorium Thursday, May 14, at 7 p.m.

Approximately 200 people gathered last Thursday for a candlelight vigil and moment of silence for thousands of Nepali people and victims from a massive earthquake that struck Nepal and the Himalyan region...