By Brianna Wilson, HSC & UCAM staffJanuary 30, 2024
The legislative session marks a time of action and progress in New Mexico. This year is no different with leaders at The University of New Mexico’s main campus, UNM Health and Health Sciences (UNM HHS) and branch campuses talking about and showcasing...
According to the 2020 Census, about one in three households in New Mexico speak a language other than English at home — higher than the national average of about one in five.
Spanish is the fourth most spoken language in the world, after English, yet...
Spaniards first arrived in the 1500s in what is known today as the southwestern State of New Mexico, bringing with them a now-antiquated form of the Spanish language. They encountered and then merged ̶ often by force ̶ with the Indigenous populations...
In 2019, Graduate Studies at The University of New Mexico celebrated its 100 years of graduate education at UNM with its annual Shared Knowledge Conference and popular LoboBITES competition. Students, faculty, staff,...
The Spanish arrived from Europe in what would eventually become the United States nearly 500 years ago and began to mix with indigenous people they met and conquered. Native Americans, Mexicans, Central Americans, South Americans, Caribbean islands, and...
Assistant Professor Paulo Dutra of The University of New Mexico Department of Spanish and Portuguese is a 2020 semifinalist for the highly prestigious Prêmio Oceanos, the Oceanos Prize for Literature in the Portuguese Language. His book, Abliteraçōes,...
New research on Spanish in New Mexico reveals that “bilinguals don’t mix up their languages, they mix and match.”
Salón Ortega at the NHCC was filled to capacity recently to celebrate bilingualism in New Mexico and launch a new book, Bilingualism in the...
Dr. Joseph P. Sanchez, director of the UNM Spanish Colonial Research Center, presents a talk titled, Spanish Colonial Cartography and Our National Heritage, on Tuesday, April 4 at noon in the Waters Room at Zimmerman Library.
Since 1983, Sanchez has...
The University of New Mexico is helping the National Park Service celebrate 100 years in 2016. UNM is a part of their history through faculty and student projects including a current initiative with the NPS’ National Trails Intermountain Region...
What do Ruben Cobos, Tony Hillerman, U.S. Route 66 and “El Hispano News” all have to do with each other? They are all new collections and digital projects at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, a part of the University of New Mex