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Senior Lecturer of Arabic Heather Sweetser from the Foreign Languages and Literatures department at The University of New Mexico first learned Arabic in the military at the Defense Language Institute back in the late 1990s. She enlisted as a linguist and...

University of New Mexico Associate Professor of Linguistics and Hispanic Linguistics Naomi Shin has been awarded the prestigious 2020 Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award.  “This award is a tremendous honor to me. I care so deeply about teaching...

University of New Mexico alumna Jacqueline Hirsh Greene is supposed to go to Germany soon. But as so many in the UNM community have experienced, plans were upended by the pandemic shutdown. Hirsh Greene graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts...

There’s no question The University of New Mexico has faced many challenges associated with the recent COVID-19 pandemic, however, those challenges have presented opportunities for the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). With many classes moving to...

An associate professor of sports administration in UNM's College of Education is strengthening New Mexico’s ties to Hungary’s flagship sports university, the University of Physical Education (UPE) in Budapest. John Barnes was recently asked to be the...

Sharon Head, doctoral candidate in Special Education at The University of New Mexico, was recognized by the Moriarty-Edgewood School District with the New Mexico School Boards Association 2019 Excellence in Student Achievement Award. The Excellence in...

Say the word “coding” and most people think of developing high tech computer software, phone apps, or websites. But since the 1950s, coding has also been used to create art. Teachers from all over New Mexico recently attended the first-ever Computer...

Aspiring teachers with a Bachelor’s degree now have a new pathway to the profession: the Albuquerque Teacher Residency Partnership (ATRP), a renewed collaboration between The University of New Mexico (UNM), Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) and the...

The UNM Alumni Association is seeking nominations for its prestigious James F. Zimmerman, Bernard S. Rodey, Erna S. Fergusson and Faculty Teaching Awards. The deadline to submit nominations is Friday, Nov. 4. Nomination forms are available on the Alumni...

The Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee and the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) are now accepting nominations of outstanding educators at UNM. Nominations are now being accepted. Instructors, students and staff are eligible to nominate...