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What started out as an effort to increase the representation and advancement of women faculty in science and engineering departments campuswide through a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant has blossomed into sustainable change that has contributed...

The UNM College of Arts and Sciences recently announced the winners of its 2022 Teaching Excellence Awards. This year’s honorees are Cindy Gevarter, assistant professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Colin Olson, senior lecturer III in...

The UNM Spring Teaching Conference will be held virtually Thursday and Friday, March 3 and 4. The keynote speaker will be Laura I. Rendón, Professor Emerita at The University of Texas at San Antonio, who will address Fostering an Equitable and Just...

Over the past several years, The University of New Mexico's Center for Teaching and Learning has grown to include several distinct centers: the Center for Academic Program Support (CAPS), Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), the Graduate Resource Center...

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...