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University of New Mexico graduate Alexandra Stewart took top honors in the 2015 Elie Wiesel Foundation Prize in Ethics essay contest. She is the first recipient from UNM to win this contest and...

This fall, the University of New Mexico reached an important milestone in the effort to transform the first-year experience when it discontinued offering remedial Introductory Studies (IS) courses. The IS courses were preparatory courses taught by...

New Mexico is a place steeped not only in vibrant cultural traditions and creative expressions of all art forms, but also in technology, science, history and literature of space---that final frontier of satellites, galaxies and worlds unknown. Bearing...

Former University of New Mexico Professor Edward DeSantis had a special way of connecting with students with an impeccable, down-to-earth scholastic approach with an Ivy League demeanor. DeSantis, 78, died peacefully on Tuesday, Sept. 8. DeSantis, who...

The University of New Mexico selected its first Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows recently. The recipients for the the 2015-2017 cohort of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program include: Amber Lopez, Kalila Bohsali, Melissa Auh, Nina...

Three university of New Mexico students have been awarded Fulbright scholarships to study or teach abroad in the 2015–16 academic year. Anna Adams leaves for Germany in September where she will be an English teaching assistant. A member of the UNM ...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of New Mexico $420,000 to support the establishment of a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program (MMUF) on campus. The initial term of the Mellon award is four and half years, starting this...

Manuel Areu’s music used to fill the air in 19th century Spain, Mexico and Cuba. Then it fell silent. In 1952, Frederick Sommer, a found-object artist, found reams of paper stacked in cedar chests discarded in a dumpster in Jerome, Ariz. – the chests d

The University of New Mexico Honors College has selected two Fellows for Academic Year 2014-15: Gary Weissmann, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Matt Hofer, English. A third Distinguished Fellow, Shawn Berman from the Anderson School of Management, ...

Lobos going global is nothing new; but now, thanks to the implementation of a new course section, students have even more options for studying abroad. UNIV 175: Seminar in International Experiential Learning, provides the opportunity for students to ...