Schools and Colleges

It’s a time for “new beginnings,” a transition from one facet of life to another. A time for celebration, recognition and reflection. On Saturday, May 15 at 9 a.m. at University Stadium, approximately 3,100 students from The University of New Mexico will...

The University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology will present a virtual convocation Saturday, May 15, at 1 pm. The ceremony will honor 76 graduates receiving their bachelor’s degrees and 33 graduates receiving their Master’s and Ph.D.s. The...

Megan Davis always knew she wanted a career in health care but wasn’t sure about the role she would play. Once enrolled in The University of New Mexico College of Nursing, everything seemed right – until tragedy struck – not once but twice in 2020. Her...

The UNM Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology hosts a departmental colloquium featuring Professor Roald Hoffman in a virtual presentation titled Simulation vs. understanding: A tension, and not just in our profession, on Friday, May 7 at 12...

The proposal submitted by the UNM CHILI HOUSE Team won first place in the NASA MINDS Challenge, beating out dozens of other teams across the country. The UNM team of interdisciplinary researchers based its submission on teaching robots to take care of...

The University of New Mexico Water Resources Program will conduct open forums for a new director beginning Monday, May 3.  The position became available when current director John Fleck recently announced his retirement to work on a new book about the...

Local residents are invited to join The University of New Mexico R.H. Mallory Center for Community Geography in the City Nature Challenge. The City of Albuquerque will take on Phoenix, Ariz., to see which city can log the most uploads of local plants and...

Jane Lancaster, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She joins other eminent anthropologists selected for the honor, including the late...

Jeremy Edwards, director of the Computational Genomics and Technology (CGaT) Laboratory at The University of New Mexico, and his colleagues at Centrillion Technologies in Palo Alto, Calif. and West Virginia University, have developed a chip that provides...

Entry, descent, and landing technologies are critical to placing large payloads on other planets such as Mars. As a spacecraft enters an atmosphere of a planet such as Earth or Mars, collisions with the atmospheric atoms and molecules generate very high...