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Giving non-profits the tools to succeed

By Rachel Whitt August 15, 2019

The UNM Evaluation Lab Summer Institute brought in non-profits from across New Mexico to learn more about gauging the effectiveness of processes within their organizations. This is the second annual Summer Institute and more than twenty non-profits took...

Transgender Resource Center offers educational trainings

August 15, 2019

The Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico will offer Transgender 101 and 201 Trainings at the UNM Art Museum on Wed. Aug. 21 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The courses will cover a 2-hour training covering terms, definitions and concepts as they relate to...

NMIF visits with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on NMPED

August 15, 2019

This week on New Mexico in Focus, senior producer Matt Grubs sits down for an in-depth conversation with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham about her ambitions goal of raising New Mexico’s public education system to be the best in the country. Less than a month...

UNM's EDAC receives $700,000 grant to digitize historical aerial photos for web accessibility

By Steve Carr August 15, 2019

The preservation and documentation of historical records is an important job. From acts of Congress to government records to historical photographs, the National Archives and Records Administration (also known as National Archives or NARA) is tasked with...

Center for World University Rankings places UNM among world’s best universities

August 14, 2019

The University of New Mexico is ranking high amongst the world’s top universities according to the latest Center for World University Rankings (CWUR)—the largest academic ranking of global universities. In the CWUR’s 2019-2020 rankings, UNM ranked No....

Formula SAE team has 20/20 vision for 2020

By Kim Delker August 13, 2019

For two decades, The University of New Mexico’s Formula Society of Automotive Engineers team has been designing, building and racing a Formula-style car for competition in an international contest. Students spend an intense year working on the machine,...

UNM receives $5 million, 5-year National Science Foundation grant for water research

By Kim Delker August 12, 2019

The University of New Mexico has received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue the groundbreaking research that the Center for Water and the Environment has been leading since 2014. "CREST Center for Water and the...

UNM prepares for Welcome Back Days

August 12, 2019

The University of New Mexico is preparing to welcome new and returning Lobos to campus with Welcome Back Days Fall 2019. Welcome Back Days is organized through Student Activities Center to help students become acquainted and feel welcomed on campus....

Student Job Fair provides opportunities to learn about on-campus jobs

August 12, 2019

During Welcome Back Days, students have the opportunity to learn about the benefits of working on campus and different student jobs that are currently available on campus at the Student Job Fair on Aug. 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the UNM Duck...

UNM to welcome freshmen to campus

August 09, 2019

It’s a day that marks a new beginning for incoming freshmen at The University of New Mexico. It all starts for those students when UNM hosts Freshman Family Day on Sunday, Aug. 18 starting at 4 p.m. with a formal convocation for incoming freshmen. The...

Center for World University Rankings places UNM among world’s best universities

August 14, 2019

Inspiring a generation of Navajo students

By Rachel Whitt February 21, 2019

A University of New Mexico alumna hopes to become one of only a select few female Navajo licensed architects in the world. Geraldene Blackgoat is now one step closer to that goal, after receiving the prestigious Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE Scholarship....

Notorious psychoactive chemical THC more important for therapeutic effects in cannabis than previously known

February 25, 2019

Researchers at The University of New Mexico recently solved a major gap in the scientific literature by using mobile software technology to measure the real-time effects of actual cannabis-based products used by millions of people every day. Contrary to...

The growing trend of Emotional Support Animals

By Rachel Whitt August 05, 2019

A dog in the grocery store; a cat in the cabin of an airplane; a bird in a coffee shop – companion creatures labelled as Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) are showing up more and more in places previously understood to be animal-free. It’s part of a...

UNM to welcome freshmen to campus

August 09, 2019

UNM receives $5 million, 5-year National Science Foundation grant for water research

By Kim Delker August 12, 2019

UNM's EDAC receives $700,000 grant to digitize historical aerial photos for web accessibility

By Steve Carr August 15, 2019

UNM's College of Arts and Sciences announces Regents’ Lecturers

August 08, 2019

The University of New Mexico’s College of Arts and Sciences has named Luis Campos, Irene Salinas and Owen Whooley as Regents’ Lecturers—a distinguishing title bestowed on selected tenured, junior faculty members that merit recognition of their...

Walt Miller to retire after 25 years with SUB

August 08, 2019

Dr. Walter Miller has been at the UNM Student Union Building long enough—25 years to be exact—to see the building and the University undergo many student, staff, and landscape transformations. This August, Miller will turn in his Lobo card and retire...

UNM team develops quantum sensor technology

By Mary Beth King August 08, 2019

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico and its Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM) recently published a new paper in the journal Science Advances detailing their work in developing a quantum sensor for determining the chemical...

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Headlines for August 16, 2019

Albuquerque Journal - "Jabil to create excellence center for 3D printing in ABQ" The Growth OP - "U.S. college students using cannabis to help get some shut-eye experience next-day fatigue" From Press - "Colorado River water: Arizona, Nevada and Mexico...

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Faculty Experts

UNM faculty expert on foreign relations – Emile Nakhleh

Dr. Emile Nakhleh is a research professor and coordinator of National Security Programs at UNM. Nakhleh is a retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer, a National Intelligence Council Associate and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Since ...

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