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...
One of the first things University of New Mexico adjunct faculty member Teresa Cutler-Broyles noticed about the COVID-19 shutdown in the town of Perugia, Italy, was the quiet. “The silence was overwhelming,” she said. Cutler-Broyles has a Master of...
A program coming to The University of New Mexico will offer international opportunities with the Peace Corps while students pursue a bachelor’s degree. It’s called, the Peace Corps Prep Certificate Program. It’s a collaborative effort between the Peace...
It’s an opportunity for students to celebrate the benefits of global education and exchange worldwide, International Education Week (IEW). IEW is celebrated across the U.S., Nov. 18 - 22. IEW highlights globally-focused community events such as...
Africa has largely been portrayed as a site of perpetual misery, with stereotypes in the public, and among students and scholars. The generalizations make it one of the most misunderstood social, political, and cultural spaces – a perception the UNM...
Olivia Padilla, an alumna of The University of New Mexico Class of 2018, is finishing a jampacked semester in Washington, D.C., as the first New Mexican to be a Global Leaders Fellow with the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI). CHLI gives...
Two University of New Mexico students, incuding Glenn Elvendahl and Catherine Louise Ruev, were among 16 selected by the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) for summer study abroad programs in Moscow or St. Petersburg, Russia. The...
Esteemed historian and New York University Professor David Engel is coming to New Mexico to share his expertise on the Holocaust and the current battle against antisemitism. The University of New Mexico (UNM) International Studies Institute is hosting...
From a young age, Aleja Allen loved the idea of Ireland, and says something about the small, green island enchanted her. Jenni Scanlan says the country captured her attention when she travelled there with the UNM Irish Studies group and realized the...
To understand the power of a movement that began in 2013, we have to jump back nearly 400 years and grasp onto perhaps the same struggle the Black community fought then; the idea that all people should be treated fairly in the eyes of the law and in...
The Spanish arrived from Europe in what would eventually become the United States nearly 500 years ago and began to mix with indigenous people they met and conquered. Native Americans, Mexicans, Central Americans, South Americans, Caribbean islands, and...
Many people understand the environment as a force of nature that cannot favor or disfavor different populations. However, similar to all things on Earth, the environment is subject to human influences. Unfortunately, these influences often tend to lower...
In commitment to community health, The University of New Mexico is permitting employees to use compensated work hours to staff a COVID vaccine clinic at The Pit. The newly created UNM Health COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic at The Pit is enabling UNM...
Although my mother wasn’t a curandera — or traditional healer — she should have been one. Growing up on a rural farm away from populated areas made healthcare harder to come by. “Don’t you dare get sick,” she would say to me and my siblings. “And if you...
University of New Mexico President Garnett S. Stokes delivers her annual State of the University address online Thursday, Jan. 21 at noon. It will be streamed on the President’s website. The virtual format allows the president to update the campus...
In a new study, researchers at The University of New Mexico measured the effectiveness of commercially available Cannabis flower, or ‘buds,’ for alleviating feelings of stress and anxiety. Using data collected by the Releaf App, the largest repository of...
Despite COVID keeping people physically distant, Lobos coming to campus this Spring still have lots of opportunities to get involved in the UNM campus community. The upcoming Welcome Back Days virtual events are a great way to find departments, clubs and...
Supreme Court Justice Julie J. Vargas being sworn into office. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham selected the UNM alumna to fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Judith Nakamura.
Through virtual workshops, students learned how to fold the bags and heard a bit of history on Luminarias and Farolitos. It's part of the 2020 virtual edition of UNM's Hanging of the Greens tradition.
COVID-19 screening stickers peeled off UNMH badges and put on hospital signs remind first responders and practitioners how much they mean to our community.
