Homecoming season is blowing in at The University of New Mexico, including the return of Silent Lights – a student favorite. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic UNM could not put on an in-person Lobo Homecoming in 2020, but all the fun is returning to campus...
Associated Students of UNM (ASUNM) Community Experience (CE) agency is partnering with Vitalant to host the ‘We’re Out for Blood’ Halloween blood drive. CE is the ASUNM community service agency that hosts several campus wide community service events...
The Lobo community is invited to take part in an upcoming workshop and cultural collaborative designed to discuss, breakdown and address stereotypes between international and domestic students. The virtual event, “Adapting Together: Reflection,” takes...
Two University of New Mexico students, Elizabeth Ramsell and Danna Mayer-Llamas, were named 2021 Coca-Cola Academic scholars, highlighting their academic success and leadership within the community. The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation sponsors the...
Despite the limitations of the pandemic, the ASUNM Southwest Film Center (SWFC) has been working on ways to continue giving students a cinematic experience. They were able to set up an online platform to stream movies to anyone with a UNM Net ID and make...
The University of New Mexico’s Student Fee Review Board (SFRB) is accepting applications for Fiscal Year 2022. Applications are due Friday, Sept. 11 at 5 p.m. SFRB is a student committee comprised of undergraduate and graduate representatives who are...
The COVID-19 shutdown has brought about its fair-share of negative news. However, a group of students at The University of New Mexico decided they were not going to sit around, and let the negativity pile up. They were going to do something about...
After many changes, a long-awaited project is expected to break ground at The University of New Mexico. Through a joint effort between the Associated Students of UNM (ASUNM) and UNM’s Facilities Management (FM), solar panels will soon be placed atop...
The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico and a variety of UNM Resources Centers have teamed up to offer $30,000 in emergency scholarships to undergraduate students in need. The undergraduate student government in conjunction with African...
Researchers at The University of New Mexico examined the effects of consuming cannabis on nausea symptoms from five minutes to one-hour post-cannabis consumption and showed that using Cannabis results in an average symptom improvement of nearly 4 points...
Tim Gutierrez has held several titles during his tenure at The University of New Mexico from an instructor to coordinator, associate vice president and lastly interim vice president of the Division of Student Affairs. However, he jokes that most people...
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...
Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, and his students, many of them undergraduates, are investigating the genetic and molecular mechanics regulating neural diversity ̶ from stem cells to neural...
Language matters—spiritually, culturally, emotionally. Written and spoken words are an art form, a way for values and traditions to be passed down for generations. When a language is lost, part of that culture is lost. By the same measure, when language...
Cindy Nava heads to Washington, D.C. where she will become the first former DACA recipient in the United States to receive a White House presidential appointment. Nava, a University of New Mexico alumna, will serve as the senior policy advisor to the...
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...
An international team of scientists has developed an accurate record of preindustrial sea level utilizing precisely dated phreatic overgrowths on speleothems that provide a detailed history of Late Holocene sea-level change in Mallorca, Spain, an island...
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...
The University of New Mexico celebrated the graduating Classes of 2020 and 2021 inside University Arena, The Pit for the first time in two years due to the pandemic. Congratulations to one and all!!
