James Holloway, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico has appointed Stephanie McIver as interim executive director of Student Health and Counseling (SHAC), effective April 1, 2022. “I’m pleased to...
This year, UNM Student Health and Counseling (SHAC) hosts an entire week dedicated to help support students during Mental Health Week. Mental Health Week runs Monday, Nov.15 to Friday, Nov. 19. Rather than focusing on one day, SHAC is extending the...
The University of New Mexico is once again offering free flu shots in an effort to promote health and wellness this flu season. Shots will be provided at a variety of drive-thru clinics in Albuquerque and Rio Rancho for anyone 6 months or older. The...
UNM Parking & Transportation Services (UNM PATS) is excited to announce that the Redondo Court parking lot renovations have successfully been completed and the A-SHAC Lot is now open for use. “This area typically provides patient parking and emergency...
March 13, 2020 Three days before University of New Mexico President Garnett S. Stokes and leadership made the arduous decision to further protect the Pack from a virus that was quickly moving its way into the state, a bustling campus-life of 40,000...
The American College Health Foundation (ACHF) selected The University of New Mexico to participate in its emotional well-being survey that will be sent to a random selection of students, staff and faculty across campus starting Tuesday, March 30. UNM is...
The Division of Student Affairs has announced the appointment of Dr. James Wilterding as executive director of University of New Mexico Student Health and Counseling (SHAC). Wilterding initially joined SHAC as a medical provider in 2012 and served as...
A health education years in the making and culminating with a final semester of remote learning due to a worldwide pandemic. But time and time again, with every calibrated move, Tiffany Martinez-Durant has strategized ways to further her educational...
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state health officials implemented a new public health order, instructing New Mexicans to shelter in place through Nov. 30. College students around the country, including Lobos, usually travel home during Thanksgiving...
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!!
