Announcements

This week, New Mexico in Focus, in an encore presentation, celebrates Joy Harjo, a groundbreaking poet and New Mexico treasure. An enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma, Harjo went to school at the Institute of American Indian Arts in...

In February of 2020, Professor and Forensic Anthropologist Heather Edgar, in association with Western Michigan University Associate Professor Shamsi Berry and the Center for Advanced Research Computing, unveiled a groundbreaking new website that gives...

The University Libraries is a proud to feature Food For Thought: an Interactive exhibit about food insecurity. The exhibit was developed and created by a student group in a University Honors course. The exhibit is located in the first-floor lobby of...

Every Navajo rug is a unique piece that starts with raising the sheep and goats for wool, which is then shorn, carded, spun, dyed, and finally woven, all by hand, into a rug using traditional, contemporary, and historic themes. Rugs are not just pieces...

Ana Alonso-Minutti, associate professor of Music and faculty affiliate of the Latin American and Iberian Institute at The University of New Mexico, was recently awarded the biennial 2021 Robert M. Stevenson Prize from The Society for Ethnomusicology for...

Aspiring undergraduate researchers at The University of New Mexico have the opportunity to receive funding for their work through award.  The Jim and Mary Lois Friday Hulsman Undergraduate Library Research Award program recognizes excellence in...

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...

Each year, the Native Health Initiative (NHI) holds a Gratitude Run to support the Indigenous community; and this year’s run is being held on Nov. 25. NHI was created in 2005 as a partnership between Indigenous communities and health profession...

The winner of this year’s LoboBITES competition during the Shared Knowledge Conference examined how gaps in translation confused Spanish-speaking New Mexico residents trying to access vaccines and critical information about COVID-19. The conference...

New research paints a picture of small New Mexico water systems grappling with bureaucracy, regulations, lack of money, aging systems, and aging administrators as they struggle to keep clean water flowing in their communities’ faucets. Benjamin Warner,...