News Archive

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Gene Grant and the Line Opinion Panel discuss gun violence in New Mexico and how local, state and federal officials are trying to address it.  First, Grant updates the panelists on federal charges announced for failed...

We are one small step closer to world peace, thanks to the University of New Mexico. The Global Education Office (GEO) has officially announced the Friends of Fulbright Argentina Institute for Young Leaders: Leading Peace Through Policy Making, as part...

Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, a distinguished faculty member in the English Department at The University of New Mexico (UNM), has been bestowed with a highly esteemed Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award from the Institute for Citizens and...

Popejoy Hall has announced Fabianna Borghese as its new director. Borghese recently served as interim director for the performing arts center after the retirement of longtime director, Thomas Tkach, in 2022. As director of Popejoy Hall, Borghese...

Pam Agoyo (Cochiti, Kewa, Ohkay Owingeh) has been appointed as the new executive director for Student Support in the Division of Student Affairs after a competitive nationwide search. Agoyo, who has been with The University of New Mexico for over 25...

ExxonMobil today announced grants during the past 12 months to New Mexico higher education institutions and multiple community education initiatives supporting various Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics (STEM) and public service programs...

Whether it was the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cold War or even New Mexico’s own Manhattan Project, nuclear tensions have been a longstanding component of international relations. Across each of these situations, journalists have been at the forefront of...

Three finalists for the position of vice president for Human Resources & Chief Human Resources officer have been announced and invited to visit campus during the next two weeks. The finalists include Carleen Thompson, Jay Stephens and Kevin...

Nathan Jackson, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is receiving Department of Defense (DoD) funding to develop new functional thin films that could be utilized in microsystem sensors and actuator applications, including...

Joey Sorenson, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the U.S. Department of Energy and the Istituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare (DOE-INFN) Summer Students Exchange Scholarship. He is...