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The University of New Mexico has announced 2021-22 scholarship opportunities for new students. Scholarship awards for incoming first-year and transfer students are extensive and are intended to reward students’ academic achievements. There is no ACT or...

UNM’s Journal of Anthropological Research 50th Distinguished Lecture originally set for virtual delivery on Sept. 24 by renowned paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie will now be available via a recorded presentation. Haile-Selassie will discuss...

Alexandre Frederick Mills, a graduate student in The University of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy, is among 52 students from across the nation selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR)...

This week, New Mexico in Focus previews conversations with Democratic Rep. Xochitl Torres Small and her two-time Republican opponent in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District, Yvette Herrell. The full hour-long special airs on NMPBS Sunday at...

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, public health orders issued by the New Mexico Department of Health have limited the ability for events to be held on the campus of The University of New Mexico. To track and review events before their occurrence on...

The UNM Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) is hosting its annual Data Users Conference in a virtual capacity this year. This is the 22nd year of the Annual New Mexico Data Users Conference – New Mexico’s premier forum for both beginning and...

As part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High Risk, High Reward Research Program, Victor M. Acosta has received the 2020 Director’s New Innovator Award. Acosta is an assistant professor of physics and a member of the UNM Center for High...

Buildings, classrooms, electrical, high-speed internet, optical fiber, research laboratories – the importance of education infrastructure cannot be overstated. Studies have shown that high-quality academic and research infrastructure leads to better...

A woman forced underground during political upheaval in Mexico, separated from her four children who were sent to safety, and later deported from her own country for “subversive writing” – what sounds like a suspenseful plot is actually the real-life...

Jane Lancaster, Distinguished Professor Emerita at The University of New Mexico, has been honored in the latest edition of Human Nature, the interdisciplinary journal she founded in 1990. Lancaster arrived at the UNM Anthropology department in 1985 and...