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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...

Due to sidewalk and road restructuring, UNM Parking & Transportation Services (PATS) has announced several sections of roadway, on the south end of main campus, will be temporarily closed this summer.  The closures on specific road/roadways are as...

There is a difference in knowing something and truly understanding it. From calculus to chemistry understanding complex equations can be challenging. Add in family and job responsibilities as experienced by many UNM student Veterans and it’s easy to...

Four UNM-Gallup students are participating in a University of New Mexico grant-funded program which is  allowing them to learn statistical languages and data analysis with an eye towards increasing global and human security.  UNM-Gallup visiting faculty...

Sandia National Laboratories and The University of New Mexico are joining forces to bolster national security and advance science and engineering with an agreement signed May 7. The Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, or CRADA, will...

Growing up, Lilian Casias was always encouraged to the break norm, and her parents wanted to give her every opportunity to be able to do so. Because of this in 1996, her parents packed up their lives and moved their family from Mexico to the United...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Russell Contreras sits down with Simón Romero, a national correspondent for The New York Times now closely following the migrant surge along the U.S.-Mexico border. They discuss the changing landscape of...

UNM Parking and Transportation Services has issued a notice to the UNM community that the University will experience heavy traffic this weekend, May 11, due to Commencement and Convocation Ceremonies. Multiple graduation convocations will be held on...

Olivia Padilla, an alumna of The University of New Mexico Class of 2018, is finishing a jampacked semester in Washington, D.C., as the first New Mexican to be a Global Leaders Fellow with the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI). CHLI gives...

The University of New Mexico will honor three integral and well-recognized members of the campus community at the Spring 2019 Undergraduate Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 11 at Dreamstyle Arena. This year's honorees include Mack Chase, Sam...