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With the General Election less than a month away, there are dates and details on when and where Lobos can vote. Absentee voting begins on Tuesday, Oct. 9. That day is also the deadline to register to participate in the election. Early voting — in the...

The University of New Mexico will officially celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day for the first time in school history on Monday, Oct. 8 in an effort to recognize the resilience of Native Americans. Starting in 2015, the City of Albuquerque voted to...

In February of this year, leading artists, activists, attorneys, biologists, climate scientists, conservationists, curators, historians, policy experts and writers convened at The University of New Mexico for “the last oil: a multispecies justice...

In conjunction with the Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, The University of New Mexico John Donald Robb Trust, and the SEM Latin American and Caribbean Music Section presents a pre-conference symposium on Wednesday, Nov. 14 at the Hotel...

Researchers have just a few weeks left to submit an abstract for the 2019 Population and Public Policy Conference, which will be held at Hotel Albuquerque on Feb. 8-9, 2019. Abstracts or proposals can be for individual papers, posters, panels, workshops...

“I really love working in Student Affairs because this is a place where people truly want to help other people—and regardless of how you want to help them, you can find a home at Student Affairs,” says UNM Career Facilitator Marty Apodaca.  Ask any...

Over the last year, the UNM Zimmerman Mural Task Force has engaged in a process on behalf of the University to discuss community impact and response to the Kenneth Adams murals in Zimmerman Library. The murals have been the subject of protest for...

University of New Mexico interim Provost Richard Wood has named Dr. Barbara L. Rodríguez as interim senior vice provost. She replaces Wood during his interim appointment as provost through June 2019, announced by President Garnett S. Stokes last...

For centuries dogs and humans have developed close relationships, that in many cases, have solidified each other as family. The close bond between humans and domesticated dogs can be traced back to some of New Mexico’s earliest settlers. But what...

It’s not every day that one bears witness to living history. Students attending The University of New Mexico’s Black Cultural Conference recently were gifted with just such a moment, in the form of John Carlos, “The world’s fastest humanitarian.” Along...