Inside UNM

Today is UNM Day at the legislature, which features campus exhibits filling the halls of history, performances in the house and senate chambers, memorials, proclamations, speeches, tours, and meet & greets. The House and Senate are both scheduled to go...

Ray Mabus, United States Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV), visited the University of New Mexico recently where he took of a tour of the Center for Emerging Energy Technologies (CEET) at the Centennial Engineering Center, followed by a talk with UNM...

State lawmakers will get revised revenue projections next week, barely giving them time to build their FY 17 budget. Seeking a second opinion or perhaps a preview of the pain, Senate Finance asked economists to comment on the state of the state’s...

The New Mexico Legislature is now in session, having convened around noon with all due pomp and ceremony. Two hours and several hundred introductions later, Gov. Susana Martinez delivered her State of the State to lawmakers. Her goals for the session...

UNM is seeking funding for a variety of concerns during the 2016 session of the New Mexico Legislature. The priorities cover a wide range of issues for the state’s flagship research institution including UNM’s main campus, UNM West in Rio Rancho, UNM...

United States Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, will bring his vision of leadership to students and tour a cutting edge laboratory during a brief visit to the University of New Mexico campus on the afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 19.  During his visit, he ...

It’s one week and one day before the New Mexico Legislature convenes for its 2016 session. This is a 30-day session with the main focus on all things financial. Both the Executive and the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) have released their budget...

The Tuesday morning session, when the New Mexico Department of Higher Education presented its funding wish list, evolved into a wide-ranging, sometimes lively discussion on topics like funding formula stabilization, disagreement over performance measures...

State finance officials predict $232 million in new money could be available to legislators as they begin building the FY-17 state budget next month. That’s down $61 million from their $293 million projection last August. In a largely optimistic report...

Financial analysts from NM’s departments of Finance and Administration, Taxation and Revenue, and Transportation spent their summer with Legislative Finance Committee staff, reaching agreement on how much new money the Legislature will have to work with...