Faculty News

Ask Regents Professor Bruce Thomson to design a water treatment plant and you could expect quality water as a result. Then he could pick up a fiddle and write a tune about it.

University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus of English E. A. “Tony” Mares – teacher, essayist, poet - died January 30 at the age of 76.  A memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 8 at 3:30 p.m. in the UNM Alumni Chapel. Mares, who was born May 17,...

The UNM Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) is accepting nominations for its 2014-15 annual Teaching Awards. Sponsored by the CTE and the Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee, who selects the recipients, the teaching awards recognize UNM’s ...

John Newell, Esq., has recently been named Director of the Rozier E. Sanchez Judicial Education Center of New Mexico (JEC), which provides education and training to the judges, administrators and other staff of the New Mexico judicial branch. The JEC...

Kevin K. Washburn, assistant secretary - Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior, and former dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law, will be honored with the ABA’s prestigious Spirit of Excellence Award at the ABA Midyear Meeting on...

Emeritus Associate Professor of English Frederick B. Warner, Jr. died Sunday, Jan. 4 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., from complications of cancer. He was 79.

The University of New Mexico recently honored outgoing regents Gene Gallegos, Jamie Koch and student regent Heidi Overton. Organized by Faculty Senate President Pamela V. Pyle, the event, Faculty Focus, offered a showcase of faculty giving brief presentations in their areas of expertise, interspersed with remarks on the contributions of Gallegos, Koch and Overton. Professor

Forty years ago, Americans watched the Watergate impeachment hearings of President Richard M. Nixon, Albuquerque Cab Company began operations, and at the University of New Mexico a young, new professor, Richard Holder, arrived on a campus that was ...

University of New Mexico Vice President for Student Affairs Eliseo “Cheo” Torres is internationally acclaimed for his traditional medicine – curandero – course, that he teaches every summer. Not content to reach only those who can travel to ...

The UNM Law School recently announced the hire of three permanent and five visiting faculty members. The new faculty will teach in the Law School’s nationally ranked Clinical Program and add expertise in the Legal Analysis and Communication Program ...