Faculty News

New Mexico’s wildfire-ravaged forests could receive a much-needed boost in recovery efforts through this year’s GO Bond 3, which would provide critical funding for Phase 2 at the New Mexico Reforestation Center (NMRC), a multi-site initiative including...

This month’s Faculty Lightning Lounge will be held 3:30- 4:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in Centennial Engineering Center’s Stamm Commons. Lightning Lounge gives faculty from a broad range of disciplines an opportunity to give short talks about their research,...

The University of New Mexico Honors College Dean Naomi Yavneh Klos has been selected for the National Collegiate Honors Council’s (NCHC) 2026 Class of Fellows. This distinction recognizes sustained contributions to honors teaching, learning, scholarship,...

For professors at a research university, proposal writing is a vital part of a tenure-track position. It can be extremely rewarding — setting an academic career on a trajectory of success. Yet there is also the realization that many proposals — despite...

Tito Busani, an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, has been named the new director of the Optical Science and Engineering program at The University of New Mexico. 

Jennifer Rudgers, a Distinguished Professor of biology at The University of New Mexico, will spend fall 2026 on a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in Cádiz, Spain.

The Center for Regional Studies is hosting a screening of its newest documentary called he Rio Grande: A Century of Water, Land and People in the Middle Valley at the Guild Cinema Sept. 23.

Gary Scharnhorst, a retired UNM English professor and longtime Mark Twain scholar, has received the Louis J. Budd Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the Mark Twain Circle of America.

The National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C, is currently featuring photography by Subhankar Banerjee, professor of art and founder and director of The University of New Mexico’s Center for Environmental Arts & Humanities, in the Beneath the Surface:...

University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning assistant professor Elspeth Iralu is one of 29 named nationally as new Career Enhancement Fellows this year.