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Eliseo “Cheo” Torres, vice president for Student Affairs announced the appointment of Jenna Crabb, as the new UNM Interim Dean of Students effective Tuesday, Jan. 5. Tomás Aguirre, the current UNM Dean of Students, will continue in this position until...

Each year, the UNM Office of Sustainability gets questions about recycling after Christmas.  Most Christmas wrapping paper and ribbon cannot be recycled because they contain metal and that is why reusing gift bags is recommended.  But you can recycle...

The University of New Mexico is set to go on winter break starting Wednesday, Dec. 23 through Sunday, Jan. 3, meaning many departments on campus will be closed during the holidays. Check the hours of the office you plan to visit. Information...

“It was a beautiful mistake.” These were the words Melvin Mariano used to describe how he inadvertently came to be a participant in an internship experience at UNM-Gallup. Mariano needed an extra class to maintain his part-time academic status when he...

University of New Mexico Emeritus Professor of English Gary Scharnhorst authored, Mark Twain on Potholes and Politics: Letters to the Editor, which has been selected for inclusion on Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles list, scheduled to appear...

A new book written by The University of New Mexico Department of Sociology chair, Richard Wood, takes an in depth look at the work being done to overcome racial inequality in the United States and to figure out how we, as a society, work across the racial divides we’ve inherited.

University of New Mexico Vice President for Student Affairs Eliseo “Cheo” Torres announced that Dean of Students Tomás Aguirre has resigned to take a position at Texas A&M-Commerce beginning in spring 2016. Aguirre accepted a position as...

Vice President for Research at UNM Mike Dougher has announced a major reorganization of the management of various centers and institutes at the university.   The newly-formed  Institute for Policy, Evaluation and Applied Research (IPEAR) is...

University of New Mexico Regent Jamie Koch announced today that he will retire from the Board of Regents effective Dec. 31, 2015. Koch, a longtime New Mexico public servant, has been a member of the UNM Board of Regents for 13 years. Most recently he has...

Understanding the different ways organisms can adapt to environmental temperatures is central to understanding how they will respond to climate change. In a study released yesterday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists...