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A nearly $5 million project is underway at UNM-Taos to bring an ‘out of this world’ experience to northern New Mexico. The University says the largest public-use telescope in the southwest will soon be...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) has ranked No. 61 on the Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents in 2023, a list published by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Published annually, this ranking serves to highlight and celebrate U.S....

The UNM Foundation has selected nonprofit leader Andréa Cassutt as the new director of Development for the College of Education and Human Sciences (COEHS). Cassutt succeeds Mary Wolford, who served as COEHS’ senior development director from 2014 until...

A University of New Mexico grad student is looking ahead after winning a prestigious national fellowship. David Vargas, a UNM Ph.D. student in applied mathematics, was announced as the recipient of Sandia National Laboratories ‘John von Neumann...

The College of Fine Arts at The University of New Mexico recently recognized five graduates with Distinguished Alumni Awards for achieving outstanding success and making significant contributions to their fields. These alumni have demonstrated...

The search committee for the position of director for American Indian Student Services has announced three finalists who will each participate in open forums next week. UNM students, faculty and staff are invited and encouraged to attend each of the...

This week, New Mexico in Focus breaks down this week's primary elections with UNM's Political Science Professor Timothy Krebs. Senior Producer Lou DiVizio asks Krebs to consider why two high-profile district attorney races went well for the incumbents...

For more than 20 consecutive summers, Eliseo “Cheo” Torres and Mario Del Angel Guevara, University of New Mexico Chicana/o Studies professors, have hosted “Traditional Medicine without Borders: Curanderismo in the Southwest and Mexico.” This two-week...

The number of older New Mexicans will continue to increase in the coming decades while total population change will remain flat. Stability will be due in large part to international migration, which will offset declining births and increasing deaths...

Although only beginning his collegiate journey, Dimitri Kittrell is a man with a plan. The native of Little Rock, Ark., just completed his freshman year in the Gerald May Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at UNM and this...