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Senior Lecturer of Arabic Heather Sweetser from the Foreign Languages and Literatures department at The University of New Mexico first learned Arabic in the military at the Defense Language Institute back in the late 1990s. She enlisted as a linguist and...

UNM’s annual Hanging of the Greens is just a week away, beckoning in the holiday season – a long awaited gathering coming off a year where COVID-19 changed the way students, staff, faculty and the campus community celebrated our most sacred...

Associate Professor Anna Nogar of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico and A. Gabriel Meléndez, Distinguished Professor of American Studies at UNM, now retired, recently collaborated on a book of poetry translated from...

Associate Professor Georgiann Davis from the Department of Sociology at The University of New Mexico was an invited speaker at a recent virtual roundtable event with the White House to commemorate Intersex Awareness Day and discuss the treatment of...

U.S. President Joe Biden joined European Union leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit in Glasgow this month in pledging to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent over the next decade. This is a heavy lift, but researchers at The University...

The Lobo Language Acquisition Lab at The University of New Mexico will present Trisha Moquino of Keres Children's Learning Center (KCLC) describing her quest to create a school that would nurture children in the Keres-speaking community. Her...

An alumnus of The University of New Mexico has made a generous gift to the UNM Sustainability Studies program to establish an endowed fund in the name of his beloved late wife. The substantial gift will be used to support the Sustainability Studies...

The single best day for great deals is almost here. The annual Holiday Sales Event at the UNM Bookstores happens on Friday, Dec. 3. The Main Campus location will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and the North Campus location will be open from 10 a.m. to 4...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, November is a month dedicated to the contributions of Native Americans. Stereotypes, myths and misunderstanding of Tribes are still very much part of public perception, however. Correspondent Antonia Gonzales talks with...

Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time of gratitude and enjoyment. So then why are there so many articles about how unhealthy it is? We’re constantly told that we eat too many calories on Thanksgiving. And that our meals include excessive sodium and...