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The design of indoor and outdoor spaces has the power to shape not just how we use an area, but also how we feel about it. Design can help inform whether someone wants to meet friends or move through an area quickly. It can even discourage crime.  Crime...

The UNM Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative has organized a slate of exciting and informative events for Open Education Week, March 6 – 10, to raise awareness of current initiatives and inspire visions of how OER could develop across the UNM...

Every year, hundreds of students are nominated by their institutions based on their records of leadership, public service and academic achievement. Two University of New Mexico nominees, Lizbeth Olivarez and Andrew Schumann, were selected and announced...

University of New Mexico President Garnett S. Stokes delivers her fifth annual State of the University address Wednesday, March 1 at 11 a.m. in SUB Ballroom C. Light refreshments will be available following the speech. In addition, the speech will be...

The sky is literally the limit for the Department of Health, Exercise & Sports Science researchers huddled up in the space next to Carlisle Gym.  You may miss the bright turquoise door when walking by, but inside, lies one of the most unique pieces of...

The University of New Mexico Graduate Studies has announced the appointment of Nikki Jernigan as the interim associate dean of Graduate Studies. Interim graduate dean Jesse Alemán appointed Jernigan to the post based on her experience with graduate...

Voiceless Mass by The University of New Mexico alumnus and Pulitzer Prize winning Diné composer Raven Chacon will make its New Mexican premiere of his award-winning work in Albuquerque. Chacon won the prestigious 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music for...

University of New Mexico junior Eric Olaguir recently won an award for his poster presentation at the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) 2023 Annual Meeting. Olaguir is a student in Civil Engineering assistant professor Fernando Moreu’s Smart...

It may be legal, but it’s not fair. That’s the state of a current wave of water problems in the west.  UNM Utton Center Writer-In-Residence and Water Policy and Law Expert John Fleck says it’s as simple as that when it comes to California and the...

Jim Sipos is a man of great loyalty and consistency, which is evident in both his career and his support for the UNM School of Engineering. Sipos, who earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from UNM in 1979, started giving back to the...