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New Mexico in Focus begins its 14th season with a look back at the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic since it first hit the state in March, and a look forward from the time women won the right to vote 100 years ago.   As part of an online preview...

If only six degrees of separation are between each New Mexican, there are even fewer degrees between those who worked with, learned from, and were impacted by the writings of literary pioneer Rudolfo Anaya. His talent for capturing New Mexico on pen and...

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs James Holloway and Health Sciences Center Chancellor Dr. Paul Roth recently announced the promotion of seven UNM faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The rank...

Although the majority of UNM is operating in a limited capacity, many campus activities are continuing remotely.  Keep up-to-date on educational and virtually social events and workshops by regularly checking the UNM Events Calendar.  To submit...

A professor at The University of New Mexico School of Engineering has been selected to be part of a multi-institutional NASA project to support various aeronautics research goals over the next four years. This project, “Assured Autonomy for Aviation...

Two Lobos from the UNM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are being recognized by the Albuquerque Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Ali Bidram, an assistant professor, was selected as the 2020...

To understand the power of a movement that began in 2013, we have to jump back nearly 400 years and grasp onto perhaps the same struggle the Black community fought then; the idea that all people should be treated fairly in the eyes of the law and in...

Rocky Cordova knew he wanted to go into politics ever since he ran his first campaign in elementary school. “I was ten years old,” he remembers. “But I never wanted to be the candidate, I just wanted to work with the candidate. I remember using markers...

A team of University of New Mexico computer scientists led by Research Assistant Professor Matthew Fricke is competing with diverse computer research groups to develop an algorithm that...

The University Libraries Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR) is offering limited onsite research opportunities. Since the closure of library buildings in March, researchers have hoped for access to CSWR collections onsite. CSWR...