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Growing up, Lilian Casias was always encouraged to the break norm, and her parents wanted to give her every opportunity to be able to do so. Because of this in 1996, her parents packed up their lives and moved their family from Mexico to the United...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Russell Contreras sits down with Simón Romero, a national correspondent for The New York Times now closely following the migrant surge along the U.S.-Mexico border. They discuss the changing landscape of...

UNM Parking and Transportation Services has issued a notice to the UNM community that the University will experience heavy traffic this weekend, May 11, due to Commencement and Convocation Ceremonies. Multiple graduation convocations will be held on...

Olivia Padilla, an alumna of The University of New Mexico Class of 2018, is finishing a jampacked semester in Washington, D.C., as the first New Mexican to be a Global Leaders Fellow with the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute (CHLI). CHLI gives...

The University of New Mexico will honor three integral and well-recognized members of the campus community at the Spring 2019 Undergraduate Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 11 at Dreamstyle Arena. This year's honorees include Mack Chase, Sam...

The UNM Staff Council and Employee Wellness are teaming up to host a Staff Appreciation Bingo that features a series of events to celebrate Staff Appreciation Week. UNM Staff is encouraged to participate in all events during the week to be entered into...

Shawna Yellowhair, a sophomore at The University of New Mexico-Gallup campus, has been awarded the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. This highly competitive national award was awarded to 61 recipients from...

Janet L. Pritchard recently became the third University of New Mexico alumnus in as many years to receive the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for photography. The grants provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative...

Jared Thurgood will graduate this Saturday from The University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering. But there were times along the way when he didn’t know if he was going to succeed. Thurgood worked hard in high school...

Commencement is often thought of as a “new beginning,” a time to conclude one facet of life and a time to start anew. On Saturday, May 11 at 9 a.m. at Dreamstyle Arena, about 3,800 students from The University of New Mexico will graduate as part of the...