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The 2011 Lobo Reading Experience selection is "The Scalpel and the Silver Bear," by Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D. Alvord, surgeon and university administrator is the daughter of a white mother and a Navajo father, neither of whom completed college. She ...

Bradley Ellingboe, professor of music and regents lecturer, returned recently from Europe where he led concerts in Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; and Prague, Czech Republic. The concerts featured members of University Chorus. In addition to the ...

The University of New Mexico Children's Campus for Early Care and Education was awarded the New Mexico PreK grant, funded by the New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department and the State Public Education Department.The New Mexico PreK initiative ...

Latin American and Iberian Institute Visiting Scholar Miguel Neneve presents, "Travel-writing on the Amazon in the Nineties," Monday, Aug. 22, at noon at the LAII, 801 Yale NE, on the main UNM campus.Neneve is a professor in the Department of Foreign ...

Late in the summer of 1670, five traders crossed what is now called the Jornada del Muerto on their way to present-day Chihuahua. One of them strayed from the group and soon called out that he had found human remains. After taking a look, one of the men ...

An opportunity to conduct research can be a life-changing event for undergraduates and a life-long passion for graduate students. Thirty-eight University of New Mexico students from four UNM programs, funded by National Institutes of Health and National ...

The University of New Mexico was recently cited as one of 121 colleges The Princeton Review recommends in the "Best of the West" section of its website feature, "2012 Best Colleges: Region by Region." UNM was chosen from hundreds of institutions reviewed ...

The Finance and Facilities Committee of the University of New Mexico Board of Regents will meet Thursday, Aug. 4 at 9 a.m. in the Roberts Room of Scholes Hall on the UNM main campus.In addition to the three Regents who are members of this committee, ...

A new exhibit titled, "Full Spectrum: The Fine Art Tapestries of Donna Loraine Contractor," is now on display through Sept. 9, 2011 at the Jonathan Abrams, MD, Art Gallery located on the fifth floor of the UNM Hospital Ambulatory Care Center. The exhibit ...

New Mexico in Focus offers opinions and insights regarding legislation intended to turn Los Alamos into a national park, celebrating the start of the atomic age. It's a debate that is again heating up, thanks to renewed interest by U.S. Interior ...