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Four finalists for the position of Dean of the College of Education have been announced and invited to visit campus the next two weeks. The four finalists include: Jeff Fairbrother, Teresa K. DeBacker, Curt Adams and Hansel Burley. The candidates will...

The University of New Mexico will conduct a test of its emergency notification systems on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 11:02 a.m. The test will include all parts of the University's warning systems including sirens, e-mail, text messaging, social media updates...

New research published recently in Science Immunology by collaborators Dr. Irene Salinas at The University of New Mexico Biology Department and Dr. J. Oriol Sunyer at the University of Pennsylvania, Veterinary School, brings new importance of immune...

The Anthropology Graduate Student Union hosts its second annual alumni talk featuring alumna Stacie Hecht on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. in Hibben 105. The lecture, I told you I’d get a job with my anthropology degree, Dad! Navigating the challenges of a...

The UNM Department of Anthropology will hold its second annual Job Fair on Monday, Feb. 24, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Union Building Ballroom B.  Students with a major or minor in Anthropology or a related field can meet recruiters, learn...

Research by an international team of scientists led by University of New Mexico Professor Yemane Asmerom suggests contraction of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) during a warming Earth, leading in turn to drying of the Neotropics, including...

The University of New Mexico's Native American Studies (NAS) department is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. To mark the event, the NAS hosts its 16th annual Viola F. Cordova Symposium Wednesday, Feb. 19, starting at 10 a.m. in the Student...

He was an English novelist, journalist and social critic -- and this month he is the topic of a free public discussion: Doublespeak and Fake News: How George Orwell Matters Today. The event, sponsored by the Rio Grande Chapter of the Society of...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, “Our Land” correspondent Laura Paskus follows up on a story she broke last weekend. She talks to leaders at the New Mexico Environment Department about the low levels of PFAS toxic chemicals that have been found in some...

In 2018, the National Museum of Brazil was ravaged by a fire that destroyed a huge collection of irreplaceable historical artifacts. In a New York Times article, Dalton de Souza Amorim, a professor of biology at the University of São Paulo, was quoted as...