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The UNM Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) has been chosen as this year’s Youth Development Inc. (YDI) Guest of Honor and will be recognized for their dedication to YDI’s GED students with a plaque at their 2015 GED Graduation Ceremony on Tuesday, June 30 at 3 p.m. at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in the ABQ Journal Theater. The event is free and open to the public.

The New York Times calls law journals, “the lackluster reviews that lawyers love to hate.” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has criticized them for being boring and theoretical. The UNM School of Law student-edited New Mexico Law Review (NMLR) has...

The University of New Mexico’s El Centro de la Raza is accepting applications for their El Puente Fellowships program. The El Puente Fellowships offer a select group of students’ access to a two-semester program that prepares them for opportunities at...

For the past seventeen summers, the University of New Mexico and Albuquerque Public Schools have sponsored the English as a Second Language (ESL) Summer Institute designed to help in-service and pre-service teachers of all grade levels secure ESL endorsements....

The Lobo Living Room, hosted by the UNM Alumni Association returns with Explore the History of ¡Mariachi!, featuring Jonathan Clark, a Mariachi historian on Thursday, July 9 at 4:30 p.m. at the Hodgin Hall Alumni Center.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Rev. John D. Hill from Grant Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Albuquerque, joins Gene Grant to talk about local reactions to the recent shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston,...

Spanish settlement of the Middle Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico changed the way people lived, but a new paper in the journal, The Holocene" by UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Emily Jones suggests the change did not come quickly.  

The US Census population estimate program had their annual release for 2014 data today. The release noted that “Millennials, now outnumber Baby Boomers” and that “New Mexico had the highest percentage of Hispanics at 47.7 percent” (...

The Innovate ABQ board is now reviewing proposals from developers for a new building at the Innovate ABQ site at Central and Broadway NE in Albuquerque. Requests for proposals were submitted on June 1. 

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) today designated the University of New Mexico as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity (IEP) University. The prestigious designation acknowledges universities that are working with public ...