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New Mexico’s endless beauty, its complex and contending histories and rich cultural heritage earned the state its nickname, The Land of Enchantment. Behind all of the majesty and grandeur lies a deeper story that weaves through past, present and ...

In light of the recent articles in Rolling Stone and the New Yorker concerning the fatal shootings by Albuquerque Police Department officers, New Mexico in Focus debates whether or not national attention could alter the local controversy over reforms ...

A consortium, that includes the University of New Mexico, is bidding for $110 million in federal funds for a new Integrated Photonics Institute for Manufacturing Innovation (IP-IMI). The consortium has advanced to the final round of competition, the ...

As expected, state financial analysts have downgraded revenue estimates for FY16 by $57.8 million because of falling oil and gas prices.

Ask Regents Professor Bruce Thomson to design a water treatment plant and you could expect quality water as a result. Then he could pick up a fiddle and write a tune about it.

For the sixth year, the Division of Student Affairs is partnering with the UNM Dean of Students Office, New Mexico Educators Federal Educators Federal Credit Union (NMEFCU), and new this year, LoboTHON, to celebrate National Random Acts of Kindness (RAK)...

University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus of English E. A. “Tony” Mares – teacher, essayist, poet - died January 30 at the age of 76.  A memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 8 at 3:30 p.m. in the UNM Alumni Chapel. Mares, who was born May 17,...

The UNM Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) is accepting nominations for its 2014-15 annual Teaching Awards. Sponsored by the CTE and the Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee, who selects the recipients, the teaching awards recognize UNM’s ...

The University of New Mexico’s Campus Office of Substance Abuse Prevention (COSAP), a program that's part of the UNM Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions (CASAA), received a $10,000 grant recently from Transforming Youth Recovery (TYR) designed to assist students in recovery from substance use disorders and other addictive behaviors.

DNA analysis can help convict the guilty and exonerate the innocent When the criminal justice system fails to function as it should. Since its reorganization in 2010, the Innocence and Justice Program (IJP) at the University of New Mexico School of Law has investigated claims of innocence and provided courses in criminal investigation to