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A team of University of New Mexico researchers received a three-year, $1.02 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to increase family participation in statewide early childhood home visiting programs.   New Mexico ranks...

When Tara Palomares isn’t teaching math at Albuquerque's Sandia High School, she’s in a different classroom as a doctoral student in the Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education Program at The University of New Mexico. While she's well known locally in...

The University of New Mexico first celebrated Black History Month in 1976, following President Gerald Ford formal recognition of the month. However, the tradition started much earlier than 1976. It was 1926 when Harvard-educated historian Dr. Carter G....

Faculty members from The University of New Mexico School of Engineering and Health Sciences Center will collaborate with the University of California, Berkeley on a $10 million, six-year project grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)...

As part of their commitment to both employee engagement and giving back to the community, a group of volunteers from the Office of the Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration (EVPFA) recently spent time at the Ronald McDonald House...

Economics alumnus Charles Lehman (B.A. 1963) has donated $30,000 to the University of New Mexico for a campus-wide license of IMPLAN, the leading software for assessing economic impact. IMPLAN allows economists, geographers, planners, and other...

Educators are a special group of people. Their desire, willingness and determination to go the extra mile to improve education is nothing short of heroic—especially in New Mexico, where the educational challenges are plenty. Viola “Vi” Florez (Tighe)...

Undergraduate students at The University of New Mexico will soon have a new tool to help them more efficiently communicate with the advisement community and keep them on track with their student success journey. Student Hub — a collaboration between the...

University Libraries is launching its Menstrual Equity Pilot Project, a new initiative designed to provide free menstrual products to the campus community. Beginning this semester, products will be available in select bathrooms throughout Zimmerman...

Museum collections are key to the university’s mission to provide education, research, public service and economic development to the state, nationally, and internationally. A new paper entitled “Global natural history infrastructure requires...