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The UNM School of Architecture and Planning offers its 2012 Southwest Summer Institute for Preservation and Regionalism in a series of courses running June 11-29. Each three-hour credit course meets for five days from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.Chris Wilson, JB ...

Curators for The Fine Arts and Design Library are preparing an exhibit "Eyes on New Mexico: Celebrating New Mexico's Centennial" and have issued a call for submissions. They are seeking New Mexico inspired art by current UNM students, staff and faculty ...

The last day the Nominating Committee will be accepting nominations and/or letters of interest to serve on the UNM Parent Association Board of Directors is Friday, March 30, 2012. The Nominating Committee will be filling the following two-year positions, ...

In his book "Miracle on the Mesa", Bud Davis notes that two students - Marie Pope Wallis and Hector H. Lee - were the first to get their doctorates at the June 7, 1947 commencement.Lee's degree was in English - American Studies, American Civilization, ...

Reading a Spanish Colonial epic from a Chicano perspective is the focus of a talk on Wednesday, March 28, at noon in Hibben Center, Room 105. The epic is Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610; and the speaker is Genero Padilla.Padilla offers a ...

Rudolfo Anaya's novel Bless Me, Ultima turns 40 this year, and if that's not enough reason to celebrate, the film version of the novel is scheduled for release in 2012 as well. Just last month Anaya received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the L.A. ...

Engineering and science students are invited to attend the NASA Awareness Day on Friday, March 30 from 11:45a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Centennial Engineering Center. The event will offer various professional development opportunities and training to help ...

An exhibition on the deconstruction of the Werner Gilchrist house opens Friday, April 6 from 6-9 p.m. in the UNM School of Architecture and Planning's Rainosek Gallery, located at 2401 Central NE. The show will be up until May 1.The installation A sum of ...

Author Sandra K. Schackel speaks about and sign copies of her new book, "Working the Land: The Stories of Ranch and Farm Women in the Modern American West" (University Press of Kansas) on Thursday, March 29 at 1 p.m. at the UNM Bookstore. The book ...

The second lecture in the Co-Evolution Series, which is part of the Co-Evolution: Art and Biology in the Museum seminar, will be held Thursday, March 29 beginning at 5 p.m. in rm. 102 at the Science & Math Learning Center (SMLC). The lecture, which is ...