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The University of New Mexico continues to demonstrate its commitment to leading research and innovation by expanding its level 2 Grand Challenges program with the addition of two interdisciplinary research teams, Trustworthy AI and Biodiversity...

University of New Mexico Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Barbara Rodriguez announced today the reappointment of Camille Carey as dean of the UNM School of Law. The decision was made following careful consideration and in...

This week, New Mexico in Focus examines Albuquerque's fentanyl crisis, in the wake of last month's news that the federal government allowed thousands of pills to hit the city's streets. Executive Producer Jeff Proctor talks with frontline workers from...

The University of New Mexico has launched Elevate UNM, a multi-year initiative to modernize the administrative systems and processes that support our university.

Four UNM alumni earn prestigious NMDIG grants for film projects  Four University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts alumni have been selected as 2026 grant recipients for the New Mexico Documentary Incubator Grant, placing them amongst a cohort of very...

The University of New Mexico Children’s Campus (UNMCC) has been awarded $4.71 million from the New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED) to expand access to high-quality early childhood education for UNM and community families. The award, part of a...

This summer, a group of New Mexico high school students are stepping into a university research laboratory—not as visitors, but as scientists. Through a partnership between The University of New Mexico, New Mexico's Division of Vocational...

Two UNM students participated in a panel presented as part of the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators Civil & Divorce Mediation Seminar in May. Emma Williams and Shin Hlaing presented on dispute resolution issues.

The 15-page grant proposal for the ADVANCE at UNM program had all the usual application elements: goals, a budget, a timeline, a team of Co-PIs. The proposal, written in 2015 to the National Science Foundation, also had something novel: a communication...

For the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting planets TESS regularly reveals, the newfound...