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Police oversight is the main topic this week on New Mexico in Focus, as advocates and officials debate what a new model of civilian oversight would look like in the wake of a Department of Justice investigation that found the Albuquerque Police ...

Meng Zhang, a second year Ph.D. student in anthropology, is learning the scientific research techniques of an anthropologist under the mentorship of UNM Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Lawrence Straus. Zhang, who recently won the “C

Think saxophone and think jazz riffs, big band beats, bebop improv and rock and roll, and the greats like John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Jimmy Dorsey and Branford Marsalis.

Technology is a growing interest for John Bermel from Santa Fe. Bermel, an Information Technology manager at the UNM Bookstore, is in charge of keeping all computers running smoothly and tracking every item coming in and going out of the store.  ...

The University of New Mexico School of Law ranks 22nd nationwide in the second annual Top 50 Law Schools ranking by Above the Law, up four places from last year. The UNM School of Law received a grade of A+ from students and an A from alumni in the ...

The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Patricia Crown has been elected as a member. This is one of the highest honors accorded to scientists and is given in recognition ...

A group of people gathered to watch as a crane slowly lowered a damaged helicopter from the roof of the six-story University of New Mexico Hospital on Saturday, April 12. Many of the UNM employees closely involved in the operation were elsewhere – in o

The University of New Mexico announced recently that Sharon and Jerry Geist have made a $1.7 million estate gift to benefit Lobo Athletics, representing the third largest donation in the history of the Athletics Department. This planned gift will make ...

Provost Chaouki Abdallah announced that Gabriel R. Sanchez has been named executive director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico.

The University of New Mexico Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences (SHS) is offering a seven-week stuttering management clinic for adults and adolescents this summer. Clinics are on Tuesday afternoons from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., beginning June 3 and ...