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A new, cross-campus innovation is going to improve the health and livelihood of New Mexico communities. The inspiring program is called none other than NM-INSPIRES.It all began within the National Institutes of Health (NIH,) and its Environmental Health...

Thomas Allen first went to college in 1977 to what was then called Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Almost 50 years later, he will walk across the commencement stage this weekend to receive a bachelor’s degree in International Studies...

Just a week before the excitement of commencement at The University of New Mexico, graduating senior Cassandra Huneau stood in front of an audience at the College Basic Needs in New Mexico Data Sharing Symposium and related her encounters with hunger and...

Loretta Rose Chee was in her 50s, had a smattering of college and technical school classes behind her and wanted to start a business but didn’t know how to go about it. So she started classes at The University of New Mexico to seek a degree in business...

This May, six years after leaving the cult she was born and raised in, dual major soon-to-be UNM alum and single mother to five daughters, Jennifer Jenson, will graduate with majors in Interpersonal Communications and Psychology. She will have...

Join Senior students of University of New Mexico Film and Digital Arts for the grand debut of their Capstone Premiere this upcoming Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Rodey Theater in Popejoy Hall. The Capstone Premiere will...

There is a pressing need in New Mexico for effective training in the fields of computational and data science at all levels of education, from undergraduate to professional. This need is driven not only by the increasing demand for skilled professionals...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, Gene Grant and The Line Opinion Panel take up three stories developing around the state.  Grant asks the panelists if a new advisory council at the state’s Children Youth and Families Department has any...

Born and raised in Albuquerque, Heidi Disbrow was first diagnosed with a progressive hearing loss, cause unknown, at the age of 12. She went to Sandia Preparatory School, then a small liberal arts college in California where she got her first bachelor’s...

Shirley Tartaglia, a well-loved University of New Mexico cafeteria employee at La Posada is retiring on May 12. She will be moving on to bigger adventures with family and friends in Pennsylvania, where she was born and raised. Since 2007, Shirley, known...