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UNM continues to celebrate 125 years. This month, the celebration continues with Staff Appreciation Month. Throughout July, there will be events for all staff members to participate in. The first big event is the annual Book Exchange, which is set for ...

Ask Breda Bova what she found most fulfilling, or most compelling, or which accomplishments she will hold dearest after 36 years of working at the University of New Mexico, and the answer is always the same: the students. Bova, who has garnered ...

The  University of New Mexico's ROTC units will be receiving new commanders this summer with the retirement of those currently holding those positions. Each commander will be on board by mid-July with the exception of Garcia who is slated to start in ...

Bryan E. Brock has been named director of the University of New Mexico Office of Equal Opportunity. Brock has spent much of his career in state government, most recently as the director of the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs at the New Mexico Departm

Cedric Page, executive director of the University of New Mexico – Los Alamos branch campus, will leave his position at the end of June and return to the UNM-Los Alamos faculty as Professor of Geography, the university announced today. Page has been ...

The Physical Plant Department (PPD) hosts its summer building coordinator meeting Wednesday, July 9 from 9 – 10:30 a.m. in the Domenici Education Auditorium. These meetings are designed to educate staff on a variety of facilities topics.

After spending 16 years at the University of New Mexico helping students travel abroad and founding a school in Nicaragua where he’s led several student groups to volunteer, Ken Carpenter is retiring on June 30. Carpenter, who holds a Ph.D. in ...

University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology graduate student Jacqueline Kocer was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship Award. The purpose of the awards, which are given yearly to graduate students in a variety of subject ar

This week on New Mexico in Focus, a talk with cartoonist Stephan Pastis, creator of the nationally syndicated “Pearls Before Swine,” about his latest book and how he moved from a career in law to being a full-time cartoonist. Pastis recently featured t

Manuel Areu’s music used to fill the air in 19th century Spain, Mexico and Cuba. Then it fell silent. In 1952, Frederick Sommer, a found-object artist, found reams of paper stacked in cedar chests discarded in a dumpster in Jerome, Ariz. – the chests d