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Message from President David J. Schmidly - Thursday, April 21, 2011When I came to UNM in 2007 I committed to serve as university president for at least five years. My contract will be fulfilled on June 1, 2012 and I've decided to leave the UNM presidency ...

This week on New Mexico in Focus host Gene Grant, along with a University of New Mexico Journalism ethics class, conducts an exclusive satellite interview with Daniel Ellsberg, most notable for his controversial Pentagon Papers.KNME's one hour public ...

The UNM Department of Geography will host the Richard Murphy Memorial Lecture featuring Alexander B. Murphy, Monday, April 25 from 10 to 10:50 in the First Floor Auditorium in the new Math and Science Building. Murphy's lecture, "Territory's Continuing ...

The Fifth Annual Anderson School of Management Native American Career Fair will take place on Thursday, April 28 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Jackson Student Center located west of the Anderson School of Management on the UNM Campus.The career fair ...

The Latino Literary Imagination conference culminated with Stories of Rudy: A Tribute to Rudolfo Anaya. Author Denise Chavez was the mistress of ceremonies, welcoming literary luminaries Levi Romero, Jimmy Santiago Baca and Miguel Algarín to offer words ...

Just in time for Earth Day and UNM's Third Annual Sustainability Expo, the University of New Mexico was listed as one of the United States' most environmentally responsible colleges, according to the newly released "Princeton Review's Guide to 311 Green ...

The UNM internal search committee tasked with recommending finalists for the position of interim UNM provost has scheduled public forums Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, April 26 – 28, 2011 for the UNM community to meet the finalists. The committee plans ...

The third annual UNM Sustainability Expo is Thursday, April 21 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on Cornell Mall. The annual Earth Day-inspired event features an alternative transportation fair, a UNM Police Department bicycle auction, the Lobo Grower's Market where ...

For months, 15 UNM electrical, computer and mechanical engineering students have been designing, building and testing a solar-powered car named Lobo del Sol. The team's goal is to race the car in the Formula Sun Grand Prix 2011 during Emerging Tech Day ...

Lewis Robert Binford, UNM's Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor Emeritus died last week in Kirksville, Mo. He was 79. Binford was internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in changing the focus of archeology from objects to people, and the ...