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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 ...

Innovate ABQ, and the push to create an innovation district in downtown Albuquerque, have picked up a new partner. PNM announced a $56,000 contribution to create the PNM Innovation Network in collaboration with the New Mexico Technology Council ...

An artist reception for Dr. Ralph C. Williams, Jr. opens a new exhibition featuring the former UNMH physycian on Wednesday, April 30 from 4-6 p.m.. The exhibition and reception will be in the Jonathan Abrams, MD Art Gallery located in UNMH on the ...

Terezín, a concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic, was designed by the Nazis to eradicate Jewish cultural life. Among those imprisoned there was Czech conductor, composer and pianist Rafael Schächter. He led a chorus of Jewish prisoners ...

The mineral apatite comes from the Greek word ‘apat,’ which means deceitful. Greenish in nature with several variations, apatite is often mistaken as a precious gem. The mineral also apparently tricked scientists into thinking there was more water on ...

This spring, the University of New Mexico will conduct two commencement ceremonies recognizing graduate degree students and baccalaureate and associate degrees students separately. The idea came from UNM President Robert Frank who wants to create an ...