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Mentoring can be traced back to ancient Greece as a practice of instructing youth on the importance of education and personal values. Socrates mentored, Plato, who mentored Aristotle, who mentored Alexander the Great, the most famous mentor-mentee ...

The City of Albuquerque is embracing transparency in an unusual way.  The city’s information technology department has opened the databases the city uses to make decisions on everything from air quality to food inspections...

President Robert G. Frank today announced the appointment of Dr. Amy Wohlert as his new chief of staff. An internal search was conducted among UNM faculty in late-February.  

UNM retiree Kathy Jackson travels to United Nations headquarters in New York City as part of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s delegation that will advocate for gender equity with the 58th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (the ...

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez signed a $6.15 billion FY15 budget that funds state government, public schools and higher education.  

The University of New Mexico Board of Regents has approved "in principle," the expansion of the Albuquerque Institute of Math and Science, AIMS@UNM, to the UNM West campus in Rio Rancho. AIMS and UNM West personnel have been asked to engage area ...

U.S. News and World Reports released its Best Graduate Schools ranking for 2015. The publication ranks professional school programs in business, education, engineering, law and medicine. The University of New Mexico was ranked in several disciplines. ...

The Center for Water and the Environment, a research center based at the University of New Mexico, has received a 5-year, $5 million Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) award from the National Science Foundation.

UNM Civil Engineering graduate student Adrienne Martinez is working to solve a potentially big problem in Albuquerque’s North Diversion Channel. Martinez is an engineering intern at the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority where engi

Good morning. Innovation manifests itself in so many ways and forms – scientific, artistic, social, commercial – and in so many places. I would like to stress that one thing we continue to do more here at UNM is to celebrate innovation everywhere we s