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University of New Mexico Provost Chaouki Abdallah has announced the launch of the search for a new Vice President for Research. Julie Coonrod, dean, Graduate Studies, has been appointed chair of the search committee. The selected candidate will take ...

With the upcoming general election,New Mexico in Focus continues a series of one-on-one interviews with the two candidates running for attorney general: Democrat Hector Balderas and Republican Susan Riedel. The panel discusses the Congressional ...

Adrian Johnston is a philosopher and a peripatetic, a Greek word meaning "given to walking about.” But he doesn’t conduct his lectures in the Lyceum in ancient Athens like philosopher and teacher Aristotle, to whom the expression is often ascribed. ...

As with the proverbial canary carried by miners, birds serve as an indicator of the health of our environment. Many common species have experienced significant population declines within the last 40 years. Suggested causes include habitat loss and ...

The University of New Mexico Office of Student Academic Success as part of the Lobo Reading Experience hosts a lecture series event, “Talkin’ Trash,” with speak Edward Humes, Pulitzer prize winning author of “Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with ...

UNM Department of Sociology Professor Emeritus Nelson P. Valdés, a well-known Cuban scholar, presents an overview of events in Cuba since Fidel Castro renounced power in July 2006. The talk is Tuesday, Oct. 14 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the South Broadway ...

The UNM‐Gallup Adult Education program again exceeded projected performance measures and ranked well above the state average in terms of program goals achieved for the 2013‐14 academic year. The program, offered at all UNM-G locations, provides ...

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Sang M. Han has been appointed as the new director of the Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering Program.  Graduate students in this program are given extraordinary latitude to design their own researc

If Victor Frankenstein had been forced to face an institutional review board in 1790 before he created his monster, would he ever have been able to begin his project to create a human life from the remaindered parts of dead bodies?

UNM Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Ricardo González-Pinzón is conducting research on rainfall-runoff processes and water quality modeling using parsimonious models. González-Pinzón was recently awarded a faculty water research grant by the Ne