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The UNM Children’s Campus for Early Care and Education (UNMCC) has scheduled open forums for two candidates for the director position. Two forums will be held for each candidate, including 2:45 to 3:45 p.m., and a second from 4 to 4:45 p.m. The first ...

The UNM Dean of Students Office and the Division of Student Affairs, in partnership with Roadrunner Food Bank, hosts the second Lobo Food Pantry for UNM students in need. This month the pantry takes place on Thursday, March 27 at 2 p.m. in the ...

Darrell Garcia was appointed senior alumni relations officer at UNM Anderson School of Management recently. Garcia comes to the ASM after spending the past six years at Cottonwood Classical Preparatory School in Albuquerque, where he was a founding ...

College of Arts & Sciences Dean Mark Peceny announces the appointment of Robert Jefferson as director of Africana Studies. He assumes the role July 1. Jefferson comes to UNM from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), where he was director of t

The idea of locking in a guaranteed tuition cost at the University of New Mexico as an option is under review by the UNM Board of Regents. Regent Bradley Hosmer proposed the static tuition as a way to help students and their parents save money over ...

Albuquerque Fire Department’s Arson Team is investigating a fire in a vacant house near the University of New Mexico campus Wednesday morning. AFD and UNM police received a call around 9:30 a.m. of smoke coming from a house at 1815 Sigma Chi Road.  ...

Student Affairs is currently seeking nominations for the annual “Louie” awards. The deadline to submit a nomination is Friday, April 11. Nominations are being accepted for the following awards specific to employees in the Division of Student Affairs. ...

Lanzhou, China. It’s Albuquerque’s sister city, the capital and largest city in the Gansu Province, right in the middle of main land China. And it could become home to a UNM Sino-Foreign University, only the 5th such institution in existence in that ...

UNM Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Chaouki Abdallah has been elected to the inaugural Board of Directors of the Association of Chief Academic Officers (ACAO). 

It began in winter of 1945.  World War II was still raging. The “Southwestern Journal of Anthropology” published its first article, a scholarly work by Franz Weidenreich that began by stating how the Nazis had twisted and misinterpreted ...