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As COVID-19 swept across the world this year, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, it quickly became clear that one essential factor for controlling its spread is the ability to rapidly and accurately test for the virus causing it, SARS-CoV-2, as...

Nominations for the 2020 Sarah Belle Brown Community Service Award are now being accepted through Sept. 28.  Presented by President Garnett S. Stokes, each year the award is given to a faculty member, staff member and student who have demonstrated...

It was August 28, 1963, when civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in our nation’s capital. It was delivered in front of some 250,000 people at the "March on...

The Journal of Anthropological Research (JAR) announced the guest speaker for its 50th installment of the JAR Distinguished Lectures. The series founded by Lawrence Straus, the Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the University of New Mexico...

On Aug. 24, Benefits & Employee Wellness announced a Voluntary Retirement Incentive Option (VRIO) program. Faculty and staff who were predetermined as potentially eligible were contacted via email and notified of their option to submit their interest in...

Hail to the Pack! Game Day Fridays return to UNM Bookstores Aug. 28   The games may be delayed, but the Lobo spirit lives on. Starting Friday, Aug. 28, all Lobowear and Spirit Merchandise is 25 percent off in-stores at our main campus and medical legal...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) has received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for an innovative graduate education program centered in the University’s science museums. The Museum Research Training Program (MRT) is a...

Reports of missing mail collection boxes around the country have prompted an Albuquerque-based software designer to help develop an application that uses communities to keep track of where mailboxes are and are not across the United States. NMIF...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $115 million over five years to the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA), a new research center led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) that will forge the technological solutions needed to...

For a group that prides itself on high-five’s and group energy, it is fair to say that Running Medicine (RM) has had some challenges this year. “I would say we have just gotten creative. No option to stop moving, but we just have to adapt to moving in a...