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Cedric Page, executive director of the University of New Mexico – Los Alamos branch campus, will leave his position at the end of June and return to the UNM-Los Alamos faculty as Professor of Geography, the university announced today. Page has been ...

The Physical Plant Department (PPD) hosts its summer building coordinator meeting Wednesday, July 9 from 9 – 10:30 a.m. in the Domenici Education Auditorium. These meetings are designed to educate staff on a variety of facilities topics.

After spending 16 years at the University of New Mexico helping students travel abroad and founding a school in Nicaragua where he’s led several student groups to volunteer, Ken Carpenter is retiring on June 30. Carpenter, who holds a Ph.D. in ...

University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology graduate student Jacqueline Kocer was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship Award. The purpose of the awards, which are given yearly to graduate students in a variety of subject ar

This week on New Mexico in Focus, a talk with cartoonist Stephan Pastis, creator of the nationally syndicated “Pearls Before Swine,” about his latest book and how he moved from a career in law to being a full-time cartoonist. Pastis recently featured t

Manuel Areu’s music used to fill the air in 19th century Spain, Mexico and Cuba. Then it fell silent. In 1952, Frederick Sommer, a found-object artist, found reams of paper stacked in cedar chests discarded in a dumpster in Jerome, Ariz. – the chests d

There is a new pack at UNM. A group of students have formed ranks to blog about life, the universe and UNM, and chances are good everyone in the UNM community will want to hear what they are howling about. Six students with six perspectives, and ...

The UNM Staff Council has voted on appointments for several university-wide committees. The Staff Council committees handle many of the policy decisions that have a direct impact on university operations. 

The Albuquerque Institute for Mathematics and Science at University of New Mexico (AIMS@UNM), a charter school affiliated with the university, will accommodate expanded enrollment in additional classrooms at its current location on UNM’s South Campus, ...

Hydrogen can be used to power cars with zero pollution because it burns with oxygen in the air, producing nothing but water, which is harmless. Hydrogen is also widely used to produce other chemicals. For example, ammonia, which is the fertilizer that ...