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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 ...

The anonymous woman in the crowd has attended multiple memorials for children in Albuquerque, knowing that more are in her future. She is there as a parent, a grandparent and a concerned citizen, standing in alliance and a sense of merged ...

During Staff Appreciation Weekend, which begins this Friday, the Lobo softball and baseball teams will host “Green Awareness” games on Saturday, March 22 at 1 and 2 p.m., respectively The goal of the Green Awareness game is to help support UNM’s ...

Each year, UNM-Taos Executive Director Dr. Kate O’Neill spends the better part of January in the Roundhouse during the legislative session in Santa Fe, and I asked her to fill me in on some of this session’s highlights and comment on what to expect in ...

Maintaining a campus the size of UNM requires a lot of planning and consistent diligence to protect the physical environment of the campus.  When students leave campus for spring break, the UNM Physical Plant Department (PPD) gears up for a week of ...

The University of New Mexico School of Law’s Clinical Education Program ranked 9th in the nation in the 2014 U.S. News & World Report Clinical Program rankings. School of Law Dean David Herring said, “Clinical legal education is growing in importance ...

A best practices workshop for health, safety and management of faculty-led programs is offered on Tuesday, March 25 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Ortega Hall, third floor reading room, and again on Wednesday, April 16 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Career ...

In their quest to finish what Kendall Williams calls “unfinished business,”  the No. 7 NCAA seed New Mexico Lobos know who, where and when:  the No. 10 Stanford Cardinal in St. Louis on Friday. The winner of that game is expected to advance and play ...

After virtually being closed off from the U.S. for more than 50 years, Cuba and its people capture our imagi­nation. Join us as we learn about the art, culture and ways of life of Cuba as we meet and interact with its citizens. Enjoy 7 nights of ...