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Award-winning director Alex Rivera is coming to The University of New Mexico campus to talk about his film, Sleep Dealer, and other current projects during two public events.

Lucy Gent Foma will be at the UNM Bookstore on Thursday, April 28 at 1 p.m. to sign copies of Funded! (Morgan James Publishing, 2016). This event is open to the public. The book, Funded!: How I Leveraged My Passion to Live a Fulfilling Life and How You...

Throughout the centuries, volcanic eruptions have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives due in part to the lack of accurate signs indicating imminent eruptions. One type of a volcanic eruption, a phreatic eruption, which involves external water, is ...

Richard Tobin, former director of strategic planning and interim president of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, has been appointed director of UNM’s Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, Harwood Governing Board Chair Marcia Winter announced...

The U.S. Department of Justice has released its findings following a review of The University of New Mexico’s policies and procedures in response to campus sexual assault. The DOJ acknowledged that during the 16-month investigation, the University made...

Alfonso Domingo will discuss his book La Balada de Billy el Nino on Tuesday, May 3 at 12 p.m. in the Frank Waters Room 105 at Zimmerman Library. The lecture will be in Spanish. He will be introduced by Professor Emeritus Enrique Lamadrid in the UNM...

Frame Work, an exhibition of collaborative wall pieces by Bruce Davis and  Maria Ross that investigate "the frame" as both subject and idea, is now on exhibit at The University of New Mexico Hospital Jonathan Abrams MD Art Gallery. A public reception for...

The University of New Mexico School of Architecture & Planning celebrates the work of José Rivera, professor in community and regional planning, on Friday, April 22 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the George Pearl Hall Gallery. A reception follows the program. The event is free and open to the public.

This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick sits down with journalist Sam Quinones, author of “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic,” to talk about the rise of heroin and opiate addiction across the United States and...

In rare instances, DNA is known to have jumped from one species to another. If a parasite’s DNA jumps to its host’s genome, it could leave evidence of that parasitic interaction that could be found millions of years later — a DNA ‘fossil’ of...