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The University of New Mexico School of Engineering honored eight of its graduates Dec. 1 as recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award. The event, which was held at Hotel Albuquerque, featured a welcome by UNM President Garnett Stokes. Honorees are...

The 4th of November was filled with bitter winds, good food, laughter, and the release of the second issue of Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest. Hosted by the chief co-editors, Irene Vasquez, Leila...

Kristina M. Jacobsen, associate professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology (Ethnology) at The University of New Mexico, recently traveled to South Africa on a trip that burnished her credentials as a researcher and artist. While there, Jacobsen...

Vaping is often seen as a safer alternative to cigarette smoking, and its popularity has exploded in recent years, especially among young people. And vaping — technically referred to as electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) — is also growing in...

Students in The University of New Mexico's Water Resources program are literally going through the weeds to protect the state’s most precious resource. In WR 573 Field Problems, just a select number of students get to take part in a hands-on intensive...

For a period of time in 2020, many of us rarely left our homes. The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to find new ways to collaborate and communicate. For people with disabilities, the COVID-19 pandemic made clear that many remote work accommodations that...

Kaelyn Moon, a sophomore at The University of New Mexico, was recently named the 2022 Undergraduate Student of the Year at the recent Association for Black Culture Centers (ABCC) conference hosted by the UNM African American Student Services...

At age one-and-a-half, most children are busy taking some wobbly first steps and beginning to form simple words, and that is the extent of their accomplishments. But Ruth Gyan-Darkwa’s timeline has been a little different. The 18-year-old Ph.D. student...

Arash Mafi, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of New Mexico, has accepted a similar position as executive dean for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS) at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan. Mafi will...

The University of New Mexico has earned the platinum-level distinction for its workplace policies by Family Friendly New Mexico, a statewide initiative developed to recognize employers that have adopted policies that give New Mexico businesses an...