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The first event in the spring edition of the University of New Mexico’s Lightning Lounge, titled "Life and Death,” is set for Thursday, Feb. 5. Additional spring semester Lightning Lounge events are scheduled for March 19 and April 2. Each will be held at the Faculty-Staff Club from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The Lightning Lounge events are open to all faculty and staff. Snacks will be provided and a cash bar is also available.

The UNM Foundation hosts a Grantsmanship Training Program in Albuquerque, Feb. 23-27. The intensive, five-day, hands-on workshop for nonprofit and government grantseekers will take participants step-by-step through all stages of planning programs, ...

The House Regulatory and Public Affairs committee tabled a couple of proposed increases in the state minimum wage this afternoon. The current state minimum wage is $7.50 per hour. In HB 20, Rep. Lucky Varela (D-Santa Fe) proposed raising that to $10.10 per hour, paralleling what is being discussed nationally.

John Newell, Esq., has recently been named Director of the Rozier E. Sanchez Judicial Education Center of New Mexico (JEC), which provides education and training to the judges, administrators and other staff of the New Mexico judicial branch. The JEC...

More than 100 elementary, middle and high school VEX Robotics students and their mentors from around Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Mescalero, Los Lunas, Las Cruces and Farmington, will unite at the Centennial Engineering Center on the University of New ...

UNM School of Law Professor Alex Ritchie studies and seeks solutions to complex oil and gas legal issues, not only in the classroom, but also in his scholarship. His reasoned analysis on why New Mexico state law preempts a complete ban by a local...

The University of New Mexico Board of Regents appointed five new members to the recently-formed board of directors for Innovate ABQ, Inc., a New Mexico nonprofit research park corporation.

The ASUNM Community Experience sponsors the second annual Battle of I-25, a week-long blood drive against intrastate rival New Mexico State, Monday-Friday, Feb. 2-6. TCE hosts an opening blood drive celebration Monday, Feb. 2 at 11 a.m. in UNM’s SUB Ballroom C.

The award winning film, "The House I Live In," which examines racial injustice perpetuated by United States policies, in particular the war on drugs, can be seen free on Monday, Feb. 2 at 5:30 p.m. in the Domenici Auditorium, adjacent to the medical/legal bookstore, on the UNM north campus. Light refreshments will be served.

The New Mexico Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC), based at New Mexico State University, recently awarded fellowships to Engineering and Arts and Sciences students at the University of New Mexico. Each recipient receives a $10,000 award.