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The University of New Mexico Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media (IFDM) Program is hosting an end-of-semester showcase, featuring student work completed during the fall 2013 semester on Saturday, Dec. 7 at IFDM’s Mesa del Sol facility from ...

STC.UNM was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration recently. The money will be used to help establish a new innovation center to anchor Innovate ABQ.  U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny ...

Jake Wellman, a graduate of the University of New Mexico, was awarded the Marshall Scholarship for graduate study at the London School of Economics. Wellman graduated from UNM in May 2013 with degrees in political science and economics and is ...

Students in Architecture Professor Roger Schluntz’s fourth year undergraduate studio are presenting their master development plan and project proposals for Innovate ABQ, on Wednesday, Dec. 4 from 1 to 5:30 p.m. in George Pearl Hall, home to the UNM ...

Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) chair Rep. Lucky Varela (D-Santa Fe) shared his vision for higher education funding, which features fairness and winners across the board rather than winners and losers.  During a lengthy discussion about lottery...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, a talk with Brian Jay Jones, author of “Jim Henson: The Biography,” who gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the creative genius behind the Muppets. While there have been books about his work, this is the first ...

The bookstore at the University of New Mexico hosts Professor Gabriel Meléndez on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at 1 p.m. for a discussion and signing of his new children's book, “The Legend of Ponciano Guitérrez and the Mountain Thieves.”  The book tells the tale ...

When the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning and School of Engineering teamed up with their counterparts at Arizona State University to compete in the Solar Decathlon, they knew challenges would arise by having participants in ...

Adjunct Professor Ian Maddieson, Department of Linguistics, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowned upon members by their peers. This year, 388 ...

Have you heard the one about a woman, a priest, two ministers and a rabbi? Sounds like the beginning of a joke, doesn’t it? It was a beginning, but not of a joke. In 1887, Denver, Colo. Frances Wisebart Jacobs, Rev. Myron Reed, Msgr. William O’Ryan, ...