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Nurturing families and communities is the central vision of the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee (USBC), and to that end, August is National Breastfeeding Awareness Month. In order to bolster and encourage these efforts, The University of New Mexico (UNM)...

For decades, research has produced vast amounts of data on how the brain works – how we think, how we learn, what happens when the brain is injured – and it is moving toward diagnosing mental illnesses that affect millions, like depression or...

Africana Studies, a transdisciplinary degree granting program at The University of New Mexico (UNM), offers students a full understanding of the global linkages between peoples of Africa and other African descended people in the Southwest, the contiguous...

The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is participating in a pilot program that provides faculty with a financial incentive for participating in research. The program, titled the “base plus” compensation model, is open to any faculty member...

The Latin American & Iberian Institute (LAII) welcomes Dr. Gabriela Torres-Mazuera as she assumes the role of UNM's Mexico Studies Chair in Fall 2018, a position jointly established by UNM and the COMEXUS Fulbright-García Robles program. The UNM Mexico...

Elizabeth (Libby) Rodke Washburn will step down as UNM President Garnett S. Stokes’ chief of staff and the University’s chief compliance officer effective Aug. 31. She was appointed chief compliance officer in September 2016, and later tapped to take on...

Going for the gold, gold medal, the golden rule, a golden anniversary. These are golden moments. It’s the color that signifies the very best, the ultimate. The reality is, to reach the pinnacle of something, the pinnacle of everything, is to have reached...

Faculty, staff and students at The University of New Mexico are eligible for a half-price discount on tickets at Popejoy Hall when they subscribe. Featuring classing musicals like “CATS” and “RENT,” along with special performances by the Dance...

Scientists believe the solar system was formed some 4.6 billion years ago when a cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity possibly triggered by a cataclysmic explosion from a nearby massive star or supernova. As this cloud collapsed, it formed a...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico have been awarded more than $1.5 million in two separate multi-year grants beginning this fall and announced recently from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program. One award, for...