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There are fall-down, drag-out hard knocks stories, and then there are stories about rising from ashes. This story is full of both. Juan Juarez, 42, who was hired last December as a UNM-Taos academic advisor, is living a life he never dreamed possible....

UNM-Valencia Campus Senior Program Manager Brittany Padilla was selected as a Fellow of La Academia de Liderazgo of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). La Academia is a one-year program that prepares the next generation of...

University of New Mexico alumna Amy Thompson has been awarded the UNM Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Award for her dissertation Comparative Processes of Sociopolitical Development in the Foothills of the Southern Maya Mountains.  Thompson, who received a Ph.D. in...

What started out as an effort to increase the representation and advancement of women faculty in science and engineering departments campuswide through a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant has blossomed into sustainable change that has contributed...

There is a quiet hum in the Dana C. Wood FSAE Racing Lab and Garage these days. Not only is it the end of the semester, but it’s also crunch time. Competition is about a month away, and there is a lot left to do. Since 1998, The University of New...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, the Line Opinion Panel reviews the state’s new draft plan to address the Yazzie Martinez lawsuit. Among other things, that plan sets new goals for graduation rates, along with math and science proficiency. Panelists will...

New research suggests an unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity that might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology today – the Hubble constant problem. The Hubble constant is the rate of expansion of...

Brendan Mulkern’s background would suggest that he was on track to play in a philharmonic. Instead, he is starting a full-time position as a software engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. Mulkern earned a master’s degree in computer science from The...

Under brilliant blue skies, the bright New Mexico sunshine and the majestic Sandia Mountains in the background to the east, Friday, May 13 was a day that won’t soon be forgotten for 11 newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenants for The University of New Mexico’s...

Derric Romero compares his student experience at The University of New Mexico to the film Van Wilder. In the movie, the Wilder takes seven years to complete his degree and graduate. “I started UNM in the fall of 2010, fresh out of high school, 17 years old,...