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New Mexico Appleseed, a non-profit organization aiding the poor and underserved, sponsors the Parade of Playhouses competition where teams of designers and fabricators from around New Mexico design and build playhouses that will be auctioned off at the...

The RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM hosts a sneak preview screening of the forthcoming documentary, "The Raising of America," on Thursday, April 23 at 6 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel Uptown, located on Louisiana and Menaul Blvds. NE in Albuquerque. The...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, the chairman of the Fort Sill Apache tribe discusses plans to open a new casino in New Mexico. The tribe planned to begin gaming operations on tribal land, but has not yet gained permission from the state. The New Mexico Supreme Court is in opposition the tribe’s forceful means of gaining governor Martinez’s support.

the University of New Mexico history department hosted the first regional conference under the AHA’s Mellon-funded Career Diversity for Historians initiative. University of New Mexico Distinguished Professor of History Virginia Scharff took part in a...

A two-day symposium, “Early Childhood Development & Health Symposium: The Intersection of Science, Policy, & Practice,” is scheduled for Thursday, April 23, beginning at noon; and Friday, April 24 ending at 5 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel Uptown, located at Louisiana and Menaul Blvds. in Albuquerque.

Lyndsay Stapleton, an undergraduate student in Chemical and Biological Engineering has received a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation  

The Jeffrey G. Miller Pace National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition is very tough. The largest competition of its kind nationwide regularly attracts more than 200 competitors and 200 attorneys who serve as judges for three days of oral arguments...

"Max Evans & Friends,” an episode of Arts Talk, a local-cable television show produced by UNM Professor of Law Sherri Burr and students in her Intellectual Property and Art Law classes, received first place in the category of Talk Show, Television from the New Mexico Press Women (NMPW) New Mexico Communications Contest 2015.

Larisa Dmitrieva is still growing into life as Julia Lambright, an emancipation of sorts from a difficult past. She grew up in a Moscow orphanage during Soviet Russia, where she felt the stark contrast between life inside and outside the orphanage...

A memorial for Ann Massmann, who died Feb. 24 after a long illness, will be held Friday, May 1 at 2 p.m. in the Willard Reading Room at Zimmerman Library on the UNM campus.