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The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) announced recently the continuation of the Community Internship Collaboration (CIC) program in the Fall 2019 semester. UNM-LA is seeking local business partners to expand the range of internships available to...

A University of New Mexico associate professor is trading the adobe pueblo architecture and high desert beauty of UNM for the brick Romanesque Revival style and green grounds of Cornell University. Anna Skripka, an associate professor in the Department...

The University of New Mexico’s Solar Splash team finished in fourth place overall in the national Solar Splash contest in Springfield, Ohio, in addition to winning other awards. Solar Splash was held June 11-15, with 17 solar-powered boat teams from...

Critically-acclaimed poet and former UNM student and faculty member Joy Harjo is the new United States Poet Laureate – the first Native American to hold the position.  “It’s not just me carrying this title, it has to do with my family, my people, this...

Two researchers at The University of New Mexico recently received an award of more than $580,000 from the Army Research Office for a project named Supersymmetry in Optics: Beyond Traditional Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics, an eye-watering title to the...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, senior producer Matt Grubs has a serious conversation with Sen. Tom Udall about the very real possibility the United States may go to war with Iran. Sen. Udall has been outspoken in opposing what he calls a rush to war....

Researchers at the University of New Mexico School of Engineering are partnering with a popular state attraction to collect data. On June 12, they installed two wireless sensors on top of Sandia Peak in collaboration with Sandia Peak Tramway. Fernando...

Students from the UNM-Gallup TRIO programs recently attended the Martin Luther King Jr. 2019 Youth Leadership Conference in Albuquerque. Students who are participants in the TRIO Lobo Academy summer bridge program, TRIO Student Support Services, and TRIO...

The University of New Mexico Young Alumni (UNMYA) has announced its 2019-2020 advisory board.  The UNMYA board consists of 16 dedicated volunteers who lead committees, events and programs for both young alumni and soon-to-be graduates of UNM. Members of...

Gabriel Meléndez, director of the Center for Regional Studies (CRS) at The University of New Mexico, has announced that visiting scholars Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez and Tracy Brown will carry out research projects this summer at UNM through the center’s...