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Established as a way to recognize the nation’s most talented students, the Goldwater Scholarship is one of the top academic honors a college student can hope to receive. Recognized for his impressive academic and research credentials, Lobo undergrad Eric...

University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Spanish Enrique R. Lamadrid was recently awarded the National Prize “Enrique Anderson Imbert” 2019 of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE). This award – the...

UNM Championship Golf Club will host a local U.S. Open qualifier on Tuesday, April 30. The 18-hole qualifier will feature 61 players competing to move along the road to Pebble Beach. This year’s qualifier in the Sun Country region will be the fourth...

In recognition of their academic success and campus leadership, six students at The University of New Mexico were named Clauve Outstanding Seniors for 2019. Sonny Christopher Haquani, Sabrina Moore, Rebekah Myers, Aaron Ochoa, Abdullah Shah, and Emily...

The University of New Mexico recognized nearly 500 honorees recently at its 38th Annual Service Awards ceremony, whose service totaled 9,860 years of service to the University. “Today’s ceremony is important because it gives us the opportunity to...

The documentary Trenzas: Margaret Montoya Stories will be featured in the Waters Room in Zimmerman Library on April 29 at 2 p.m. The documentary tells the story of Margaret Montoya, the first Latina to be admitted to Harvard Law School. The documentary...

On Jan. 29, 2019, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued an executive order calling for New Mexico to join the U. S. Climate Alliance, which has adopted the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. The governor also ordered the creation of a New...

The UNM Entrepreneurial Challenge, formerly the UNM Business Plan Competition, features a cohort of collegiate venture teams representing UNM, CNM, NMSU, and Santa Fe Community College. Come see what they are planning and implementing for their startup...

Two years ago a team of scientists visited Costa Rica’s subduction zone, where the ocean floor sinks beneath the continent and volcanoes tower above the surface, to find out if microbes can affect the cycle of carbon moving form Earth’s surface into the...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, producer Matt Grubs talks to a panel of journalists about public access to government. As politicians increasingly pick which media outlets will have access—or choose to bypass the media as much as possible—what’s the...