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After spending 16 years at the University of New Mexico helping students travel abroad and founding a school in Nicaragua where he’s led several student groups to volunteer, Ken Carpenter is retiring on June 30. Carpenter, who holds a Ph.D. in ...

University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology graduate student Jacqueline Kocer was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship Award. The purpose of the awards, which are given yearly to graduate students in a variety of subject ar

This week on New Mexico in Focus, a talk with cartoonist Stephan Pastis, creator of the nationally syndicated “Pearls Before Swine,” about his latest book and how he moved from a career in law to being a full-time cartoonist. Pastis recently featured t

Manuel Areu’s music used to fill the air in 19th century Spain, Mexico and Cuba. Then it fell silent. In 1952, Frederick Sommer, a found-object artist, found reams of paper stacked in cedar chests discarded in a dumpster in Jerome, Ariz. – the chests d

There is a new pack at UNM. A group of students have formed ranks to blog about life, the universe and UNM, and chances are good everyone in the UNM community will want to hear what they are howling about. Six students with six perspectives, and ...

The UNM Staff Council has voted on appointments for several university-wide committees. The Staff Council committees handle many of the policy decisions that have a direct impact on university operations. 

The Albuquerque Institute for Mathematics and Science at University of New Mexico (AIMS@UNM), a charter school affiliated with the university, will accommodate expanded enrollment in additional classrooms at its current location on UNM’s South Campus, ...

Hydrogen can be used to power cars with zero pollution because it burns with oxygen in the air, producing nothing but water, which is harmless. Hydrogen is also widely used to produce other chemicals. For example, ammonia, which is the fertilizer that ...

For years the northern end of Johnson field has been the home of a cracked asphalt basketball court and a volleyball court that could only be described as rough around the edges, but all that is changing now. The recreation area at the corner of ...

The UNM Staff Council is offering staff members an opportunity to develop leadership skills and learn more about how the university works. The new Staff Leadership Mentoring / Training series begins Monday, July 7.