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UNM-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) honored 16 scholarships recipients during its fall 2021 scholarship luncheon. Among the scholarship recipients were a mother-daughter duo, Carra and Candace Webster. “Being awarded a scholarship is such an honor, but it is truly...

Jacqueline (Jacque) Kocer, an UNM Anthropology doctoral student, is being honored with a  2021-22 American Fellowship by The American Association of University Women (AAUW). As one of the world’s oldest leading supporters of graduate women’s education,...

Countless people come to the United States in hopes of providing a bright future and equitable opportunities for their children and families. Often this means that many children grow up in the United States unknowingly undocumented and having never...

A student at UNM shared her experience of working in healthcare with elderly patients while also working toward her nursing degree. Morgan Linnan is a nursing major who recently completed her second year at UNM. She will graduate with the class of...

In a new article, Catherine Rhodes, a linguistic and semiotic anthropologist and assistant professor in the Ethnology program in the Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, discussed how she recently taught linguistic anthropological...

Lora Morgan Church listed the factors that make her a non-traditional student: She joked that she got her first degree “five hundred years ago,” then received her MPA and an MS in Health Education. She had a career and she and her husband Casey have five...

As exciting as it is to see Lobos walk the graduation stage – it is a bittersweet time for the campus community as we watch our rising stars take their place in the constellation of life.  Every May and December, the University Communication and...

Oftentimes, it’s a thankless job – serving and protecting your country. The long-term effects of a deployment – combat or non-combat, can result in Iife-changing circumstances even for those who manage to handle the stress of serving in the military. As...

The recently established Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities at The University of New Mexico announced its inaugural awardees of the undergraduate Native American Environmental Arts and Humanities Scholarship. This interdisciplinary scholarship...

It wasn’t an easy start, but graduating University of New Mexico medical student Fermin Prieto knows now that hard work pays off. Prieto grew up in Janos, a small border town in Chihuahua, Mexico. But when he was 14 his parents decided the future for...