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When Cherille Williams started college, she had every intention of being a physical therapist. But the closer she got to achieving her associate’s degree in PT, the more she realized the field she was following was not for her. At her brother’s urging,...

Celebrating the success of first-generation college students is important in the advancement of their higher education experience. With this in mind, UNM celebrates the accomplishments of its first-generation Lobos at the 4th Annual First Gen Proud...

The Hispanic Outlook on Education Magazine recently released its annual Top 100 Colleges and Universities for Hispanics' issue, and The University of New Mexico is well represented. Every year, the magazine puts together the lists to chart the national...

Despite a number of obstacles due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2nd annual Salsa Showdown kicked off the 2020 UNM Gives United Way Campaign recently, and after 200 bags of grab & go chips and salsa were distributed to faculty, staff and students, both in...

Alexandre Frederick Mills, a graduate student in The University of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy, is among 52 students from across the nation selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR)...

The University of New Mexico Ph.D. candidate Milena Carvalho was with a team of archaeologists excavating a site in Portugal when she found an archaeological “smoking gun” that, along with the team’s other finds of stone tools, shows modern humans...

Living in the “new normal” is going to take new ideas, new products, and new entrepreneurs. And the Rainforest Pitch Competition is where to find them. The event will be an all-virtual this fall, but the prizes will be real!   UNM’s Innovation Academy...

A University of New Mexico graduate student has shattered the fastest known time for a self-supported hike by a female on the 485-mile Colorado Trail. Mikaela Osler is a second-year MFA student studying creative nonfiction in the Department of English...

When Kamala Harris first came to national notice as a presidential candidate and then as the Democratic nominee for vice president, she joined a long line of distinguished members of the Divine 9, the nine historically Black sororities and fraternities...

A virtual welcome is not the typical greeting University officials normally plan for when welcoming incoming freshmen to The University of New Mexico, but that’s what it’ll be for students entering UNM in the fall of 2020 in the midst of a pandemic. New...