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UNM’s Center for Water and the Environment recently hosted an awards ceremony recently for high school students. The students received awards from Brig. Gen. Mark Toy, commander of the South Pacific Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Thirteen nursing students at the University of New Mexico-Gallup received their Nursing pins recently. Joined by families and friends, they recited the Florence Nightingale pledge and celebrated the completion of their course of study. Families were called on to present the pins to the students, and everyone enjoyed a post-ceremony celebration.

Jarek Kwiecinski, a sophomore at Albuquerque Institute for Math and Science at UNM or AIMS@UNM, recently won second place in the Earth and Environmental Sciences category at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Three University of New Mexico students, Joseluis Ayala, Anthony Chavez and Tina Faris, are on their way to Washington, D.C. to participate in the U.S. State Department’s highly-selective internship program. Ayala and Chavez will be interning in the...

The road to graduation is not always a straight one. Forty two years after first enrolling at the University of New Mexico, Jean Ellen Whatley finally received her bachelor’s degree in journalism this spring. The comeback kid had started and stopped her...

Representatives from Cellular One visited the University of New Mexico-Gallup campus recently to recognize nursing student Sean Wallace as the “#BeUNLIMITED Scholarship Challenge” winner. The goal of the scholarship challenge is to honor the hard work ...

Students at the University of New Mexico come from all walks of life. Some are leaving home for the first time, some have battled through adversity and some are returning after decades away from any sort of formal schooling. Regardless, their decisions to return to school were driven in part by life’s experiences.

University of New Mexico student Rakshya Ghimire, from Nepal, was recently awarded an International Peace Scholarship of $10,000. She is the first person from the UNM School of Planning and Architecture to receive this very competitive scholarship.

The University of New Mexico Communication & Journalism Department recently hosted the Joe and Steve Mercer Memorial Scholarship Speech Tournament, which is open to all UNM students.  Tournament Director Judith Hendry said, "Although we only had...

Nine students at the University of New Mexico received Clauve Outstanding Senior Awards. They include: Arthur Armijo, Jr., William Crawley, Krista Marrs, Divana Olivas, Isaac Romero, Sophie Salcedo, Earl Shank, Lyndsay Stapleton and Rachel Williams.