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The Bernard Osher Foundation has awarded a $1 million endowment to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of New Mexico (UNM). OLLI at UNM is a non-profit, member-based organization that provides a distinctive array of non-credit...

An experimental student news lab at the University of New Mexico has been granted $50,000 by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. The money allows the New Mexico News Port to continue growing its “innovation and collaboration” model in the...

The UNM Foundation hosts a Grantsmanship Training Program in Albuquerque, Feb. 23-27. The intensive, five-day, hands-on workshop for nonprofit and government grantseekers will take participants step-by-step through all stages of planning programs, ...

In 2012, Mariana Madrigal was a student at the University of New Mexico pursuing a degree in international studies and political science. When her mother needed to return to Mexico, Madrigal worried how she would be able to afford to finish her ...

The gauntlet has been thrown down. Presbyterian Health Systems has challenged the University of New Mexico to a friendly United Way “fun”draising competition. The team who gets the highest percentage increase in giving over last year wins. Recently, ...

The University of New Mexico was recently awarded a $1 million endowment from The Bernard Osher Foundation to support the “Osher Reentry Scholarship Program” at UNM. The endowment is awarded to four-year higher education institutions to exclusively ...

Smith’s Food & Drug Stores has donated $2 million to children’s hospitals in the Intermountain West as part of its annual campaign to support charity healthcare programs for injured and sick children who are less fortunate. University of New Mexico ...

Internationally acclaimed artist Paul Ré is recognized for promoting world peace through his creations. Through the Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize, administered by the University of New Mexico Foundation, individuals are recognized for promoting peace, ...

In 2013 collector, connoisseur and longtime Harwood Museum of Art supporter Gus Foster donated a remarkable collection of 391 works of contemporary art by 83 artists to the Museum. This summer, the Harwood Museum of Art will celebrate that ...

One winner in the general category, and three lifetime achievement awardees will be honored at the Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize reception, held in the Zimmerman Library on the University of New Mexico’smain campus Wednesday, May 21 from 3 to 5 p.m. in ...