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Across the Albuquerque Metro, groups continue answering the call to create masks needed to help curb the spread of COVID-19. In April, when the Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommended cloth masks should be worn in public settings, UNM staff members...

Long-time Lobo Shelley Simms is retiring after 20 years of service at The University of New Mexico. After retiring, Simms plans to apply to the Occupational Therapy Assistant program at San Juan College.  Simms recently served as the administrative...

For more than two-and-a-half months, most staff at The University of New Mexico have been working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic that started sweeping the nation earlier this year. Since March 17, UNM has limited its operations and sent staff home...

When Julie Bustamante and Charlie Steen began their careers at UNM, Richard Nixon was president, and the now iconic images of Woodstock were still fresh along with humankind’s crowning achievement of landing on the moon had the world invigorated. Each...

The University of New Mexico’s Children’s Campus Director, Daniela Baca, has been appointed to serve on the state’s newly-formed COVID-Safe Practices (CSP) subcommittee for Early Childhood.  Daniela Baca Cabinet Secretary for the Early Childhood...

At its April meeting, The University of New Mexico Staff Council voted to proceed with precinct elections the week of May 4-8. The Staff Council’s Constitution and Bylaws require elections to be held in the spring semester each year. Voting will be held...

Student Affairs Vice President Eliseo ‘Cheo’ Torres has selected Amanda Butrum to lead The University of New Mexico’s Accessibility Resource Center as interim director, following the retirement of Joan Green. Butrum, who became a Lobo in 2005, will step...

After 15 years as director of The University of New Mexico’s Accessibility Resource Center (ARC), Joan Green is retiring, but her dedication and years of service is something Lobos will remember forever. “Disability services are more important than ever...

When The University of New Mexico entered a period of limited operations in mid-March, questions arose about how every day processes would move forward. The UNM Information Technology Department had answers – moving swiftly to stand up and expand...

The 2020 Census is a decennial population count of the residents of the United States that is mandated by the government. It counts every person living in the United States and five U.S. territories. In mid-March, homes across the country began receiving...