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The Division of Student Affairs has announced the appointment of Dr. James Wilterding as interim executive director of Student Health and Counseling (SHAC). The previous director, Dr. Beverly Kloeppel, recently retired. Wilterding joined the SHAC...

You are a gamer. The majority of us are and might not realize it. Your participation was subtly recruited by purchasing a soda with a twist top, signing up for a credit card that offers points or simply using a device to count your daily steps. Whichever...

Over 60 University of New Mexico staff and faculty members stepped up to the challenge earlier this month and participated in the first ever Stadium Stair Challenge at University Stadium, hosted by UNM Employee Health Promotion. Participants walked or ran up and down hundreds of steps and had fun while doing it.

The University of New Mexico offers free events for students considering majors in science, technology, engineering and math, called the STEM program. These events, part of the STEM University summer program are free and designed to help students...

Traditionally, to study topics like race and social justice, college students have been obligated to declare their field of study in humanities or a social science like sociology or anthropology. But now, thanks to The University of New Mexico Institute for the Study of “Race” and Social Justice, graduate students from across the University are able to take a deeper look at those topics.

University Libraries is sponsoring a donation drive as part of the UNM BeKind event that runs through Wednesday, Feb 17. Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless (AHCH) will receive the donations. Donation boxes have been placed in Zimmerman Library, the...

Jessica Goodkind, associate professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, specializes in change. Her nine credit hour, two semester course begins each fall teaching undergraduate students what refugees are, and what kind of world conditions...

Meriah Heredia-Griego has been appointed director of the UNM Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) by UNM Vice President for Research Michael Dougher. Heredia-Griego was associate director and research assistant professor at CEPR prior to her...

Jamal Martin, director of Peace and Justice Studies, and lecturer in Africana Studies and clinical assistant professor in Family and Community Medicine, speaks on “The Built Environment and Population Health Inequities under ‘Settler Colonialism’ in...

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released its latest statistics from the American Community Survey, which cover the period from 2013-2014 for areas with a population of 65,000 or more.  The statistics show that the number of New Mexicans with health...