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The annual UNM Gives Campaign is ongoing—through its partnership with the United Way of Central New Mexico and the UNM Foundation—where faculty, staff and employees contribute time and money to charitable organizations, in an effort to change lives and...

With the need greater than ever, The University of New Mexico has again dedicated itself to the community through its annual giving campaign. The UNM Gives campaign is coordinated across various UNM campuses and hospitals. Faculty, staff and employees...

State legislatures and supreme courts throughout the country are confronting the controversial subject of aid in dying. State judiciaries are further faced with the issue of interpreting unique constitutional clauses and deciding whether those clauses...

Federal and state funding for America’s public television stations are under threat despite the fact that it was created to “enrich man’s spirit” and to satiate America’s “appetite for excellence.” These descriptions of public television were related in...

If you Google the name Alexander Schauss, you find a profile on a company CEO, a professor, a leading researcher, a certified eating disorder specialist and now the testimony of a past officer of the court. What appears to be multiple people is actually...

Mission: Graduate, an initiative of United Way of Central New Mexico, in partnership with The University of New Mexico (UNM), New Mexico Workforce Connection Central Region, the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions, the City of Albuquerque, and...

This week, New Mexico in Focus launches a new four-part series, “Brain Drain.” It will air every Friday in July. Each segment will run approximately 12-18 minutes within the hour-long program.  NMiF regularly airs Fridays at 7 p.m. and repeats Sundays...

It all started with Dan and Katherine Burrell’s idea. The local entrepreneurial couple wanted to help our state’s economy and the general welfare of the community by encouraging New Mexico’s most talented young to graduate, attend a flagship university,...

The New Mexico Supreme Court recently took final steps to ensure that the state has a safe, fair and effective bail and pretrial detention system. The reforms permit detention without bail of clearly dangerous individuals accused of a crime and ensure...

Eleven University of New Mexico Army ROTC cadets were commissioned as second lieutenants in the United States Army at a ceremony at the New Mexico Veteran’s Memorial.  Family and friends watched and participated by pinning these students as they marked...