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Called the ‘Dean of Chicano writers’, University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus and author Rudolfo Anaya is being honored by President Obama as one of 12 recipients of the 2015 National Humanities Medal.

UNM Associate Professor Carmen Nocentelli was recently selected as the winner of three highly-coveted fellowships for 2016-2017. She has elected to spend the year as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the ...

Mechanical Engineering Professor Yu-Lin Shen spent spring break in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan traveling as an Albuquerque ambassador for the Sister Cities Foundation program and talking about the University of New Mexico.

Who decides what societies remember? Who writes the songs that are passed down from generation to generation? What is the meaning of monuments and how does that meaning develop and change over time? And how does a past event, once overlooked, become...

Dr. Susan Levine speaks on medicine and the politics of knowledge and healing on Monday, Nov. 4 from 4-5:15 p.m. in Keller Hall in the UNM Center for the Arts. Her work delineates the debate between western and non-western medicine and the ...

A dozen or more projects celebrating New Mexico's Centennial of Statehood will receive grants from a state planning group. The New Mexico Centennial of Statehood Steering Committee will accept applications from non-profit organizations beginning August ...