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Voters in New Mexico gave higher education in the state a funding boost for brick-and-mortar projects with the decisive approval of GO Bond 3 in Tuesday’s general election. GO Bond 3, a statewide $230 million bond, will fund more than 40 projects at New...

General Obligation Bonds, or GO Bonds, come before the voters in New Mexico every two years. For higher education institutions across the state, they are a proven and accepted method of funding bricks and mortar projects throughout the state. This...

The University of New Mexico-Valencia campus says a new grant they recently received will be ‘revolutionary’ to their Humanities classes, putting a spotlight on the studies.

Last year, a team from The University of New Mexico created a project titled a Library, a Classroom, and the Worldfor the prestigious Venice Biennale art exhibition Personal Structures in Venice, Italy. The team, headed by co-curator, professor of Art &...

University of New Mexico alumna Henrietta Mann, along with "Native America Calling," the live radio show that airs on UNM’s radio station KUNM, were two of the 12 recipients awarded the 2021 National Humanities Medal presented by the National Endowment...

The University of New Mexico Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities is celebrating, and with good cause. They recently received an award for their successful project at the prestigious Venice Biennale 2022 in Venice, Italy. The exhibition and award...

Thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sam Truett, associate professor of History and director of the Center for the Southwest at The University of New Mexico, will present the Indigenous Borderlands in North America Symposium...

Ten University of New Mexico graduate students attended the National Humanities Center’s Graduate Student Residency virtual program this month. The selected students are the inaugural cohort of a pilot collaboration between Graduate Studies and the...

Mellon Foundation has awarded The University of New Mexico a $2 million grant to support students in the Humanities at Central New Mexico Community College and UNM branch campuses in transferring to the UNM main campus in Albuquerque. The program is led by UNM Professor Irene Vasquez.

Three University of New Mexico professors are winners of the Crossing Latinidades Collaborative, Cross Institutional, and Comparative Research Working Groups and Latino Humanities Studies Grant Competition, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. The...