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By Mary Beth King
February 03, 2021
In her role as director of African American Student Services at The University of New Mexico, Brandi Stone has many conversations with students about their personal, academic, educational, and social development throughout their college years. Among the...
By Mary Beth King
September 22, 2020
Anna Nogar, associate professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The University of New Mexico, became interested in the intriguing story of a 17th century cloistered Spanish nun in her undergrad years 20 years...
By Mary Beth King
June 14, 2020
Almost 140 years after his death, the man born Henry McCarty ̶ but better known as Billy the Kid ̶ continues to exert a sense of fascination and romance. Two books about the outlaw, who spent the last part of his life in New Mexico, will be...
By Elizabeth Dwyer
June 12, 2018
New Mexico is a land rich with history, full of multifarious cultures, peoples, and identities. This undeniable truth made Albuquerque and The University of New Mexico an ideal setting for the annual Critical Race Studies in Education Association (CRSEA)...
May 04, 2018
Former University of New Mexico Regent Jamie Koch will be at the UNM Bookstore on main campus on Tuesday, May 8 at 10 a.m. to discuss and sign copies of his intriguing new book New Mexico Political History, 1967-2015: Conversations with Those Directly...
By Karen Wentworth
May 01, 2013
A new $20 million Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) grant from the National Science Foundation will support key research into ways to make New Mexico an energy sufficient state. The research will focus on ways to improve ...
By Steve Carr
May 09, 2012
An agreement signed recently between the University of New Mexico's Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB), the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS), and the State of New Mexico, Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), has led to the ...
By Karen Wentworth
July 14, 2010
A book of essays about the history of New Mexico has won a national award from The American Association for State and Local History. Regents Professor of Anthropology Marta Weigle, New Mexico History Museum Director Frances Levine, and UNM alumni Louise ...
By Karen Wentworth
June 17, 2010
Three History department graduate students present talks on tumultuous times in New Mexico history. Listening to this streaming audio on your computer is an easy way to learn about interesting times as New Mexicans grappled with the issues of the day in ...