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By Mary Beth King
August 06, 2021
Black and immigrant girls often face indifference and even cruelty in the classroom, which is a hostile learning environment for many, according to newly published research by Ranita Ray, a new associate professor of Sociology and Maxine Baca-Zinn...
December 27, 2020
University Communication and Marketing (UCAM) annually compiles a Year-in-Review highlighting its general news and feature stories across campus during the course of the calendar year. Below is a select list of 2020 stories highlighting student, faculty,...
By Marissa Lucero
October 09, 2020
“The Hispanic culture is rich in tradition. That’s what makes us unique – New Mexico is a perfect example of that.”
The University of New Mexico Vice President for Student Affairs Eliseo "Cheo" Torres said it best, pointing to the array of traditions...
By Mary Beth King
September 25, 2020
The Spanish arrived from Europe in what would eventually become the United States nearly 500 years ago and began to mix with indigenous people they met and conquered. Native Americans, Mexicans, Central Americans, South Americans, Caribbean islands, and...
By Steve Carr
August 28, 2020
It was August 28, 1963, when civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in our nation’s capital. It was delivered in front of some 250,000 people at the "March on...
By Marissa Lucero
August 25, 2020
As the state’s flagship university, The University of New Mexico takes pride in being a “community of unique perspectives embracing divergence, letting the very things that divide us become the things that connect us to each other. What makes us...
By Steve Carr
August 21, 2020
The path to change is often difficult to navigate and that is especially the case with the civil rights movement in the 60s and the present-day Black Lives Matter movement. In fact, many have said, ‘two steps forward, one step back.’ While progress has...
By Elizabeth Dwyer
August 14, 2020
Adopted by the General Assembly of the World Medical Association (WMA) at Geneva in 1948, the Declaration of Geneva is one example of the oath taken by medical students upon entering their new profession. In the aftermath of World War II, international...
By Mary Beth King
August 07, 2020
From the moment the first African slaves were brought to the shores of Virginia and sold to the colonists there in 1619, the battle for education for African-Americans has been hard-fought and often cruel. As the groundbreaking New York Times 1619 series...
By Victoria Peña-Parr
August 04, 2020
Many people understand the environment as a force of nature that cannot favor or disfavor different populations. However, similar to all things on Earth, the environment is subject to human influences. Unfortunately, these influences often tend to lower...
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