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In 2019, Graduate Studies at The University of New Mexico celebrated its 100 years of graduate education at UNM with its annual Shared Knowledge Conference and popular LoboBITES competition. Students, faculty, staff,...

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...

Assistant Professor Paulo Dutra of The University of New Mexico Department of Spanish and Portuguese is a 2020 semifinalist for the highly prestigious Prêmio Oceanos, the Oceanos Prize for Literature in the Portuguese Language. His book, Abliteraçōes,...

New research on Spanish in New Mexico reveals that “bilinguals don’t mix up their languages, they mix and match.” Salón Ortega at the NHCC was filled to capacity recently to celebrate bilingualism in New Mexico and launch a new book, Bilingualism in the...

Dr. Joseph P. Sanchez, director of the UNM Spanish Colonial Research Center, presents a talk titled, Spanish Colonial Cartography and Our National Heritage, on Tuesday, April 4 at noon in the Waters Room at Zimmerman Library. Since 1983, Sanchez has...

The University of New Mexico is helping the National Park Service celebrate 100 years in 2016. UNM is a part of their history through faculty and student projects including a current initiative with the NPS’ National Trails Intermountain Region...

What do Ruben Cobos, Tony Hillerman, U.S. Route 66 and “El Hispano News” all have to do with each other? They are all new collections and digital projects at the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, a part of the University of New Mex

On February 2, 1848, officials from the United States and the Republic of Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city north of the capital where the Mexican government fled with the advance of U.S. forces, thus ending the ...

Shepherd plays have long been a tradition in New Mexico and Mexico. The combination of singing saints and devils, people with wings - and satire have delighted audiences for centuries. Follow the luminarias and farolitos to Alumni Chapel on Friday, Nov. ...

Late in the summer of 1670, five traders crossed what is now called the Jornada del Muerto on their way to present-day Chihuahua. One of them strayed from the group and soon called out that he had found human remains. After taking a look, one of the men ...