Schools and Colleges

Author and film historian Jon Bowman will present the annual fall Willard Lecture, focusing on the first filmmakers in New Mexico.  The lecture, titled “New Mexico’s First Filmmakers: Revisiting the Stars and Directors of the Silent Era” will be held...

The University of New Mexico is part of a statewide consortium on a $20 million, five-year grant that aims to modernize the electrical grid to make it more resilient, reliable and ready to handle renewable technologies of the future. The award from the...

The recently re-organized basement in Parish Memorial Library is now a little brighter, thanks to a freshly unveiled mural on one of the walls.  “Arid, Mountainous and Roadrunner” was painted over the course of the summer by MFA student Robbin Lou...

Members of the campus community are invited to view the new Parish Memorial Library mural at an opening reception next month.  The reveal and reception will be held on Sept. 5 at 2 p.m. in the basement of Parish. It will celebrate the completion of a...

The University of New Mexico Libraries’ Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR) is announcing its fall People and Places lecture series lineup.  All lectures in the series are free and open to the public and will be held in the...

Stephen Hull will take over as the new director of UNM Press and professor of practice in publishing, following a national search. The UNM Press and College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences announced Hull will start on Sept. 17. He will be...

A UNM library information specialist is being honored by two prestigious programs. Stephanie Akau was named one of the American Library Association’s 2018-2019 Spectrum Scholars. Since 1997, ALA has awarded more than 1,000 Spectrum Scholarships to...

Zimmerman Library on UNM Main Campus is planning a network outage for routine maintenance. Central IT Networking will be replacing all of the network switches in Zimmerman Library on Friday, July 13 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The outage will include both...

UNM Staff Council is inviting the campus to “remember when” during its Let’s Do Lunch Summer Series. The event takes place Friday, June 22 at 12 p.m. in the Frank Waters Room of Zimmerman library. It’s a time for staff to get together and remember...

A UNM doctoral candidate who champions distance learning is this year’s recipient of the 2018 Deborah K. LaPointe OI&LS Endowed Scholarship. The Organization, Information and Learning Sciences (OILS) program awarded Aaron Kelly Anderson the...